Nubian Roots Playlist - May 1996

New Stuff

Freeman, Von "Fire" (Southport)
SDTK "Kansas City" (Verve)
NRG Ensemble "This Is My House" (Delmark)
Plimley, Paul/ Ellis/ Robins "Density of the Lovestruck Demos" (Music & Arts)
Braxton, Anthony and T. Re "Duo Leipzig 1993" (Music & Arts)
Cowws Quintet "Grooves 'n' Loops" (Free Music Pro)
Crispell/ Guy/ Hemingway "Cascades" (Music & Arts)
Onishi, Junko "Piano Quintet Suite" (Blue Note)
Lake, Oliver "Dedicated to Dolphy" (Black Saint)
New and Used "Consensus" (Knitting Factory Works)
Sclavis, Luis/Reijseger, Ernst "Et On Ne Parle Pas Du Temps" (Free Music Production)
Taylor, Cecil "Always a Pleasure" (Free Music Production)
Trio Ltd. "Trio Ltd. " (Leo)

May 1996 "JAZZ" Airplay Chart

  1. COWWS Quintet Grooves 'n' Loops (FMP)
  2. Parker, Evan Obliquities (Maya)
  3. Shipp, Matthew Symbol Systems (No More)
  4. Sclavis, Louis/Reijseger, Ernst Et On Ne Parle Pas Du Temps (FMP)
  5. Golia/Leandre/Filiano Haunting the Spirits Inside Them (Music & Arts)
  6. Namchylak/Rothenberg Amulet (Leo)
  7. Crispell/ Guy/ Hemingway Cascades (Music & Arts )
  8. Lake, Oliver Dedicated to Dolphy (Black Saint)
  9. Massey, Zane Safe To Imagine (Delmark)
  10. Trio L.T.D. Trio Ltd. (Leo)

May 5, 1996

Bang/Harris/Threadgill "Riding With Ra" hip hop be bop (1993 ITM)
Abiodun Oyewole "Sample This" 25 Years (1995 Ryko)
Eric Dolphy "Springtime" Naima (Recorded 1964 Paris; Released 1991 West Wind)
Matthew Shipp "Temperate Zone" Symbol Systems (1996 No More Records)
Golia/Leandre/Filliano "Dream Commandos" haunting the spirits inside them (1995 Music & Arts)
Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus "Hope A Hope A" Spirit of Nuff...Nuff (1991 Black Saint)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "Circus" Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Impulse!)
Evan Parker/Barry Guy "Slope" Obliquities (1995 Maya Recordings)
Hamiet Bluiett "River Niger" The Clarinet Family (1987 Black Saint)
Andrew Hill "Flight 19 " The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-66) (1995 Mosaic)
John Carter "Moon Waltz" Dance of the Love Ghosts (1987 Gramavision)
Sunny Murray Trio "EMOI" 13 Steps on Glass (1995 Enja)
Ornette Coleman "P.S. Unless One Has (blues Connotation No. 2)" Beauty is a Rare Thing (1993 Atlantic)
Cecil Taylor "Calling it the 9th" Calling it the 8th (1983 Hat-Hut Records)
Thelonious Monk Quartet "Monk's Dreams" Monk's Dreams (1973 Columbia)
Thelonious Monk Quartet "Body and Soul" Monk's Dreams (1973 Columbia)
Herbie Nichols "Dance Line" The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Herbie Nichols (Mosaic Records)
Gil Evans "Spoonful" The Individualism of Gil Evans (1988 Verve)
Borah Bergman/Roscoe Mitchell "Clear Blue" First Meeting (1995 Knitting Factory Works)
Warren Byrd "Dis' amblin" Jazz in the Wilde (1996 UH-OH)
Frank Lowe Trio "Impressions" Bodies and Souls (CIMP)
Plunge "Reveille" Falling With Grace (1996 Accurate)
Plunge "Just Like Alice" Falling With Grace (1996 Accurate)

May 12, 1996

Bang/Threadgill/Harris "Riding with Ra" hip hop be bop (ITM)
Maxayn "Check Out Your Mind" Mindful (1973 Capricorn Records)
Cymande "Bra" The Best of Cymande (Sequel Records)
Cassandra Wilson "Skylark" New Moon Daughter (1996 Blue Note)
Billy Bang "Improvisation for Four" Valve No. 10 (1991 Soul Note)
Haden/Motion/Allen "Lonely Woman" Etudes (1988 Soul Note)
Oliver Lake Qunitet "Fire Waltz" Dedicated to Dolphy (1996 Black Saint)
Anthony Williams "Tee" Spring (1965 Blue Note)
Dave Holland "Pork Pie Hat" Ones All (Intuition Music)
Muhal Richard Abrams "The Prism 3" One Line, Two Views (New World Records)
Cecil Taylor "Third" Always a Pleasure (1996 FMP)
Grachan Moncur III "Air Raid" Evolution (Blue Note)
Plunge "Beneath the Wheel" Falling with Grace (1996 Accurate)
Jon Jang "Are You Chinese or Charlie Chan" Are You Chinese or Charlie Chan (1982 RPM Records)
Matthew Shipp "Nerve Signals" Symbols (1996 No More Records)
Booker Ervin "True Blue" The Blues Book (Prestige)
John Coltrane "My Favorite Things" Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (Impulse!)
Sclavis/Reijseger "Pas" Et On Ne Parle Pas Du Temps (1995 FMP)
Zane Massey "Things Have Got to Change" Safe to Imagine (1996 Delmark)

May 19, 1996

John Coltrane "A Love Supreme " A Love Supreme (1964 Impulse! )
Cassandra Wilson "Jump World " Jump World (1990 JMT )
Cassandra Wilson "Strange Fruit " New Moon Daughter (1995 Blue Note )
Courtney Pine "Don't 'Xplain " Modern Day Jazz Stories (1995 Verve )
Courtney Pine "Dah Blessing " Modern Day Jazz Stories (1995 Verve )
Joe McPhee "Black Magic Man " Black Magic Man (1975 Hat Hut Records)
Vijay Iyer "Stars Over Mars " Memorophilia (1995 Asian Improv )
Fire with Von Freeman "Blank White Page " Fire with Von Freeman (1996 Southport )
Francis Wong "Spirits " Chicago Time Code (1995 Asian Improv )
Abdullah Ibrahim "African River" Yarona (1995 Enja )
Surrender to the Air "Out" Surrender to the Air (1996 Elektra )
Oliver Lake Quintet "Hat and Beard " Dedicated to Dolphy (1996 Black Saint )
Louis Sclavis/Ernst Reijseger "Par" Et On Ne Par Le Pas Du Temps (1996 FMP)
Horace Tapscott "The Dark Tree 2 " The dark tree (1991 Hat Hut )
Sonny Rollins "Blue Seven " Saxophone Colossus (1956 Prestige)
Junko Onishi "The Tropic of Capricorn" Piano Quintet (1996 Blue Note)
Renee Rosnes "Upa Neguinho" Ancestors (1996 Blue Note)
Junko Onishi "The Tropic of Capricorn" Piano Quintet (1995 Blue Note)
Strata Institute "If You Could See Me Now" Transmigration (1991 Rebel-X/DIW Columbia)
Ari Brown "Lester Bowie's Gumbo Stew" Ultimate Frontier (1996 Delmark)

May 26, 1996

Graham Haynes "Transition" Transition (1996 Verve)
Cassandra Wilson "Children of the Night" Blue Light Til Dawn (1995 Blue Note)
Abdullah Ibrahim "Little Niles" This Is (1964 AFE)
Malcom X "Chicken and the Duck Egg" By Any Means Necessary (Douglas)
Malcom X "I'm the Man You Think You Are" By Any Means Necessary (Douglas)
Leon Thomas "Malcom's Gone" Spirits Known and Unknown (1969 Flying Dutchman)
Shirley Horn "Here's Looking at You" The Main Ingredient (1996 Verve)
Dizzy Gillespie "Night in Tunisia" 1946 RCA Victor
Archie Shepp "The Way Ahead" Live in Stockholm 1960 (1985 Dragon)
Yusef Lateef "Cry Tender" Cry Tender (1959 Prestige)
Miles Davis "All Blues" Live at the Plugged Nickle (1965 Columbia)
Grachan Moncur III "Blue Free" The New Wave in Jazz (Impulse!)
Oliver Lake "G. W." Dedicated to Dolphy (1996 Black Saint)
Andrew Hill "Compulsion" Compulsiion (Blue Note)
Jimi Hendrix "Hoochie Coochie Man" Loose Ends (1973 Polydor )
Kansas City (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) "Queer Notions" Kansas City (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1996 Polygram)
Matthew Shipp "The Inventor pts 1 & 2" Symbol Systems (1995 No More Records)
Wadada Leo Smith "Another Wave More Waves" Tao-Njia (1996 Tzadik)
Cecil Taylor "Second" Always a Pleasure (1996 FMP)
Zane Massey "Telekinetics" Safe to Imagine (1996 Delmark)
Paul Plimley "W.R.U" Density of the Lovestruck Demons (Music and Arts)
John Coltrane "Syeeda's Song Flute" Heavyweight Champion (1995 Atlantic)