Sound Menu September 26 2001 Wed week out

PROCESS:ATLANTA — Shadow-law Recordings, Atlharddrive.com and Encore Entertainment present what may become Atlanta’s premiere drum ‘n’ bass weekly, featuring in its second installment Cali controller UFO!, along with Athen’s own Playtheavy playa D:RC and Atlantans Maze, Brain and MC Race One. Nitro/Pleasantdale Road (Ware)

THE RIPPINGTONS — For almost 15 years, Russ Freeman’s ever-changing combo has effectively delivered the smooth jazz goods. The band’s chops are impeccable as they spice their gooey ear-candy with tropical rhythms and enough flashy showmanship to provide a crowd-pleasing, if hardly groundbreaking, evening of tight, yuppie-approved, easy-listening fusion. Variety Playhouse (Horowitz)

BLIND WILLIE’S: The Griswold’s

BRANDYHOUSE: Z93/Brandyhouse Benefit

BRIDGES: Piano with Bruce

CHURCHILL GROUNDS JAZZ CAFE: Pursuance with Lee Hogan & Dan Furman

CLUB GENO’S: The Brethern

COWBOYS: Darrin Robbins, Kickback

THE DOWNTOWN TAVERN: The Grassmen

ECLIPSE DI LUNA: Bonaventure Quartet

EDDIE’S ATTIC: Paul Sforza

FAT MATT’S RIB SHACK: The Electromatics

KARMA: Cream

KAYA: Wind Down Wednesday - live jazz, spoken word, poetry

LOCA LUNA: Latin Jam Session hosted by Andre Rievers, featuring Juan Bonini and David Bass.

METROPOLITAN PIZZA: Metropolitan Wednesdays

MUSIC FARM: Gran Torino

NOMENCLATURE MUSEUM: Reunion - featuring dark wave, ether pop and trance

NORTHSIDE TAVERN: Daniel “Mudcat” Dudeck

POPPER’S: Karaoke

RAY’S ON THE RIVER: Waveform with Doc Samuels, Larry Jackson, Tom Woodruff

THE ROADHOUSE: Silence

SAMBUCA JAZZ CAFE: Bob Lewis

SMITH’S OLDE BAR: Reckless Kelly, The Lost Trailers

STAR BAR-L5P: Flathead Mike and The Mercury’s with guests

VARIETY PLAYHOUSE: The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman

VIOLETTE RESTAURANT: Jus Jazz featuring Dave Wallis, Eddie Taylor, Dan Coy, Shack Lewis, Rita Graham

YA YA’S CAJUN CUISINE: The Luxury Kings with special guest Brent Cashman