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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • December 17, 2004 Volume 1, Number 6 • $7.95 In This Issue: 2005 India Jazz Tour. 4 NEA Jazz Masters. 5 Grammy Week Jazz Honorees Named . 6 Reviews and Picks. 12 Holiday Music in the Air. 12 Jazz Radio . 15 Smooth Jazz Radio. 20 FOOTPRINTS: Radio Panels. 24 THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF More News . 4 WAYNE SHORTER Q&A with biographer Michelle Mercer p8 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Eric Alexander #1 Smooth Album – Various: For Luther #1 Smooth Single – Richard Elliot JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger Last call for your top ten! It’s almost the end of the year, and we’re CONTRIBUTING EDITORS about ready to look back on 2004. We’d like all our subscribers to put to- Keith Zimmerman gether a Top 10 list from this year. (Details about it are on page 13.) Tad Kent Zimmerman Hendrickson will be compiling the infomation for our year-end double is- Tad Hendrickson sue, which comes out Dec. 31. 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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! – Ed Trefzger, Editor 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone: (585) 235-4685 fax: (585) 235-4685 [email protected] Copyright ©2004 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. jazzweek.com • December 17, 2004 JazzWeek 2 Contents December 17, 2004 News . 4 2005 India Jazz and Heritage Tour to Highlight HIV/AIDS . 4 Ramsey Lewis to Host NEA Jazz Masters Concert at IAJE. 5 Herbie Hancock to Receive IAJE President’s Award . 5 Birthdays . 7 Features 8 Q&A: Wayne Shorter Biographer Michelle Mercer . 8 Reviews and Picks . 12 Holiday Music in the Air . 12 Wynton Marsalis . 13 Last Call: Tell Us Your Top Ten for 2004 . 13 Editors’ Picks . 14 Jazz Charts . 15 Jazz Album Chart . 16 12 Jazz Add Dates . 17 Jazz Current CDs . 18 Jazz Radio Panel . 24 Smooth Jazz Charts . 20 Smooth Album Chart . 21 Smooth Singles Chart. 22 Smooth Current CDs . 23 Smooth Radio Panel . 24 15 20 Cover Photo: Alan (left) and brother Wayne Shorter in family photo from late 1930s. JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 6 jazzweek.com • December 17, 2004 JazzWeek 3 News BET Jazz, MTV India, State Dept. Announce 2005 India Jazz and Heritage Tour to Highlight HIV/AIDS Ravi Coltrane, Al Jarreau, George Duke, Earl Klugh to Appear WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Indian and American cultures,” said with pro- Department of State, BET Jazz, MTV BET Jazz executive vice president and ceeds do- India, and the Thelonious Monk Insti- general manager Paxton Baker. “The nated to tute of Jazz announced plans this week tour and its various components will HIV- for the 2005 India Jazz and Heritage also give us the opportunity to increase A I D S Tour. HIV-AIDS awareness, which has be- research come a major social issue in India.” followed Tour dates are Jan. 12 to Jan. 20, by an eve- 2005 in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) Tom Carter, president of the The- ning con- and New Delhi, India. American jazz lonious Monk Institute of Jazz, said, cert at the artists scheduled to appear include “The Institute partnered with the U.S. Gateway Ravi Coltrane, Al Jarreau, George Department of State in 1996 to pres- of India, Duke and Earl Klugh. ent a very successful jazz education Powell tour in India. We are most pleased to a national “This year’s jazz tour will help be returning to India for a second edu- landmark to highlight the importance of fight- cational tour in collaboration with the situated along the downtown shoreline ing HIV/AIDS and it will do so in overlooking the Arabian Sea. the world’s largest democracy, India,” Department of State and BET Jazz. - said Secretary of State Colin Pow- This exchange will further the Insti Members of the Tour will travel to tute’s mission to preserve America’s New Delhi and perform master class ell at a State Department event Tues- - legacy of jazz by sharing it with the day announcing the tour. “But the tour es and give lectures in various schools. world, as well as by bringing young as- will accomplish so much more than A musical birthday tribute to Martin piring musicians together with the jazz that. Music, especially jazz music, has Luther King Jr. featuring film footage legends who created this music.” the power to lift the human spirit in of his visit there in the 1960s is also its quest to overcome adversity. Jazz Alex Kuruvilla, managing direc- planned. The tour will include a trip was born from the American people’s tor, MTV Networks India, ”Music to Agra and the Taj Mahal. struggle to conquer prejudice and stig- knows no boundaries. MTV India is BET Jazz and BET Event Pro- ma in our society. proud to be associated with the historic ductions will produce 10-12 programs - “The spirit of jazz transcends our performances by American Jazz giants for future airing on The Jazz Chan nel from this tour, including a feature nation and points toward a profound and to be a part of bringing together on Ravi Coltrane, concerts and mas- human truth. Jazz shows us that hu- people and countries, joining forces in man beings are more than individuals, the fight against HIV/AIDS.” ter classes, and discussion and footage of his father’s trip to India; a feature that they are individuals who are given The 2005 India Jazz and Heritage on Martin Luther King’s 1959 trip to certain rights by God, and they’re free Tour commences in Mumbai with a India; an HIV-AIDS awareness pro- to live their own lives as they please,” master class featuring Ravi Coltrane and gram; and an overview/best of tour said Powell. participants from the Monk Institute JW special program. ”This week-long event is designed and Indian students. The final Mum- to encourage the interaction between bai event will be a charity luncheon jazzweek.com • December 17, 2004 JazzWeek 4 News Ramsey Lewis to Host NEA Jazz Herbie Hancock Masters Concert at IAJE to Receive IAJE The perennially popular Ramsey Endowment for the Arts Dana Gioia. President’s Award Lewis, host of the new public televi- Instituted in 1982, the NEA Jazz Herbie Hancock will receive the Presi- sion series Legends of Jazz, will serve Masters Award is the nation’s high- dent’s Award and be the guest of honor as master of ceremonies at an all-star est honor in this distinctively Ameri- during the Fifth Annual Gala, a glittering dinner and awards event that will take concert on Friday, Jan. 7, can art form. Winners of - place Jan. 5 during the 2005 IAJE An- honoring the 2005 recipi the award receive a one- ents of the National En- nual Conference in Long Beach, Calif. The time fellowship of $25,000 dowment for the Arts Jazz IAJE President’s Award honors individuals and participate in a range for their extraordinary contributions to the Masters Award. of outreach initiatives, in- field of jazz education. Held at the Long cluding broadcasts, educa- Hancock became an NEA Jazz Master in Beach Convention Cen- tional events, and the na- 2004.