JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • Aug. 10, 2005 Volume 1, Number 37 • $7.95 In This Issue: Monk/Coltrane CD Will Debut on Sirius’ Blue Note Hour . 4 Herbie Hancock Radio Special Available . 5 Dianne Reeves Featured on Soundtrack . 6 Passings: Joyce Industry Q&A: Wein, Francy Boland. 8 DON LUCOFF Reviews and page 11 Picks . 15 Jazz Radio . 18 New CD Reviews: Smooth Jazz Tierney Sutton Radio. 25 Moutin Reunion Quartet Radio Nneena Freelon Panels. 31 Mort Weiss Quartet News. 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Eddie Palmieri #1 Smooth Album – Richard Elliot #1 Smooth Single – Richard Elliot JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger MUSIC EDITOR ost of the folks in jazz radio really only know one Tad Hendrickson facet of Don Lucoff: his tireless efforts to build CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Mand now coordinate the industry track at the an- Keith Zimmerman nual IAJE conference. 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AIRPLAY MONITORING BY – Ed Trefzger, Editor Mediaguide 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. Suite 150 Berwyn, PA 19312 JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) is published weekly by 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone: (585) 235-4685 fax: (585) 235-4685 [email protected] Copyright ©2005 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. jazzweek.com • Aug. 17, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents Aug. 17, 2005 News . 4 Monk/Coltrane Lost Concert Will Debut on Sirius Blue Note Hour . 4 New Herbie Hancock ‘Possibilities’ Radio Special Available . 5 Ted Kurland Associates Signs JALC Slate . 5 First Pittsburgh Jazz Society/Mellon Jazz Scholarship Awarded . 5 Dianne Reeves Featured on Soundtrack for Murrow Biopic . 6 4 Missing Trombonist Charles Stephens Found at Brooklyn Hospital . 7 Passings . 8 J@LC Announces New Season of Adult Learning . 9 Birthdays . 10 Features Industry Q&A: Don Lucoff . 11 Reviews and Picks . 15 13 Tierney Sutton . 15 Moutin Reunion Quartet . 16 Nneena Freelon . 16 Mort Weiss Quartet . 16 Jazz Charts . 18 Jazz Album Chart . 19 College Jazz Chart Beta . 20 Jazz Add Dates . 21 20 Jazz Current CDs . 22 Jazz Radio Panel . 31 Smooth Jazz Charts . 25 Smooth Album Chart . 26 Smooth Singles Chart. 27 Smooth Current CDs . 29 Smooth Radio Panel . 31 Classifieds . 17 27 JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 38 jazzweek.com • Aug. 17, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Monk/Coltrane Lost Concert Will Debut on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Blue Note Hour with Bruce Lundvall and T. S. Monk NEW YORK – A newly-discovered recording of an historic concert featur- ing jazz giants Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane will be broadcast for the first time on Friday, Sept. 9, exclusive- ly on Sirius Satellite Radio. The concert at New York’s Carn- egie Hall on Nov. 29, 1957 featured the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, and was recorded by Voice of America for an overseas ra- dio broadcast. The tapes were poorly labeled, stored away and unheard until January 2005, when they were located at the Library of Congress in Wash- ington, D.C. The 51-minute record- ing of the concert, Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carne- gie Hall, will be released by Blue Note Records in conjunction with Theloni- ous Records on Sept. 27, 2005. Don Schlitten (courtesy Blue Note) Sirius channel Pure Jazz 72 will Monk’s quartet at the Five Spot Cafe in 1957. (L-R: John Coltrane, Shadow Wilson, Thelo- broadcast this landmark recording nious Monk, Ahmed Abdul-Malik) during The Blue Note Hour with Bruce Lundvall on Friday, Sept. 9 at 6 pm Blue Note Record label. “The discov- history. ET. (Repeat broadcasts are sched- ery of this recording has been called ‘a The concert, a benefit for the uled for Sat., Sept. 10 at 11 pm ET Dead Sea Scroll of 20th century popu- Morningside Community Center in and on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 9 am ET.) lar music,’ and now we can bring it to Harlem, featured two sets, with the T.S. Monk, son of the late Theloni- a new generation thanks to Sirius’ 21st repertoire comprising “Monk’s Mood,” ous Monk, will be Lundvall’s special century digital satellite radio system.” “Evidence,” “Crepuscule with Nel- guest for this exclusive, world premiere The recording is also notable be- lie,” “Nutty,” “Epistrophy,” “Bye-ya,” broadcast. cause there is little recorded documen- “Sweet & Lovely,” “Blue Monk,” and “Jazz lovers across the U.S. will tation of Monk’s quartet with Coltrane an incomplete second take on “Epi- have the first opportunity to hear this that has been available. At Carnegie strophy.” extraordinary concert on Sirius,” said Hall is the first and only full-length Sirius Pure Jazz is a reporting Lundvall, president and CEO of EMI high-quality recording of one of the member of the JazzWeek Jazz Album JW Jazz and Classics, which includes the most legendary collaborations in jazz Chart panel. jazzweek.com • Aug. 17, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News First Pittsburgh Jazz New Herbie Hancock Society/Mellon Jazz Scholarship Awarded ‘Possibilities’ Radio PITTSBURGH – Jazz drummer and guitarist Chris Parker has been se- lected as the recipient of the inaugural Special Available Pittsburgh Jazz Society/Mellon Jazz Scholarship, a $5,000 tuition award new, one-hour music-intensive presented by the Pittsburgh Jazz So- radio special saluting legendary ciety and Mellon Jazz as part of their A keyboardist Herbie Hancock is support for jazz education in the Pitts- available for September, free of charge burgh area. and commercial free. Parker will receive his scholar- “Herbie Hancock: Imagine the ship prior to the Mellon Jazz at South Possibilities” features music from Park concert featuring internation- throughout his career, most notably ally acclaimed jazz pianist and com- his new album. The CD, Possibilities, poser Dave Burrell on Friday, Aug. 19, features a wide range of collaborators 2005. who have been inspired by his work A panel of nationally recognized - John Mayer, Sting, Annie Lennox, jazz musicians and educators selected Carlos Santana, Joss Stone, Paul Si- Parker on the basis of his scholarship mon, Damien Rice, Trey Anastasio Starbuck’s stores nationwide. Limit- application and accompanying audi- and more. Listeners will be treated to ed quantities of this CD and signed tion tape. “His recording featured out- exclusive recording studio interview album art lithographs are available standing tracks on both drums and clips and interactions between Herbie for on-air promotions tied to station guitar, and solo performances that cov- and these artists. broadcasts. ered a broad gamut of jazz styles,” said Forty years after Maiden Voy- Stations interested in airing the Tony Mowod, president and founder age, thirty years after Headhunters and program “Herbie Hancock: Imag- of The Pittsburgh Jazz Society, and a twenty years after “Rock-It,” Herbie ine The Possibilities” should contact jazz host on WDUQ , a Mediaguide- Hancock continues to be one of the Andy Cahn at (201) 386-1736 or at monitored member of the JazzWeek world’s most influential and innovative [email protected]. The broad- Jazz Album Chart panel. “We’re de- musicians. cast window for the program is Sep- lighted to be adding this promising Possibilities will be in stores from tember 2005 and the program is avail- young musician to the long list of jazz Vector/Hear Music on Aug. 30, 2005. able on CD or online via the Public students who have benefited from the The album will also be available at Radio Exchange at prx.org. JW commitment of The Pittsburgh Jazz Ted Kurland Associates Signs JALC Slate Society and Mellon Jazz to jazz educa- tion in the Pittsburgh area.” BOSTON – By signing the Lincoln Marsalis for performances after July 1, Entering his sophomore year at Center Jazz Orchestra with Wyn- 2006. Duquesne University this fall, Parker ton Marsalis, Ted Kurland Associ- With the Lincoln Center Jazz Orches- has studied drumming and percussion ates (TKA) has now become a one- tra and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra under a number of local jazz masters stop shop for all buyers interested in on the roster, TKA is also now home and percussionists from The Pitts- Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln to the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s spe- burgh Symphony Orchestra. Major- Center. After exclusively booking the cial event programs for international ing in guitar at Duquesne University’s multi-Grammy winning artist since bookings. Additional Jazz at Lincoln Mary Pappert School of Music, Parker 2002, Ted Kurland Associates is now Center programs are being prepared is studying with, among others, Mel- booking the world-renowned Lincoln for the 2006-2007 season and will be lon Jazz Community Awardee Joe Ne- JW Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton announced soon by TKA.