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COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE, MASS MERCHANT, AND INTERNET ww ZO (r SALES REPORTS COLLECTED, COMPILED, AND PROVIDED BY SoundScana z`=' Ñ w¢ ARTIST u lu li TITLE J43/3/ _ >Ú IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LAPP while preparing the boxed set. "Then we started play- --- No. 1 I- ing shorter, and the music got a lot better. DIANA KRALL 13 weeks at No. 1 1 25 "A lot of times, you spend so much time listening to the VERVE 050304NG WHEN I LOOK IN YOUR EYES 0 BLUE cats who left that you don't listen enough to the ones who TONY BENNETT 2 2 9 RPM /COLUMBIA 63668/CRG BENNETT SINGS ELLINGTON HOT & COOL are there," Marsalis continues. "On some of the songs, I HARRY CONNICK, JR. NO'I'ES 3 26 was surprised by what someone was playing. You have ® COLUMBIA 69618/CRG COME BY ME to hear stuff for what it is, not what you think it is or want KEITH JARRETT 4 4 6 ECM 547949 THE MELODY AT NIGHT, WITH YOU by Steve Graybow it to be. We played a wide range of music, and we had a VARIOUS ARTISTS 6 76 great time playing together. We developed our own musi- Q5 32 JAZZ 32061 JAll FOR A RAINY AFTERNOON MICHAEL BRECKER cal vocabulary based upon the jazz tradition." 6 5 4 VERVE 547844NG TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE SWINGING THROUGH THE YEARS: As the year Encompassing original material, standards, blues, O 7 7 MICHAEL FEINSTEIN WITH THE MAYNARD FERGUSON BIG BAND so does ambitious longer pieces foreshadow such extended CONCORD 4869 BIG CITY RHYTHMS comes to a close, Wynton Marsalis' and that 8 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS "Swinging Into The 21st" series. With seven CDs Marsalis works as 1995's `Blood On The Fields," the set ® 32 JAll 32152 JAZZ FOR THOSE PEACEFUL MOMENTS released this year (and a bonus disc slated for 2000), provides ample opportunity for the listener to absorb a VARIOUS ARTISTS 10 64 09 32 JAll 32097 JAll FOR THE QUIET TIMES Marsalis caps the 20th century with "Live At The Vil- collective endeavor unfettered by pre- ROSEMARY CLOONEY lage Vanguard," a seven -CD set chronicling the trum- conceived notions or boundaries. 10 9 5 CONCORD 4870 SONGS FROM THE GIRL SINGER - A MUSICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY peter's fabled early -'90s septet. "We do modern pieces, like `The VARIOUS ARTISTS 11 13 43 (7) Of The Blues,' which is in 32 JAll 32106 JAll FOR WHEN YOU'RE ALONE Slated for release Tuesday on Columbia, with a Majesty VARIOUS ARTISTS remarkable $39.98 list price, the collection is bound to 6/4 and has a kind of Eastern quali- 12 15 28 32 JAll 32130 JAll FOR A LAZY DAY be one of the most talked- about, and popular, pur- ty but is so wide open that you can VARIOUS ARTISTS 13 RE -ENTRY MADACY 58665 KINGS OF SWING chases of the holiday season. go into something derived from the VARIOUS ARTISTS "I learned lots of things about myself, and the other church," says Marsalis. "From 14 20 50 32 JAll 32101 JAll FOR THE OPEN ROAD musicians, while listening back to the tapes," says there, we can go right into some MILES DAVIS 15 11 43 LEGACY /COLUMBIA 65853/CRG LOVE SONGS Marsalis. "I really noticed the intensity, and consis- MARSALIS New Orleans music. It all comes CASSANDRA WILSON from same roots. 16 21 35 tency, of the musicians." the BLUE NOTE 54123 /CAPITOL MI TRAVELING MILES The septet featured Marsalis on trumpet, along "Our thing is to say that this is a group of people THE PHIL COLLINS BIG BAND 11 14 19 ATLANTIC83198/AG A HOT NIGHT IN PARIS with saxophonists Todd Williams (who was later playing music together, in whatever language they THE RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO 18 18 10 replaced by Victor Goines) and Wessel Anderson, choose to play," he says. "The worst thing that can hap- NARADA 47996NIRGIN APPASSIONATA is someone convinces you your music VARIOUS ARTISTS trombonist Wycliff Gordon, pianist Marcus Roberts pen when that 19 12 23 NARM 50003 JAll - DISCOVER AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL (later replaced by Eric Reed), bassist Reginald Veal, has no substance and relegates everything to being THE MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA 20 16 10 and drummer Herlin Riley. either part of tradition, which they see as no good, or LEGACY/COLUMBIA 65959/CRG THE LOST TRIDENT SESSIONS led the avant -garde, which means good and experimental. PONCHO SANCHEZ For Marsalis, studying the tapes to a greater 21 25 3 CONCORD JAll 4863 /CONCORD LATIN SOUL appreciation of his band's talents. "In the beginning, "The reality of life is that you rely on tradition, but MARSALIS 22 24 4 WYNTON we were soloing long, and the rhythm section would you are also out in the world, experimenting," he says. SONY CLASSICAL/COLUMBIA 51239/CRG REELTIME PATRICIA BARBER say that we should be playing shorter," he says, reflect- Marsalis anticipates returning to the Vanguard 23 19 6 PREMONITION /BLUE NOTE 22963 /CAPITOL COMPANION ing upon approximately 400 songs that he listened to early next year. DIANA KRALL 24 23 75 IMPULSE!/GRP 059825NG STEPPIN' OUT - THE EARLY RECORDINGS DUKE ELLINGTON 25 RE -ENTRY RCA VICTOR 63459 1927 -73 THE BEST OF DUKE ELLINGTON TOP CONTEMPORARY JAll ALBUMS.. The 27th Annual Conference of the No. 1 r.- International Association of Jazz Educators KENNY G 2 weeks at No 1 ` 1 2 - (L ARISTA 1.,,,, FAITH: A HOLIDAY ALBUM I2 Regency & Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana USA KENNY G January -I5, 2000 Hyatt Superdome 2 22 Q ARISTA 19085 CLASSICS IN THE KEY OF G DAVE KOZ 3 3 9 CAPITOL 994581.1 THE DANCE u 414 freieAstaf coq-eieite&úu BONEY JAMES 4 40 WARNER BROS. 47283 BODY LANGUAGE e ® Over 200 concerts and workshops NPR Jazz Radio Symposium IAJE Golf Classic JOE SAMPLE FEATURING LALAH HATHAWAY 5 5 32 PRNGRP 059956NG THE SONG LIVES ON Grammy Jazz Artists Forum Montreux Jazz Festival Piano NEA Jazz Masters Awards FOURPLAY Late Night Jam Sessions 10 4 40,000 sq. ft. music industry exposition Competition winner © WARNER BROS. 47504 SNOWBOUND NORMAN BROWN and an expanded industry track of over 30 sessions focused on the business of jazz, sponsored in part by JazzTimes, Jazz iz, 7 6 16 WARNER BROS. 47300 CELEBRATION Downbeat, National Public Radio, the Jazz Journalists Association, Knit Media, NARAS, DL Media, and BET on Jazz. PAUL HARDCASTLE ' 8 9 26 TRIPPIN'N' RHYTHM/PUSH 90506N2 THE JAZZMASTERS III KIRK WHALUM 9 8 57 Artists and Clinicians to include: WARNER BROS. 47124 II FOR YOU VARIOUS ARTISTS 10 13 5 WNUA28/RYKODISC WNUA CARES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION VOLUME 12 Jamey Aebersold Jimmy Cobb's Mob Bunky Green Russell Malone Ramon Ricker Marvin Stamm BRIAN CULBERTSON Airmen of Note Jerry Coker Bermy Green Rick Margitza Larry Ridley Peggy Stem 11 12 10 ATLANTIC 83237/AG SOMETHIN' BOUT LOVE Carl Allen Columbus Jazz Woody Herman Ellis Marsalis Ted Rosenthal Ed Thigpen KIM WATERS 12 11 6 Jimmy Amadie Orchestra Orchestra Christian McBride Carol Saboya Irma Thomas SHANACHIE 5062 ONE SPECIAL MOMENT Astral Project Hank Crawford Dick Hyman Jimmy McGriff David Sanchez Trio Francois INCOGNITO 13 14 19 Moody John Santos Bourassa TALKIN' LOUD /BLUE THUMB 546371NG IM NO TIME LIKE THE FUTURE Patrice Barber Mike Crotty Yoron Israel James VARIOUS ARTISTS Count Basie Orch. Steve Davis Javon Jackson Joe Negri Eddie Severn Marc Turner 14 7 7 KKSF 0019/RYKODISC KKSF 103.7 SAMPLER FOR AIDS RELIEF VOL. 10 Alvin Batiste Bill Dobbins Stefan Karlsson Rob Parton Jennifer Shelton Steve Turre MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD Harold Battiste Dukes of Dixieland Ramsey Lewis Nicholas Payton Bobby Shew Chais Vadala 15 15 7 GRAMAVISION 79520/RYKODISC LAST CHANCE TO DANCE TRANCE (PERHAPS) BEST OF 1991 -1996 Don Braden Eastman Jazz Trio David Liebman Dave Peck Steve Slagle Ernie Watts VARIOUS ARTISTS 18 3 Randy Brecker Robin Eubanks Joe Lovano Ken Peplowski Mike Smith Walt Weiskopf ® WJJZ 26 /RYKODISC WJJZ 106.1 SMOOTH JAll VOLUME 6 Nick Brignola Pete Fountain Mike Mainieri Danilo Perez Ed Soph Michael White KEIKO MATSUI 19 10 COUNTDOWN 17788/ULG KEIKO MATSUI LIVE Dennis Chambers Nnenna Freelon Adam Makowicz Joshua Redman Dianthe Spencer Buster Williams RICHARD ELLIOT Billy Childs Giacomo Gates 18 17 20 BLUE NOTE 57481 /CAPITOL IM CHILL FACTOR VARIOUS ARTISTS Conference sponsored in part by the 19 24 3 KYOT 22/RYKODISC KYOT 95.5 SMOOTH JAll SAMPLER VOLUME 5 National Endowment for the Arts BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES 20 21 2 WARNER BROS. 47301 GREATEST HITS OF THE 20TH CENTURY DOWN TO THE BONE 21 25 22 INTERNAL BASS 2002 THE URBAN GROOVES - ALBUM II BOB JAMES 22 22 14 IAJE P.O. Box 724 WARNER BROS. 47355 JOY RIDE Manhattan, Ks 66505 -0724 USA NEW VARIOUS ARTISTS Co WINDHAM HILL JAll 11460/WINDHAM HILL JAll NOEL Phone: 785- 776 -8744 Fax: 785- 776 -6190 THE RIPPINGTONS FEATURING RUSS FREEMAN 24 RE -ENTRY Email: info @iaje.org www.iaje.org PEAK/WINDHAM HILL JAll 11438/WINDHAM HILL TOPAZ SPYRO GYRA 25 16 1 26 WINDHAM HILL JAll 11439/WINDHAM HILL GOT THE MAGIC This ad is tAlbums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIM) certification for net shipment of 500,000 album units (Gold). RIM certification for net shipment of 1 million units (Platinum). RIAA certification for net ship- underwritten by Qv (CfZ Forum at the 1999 IAJE Conference are ment of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral following Platinum or Diamond symbol indicates album's multi -platinum level. For Pictured from left during the Grammy Jazz boxed sets, and double albums with a running time of 100 minutes or more, the RIM multiplies shipments by the number of discs Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Bruce Lundval, Patrice Rushen, and Marcus Miller. and/or tapes. All albums available on cassette and CD. *Asterisk indicates vinyl available. indicates past or present Heatseeker title. A 1999, Billboard/BPI Communications, and SoundScan, Inc.

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