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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • May 18, 2005 Volume 1, Number 26 • $7.95 In This Issue: Ella, Al Jarreau Receive Ford Honors in Detroit. 4 Eldar Plans Club Tour. 6 Nascimento Inks Deal With Savoy . 9 3rd Annual JazzWeek Awards Ballot . 12 Reviews and Radio Q&A: Picks. 18 Jazz Radio . 20 BOBBY JACKSON Smooth Jazz Music Director/Producer Radio. 25 Cleveland’s WCPN Radio Panels. 29 page 14 News. 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Albums – Eldar and Gary Burton #1 Smooth Album – Kenny G #1 Smooth Single – Nils JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ne of the things that I’ve been most pleased about since we Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman relaunched JazzWeek as a weekly publication is the chance Tad Hendrickson Oto feature our friends in radio. This week, Bobby Jackson is CONTRIBUTING WRITER in the Q&A spotlight. Bobby is creating some terrific national- Tom Mallison caliber programming in Cleveland, but with a local perspective. PHOTOGRAPHY And the joining of WCPN with TV and internet operations is Barry Solof leading to some unique opportunities. Creative programmers like PUBLISHER Bobby and stations like WCPN help keep our format and music Tony Gasparre vibrant. ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre (585) 235-4685 x3 or Please don’t forget that nominations are open for only one more email: [email protected] week for the 2005 JazzWeek Awards, which will be announced SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: and presented at our annual awards luncheon on June 25 at the Charter Rate: $199.00 per year, JazzWeek Summit in Syracuse. Please fax or email your ballot (on JazzWeek w/ Industry Access – Charter Rate: $249.00 per year page 12) to us by noon ET on Tuesday, May 24. 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To register, visit jazzweek.com/summit/, or you may use the reg- JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) istration form on page 7 of this issue. is published weekly by – Ed Trefzger, Editor 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 • May 18, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents May 18, 2005 News . 4 Ella, Al Jarreau Receive Ford Honors . 4 Eldar Plans U.S. Club Tour . 6 JazzWeek Summit Conference Agenda . 8 Four More Jazz Imprints Ink Deal with eMusic . 9 Milton Nascimento Signs Deal With Savoy Jazz. 9 6 Essentially Ellington Winners Chosen. 10 Monica Zetterlund, 67. 11 2005 JazzWeek Awards Nomination Ballot . 12 Birthdays . 13 Features Radio Q&A: WCPN’s Bobby Jackson . 14 Reviews and Picks . 18 Drew Gress . 18 14 Luciana Souza . 18 Joshua Redman Elastic Band . 18 SFJAZZ Collective. 18 Jazz Charts . 20 Jazz Album Chart . 21 Jazz Add Dates . 22 Jazz Current CDs . 23 Jazz Radio Panel . 29 20 Smooth Jazz Charts . 25 Smooth Album Chart . 26 Smooth Singles Chart. 27 Smooth Current CDs . 28 Smooth Radio Panel . 29 25 Cover photo: Bobby Jackson (courtesy WCPN) JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 26 jazzweek.com • May 18, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Ella, Al Jarreau Receive Ford Honors DETROIT, Mich., May 12 – Ford lobby, and will be unveiled during the vice presi- Motor Company and the Charles H. awards program. Fitzgerald’s son, Ray dent of cor- Wright Museum of African American Brown Jr., will accept the award on her porate affairs History will honor 2005 Ford Free- behalf. at Ford Mo- dom Award recipient Ella Fitzger- The Ford Freedom Award Schol- tor Company. ald and Ford Freedom Award Schol- ar honor is bestowed upon a living in- “The success ar Al Jarreau during a black-tie gala at dividual who has demonstrated excel- of these two the museum on Tuesday, May 24. The lence in the field of the award recipient. extraordinary Ford Freedom Award proceeds sup- Jarreau will speak to nearly 1,700 stu- indiv idua ls port the museum’s educational pro- dents, including winners of the Ford illustrates the Ella Fitzgerald grams, exhibits, and community out- Freedom Award Essay Contest hosted ability music reach initiatives. by Detroit Newspapers in Education, has to bring people together.” The Ford Freedom Award, creat- at the Ford Freedom Award Scholar’s “The Museum thanks Ford Motor ed in 1999, is presented posthumously Lecture on Wednesday, May 25 at 11 Company for its continuing support of to distinguished individuals who dedi- a.m. The event will be held at Detroit’s the Ford Freedom Award,” said Chris- cated their lives to improving the Af- Music Hall. ty Coleman, president and CEO of the rican American community and the “Ford is proud to partner with the Charles H. Wright Museum of Af- world in general. A brass plate bearing Charles H. Wright Museum of Afri- rican American History. “With sup- Fitzgerald’s name will be added to the can American History in celebrating port from corporations like Ford, we museum’s Ring of Genealogy, the cen- the accomplishments of Ella Fitzgerald will continue to thrive and serve the terpiece of the Ford Freedom Rotunda and Al Jarreau,” said Ziad Ojakli, group continued ... INNOVATIVE ARRANGEMENTS OF NEW AND OLD JAZZ STANDARDS BRINGING A BREATH OF FRESH AIR TO THE GENRE. ALTOALTO FLUTEFLUTE BLENDSBLENDS PERFECTLYPERFECTLY WITHWITH THETHE SMOOTHSMOOTH ANDAND CLASSICCLASSIC HAMMONDHAMMOND B3B3 SOUNDSOUND ININ ANAN UNUSUALUNUSUAL COMBINATIONCOMBINATION ININ JAZZ.JAZZ. MUSICMUSIC WITHWITH AA SMOOTHSMOOTH WARMWARM GLOW.GLOW. DISTRUBUTED BY AVAILABLE AT VISIT BRADLEY ONLINE AT TOWER RECORDS AND MAJOR MUSIC RETAILERS WWW.BRADLEYLEIGHTON.COM jazzweek.com • May 18, 2005 JazzWeek 4 Bradley Leighton • Jazz Week • 1/3 pag. Horz 8" x 3.5" News Reach radio programmers Ella, Jarreau (continued) community by providing exhibitions and educational pro- grams, so that people of all ages and backgrounds can learn Advertise in about African American history and culture.” Dubbed the “First Lady of Song,” Ella Jane Fitzgerald JazzWeek was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. During her lifetime, she sold over 40 million albums and won 13 Grammy awards. Born Call Tony Gasparre at in Newport News, Va., Fitzgerald began singing after im- (585) 235-4685, ext. 3 pressing the audience at the Apollo Theater’s Amateur or email Night in 1934. She could imitate every instrument in an [email protected] orchestra and worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Nat King Cole to Frank Sina- tra, Dizzy Gillespie, and Benny Goodman. She performed to the New and Impr at top venues all over the world, and her audiences were as tions oved tula Ja diverse as her vocal range. Fitzgerald received the National ra zzW g e on e Medal of Arts, France’s Commander of Arts and Letters C k! Award, Kennedy Center Honors, and numerous honorary doctorates for her continuing contributions to the arts. She died on June 15, 1996. The unique vocal style and innovative musical expres- sions of singer/song- writer Al Jarreau have made him one of the most exciting and crit- ically acclaimed per- formers of our time, earning him five Gram- my Awards, numer- The Most ous international music awards, and accolades “Thorough & worldwide. His artistry began in his childhood Effective Radio home of Milwaukee, Al Jarreau Wis., where Jarreau, the Promotion son of a minister/found- ry worker, sang with his brothers. His recording career ex- Campaigns ploded with his debut album We Got By (1975), and a pro- gression of successful albums earned him superstar status Available and an international following. Jarreau is the only singer ever to have won Best Vocalist Grammys in three separate and distinct categories (jazz, R&B, and pop). He released 1680 North Vine Ave., Suite” 1206 his latest album, Accentuate the Positive, in 2004. Hollywood, CA 90028 The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American Tel 323/856-5550 History, founded in 1965, is the world’s largest institution dedicated to preserving African American history and cul- Fax 323/856-5887 ture. JW jazzweek.com • May 18, 2005 JazzWeek 5 News Eldar Plans U.S. Club Tour ighteen-year-old pianist Eldar, Eldar left his native Kyrgyzstan for whose self-titled debut tops the the United States in 1998, a boy of 11 EJazzWeek Jazz Album chart for with a slight grasp of English but an a second consecutive week, will tour astonishing natural talent that imme- several major jazz clubs this spring diately captured the attention of the and summer. Dates include: Yoshi’s in jazz world. In the last seven years, with Oakland, Calif., on June 6; Jazz Alley the support of his family, he has estab- in Seattle, June 7-8; Dizzy’s in New lished American roots as he continued York, June 14-19; Connecticut casi- his education, absorbed the culture, no resort Mohegan Sun, June 21-22; honed his technical skills and emerged Scullers in Boston, June 23; Zanzibar as one of the most distinctive jazz pia- in Philadelphia, June 24-25; and Blues nists of the new generation.