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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • May 15, 2006 Volume 2, Number 25 • $7.95 In This Issue: Berklee To Produce 2006 THE FUTURE OF JAZZ? BeanTown Jazz Festival . 4 Boston Pops Has First Jazz Fest. 5 Jazz Festival Update . 6 Music and Industry News In Brief . 7 Reviews and Picks . 15 Jazz Radio . 18 Q&A with Smooth Jazz Future of Music Coalition’s Radio. 25 Radio JEAN COOK Panels. 24, 29 page 10 News. 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Karrin Allyson #1 Smooth Album – Brian Culbertson #1 Smooth Single – Paul Brown JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger ur continuing series on jazz and technology takes a look at what’s MUSIC EDITOR in store in the future, as music editor Tad Hendrickson chats Tad Hendrickson Owith Future of Music Coalition outreach director Jean Cook. Music certainly is at a crossroads as digits replace physical product, CONTRIBUTING EDITORS podcasts supplant – well, supplement – airwaves, and distribution be- Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman comes direct. 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Mediaguide – Ed Trefzger, Editor 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/fax: (866) 453-6401 [email protected] Copyright ©2006 Trefzger Media LLC jazzweek.com • May 15, 2006 JazzWeek 2 Contents May 15, 2006 News . 4 Berklee To Produce Boston’s BeanTown Jazz Festival . 4 Boston Pops Adds First Jazz Fest . 5 Kingston and New Haven Announce Festivals . 6 Music and Industry News In Brief ... 7 Features Industry Q&A: Jean Cook, Outreach Director, Future Of Music Coalition . 10 4 Reviews . 15 Eddie Daniels Quartet . 15 Dafnis Prieto. 15 Christian McBride. 15 John Moulder . 16 John Stetch Trio . 16 Jazz Charts . 18 10 Jazz Album Chart . 19 Jazz Add Dates . 20 Jazz Current CDs . 21 Jazz Radio Panel . 24 Smooth Jazz Charts . 25 Smooth Album Chart . 26 Smooth Singles Chart. 27 Smooth Current CDs . 28 18 Smooth Radio Panel . 29 Classifieds . 17 Closing Number Five Top-Selling Jazz CDs This Week at CD Baby . 32 25 Cover Photo: Jean Cook (photo courtesy Future of Music Coalition) JazzWeek Volume 2 Number 25 jazzweek.com • May 15, 2006 JazzWeek 3 News Berklee To Produce Boston’s BeanTown Jazz Festival BOSTON – Berklee College of Music tain. and his team produced Berklee’s huge- President Roger H. Brown announced Berklee assumes production of the ly successful 60th Anniversary Concert that the college has assumed produc- festival, under the leadership of Berk- at the Wang Theater in January, under tion of Boston’s annual BeanTown Jazz lee Senior Vice President for Aca- the leadership of Phil Ramone. Festival. Last year, more than 40,000 demic Affairs Dr. Lawrence Simp- Free outdoor festivals, vital to the music lovers attended this civic cele- son. Simpson came to Berklee last fall cityscape and life of major urban cen- bration, held on three outdoor stages from Cleveland, where he was Presi- ters, are made possible through the in Boston’s South End. dent of Cuyahoga Community Col- civic consciousness and business acu- This year’s festival, the sixth annu- lege’s Metropolitan Campus, and was men of corporations with strong ties al, will be held Sept. 29 through Oct. also responsible for the production of to the community. Chief among these 1, 2006, again with lead sponsorship the internationally recognized Tri-C for BeanTown is lead sponsor Sover- by Sovereign Bank. A portion of the Jazz Festival-Cleveland. eign Bank and its CEO, Joe Campan- festival proceeds will support Pros- “While I’m relatively new to the elli. “BeanTown is a remarkable ex- tate Cancer Research and Awareness, city, I know about Boston’s unique and ample of what can happen when you and Berklee City Music, the college’s extremely rich jazz legacy,” said Simp- have a dedicated community leader like youth outreach program. son. “The legendary nightclubs along Darryl Settles, with great ideas and an Darryl Settles, who founded the the Mass Ave corridor in jazz’s post- enormous amount of drive,” said Cam- festival and has produced it from its war heyday, the artistic vision of a long panelli. “We’ve been happy to support outset, will continue in his role as line of great Boston jazz impresari- an event that brings so many people founder and corporate ambassador, os, and the contributions made to the together outdoors, from every part of working with businesses, the city, and evolving future of jazz by Boston mu- the city, to enjoy great music.” community groups that have been, or sicians, music colleges, and conserva- BeanTown begins, as it did for the will be, involved in the festival. “Pass- tories, are all part of it. We will hon- first time last year, with a Friday night ing the BeanTown baton to Berklee, or that legacy, and reflect that future, opening concert in the Berklee Perfor- under Larry Simpson’s leadership, and in the choices we make with the fes- mance Center. The 2006 festival will knowing they will take the festival to tival.” begin with a performance by legendary another level, is a dream result,” said Artistic Director for the Bean- pianist McCoy Tyner, leading an all Settles. “I cherish the opportunity to Town Jazz Festival is Willard Jenkins, star-group in “The Story of Impulse,” remain involved as the festival grows an acclaimed jazz festival presenter a retrospective of some of the defini- and evolves.” and journalist, who is working close- tive works of that seminal label, and of New this year, a Sunday Gospel ly with Simpson and Settles. Event jazz itself. The group is expected to in- Brunch, set for the Colonnade Hotel, production will be directed by Berk- clude trumpeter Nicholas Payton, sax- will be added to the festival, expand- lee Associate Vice President for Spe- ophonist Donald Harrison, and trom- ing it to three days. The high-ener- cial Programs, Rob Rose, whose team bonist Steve Turre, among others. gy, gospel-inflected big band Kendrick oversees the production of hundreds of Saturday’s outdoor festival, which Oliver’s New Life Orchestra, which Berklee Performance Center student runs from noon to 7:00 pm, at the cor- had its genesis at Berklee, will enter- and faculty concerts each year. Rose (continued on page 5) jazzweek.com • May 15, 2006 JazzWeek 4 News Boston Pops Adds Berklee To Produce BeanTown First Jazz Fest (continued from page 4) BOSTON – This year, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops will launch their first- ner of Columbus and Massachusetts and vocalist Doug Wamble, and rare- ever jazz week, May 23-27, with some Avenues, will fill three stages. The ly heard, master drummer Michael of the genre’s hottest artists backed Sovereign Stage is the festival’s main Carvin. by the big-band sound of America’s stage, and here alto saxophone gi- The Global Stage will showcase orchestra. The 2006 Boston Pops Jazz ant Kenny Garrett, and critics’ favor- artists with personal or stylistic ties Fest features two critically acclaimed ite, vocalist Carmen Lundy will each to other shores. Benin-born guitar- jazz artists: guitarist and singer John perform with their quartets. They’ll ist Lionel Loueke, who has worked Pizzarelli on May 23, 24, and 25; and be followed by the Christian McBride with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Short- singer Jane Monheit on May 26 and Situation, featuring Oliver Lake, Pa- er, and Terence Blanchard, since leav- 27. The BSO is also partnering with trice Rushen, and turntablist DJ Log- ing Berklee in 1992, will bring his Berklee College of Music to present the Berklee Jazz Café, featuring student ic. Gilfema trio. Dynamic Cuban pia- artists performing before and after the In a BeanTown first, Marsalis Mu- nist Omar Sosa will present his quar- Pops Jazz Fest concerts. sic, the Cambridge-based record label tet, and the Unwrapped All-Stars will begun by saxophonist and composer give forth with their unique brand of The Berklee Jazz Café will give listeners the chance to hear some of Branford Marsalis, a Berklee alumnus, jazz/hip-hop fusion. tomorrow’s top talent, including several will have a stage dedicated to its acts.