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Updated JazzWeek Summit Agenda . . . . . 7 René Marie Helps KUVO Raise Funds . 8 Palmetto Set to Release ALJO CD...... 9 Reviews and Picks...... 20 Jazz Radio . 22 That’s What I Say: Artist Q&A with Smooth Jazz JOHN SCOFIELD page 17 Radio...... 27 Radio Take The ‘Z’ Train: Panels. . . . . 31 MONTEREY JAZZ FEST News...... 4 page 12

Charts: #1 Jazz Albums – John Scoﬁeld #1 Smooth Album – Kenny G #1 Smooth Single – Nils JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS n sports, there’s talk of the Sports Illustrated jinx. Is there a Jazz- Tad Hendrickson Keith Zimmerman Week charm? For the second week in a row – last week Joe Kent Zimmerman ILovano, and this week John Scofield – the artist featured on CONTRIBUTING WRITER our cover also has the No. 1 CD on the Jazz Album Chart. It’s Tom Mallison strictly coincidence ... or good planning. Tad Hendrickson chats PHOTOGRAPHY with John about his new Verve CD, a tribute to Ray Charles, Barry Solof which includes as a guest artist David “Fathead” Newman, who PUBLISHER had his own outstanding paeon to Ray on HighNote this year. Tony Gasparre That album is a finalist for album of the year in this year’s Jazz- ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre Week Awards. (585) 235-4685 x3 or Also back with their periodic column, Take the ‘Z’ Train, are email: [email protected] Keith and Kent Zimmerman, who highlight one of the longest- SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: running jazz festivals in the U.S., the Monterey Jazz Festival. Charter Rate: $199.00 per year, JazzWeek w/ Industry Access – Charter Rate: $249.00 per year The 2005 JazzWeek Awards will be announced and presented To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ at our annual awards luncheon on June 25 at the JazzWeek Sum- AMEX/PayPal go to: http://www.jazzweek.com/account/ mit in Syracuse. We were flooded with ballots right up to the subscribe.html deadline, and we’ll count them and seal the results in a mayon- naise jar on my back porch until the ceremony.

AIRPLAY MONITORING BY The updated listing of workshops and panelists for this year’s JazzWeek Summit is on page 7 of this issue. (We’re still adding panelists, so contact us if you’d like to help.) Our Thursday night Mediaguide showcase includes the legendary Mike Longo, Mack Avenue re- 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. cording artists Ilona Knopﬂer and Ron Blake, and the Moutin Suite 150 Berwyn, PA 19312 Reunion Quartet. It should be a great evening, with refreshments and a reception sponsored by Mack Avenue. Even if you missed JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) the early bird registration, you can still sign up for the Summit. is published weekly by Don’t forget, all registrants receive VIP seating at the festival, and all subscribers receive a $50 discount on registration. To register, visit jazzweek.com/summit/, or you may use the registration form on page 6 of this issue. 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 – Ed Trefzger, Editor phone: (585) 235-4685 fax: (585) 235-4685 [email protected] Copyright ©2005 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents June 2, 2005

News ...... 4 Oscar Brown, Jr. Passes at 78 ...... 4 Savoy to Release Judy Garland Collection ...... 5 BET Jazz Announces Festival Sponsorships ...... 5 Updated JazzWeek Summit Agenda ...... 7 René Marie Helps KUVO Raise Funds ...... 8 8 Palmetto to Release Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra CD This Month ...... 9 Birthdays ...... 11 Features Take the ‘Z’ Train: The Monterey Jazz Festival Heads Towards 50 Years! . . . . 12 Artist Q&A: John Scofield ...... 17 Reviews and Picks ...... 20 Terence Blanchard ...... 20 Frank & Joe Show ...... 20 17 Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty ...... 21 Editors’ Picks ...... 21 Jazz Charts ...... 22 Jazz Album Chart ...... 23 Jazz Add Dates ...... 24 Jazz Current CDs ...... 25 Jazz Radio Panel ...... 31 Smooth Jazz Charts ...... 27 22 Smooth Album Chart ...... 28 Smooth Singles Chart...... 29 Smooth Current CDs ...... 30 Smooth Radio Panel ...... 31

27 Cover photo of John Scofield: Verve Music Group/Alan Nahigian JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 28 jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Oscar Brown, Jr. Passes at 78

CHICAGO – Singer, songwriter and Fox sitcom “Roc.” playwright Oscar Brown, Jr. died Sun- Brown was active in the 1960s civ- day, May 29, after a two-month long il rights movement, and ran unsuc- illness. He was 78. cessfully twice for elective office, once According to his family, Brown for the Illinois legislature and once for had undergone emergency surgery for the U.S. Congress. His lyrics for Max an abcess on his spine earlier in May. Roach’s We Insist! Freedom Now Suite He had been hospitalized twice be- marked one of the first jazz albums cause of pain and paralysis in his legs. about civil rights. Oscar Brown, Jr., gained notoreity Brown was born in Chicago, the in 1960 after the debut of his album son of a successful real estate broker. Sin & Soul. That caught the ears of Brown worked in his father’s business, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Dizzy Oscar Brown, Jr.’s 1960 album Sin & Soul served two years in the army, and host- Gillespie, all of whom recorded with was riessued by Columbia with bonus ed a local radio program before mak- Brown. tracks in 1996. ing a career as a singer and writer. As a songwriter, Brown was known plays and musicals and made his movie Brown is survived by his wife, for writing lyrics for Miles Davis’ “All debut in the 1996 film Original Gang- singer and dancer Jean Pace Brown, a Blues” and Mongo Santamaria’s “Afro stas. Brown made several television son, four daughters, 16 grandchildren, Blue,” and for the compositions “The appearances during the last 45 years, and 4 great-grandchildren. Another Snake” and “Signifyin’ Monkey.” including recurring roles on Oprah son, bass player Oscar Brown III, died Brown also wrote more than a dozen Winfrey’s “Brewster Place” and on the in 1996 in an automobile accident.

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�� JazzWeek Summit 2005 Conference Agenda Unless otherwise noted, all events held at Marx Hotel and Friday, June 24 Conference Center, Syracuse, N.Y. Topics, panelists and times may be subject to change. (Updated June 2.) 9:00 AM – Coffee/Tea and More Carbs 9:30 AM – Panel Session / Workshop: The Art of the Interview. Sponsored by The Jazz Journalists Association Thursday, June 23 Whether if it is for print, radio or television, you should be 8:30 AM – Check-in and Registration prepared on how to conduct an interview. Learn how to get the Coffee, tea, carbs, and a hundred hellos to one another. most out of an interview with our own contributing editor Tad Hendrickson as the moderator. Panelists: Dick LaPalm, Blaise 10:00 AM – Welcome and Keynote Address Lantana, Brad Stone, Vicki Rzepka, Mike Longo Featured Speakers: Frank Malfitano, Syracuse Jazz Fest, and 11:00 AM – Panel Session: Core Values Nick Pirro, Onondaga County Executive. Others TBA. Time to take a closer look at the Walrus Study and how this 10:30 AM – Panel Session: Can Jazz Stations Market data can impact your station for the better. Panelists: Shaunna Themselves? Morrison Machosky, WDUQ; Carlos Lando, KUVO; others TBA. Everyone is looking for an audience, but sometimes radio needs Lunch Break to give people an initial reason to tune into a station in the first place. Listen to and share some ideas about advertising, 1:30 PM – Workshop: Baby With The Bath Water – Part Two sponsorships, and community outreach programs. After having some time to digest Part One, it is now time to Lunch Break discuss how to implement those practices. How can you use those tools to get your station to the next level? 1:30 PM – Workshop: Baby With The Bath Water – Part One 3:15 PM – Panel Session: Jukebox Jury Just because 99% of jazz heard in the United States is on public radio does not mean basic commercial radio practices You know it! You’ll love it or hate it! Time to shake the wax out need to be ignored. This workshop will explore how public of your ears and watch our panelists and attendees vote yea or radio can learn the basics from commercial radio practices and nay on forthcoming jazz releases. Moderator: Brad Stone, KSJS. research. Dinner break and the opening night of the Syracuse Jazz 3:00 PM – Workshop: How Can We Work Together Better? Fest at Onondaga Community College, with VIP seating and hospitality for all Summit participants. Attendees will split up into three groups: radio in one group, promotion and label people in a second group, and artists in Saturday, June 25 a third group. Each group will then identify what they would like to change about their efforts in Jazz Radio. Twenty to 9:00 AM – Coffee/Tea and More Carbs thirty minutes later, each group will join together and discuss 10:00 AM – Panel Session: Smilin’ and Dialin’ with Mediaguide their ideas with the others. The goal is to see if there are any Now that Mediaguide is counting the spins for the charts, common ideas that can be reached and implemented together. learn what has changed during this weekly dynamic between Dinner Break labels, the independent promoters and the program and music 7:00 PM – JazzWeek Showcase, Everson Museum directors. Panelists: Frank Johnson, Mediaguide; Jane Dashow, Jazzzdog Promotions; Mitchell Feldman, Mitchell Feldman Reception and cocktail hour first Associates. Schedule of performers: Noon – JazzWeek Awards Luncheon, location TBA • Ilona Knopfler 2:30 PM – Town Meeting • Mike Longo Trio “Nothing But a Family Thing 4” – Just keepin’ a good thing • Moutin Reunion Quartet going. Just like any family it is time to discuss, argue and maybe laugh like any good family does. What have we learned • The Ron Blake Band and what are we going to do? Afterwards, for those staying in town, it’s back up to the Syracuse Jazz Fest! jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 7 News René Marie Helps KUVO Raise Funds

MAXJAZZ recording artist René Marie, now a Denver resident, stopped by the KUVO studios on May 18 to perform live at the station’s Oasis Performance Studio. Pal- metto recording artist Javon Jackson (above center) also came by to lend a hand. (Photos by Susan Gatschet-Reese, KUVO Asst. P.D/on-air host.)

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jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 8 News Palmetto to Release Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra CD This Month

NEW YORK – Palmetto Records will From Chile, Acuña reg- reconciliation, a night release Una Noche Inolvidable (An Un- ularly performed in San- of pure joy and beauty, a forgettable Night) on June 28. It’s a live tiago’s jazz clubs honing night of deep groove and recording of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s her individual style before even deeper pride.” renowned Afro-Latin Jazz Orches- moving to the U.S. and re- O’Farrill believes tra with Arturo O’Farrill recorded on leasing CDs on Verve and strongly in the mission of January 28, 2005, during the inaugu- MAXJAZZ. the ALJO: “Our mission ral season at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “This concert was a is to honor great works new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. perfect vehicle for our ﬁrst from Latin jazz masters, O’Farrill invited two noted vocal- experience in Jazz at Lin- commission a new body ists in the Afro-Latin tradition, Her- coln Center’s Rose The- Jazz at Lincoln Center of work for this genre man Olivera and Claudia Acuña, to ater,” said O’Farrill. “This Arturo O’Farrill and educate listeners on join the big band that evening. From night was una noche inolv- the impact of Afro Latin Newark, N.J., Olivera was part of the idable, literally a night we rhythms on jazz. We are band Conjunto Libre and has worked should remember, a night in which deeply committed to groove and clavé with Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri. we acknowledge our roots, a night of so get ready to swing hard!” ��

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ALJO on Palmetto (continued) Una Noche Inolvidable is the second Palmetto Records release in the Jazz at Lincoln Center series. The ﬁrst was A Love Supreme by the Lincoln Cen- ter Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Mar- salis. The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra is composed of 18 soloists who play clas- sics of the Afro-Latin tradition. The members are: Arturo O’Farrill, Music Director and Pia- no; Michael Philip Mossman, Trum- pet; John Walsh, Trumpet; Jim Seeley, Trumpet; Mike Rodriguez, Trum- pet; Luis Bonilla, Trombone; Gary Jazz at Lincoln Center Valente, Trombone; Reynaldo Jorge, Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra debut on Palmetto Records June 28. Trombone; Douglas Purviance, Bass Trombone; Erica vonKleist, Alto Sax- phone; Ivan Renta, Tenor Saxophone; rico, Drums; Jimmy Delgado, Percus- ophone; �� Bobby Porcelli, Alto Saxo- Pablo Calogero, Baritone Saxophone; sion; and Tony Rosa, Percussion. JW phone; Mario Rivera, Tenor Saxo- Ruben Rodriguez, Bass; Vince Che-

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jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 10 News Birthdays June 9 June 17 Cole Porter (1891) Tony Scott (1921) June 2 Kenny Barron (1943) Joe Thomas (1933) Marty Napoleon (1921) Mick Goodrick (1945) Chuck Rainey (1940) June 3 June 10 June 20 Dakota Staton (1931) Dicky Wells (1907) Eric Dolphy (1928) Ted Curson (1935) Gary Thomas (1961) June 21 Grachan Moncur III (1937) Charnett Moffett (1967) Jamil Nasser (1932) Jack Wilkins (1944) June 11 June 23 June 4 Shelly Manne (1920) Milt Hinton (1910) Britt Woodman (1920) Hazel Scott (1920) Helen Humes (1913) Oliver Nelson (1932) Bernard Purdie (1939) George Russell (1923) Anthony Braxton (1945) Jamaaladeen Tacuma (1956) Sahib Shihab (1925) Paquito D’Rivera (1948) June 12 Donald Harrison (1960) June 5 Marcus Belgrave (1936) June 24 Pete Jolly (1932) Chick Corea (1941) Cap’n John Handy (1900) Misha Mengleberg (1935) Geri Allen (1957) Cootie Williams (1910) Peter Erskine (1954) June 13 George Gruntz (1932) June 6 Doc Cheatham (1905) Frank Lowe (1943) Jimmie Lunceford (1902) Frank Strozier (1937) Marvin Smith (1961) Al Grey (1925) June 14 June 25 Grant Green (1931) Lucky Thompson (1924) Joe Chambers (1942) Monty Alexander (1944) June 15 June 26 June 7 Erroll Garner (1921) Dave Grusin (1934) Tal Farlow (1921) Jaki Byard (1922) Reggie Workman (1937) Beryl Booker (1922) Tony Oxley (1938) Joey Baron (1955) Tina Brooks (1932) June 16 June 27 June 8 Joe Thomas (1933) Elmo Hope (1923) Bill Watrous (1939) Albert Dailey (1938) June 28 Julie Tippett (1947) Tom Harrell (1946) Jimmy Mundy (1907) June 29 Julian Priester (1935)

jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 11 Take the “Z” Train The Monterey Jazz Festival Heads Towards 50 Years!

by Keith and Kent Zimmerman

his year’s lineup at the 2005 Monterey Jazz Festival is one of the best ever in its 48-year history. Every important aspect of Tjazz – be it traditional, vocal-oriented, progressive, electric, eclectic, big band, avant garde, smooth, and blues – will be represented with exciting headliners that include Tony Bennett, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Carla Bley, Andy Bey, Madeleine Peyroux, Lee Ritenour, Bran- ford Marsalis, John Scoﬁeld, Larry Carlton, Christian McBride, John Handy, Dave Grusin, Mavis Staples, and many more. Whew! We couldn’t wait until Sep- tember 16-18, so we spoke to Tim Jackson, the general manager of Monterey Jazz Festival, about America’s greatest jazz fest and how they stay on the pulse of the jazz continuum.

KZ: Tim, how was the festival been able to secure such a wide range of headliners? This is one of the finest lineups ever. Is it the luck of the draw, having all those acts available? Tim Jackson: Generally, over the past fifteen years or so, it’s been a little bit of everything. Sometimes it’s the luck of the draw; artists you’re interested in are available. Then some years it’s like pulling teeth to find anybody. We stretched a little further on our budget this year to make things happen. It fell into place nicely. Last year’s festival was wonderful, with a couple highlights being Bill Char- lap and Don Byron with Jack DeJohnette and Jason Moran. It was great but it didn’t have quite the high-octane name recognition that some of the artists have this year. For a festival of the size and reputation of Monterey, you need to include jazz royalty to make a statement. From a sales and marketing standpoint, it’s important to have core artists like Tony Ben- nett, Branford Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, and Pat Metheny. Then we can build around lesser known acts that we think will really excite people once they see them. They may not be that familiar in print, with artists like Carla Bley, the continued ... jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 12 Take the “Z” Train: Monterey Jazz Festival (continued)

Spanish Harlem Orchestra, and Sharon Jones, but people will really love it. One of the finer aspects of the Monterey Jazz Festival is that you venture beyond jazz. You’ve worked with a lot of young up and coming artists, like a personal favorite of ours named Jackie Greene. Yet Jackie is not a jazz musician, he’s more of an American roots rock artist in the vein of early Bob Dylan. Monterey is certainly not shy to venture past the bebop mindset. You might throw in an obscure R&B singer that will tear it up onstage. The people who come to Monterey are hardcore jazz fans, but in an open-air, large setting they want a variety of social types of music. They appreciate mul- tiplicity and will listen to a lot of hard core jazz and some R&B or blues-oriented acts. It makes for an overall potent mix by the end of the year. Personally, we’re fans of the classic jazz nightclubs like Yoshi’s in Oakland and less so with the huge venues. Yet the Monterey Jazz Festival is a large gathering, but it’s very homey. Monterey Jazz is as intimate as you want it to be, or as gala as you expect it to be, whether it’s the main stage or the smaller venues on the fairgrounds lot. That’s where the beauty of the smaller stages comes in. You can wander off into a coffeehouse gallery and hear some incredible artist. You can find those nooks and crannies to get that more intimate experience. We present mostly piano players in that style of venue. Another thing we enjoy is when the festival double- books a main-stage act to later play on a medium- sized stage. Is that a jazz festival custom? I don’t know how customary it is elsewhere, but it works for us. Generally, 30 to 40% of our arena artists will also perform in another venue. This year, six of the headline artists will also be performing on smaller grounds venues – and sometimes not in the same for- mat as the main stage show. It bumps up the caché of Sonny Rollins’ busy season of festival appearances includes the late summer Monterey Jazz Festival in September. the grounds tickets and makes it as relevant and valu- able as having an arena ticket. A grounds ticket isn’t just a consolation prize at Monterey. It’s a great value and some people prefer the grounds tickets to the arena shows. You experience a whole bunch of music in very comfortable settings.

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Both the Newport and Monterey Jazz Festivals were the first of their kind in American history. Newport was the first festival, founded in 1954. Although they say there was a festival on Randall’s Island in New York around 1938, and there may have been some European festivals, Newport was the first to gain international at- tention. Then Monterey followed four years later in 1958. Afterwards there was a proliferation of festivals, particularly in Europe. In this country, it’s Newport on the East Coast and Monterey on the West Coast. We’re the granddaddy festivals. We understand the Monterey Jazz Festival has a big anniversary coming up. We’re working on our 50th anniversary. This year is our 48th and with the 50th coming up soon, we have just one opportunity to observe it. Other than Newport, which celebrated their 50th last year, we’re in uncharted territories. We’re looking at a lot of opportunities, including a book project. Our board member Clint Eastwood is committing to do a 50th anniversary documentary that he’s going to produce. We’re also investigating the possi- bility of a 50th Anniversary Tour of all-star players, along with a Monterey Jazz record label that would utilize some of the incredible music in our Andy Bey is featured at Monterey this September. archives. I don’t know if we can do all of those things, but we can flesh out a few of these ideas for the 50th anniversary. Are there any themes to booking the Monterey Jazz Festival? Sometimes we’ll end up with some over-arching themes throughout the weekend, but when people are in a large, open, social setting like Monterey that en- courages people to move around and not sit still, the strict thematic program- ming is not the best way to go. If you have an orchestrated plan for the venues from the beginning to the end, most people are moving around anyway from venue to venue, so it doesn’t work that well. There are exceptions, but we don’t plan specific themed evenings. Is the festival talent completely booked as of now? What’s on the Web site now is pretty much complete except for perhaps a couple of adjustments. (http://www.montereyjazzfestival.org/) What is your feeling about jazz’s appeal as you serve such a large, diverse audience? continued ... jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 14 Take the “Z” Train: Monterey Jazz Festival (continued)

In the 30 years I’ve been involved, I’ve seen ebbs and flows within various areas of the business. There’s the presenting part that I’m involved in, then the radio, publications, and recording aspects. The live com- ponent has traditionally been one of the stronger areas in jazz because it’s such a great genre to experience live. It’s that sound of surprise, and fans enjoy the emotional con- nection of a great jazz performance that isn’t always there in other types of music. Over the past couple of years, we have hit a few speed bumps in the jazz presenting world. Things have been a little slower for a lot of us. There aren’t as many headline artists as there used to be, and it’s really our responsibility now to try and develop those new artists that are going to fill the seats in the future. Let’s face it: we’re now a society with many, many entertain- ment options for your discretionary dollars. These days we now have seven or eight jazz festivals just in the Bay Area alone. There’s new product out there every day with new artists putting out their own CDs. Plus, the major labels have aggressive reissue programs. There are new Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald packages coming out all the time. With so many jazz options out there, we need to keep our uniqueness and make sure we get across to the public what’s special about our event. What’s your take on jazz radio these days? There’s not a lot in the Santa Cruz/Monterey area. We have to rely on a couple of NPR stations to do block pro- gramming in the evenings. There is an AM jazz station in Carmel, KRML, which is unique, but you lose the station very quickly in terms of power. I listen to KCSM when I’m in the Bay Area. Whenever jazz is involved, it’s hard for me to take off my “producer’s hat,” whether it is live performances or records. When I listen to jazz radio, Craig Lovell/Monterey Jazz Festival there’s a lot of it that I would do differently. Lee Ritenour returns to the Monterey Jazz Festival’s 48th season. Do you think jazz radio today might be a little too steeped in the music of late 1950’s and early 1960’s? Yes. As a general rule, I find for my own personal tastes, a lot of jazz programmers are limited in what they’re presenting. If I did a jazz radio program, I’d be all over the map. Maybe they’re dictated to by a station manager or a certain philosophical statement that a station has, but I’d like to see jazz radio be a little more open-ended. And go beyond Thelonious Monk and Woody Shaw? That’s one of our few continued ... jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 15 Take the “Z” Train: Monterey Jazz Festival (continued)

pet peeves with jazz radio. Why do you think jazz radio seems to emanate Check Out the Latest from the early 1960’s post-bop? Book by the ‘Z’ It seems pretty conservative to me. They get a vibe going and sometimes it’s Train Columnists hard to get out of that. There’s so much interesting creative music out there, both acoustic and electric, from straight ahead to avant garde to more commercial stuff. I’d like to hear a radio station that would play Yellowjackets next to Cecil Taylor. That’s what I like. Knowing your own jazz clientele, would they embrace that kind of variety? They definitely do from a live standpoint. At Monterey, you’ll have Spanish Harlem Orchestra followed by Sonny Rollins, and it all works. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work in radio, too. But I always like to qualify these statements by saying this: it’s easy on the outside looking in to say what you would do. Since I have never been a radio programmer or worked for a station, there may be pieces of the puzzle that I don’t see. So I don’t want to sound like I have some secret recipe when I don’t. I don’t know jazz radio from the inside out. What are some of Monterey Jazz’s ancillary programs outside the annual We’re proud to announce the release festival in September? of our newest book—our first music book since 1994. It’s called Sing We have the premiere jazz education program outside of jazz at Lincoln Cen- My Way Home: Voices of the New ter, which is so big it belongs in a class by itself, and has such an international American Roots Rock. It features focus. But for a mid-sized, three million dollar per year organization like us, interesting essays, interviews and we put a tremendous amount of resources and energy out to jazz education. We think pieces on vital American have a full-time education director. We stage programs that benefit the kids in roots artists like Gram Parsons, our county – all the way to producing international summer tours, with high Lucinda Williams, Rodney Crowell, school all-star groups going to Japan and Europe. It’s a comprehensive program and many more. It’s published by that provides instruments and music for school kids. We also set up an artists- BackBeat Books and is available in-the-schools program that brings professionals into the schools on a month- now in bookstores. If you’re a radio programmer or media person who ly basis. We’ve done that for over 25 years. The Next Generation Festival, our follows our columns and would be national high school jazz competition, has been going on for 35 years. We’ve interested in scheduling interviews, been at the forefront more than any other jazz organization as far as outreach reviews or giveaways, contact us via and education. We work in conjunction with Berklee College of Music annual- JazzWeek at Zimmermen@jazzweek. ly to present the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship. Available to California music stu- com and we’ll pass on your request to dents, it’s a four-year, all tuition paid scholarship, worth over $130,000. Again, our publishers. We have many other other than what Lincoln Center is doing, there’s no other organization that has books coming out in the next year, invested the time, energy, and resources that we have. but don’t miss out on this one! – The Z’men Can jazz radio stations from around the country reach out to the Monterey Jazz Festival? We do a certain amount of cross-promotional contest giveaways with various organizations throughout the year. Paul Fingerote, our publicity and marketing person, is actively working on things like that all the time. JW

jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 16 Artist Q&A:

Verve Music Group/Alan Nahigian

by Tad Hendrickson uitarist John Scoﬁeld is known for his funky approach to jazz guitar. And while he may be the Godfather of Groove, he’s Gequally at home in a conventional jazz trio setting, as 2004’s En Route emphatically pointed out. Here on the eve of the release of his Ray Charles tribute, That’s What I Say, we get the lowdown on his biggest and most complex recording project to date, featuring a studio band, a large horn section and several guest stars. We caught up to the guitarist just after his South American tour and just before he heads out on his European one.

JazzWeek: After the relatively streamlined approach of En Route, a live recording with a trio, you really went the other direction with That’s What I Say. John Scofield: Yeah, just getting it to happen was difficult. Susan (his wife and manager) had to struggle just to get everyone to be in one place at the same time. There was a lot of moving parts so that was really different. I’ve always recorded with my bands or with friends in smaller groups, this was sort of like that, but with all the singers and guest musicians it was really different. This is an awfully big idea. Did it come out fully formed or did it evolve into continued ... jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 17 Q&A: John Scofield (continued)

the finished product that we have in our hands? I had an idea and the idea kept changing. Actually it wasn’t my idea to begin with. It was Ron Goldstein [President of Verve] who came up with the idea, and that’s a surprise. Usually when somebody from your record label comes to you and says, “I have this idea for your next record,” you think, “Help!” But this idea really resonated with me. I love that music and I grew up with it in the early-’60s when I was a little kid because all those songs were on the radio. “Usually when One of the reasons I wanted to get into music was Ray Charles because I al- somebody from ways loved the music. Most people make tribute albums when they don’t have anything else to do, but this resonated because it was an idea that I could really your record label get into. comes to you and Do you see similarities between the two of you? He’s a R&B musician who is into jazz and I am too, even though we are com- says, ‘I have this pletely different and from different times. But I could play these songs in my idea for your own way. Really, they just seemed like great vehicles to play on. It’s fun to listen to songs and think about how we could interpret them. Then, once we had next record,’ you narrowed down the song list, we had to think about singers and Steve Jordan really helped me with that. It was really fun to try and pick a song for each think, ‘Help!’ person. But this idea I think that [pop singer/guitarist] John Mayer gets the award for being the really resonated biggest surprise. Yep. The other special guests I knew. John I knew some – I knew his hits and with me.” I’d heard him on TV – but Steve Jordan had been working with him and he asked me about doing something with him. He had talked to Mayer and May- er wanted to do it, and at first I was doubtful, but Steve was really into it and it worked. Who would have thought? He knew your work? Yeah he had heard of me and was into my stuff earlier on and he wanted to do it. It must have been hard to figure out how to do what with each song. Yeah, a lot of that was Steve. He figured out where the background singers would go, which ones had horns. The first track was an organ trio track. I’d never had a record with that much diversity on it before in its instrumentation. Every day was different, which was great. How did you approach the material? We were trying to get some different grooves in there. Ray’s stuff sort of had that Ray Charles beat – It was thing that he invented that had a Latin kind of soul beat. We didn’t use that, we changed the rhythms on a lot of the songs. We added a set of funk rhythms or whatever, so that was fun. A lot of the songs are 12-bar blues and there’s a million different ways to do them. We did continued ... jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 18 Q&A: John Scofield (continued)

“What’d I Say” as a Latin and Cuban tune – the original hints at it anyway. For “I Don’t Need No Doctor” we took the Ray Charles beat and turned it into more of a funk thing. On “Hit The Road Jack” it’s a little more jazzy than the original. It’s all sort of tricky, adding changes. You can take a great song and re-harmonize it, because you can re-harmonize anything, but I hate it when people try and make it too intellectual, or too Berklee-ed or whatever. This coming from someone who actually … … I’m a Berklee man myself. I can say that. It’s really about love You must have needed to a traﬃc cop just to keep track of who is coming when. I’m proud of the fact that we got singers to come in do there songs with the rhythm section, and not have to overdub. They all showed up when we were recording the album around Christmas. The one song that we have overdubs on is “What’d I Say.” All the rest were done live. How’d you get Isaac Hayes to come in? He just showed up. Steve was working on an album with him and told him to come down. He just came down to hang out, but we got him on there [“What I’d Say”] anyway. Are you going to be able to tour behind this project? I’m putting together a band, but it has none of the guys who are on the record. There will be drums, bass, guitar, organ and we have a singer who also plays trombone. Not well known guys yet, but I au- ditioned a ton of people to get them. We head out on the road starting in September. We start at the Blue Note for a week here in New York, then the Monter- ay Jazz Festival (we’ll have Mavis Staples sing with us there), and then a whole U.S. tour. What about this summer? I’m going to Europe with Bill Stewart, and Steve Swallow couldn’t do it, so I got Dennis Irwin to do it. Chris Potter is going to do the tour too. So it will be a quartet. Did Fathead have any words of wisdom for you when he came in? All his advice came out of his horn, for me. What a sound, what an approach. He’s a Texas tenor, and he’s got that gospel-meets-jazz sound that Ray was a part of. This album was another part of it. One time he asked me: “Where you from?” Once he did that, I knew I was cool. JW jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 19 Reviews and Picks

Blanchard Builds His Icon Cred Terence Blanchard

Flow (Blue Note) f there’s a list of current day jazz masters who are assiduously working their way towards iconic status, it’s a sure bet that Terence Blanchard is Ion it. The trumpeter has turned out a number of spectacular soundtracks; he oversees a music program in New Orleans; and he heads up marvelous- ly talented working band. He’s also riding high after 2003’s Bounce, which many hailed as his finest album to date. Flow follows up on the predecessor, again toying with such bebop givens as harmony, arrangements and soloing. At times the band takes off into muscular fusion filled electronic ambiances and interesting folky filigree – often this is due to the not so secret weapon Lionel Lueke, whose angular guitar playing is beyond imaginative and vo- calizations are forceful. The rest of the band is hot as well – ringer/producer Herbie Hancock contributes an fiery solo to “Benny’s Tune” – but rather than stepping out to solo, there is a holistic vibe where everyone moves forward, cooking as they do. “Flow Part 1” makes a fine opening statement of intent, and it as well as the “Wandering Wonder” both will work for radio. But this Contact: Groov Marketing album really takes off on the wild “Wadagbe” and “Harvest Dance” as well Phone: (877) GROOV 32 as the panoramic and poignant “Over There.”Flow isn’t a whole new level for Email: [email protected] Add Date: June 6 Blanchard and co. but it certainly answers the high expectations set by past Release Date: June 7 work with some new shading. – Tad Hendrickson

Frank & Joe Show much as the first one started – a few guest vocalists, small group settings – most importantly, however, the chemistry 66 2/3 (Hyena) is intact. Anchored by Vignola’s swing guitar pyrotechnics THE BAND NAME sounds like a cable access show, the al- with Ascione’s percolating rhythms, the sound is Latin, it’s bum title is a frac- hot club swing, it’s romantic balladry, it’s jazz. With songs tion, and the album that stay under the five minute mark, the band will give you art and liner notes whiplash as it changes gears, but it definitely keeps those are just plain goofy. along for the ride wide awake. Amongst the solid program, Yes, guitarist Frank the live tracks recorded at KUVO (Hi Arturo!) crackle Vignola and percus- with just a bit more energy. sionist Joe Ascione – Tad Hendrickson are living proof that Contact: Jane Dashow jazz does have a sense Phone: (212) 679-1445 of humor. The second Email: [email protected] Add Date: June 6 album from these co- Release Date: May 10 leaders continues on continued ... jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 20 Reviews and Picks Editors’ Picks Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty Rita Coolidge and so is love (Concord) Rita has been out of the spotlight for so long that you may I Am Three (Sue Mingus Music-Sunnyside) have forgotten what a wonderful, full voice she has. Recording a jazz album has been on the top of her list for several years, CHARLES MINGUS’S MUSIC has become a cottage industry and Concord has given her that chance, but this is not her first thanks to the work of his wife Sue and the vast pool of mu- entry in the jazz world. She recorded with Barbara Carroll in sicians who perform in the three bands dedicated to work the seventies and loved the experience. Rita cites Clooney, of this jazz giant. Fitzgerald, Vaughn, and Lee as singers she has admired since she was three-years old. Simply put, this is a terrific record. It The debut release on can be played on traditional jazz stations and for those smooth Sue Mingus Music, I jazz stations that play vocals. Key Tracks: “Come Rain or Come Am Three features all Shine,” “I Thought about You,” and “Estate,” which features three bands as well as Herb Albert. arrangements from Big Neighborhood Neighbors (Origin Records) the band members Big Neighborhood is a 2005 modern jazz band. The group uses themselves. As is al- traditional jazz flavored with 70s and 80s jazz-rock, and blends ways the case, the it with other genres, using its guitars, saxophone, bass, and bands dig deep into drums. They are rooted in improvisation, but they keep each the catalog to present track together, making the experience enjoyable as they move into new territories. Key Tracks: “Layered Effect,” “Neighbors,” nuggets unknown or and “The Jordy Strut.” perhaps forgotten – We want to look back at a few releases that may have about the closest they come to a popular piece is Blue And gotten lost under the stacks of discs on your desk ... Roots’s “Tensions” and “Wednesday Prayer Meeting.” Cer- tainly more off the beaten path is “Chill Of Death,” a clas- Twana Rhodes Thru the Night (Nagel Heyer) sical leaning piece the composer wrote when he was 17 that If you are in the market for an excellent female vocalist with didn’t appear until it was included in the long form piece original material, then look no further. Twana has written 12 of the 14 tracks on this disc. She is not the traditional jazz vocalist, “Epitaph.” The best place to start is at the beginning – the but if you’re able to program Lizz Wright, you should not have album starts off with a bang on the hard driving “Song any problem with Twana. Key Tracks: “I Should Have Known,” With Orange,” which races along for a very short 12 min- Healing The Nations,” and “Windowpane.” utes. Another fine piece from a music juggernaut fighting Tia Fuller Pillar of Strength (Tiafuller.com) the good fight. You and your listeners are going to love this record. Tia has – Tad Hendrickson Contact: Garrett Shelton been studying music since she was three years old, which Phone: (646) 519-3560 led to studying with Javon Jackson, Jesse Davis, and Wessell Email: [email protected] Anderson, which then led to performing with Ed Thigpen, Joe Add Date: June 6 Lovano, Stephon Harris, The Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, The Release Date: June 7 Gerald Wilson Big Band, and many others. You may recognize her saxophone and flute playing on Sean Jones’s last recording, Eternal Journey. I think it is safe to say we will be hearing from Reach radio programmers Tia as a performer, a composer, or as an educator for many years ahead. Key Tracks: “In Her Honor,” “Bookie - Head,” and “New Life.” Advertise in Benny Lackner Trio Not the Same (Nagel Heyer) This piano trio will be compared to The Bad Plus. This recording is loaded with originals but it is the unique arrangements, JazzWeek and interesting use of instrumentation of the covers that sets this one apart. Key Tracks: “Will It Matter,” “Cherokee,” and “Moanin’.” Call Tony Gasparre at (585) 235-4685, ext. 3 or email – compiled by Tony Gasparre [email protected] jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 21 Jazz Radio

John Scofield’s That’s What I Say Jumps To No. 1

Most Added, Biggest Increase In Spins, Highest Debut: David Hazeltine

ohn Scoﬁeld’s That’s What I Say: The Music of Ray Charles (Verve) moves Jinto the No. 1 spot on this week’s Jazz Album Chart with airplay on 53 stations. Joe Lovano’s Joyous Encounter (Blue Note) drops to No. 2 but maintains airplay on 55 stations. David Hazeltine’s Modern Standards (Sharp Nine) hits this week’s trifecta: Most Added with 26 adds, the highest Increased Airplay with 98 spins, and debuts at No. 18 John Scofield’s That’s What I Say (Verve) is No. 1 on the Jazz Album Chart. on this week’s chart after four weeks. Nine new releases debuted on the chart this week.

Jazz Album Chart p. 23 Jazz Add Dates p. 24 Jazz Current CDs p. 25

It’s a hat trick for David Hazeltine. His Sharp Nine Jazz Radio Panel p. 31 CD Modern Standards has the highest debut, is most added, and had the biggest spin increase. jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 22 airplay data JazzWeek Jazz Album Chart June 2, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 5 9 1 John Scofield That’s What I Say: The Music of Ray Charles Verve Music Group 321 262 59 4 53 4 2 1 4 1 Joe Lovano Joyous Encounter Blue Note 275 309 -34 4 55 3 3 3 1 1 Gary Burton Next Generation Concord Jazz 270 284 -14 8 56 0 4 4 3 3 Scott Hamilton/Bill Charlap Trio Back In New York Concord Jazz 267 272 -5 8 50 1 5 2 1 1 Eldar Eldar Sony Classical 260 286 -26 8 53 0 6 7 11 6 Steve Hobbs Spring Cycle Random Chance 214 213 1 4 48 2 7 6 5 4 Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple Savant 198 261 -63 7 52 1 7 11 13 7 Cheryl Bentine Let Me Off Uptown Telarc Jazz 198 188 10 6 44 1 9 8 16 6 Babatunde Lea Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost Motema 184 210 -26 9 42 2 10 15 17 10 Vic Juris A Second Look Mel Bay 183 164 19 5 43 2 11 12 12 11 Marian McPartland & Friends 85 Candles-Live In New York Concord Jazz 167 186 -19 6 37 5 12 14 6 1 Monty Alexander Live At The Iridium Telarc Jazz 165 177 -12 14 30 1 13 29 NR 13 Dena DeRose A Walk In The Park MAXJAZZ 159 106 53 2 42 10 14 9 7 7 John Pizzarelli Knowing You Telarc Jazz 151 195 -44 9 36 0 15 10 NR 10 Bill Cunliffe Imaginacion Torii Records 150 191 -41 2 43 5 16 13 8 2 One More Music of Thad Jones IPO Recordings 136 185 -49 11 38 0 17 18 19 17 Alan Pasqua My New Old Friend Cryptogramophone 134 152 -18 5 41 2 18 NR NR 18 David Hazeltine Modern Standards Sharp Nine 132 34 98 1 39 26 19 19 21 11 The Chris Walden Big Band Home Of My Heart Origin Records 131 147 -16 15 31 0 20 17 13 11 Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up 124 153 -29 12 31 1 21 24 NR 21 Peter Martin In The P.M. MAXJAZZ 120 126 -6 2 36 9 21 37 23 1 Joey DeFrancesco w/Jimmy Smith Legacy Concord Jazz 120 97 23 17 32 0 23 25 18 12 Phil Woods Groovin‘ To Marty Paich Jazzed Media 119 116 3 12 26 0 24 23 27 23 Dana Landry Journey Home Summit 118 128 -10 4 37 2 25 28 38 25 Luther Hughes Cannonball-Coltrane Primrose Lane 109 107 2 5 29 1 26 NR NR 26 Hank Jones For My Father Justin Time 107 48 59 1 26 11 27 16 10 7 Amina Figarova Come Escape With Me Munich Records 105 157 -52 12 32 0 28 20 15 6 BeatleJazz With A Little Help From Our Friends Lightyear 94 140 -46 12 29 1 28 NR NR 28 Dave Brubeck Quartet London Flat, London Sharp Telarc Jazz 94 56 38 1 25 13 30 36 33 26 Ted Nash & Odeon La Espade de la Noche Palmetto 93 98 -5 6 35 1 31 22 29 22 Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz 92 130 -38 7 34 2 31 27 20 1 David ‘Fathead’ Newman I Remember Brother Ray HighNote 92 109 -17 18 29 1 31 21 26 16 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Records 92 132 -40 9 24 1 31 33 32 23 Kate McGarry Mercy Streets Palmetto 92 100 -8 6 31 0 35 30 39 30 Anat Cohen Place & Time Anzic Records 90 103 -13 6 26 1 36 NR NR 36 Calvin Keys Calvinesque’ Silverado Records 89 NR 89 1 21 13 37 38 29 3 Kevin Mahogany Big Band Zebra Records/Mahogany 86 96 -10 17 28 0 Jazz 38 44 46 3 Randy Johnston Is It You? HighNote 85 78 7 17 32 0 38 32 28 12 Kurt Rosenwinkel Deep Song Verve Music Group 85 102 -17 13 34 0 40 33 34 33 Kermit Ruffins Throwback Basin Street 84 100 -16 6 25 0 41 33 24 24 Lea DeLaria Double Standards Telarc 79 100 -21 7 26 0 42 26 25 6 Avishai Cohen Trio & Ensemble At Home Razdaz 78 114 -36 15 26 1 42 30 31 24 Diane Schuur w/ Caribbean Jazz Project Schuur Fire Concord Records 78 103 -25 7 32 1 44 48 NR 44 Ron Blake Sonic Tonic Mack Avenue 77 74 3 2 28 7 45 NR NR 45 Doug Wamble Bluestate Marsalis Music/ Rounder 70 55 15 1 23 7 Records 46 41 41 28 John Ellis One Foot In The Swamp Hyena Records 68 82 -14 9 12 0 47 NR NR 47 Arturo Sandoval Live At The Blue Note Half Note Records 67 30 37 1 20 14 47 NR NR 47 Tord Gustavsen Trio The Ground ECM 67 52 15 1 19 2 49 NR NR 49 Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake Verve/Forecast 65 54 11 1 24 9 50 NR NR 50 Mary Stallings Remember Love Half Note Records 64 39 25 1 19 9 Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound David Hazeltine Modern Standards (Sharp Nine) +26 David Hazeltine Modern Standards (Sharp Nine) +98 Sandro Albert The Color Of Things (215 Records) Brian Bromberg It’s About Time (Artistry) Joshua Redman Elastic Band Momentum Calvin Keys Calvinesque’ (Silverado Records) +89 Nguyen Le Quartet Walking On The Tiger’s Tail (ACT) (Nonesuch) +21 John Scofield That’s What I Say: The Music of Ray Hugh Masekela Revival (Heads Up) Woody Shaw Live: Volume Four (HighNote) +18 Charles (Verve Music Group) +59 Jacqui Naylor East/West Birdland - Yoshi’s (Ruby Records) Woody Shaw Live: Volume Four (HighNote) Luciana Souza Duos II (Sunnyside) +15 Hank Jones For My Father (Justin Time) +59 Mark Masters Ensemble Porgy & Bess Redefined! (Capri) Arturo Sandoval Live At The Blue Note Dena DeRose A Walk In The Park (MAXJAZZ) +53 Kenny Wheeler What Now? (CAM) (Half Note Records) +14 Joshua Redman Elastic Band Momentum (Nonesuch) Paul Grabowsky Tales Of Time & Space (Sanctuary)

jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 23 Jazz Radio Adds Here are upcoming add dates for new releases, and add dates that have passed during the last few weeks. This listing was current as of press time.

April 18, 2005 May 17, 2005 Curtis Stigers – I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today (Concord Records) Ron Blake – Sonic Tonic (Mack Ave.) Herb Silverstein & Friends – Beach Walker (Silvertunes Music Productions) May 20, 2005 April 19, 2005 Arturo Sandoval – Sandoval – Live At The Blue Note (Halfnote) Alan Pasqua – My New Old Friend (Cryptogramophone) Mary Stallings – Remember Love (Halfnote) April 25, 2005 May 23, 2005 Bradley Leighton – Just Doing Our Thang (Pacific Coast Jazz) Anne Burnell – Blues In The Night: Songs by Harold Arlen (Spectrum April 27, 2005 Music) Catherine Dupuis – The Rules of the Road (Bearheart Records) David Hazeltine – Modern Standard (Sharp Nine) May 2, 2005 May 24, 2005 Daniel Benzali – Benzali (Rio Cat) Dave Brubeck – London Flat, London Sharp (Telarc) Gordon Johnson – Trios Version 3.0 (Tonalities) Tony DeSare – Want You (Telarc) Mark Masters Ensemble – Porgy & Bess Redefined (Capri Records) Luciana Souza – Duos II (Sunnyside) Dana Landry – Journey Home (Summit) May 25, 2005 Enrico Pieranunzi - Charlie Haden - Paul Motian – Special Encounter (CAM Celso Fonseca – Rive Gauche Rio (Six Degrees Records) Jazz) Sandro Albert – The Color Of Things (215 Records) Guillermo Klein – Una Nave (Sunnyside) Tim Reis – Stones Project (Concord Records) Kenny Wheeler - Chris Potter - Dave Holland - John Taylor – What Now? May 30, 2005 (CAM Jazz) Matthew Criscuolo – Lotus Blossom (self-produced) May 3, 2005 June 1, 2005 Dena DeRose – A Walk In The Park (MAXJAZZ) Allen Won – The Jewel In The Lotus (Allen Won Records) Peter Martin – In The P.M. (MAXJAZZ) June 3, 2005 Dr. John – The Best of the Parlophone Years (Blue Note) Marc Pompe – Nobody Else But Me (Kopaesthetics) Marty Nau – At The Bouquet Chorale (Summit) Michelle Latimer – Sings & Plays (Cool Note) June 6, 2005 Mike Vax Big Band – Next Stop (Summit) Barbara Montgomery – Trinity Denise Donatelli – In The Company of Friends (Jazzed Media) May 4, 2005 Paul Anka – Rock Swings (Verve Records) Jack DeJohnette & Foday Musa Suso – Music From The Hearts Of The Lizz Wright – Dreaming Wide Awake (Verve Records) Masters (Kindred Rhythm / Golden Beams) The Frank and Joe Show – 66 2/3 (Hyena Records) May 9, 2005 Mingus Big Band, Orchestra & Dynasty – I Am Three (Sunnyside/Sue Daria – Feel The Rhythm (Jazzmup Records) Mingus Music) Eric Comstock – No One Knows (Harbinger Records) Rita Coolidge – And So Is Love (Concord Records) Gabriel Mark Hasselbach – Swingin’ Affairs (Wind Tunnel) June 13, 2005 John Scofield – That’s What I Say (Verve Records) Wayne Shorter – Beyond The Sound Barrier (Verve Records) May 10, 2005 Javon Jackson – Have You Heard (Palmetto Records) Lorraine Feather – Dooji Wooji (Sanctuary) Eddie Palmieri – Listen Here! (Concord Picante Records) Paul Grabowsky – Tales Of Time And Space (Sanctuary) Frank Mantooth – Ladies Sing for Lovers (MCG/Heads Up) Jeff Siegel – Magical Spaces (CAP) Kevyn Lettau – Bye Bye Blackbird (MCG/Heads Up) May 15, 2005 Roni Ben-Hur – Signature (Reservoir) Bill Cunliffe – Imaginacion (Torii) June 30, 2005 Benny Lackner Trio – Not The Same (Nagel Heyer) Mazayik – Haitian Creole Jazz (Zoho Music) Twana Rhodes – Thru The Night (Nagel Heyer) May 16, 2005 Jo Ann Daugherty – Range of Motion (Blujazz) John Goldman – In Walked Pierre (Blujazz) Rosario Giuliani – More Than Ever (Dreyfus Jazz) Sara Lazarus – Give Me The Simple Life (Dreyfus Jazz)

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Greg Abate Horace Is Here Koko Jazz Dena DeRose A Walk In The Park MAXJAZZ Ahmed Abdullah’s Dispersions of Traveling The Spaceways Planet Arts Tony DeSare Want You Telarc the Sprit of RA Bettina Devin Dangerous Type Self-Produced Bob Acri w/Lew Soloff/Frank Wess/Ed Blujazz Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood Blue Note Thigpen/George Mraz/Diane Delin Sandro Albert The Color Of Things 215 Records Bob Dorough Sunday At Iridium Arbors Eric Alexander Dead Center HighNote Dave Douglas Mountain Passages Greenleaf Music Monty Alexander Live At The Iridium Telarc Jazz Rosanne Drago Hot Sophisticated Jazz Now Self-Produced Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Lost Treasures Shout Factory Catherine Dupuis The Rules of the Road Bearheart Records Carl Amundson & The Modern Guitarists Blue Line Music E.S.T. Seven Days of Falling 215 Records Guitar Quintet Martin Eagle & Friends A Welcoming Beauty Hawksnest The William Ash Trio The Phoenix Smalls Records Eldar Eldar Sony Classical Grazyna Augucik The Light GMA Records John Ellis One Foot In The Swamp Hyena Records Babatunde Lea Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Motema Connie Evingson Gypsy In My Soul Minnehaha Music Ghost Savoir Faire Running Out Of Time Delmark The Bad Plus Blunt Object: Live In Tokyo Sony Lorraine Feather Dooji Wooji Sanctuary Jeff Baker Monologue OA2 Records Dale Fielder Baritone Sunride Clarion Jazz Bill Banfield Striking Balance Innova Amina Figarova Come Escape With Me Munich Records Denys Baptiste Let Freedom Ring Dune Records Jeni Fleming Acoustic Trio Once Around The Sun SVFM Patricia Barber Live: A Fortnight In France Blue Note Helane Fontaine My Greenbrier Season Curly Girl BeatleJazz With A Little Help From Our Friends Lightyear The Frank & Joe Show 66 2/3 Hyena Records Opie Bellas Faces Bella Blue Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple Savant The Marco Benevento/Joe Russo Reason to Buy the Sun Ropeadope Duo Rosario Giuliani More Than Ever Dreyfus Jazz Tony Bennett The Art Of Romance Columbia John Goldman In Walked Pierre Blujazz Cheryl Bentyne Let Me Off Uptown Telarc Jazz Paul Grabowsky Tales Of Time & Space Sanctuary Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird Concord Jazz Drew Gress 7 Black Butterflys Premonition Jeff Berlin Lumpy Jazz M.A.J. 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HighNote Tom Collier Mallet Jazz Origin Records Hank Jones For My Father Justin Time Collier & Dean Duets Origin Records Vic Juris A Second Look Mel Bay Ravi Coltrane In Flux Savoy Jazz Katahdin’s Edge Step Away Incline Records Paul Combs’ Pocket Big Band Live At Chit Chat Sea Breeze Jazz Roger Kellaway I Was There - Roger Kellaway Plays IPO Recordings Eric Comstock No One Knows Harbinger Records From The Bobby Darin Songbook Bill Connors Return Tone Center Calvin Keys Calvinesque’ Silverado Records Roz Corral Telling Tales Blujazz Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Chris Cortez Mum Is The Word Blue Bamboo Records Matthew Criscuolo Lotus Blossom Self-Produced Guillermo Klein Una Nave Sunnyside Bill Cunliffe Imaginacion Torii Records Kneebody Kneebody Koch Lars Danielsson Libera Me HighNote(ACT) Cliff Korman and the Brazilian Tinge Migrations Planet Arts Daria Feel The Rhythm Jazz M Up Kathy Kosins Vintage Mahogany Jazz Bobby Darin Live At The Desert Inn Concord Records Reed Kotler Tomo Torii Records Jo Ann Daugherty Range Of Motion Blujazz Benny Lackner Trio Not The Same Nagel Heyer Dave’s True Story Nature Be Pop Records Ladysmith Black Mambazo No Boundaries Heads Up Orbert Davis Blue Notes 3 Sixteen Bireli Lagrene & Gipsy Project Move Dreyfus Jazz Joey DeFrancesco w/Jimmy Smith Legacy Concord Jazz Dana Landry Journey Home Summit Jack DeJohnette & Foday Musa Music From The Hearts Of The Golden Beam / Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest Suso Masters Kindred Rhythm Michelle Latimer Sings and Plays Cool Note Lea DeLaria Double Standards Telarc Sara Lazarus Give Me The Simple Life Dreyfus Jazz jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 25 Jazz Radio Currents

Nguyen Le Quartet Walking On The Tiger’s Tail ACT Wallace Roney Prototype HighNote Bradley Leighton Just Doin’ Our Thang Pacific Coast Jazz Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group Carolyn Leonhart New 8th Day Sunnyside Ted Rosenthal/Bob Brookmeyer One Night In Vermont Planet Arts Jay Leonhart Cool Sons of Sound Kurt Rosenwinkel Deep Song Verve Music Group Ron Levy’s Wild Kingdom Voodoo Boogaloo Levtronic Gonzalo Rubalcaba Paseo Blue Note Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme Palmetto Kermit Ruffins Throwback Basin Street Charles Lloyd Jumping The Creek ECM Sakesho We Want You To Say Heads Up Mike Longo and the New York State Oasis CAP David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group of the Art Jazz Ensemble Arturo Sandoval Live At The Blue Note Half Note Records Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz Rebecca Sayre This Is Always Becca Los Hombres Calientes Vol 5: Carnival Basin Street Diane Schuur w/ Caribbean Jazz Schuur Fire Concord Records Joe Lovano Joyous Encounter Blue Note Project Sylvain Luc Ambre Dreyfus Jazz John Scofield That’s What I Say: The Music of Ray Verve Music Group Kevin Mahogany Big Band Zebra Records/Ma- Charles hogany Jazz The Jim Seeley/Arturo O’Farrill Zoho Music Thomas Marriott Individuation Origin Quintet Wynton Marsalis Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise Blue Note Paul Serrato Excursions Graffiti Productions and Fall of Jack Johnson Shapes The Big Picture Burnin’ Down The Branford Marsalis Quartet Eternal Marsalis Music/ House Productions Rounder Records Avery Sharpe Trio Dragonfly JKNM Peter Martin In The P.M. MAXJAZZ Woody Shaw Live: Volume four HighNote Scott Martin Menudo and Gritz SCM Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron Left Alone Revisited: Tribute To Billie Synergy Music Will Martin Morning Saguaro Beach Holiday Hugh Masekela Revival Heads Up Ben Sidran Quartet Bumpin’ At The Sunside! Nardis Mark Masters Ensemble Porgy & Bess Redefined! Capri Jeff ‘Siege’ Siegel Magical Space Consolidated Artists Irvin Mayfield & The Orleans Jazz Strange Fruit Basin Street Herb Silverstein & Friends Beach Walker Silvertunes Music Orchestra Productions Kate McGarry Mercy Streets Palmetto Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot Palmetto Marian McPartland Piano Jazz w/ Steely Dan Concord Keely Smith Vegas ‘58 - Today Concord Marian McPartland & Friends 85 Candles-Live In New York Concord Jazz Luciana Souza Duos II Sunnyside Charles McPherson w/ Strings A Tribute To Charlie Parker Clarion Jazz Mary Stallings Remember Love Half Note Records Medeski Martin & Wood End of The World Party Blue Note The Stamm/Soph Project Live At Birdland NYC Jazzed Media Pat Metheny Group The Way Up Nonesuch Patches Stewart Blow Koch Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Records Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty I Am Three Sunnyside Sonny Stitt Work Done HighNote Tony Monaco Firey Blues Summit Kevin Stout & Brian Booth Tales Of The Tetons Jazzed 5 Records Grachan Moncur III Exploration Capri Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 Jane Monheit Taking A Chance On Love Sony Classical Bill Tapia Duke Of Uke Moon Room Records Monk’s Music Trio Think Of One CMB Records Times 4 Seductivity GTM Jason Moran Same Mother Blue Note Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan & George The Classic Concert Live Concord Jazz Shearing Dan Nadel Brooklyn Prayer Nadel Music Steve Turre The Spirits Up Above HighNote Ted Nash & Odeon La Espade de la Noche Palmetto Two Siberians Out of Nowhere Heads Up The Marty Nau Group At The Bouquet Chorale Summit Belinda Underwood Underwood Uncurling Cosmik Muse Jacqui Naylor East/West Birdland - Yoshi’s Ruby Records Rekords Shelley Neill entree blue Cobalt Blue Manuel Valera Forma Nueva MAVO Records Ed Neumeister Quartet New Standards Meistero Martijn van Iterson Quartet The Whole Bunch Munich Records David ‘Fathead’ Newman I Remember Brother Ray HighNote Various Artists Blue Note Perfect Takes Blue Note Russ Nolan Two Colors Rhinoceruss The Mike Vax Big Band Next Stop - Live... On The Road Summit Nouvelle Vague Peacefrog Steve Venz Scoop Daal Jazz Michael O’Neill The Long And Short Of It Jazzmo The Chris Walden Big Band Home Of My Heart Origin Records Octobop After Dark Mystic Lane Produc- Ken Walker Sextet Terra Firma Synergy Music tions Doug Wamble Bluestate Marsalis Music/ Darek Oles Like A Dream Cryptogramophone Rounder Records One More Music of Thad Jones IPO Recordings Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz & Trio ECM Alan Pasqua My New Old Friend Cryptogramophone Miskiewicz Harry Watters Out Of A Dream: Love Songs Summit Jim Payne Energie Savant Judy Wexler Easy On The Heart Rhombus Jim Pearce Washington Square Park Oak Avenue Publishing Kenny Wheeler What Now? CAM Ken Peplowski Easy To Remember Nagel Heyer Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor Where Do We Go From Here? CAM Houston Person To Etta With Love HighNote Wesla Whitfield In My Life HighNote Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Rounder Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra The Minute Game Summit Enrico Pieranunzi (W/ Charlie Special Encounter CAM Joe Williams Havin’ A Good Time! Hyena Records Haden, Paul Motian) Abram Wilson Jazz Warrior Dune Records Leslie Pintchik So Glad To Be Here Ambient Dave Wilson Quartet Through The Time Dreamscape Records John Pizzarelli Knowing You Telarc Jazz Chris Winters Impressions Blujazz Marc Pompe You Must Believe In Swing Cadence Jazz Ben Wolfe My Kinda Wonderful Planet Arts Michel Portal & Richard Galliano Concerts Dreyfus Jazz Phil Woods Groovin’ To Marty Paich Jazzed Media The Devere Pride Trio ... As In A Morning Sunrise The Davis Group Victor Wooten Soul Circus Vanguard Dafnis Prieto About The Monks Zoho Music Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake Verve/Forecast Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch Savina Yannatou & Primavera En Sumiglia ECM Joshua Redman Elastic Band Momentum Nonesuch Solonico Paul Renz & Friends Hubbub Gabwalk Records Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up Twana Rhodes Thru The Night Nagel Heyer Miguel Zenon Jibaro Marsalis Music/ Roditi / Ignatzek / Rassinfosse Light In The Dark Nagel Heyer Rounder Records jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 26 Smooth Jazz Radio

Nils, Kenny G Tops Again in Down Week

Wayman Tisdale’s “Ready To Hang” Is Most Added Single

espite a holiday weekend that saw a big drop in spins for new releases, Kenny G remains Din the No. 1 spot on the Smooth Jazz Al- bum Chart with At Last ... The Duets Album(Aris - ta). Staying at No. 1 on this week’s JazzWeek Smooth Singles chart is “Paciﬁc Coast Highway” from Nils (Baja). Sticking at No. 2 on the Smooth Jazz Album Chart is Boney James’ Pure (Warner Bros.) Wayman Tisdale has the most added single on this week’s Smooth Singles Chart with “Ready To

Kenny G’s At Last ... (Arista) once again takes the top Hang” from the CD Hang Time (Rendezvous). spot on the album chart this week. There was a ﬁve-way split for Most Added on this week’s Smooth Album Chart between Ken Na- varro, Nelson Rangell, Kem, Walter Beasley, and Will Donato, each picking up just one add.

Smooth Album Chart p. 28 Smooth Singles Chart p. 29 Smooth Current CDs p. 30 Smooth Radio Panel p. 31 Title track “Pacific Coast Highway” from Nils (Baja) is the week’s No. 1 single. jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 27 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Album Chart June 2, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista 774 954 -180 25 34 0 2 2 2 2 Boney James Pure Warner Bros. 683 780 -97 30 34 0 3 3 5 3 Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous 627 717 -90 30 32 0 4 4 4 4 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 624 715 -91 19 33 0 5 5 3 1 Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol 547 698 -151 30 33 0 6 6 6 4 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 539 641 -102 30 32 0 7 9 12 7 Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz 463 434 29 11 30 0 8 11 10 8 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 405 410 -5 12 29 0 9 7 8 1 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP 401 538 -137 25 30 0 10 8 7 3 Paul Brown Up Front GRP 371 509 -138 25 32 0 11 10 9 9 Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note 350 418 -68 22 31 0 12 12 15 12 Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie 345 379 -34 16 30 0 13 14 11 1 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous 313 328 -15 30 31 0 14 13 14 13 3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave 296 362 -66 18 27 0 15 15 16 15 David Sanborn Closer Verve 286 324 -38 20 26 0 16 19 17 16 Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz 278 287 -9 18 29 0 17 16 18 14 Nick Colionne Just Come On In Will Keys 276 322 -46 30 30 0 18 20 22 18 Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got To Play Narada Jazz / Virgin 246 287 -41 25 27 0 19 17 13 10 Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia 243 313 -70 25 25 0 20 18 20 16 Fourplay Journey BMG 230 313 -83 30 25 0 21 29 29 21 Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music 229 229 0 16 21 1 22 22 21 4 Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 216 264 -48 22 32 0 23 23 24 6 Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up 207 260 -53 30 30 0 24 27 28 5 Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia 204 236 -32 30 32 0 25 21 19 4 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 203 278 -75 30 28 0 26 30 27 1 Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 203 228 -25 30 33 0 27 28 25 18 Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up 198 233 -35 30 19 0 28 25 26 1 Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP / VMG / UMG 193 243 -50 30 33 0 29 31 31 18 Najee Classic Masters Capitol / EMI 180 207 -27 30 31 0 30 32 33 2 Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. 168 191 -23 30 28 0 31 37 34 31 Pamela Williams Sweet Saxations Shanachie 159 165 -6 18 18 0 32 26 32 5 George Benson Irreplaceable GRP / VMG / UMG 155 239 -84 30 31 0 33 33 30 9 Peter White Confidential Columbia 152 187 -35 25 27 0 34 35 35 34 Michael McDonald Motown Motown 151 169 -18 20 30 0 35 36 38 20 Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language 149 167 -18 30 30 0 36 41 36 36 Alexander Zonjic Seldom Blues Heads Up 138 160 -22 25 14 0 37 34 37 14 Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord 136 174 -38 23 22 0 38 38 40 18 Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous 130 163 -33 30 32 0 39 40 39 30 Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge, Vol.1 Rendezvous 128 161 -33 30 15 0 40 45 43 37 Seal Seal IV Warner Bros. 123 134 -11 22 29 0 41 43 42 35 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch 120 145 -25 10 13 0 42 39 44 29 Daryl Hall & John Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch 119 161 -42 22 18 0 43 44 41 26 Richard Smith Soulidified A440 116 141 -25 25 24 0 44 48 51 25 The Ramsey Lewis Trio Time Flies Narada Jazz 113 109 4 25 30 0 45 46 46 14 Marc Antoine Mediterraneo Rendezvous 105 129 -24 30 25 0 46 42 45 31 Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. 99 152 -53 25 23 0 47 47 49 11 Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album AM / UMG 95 111 -16 25 17 0 48 51 57 48 Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Rounder 90 92 -2 23 8 0 49 49 48 16 Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie 87 96 -9 25 20 0 50 59 84 50 Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch 78 74 4 14 9 1

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul (Positive Music) +1 Steve Cole Spin (Narada Jazz) +29 Kem Album II (Motown / Universal) Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 (Koch) +1 Brian Bromberg Choices (A440) +14 Walter Beasley For Her (Heads Up) Bobby Caldwell Perfect Island Nights (Sin-Drome) Kem Album II (Motown / Universal) +1 Bobby Caldwell Perfect Island Nights (Sin-Drome) +10 Brian Bromberg Choices (A440) Walter Beasley For Her (Heads Up) +1 Walter Beasley For Her (Heads Up) +10 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Lost Treasures (Shout Factory) Will Donato “Espana” [Single] (Generation) +1 Kem Album II (Motown / Universal) +7 Veronica Martell The Art Of Intimacy (Apria) Audio Caviar “Dominique” [Single] (Self Released / Encanto Pacific) Garry Goin Goin’ Places (Compendia)

jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 28 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Singles Chart June 2, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 624 715 -91 19 33 0 2 2 2 1 Boney James Stone Groove (w/ Joe Sample) Warner Bros. 555 643 -88 29 32 0 3 3 4 3 Michael Lington Two Of A Kind (w/ Chuck Loeb) Rendezvous 555 620 -65 30 31 0 4 4 5 3 Euge Groove XXL EMI 473 557 -84 30 30 0 5 6 10 5 Steve Cole Thursday Narada Jazz 463 434 29 11 30 0 6 5 3 2 Kenny G & David Sanborn Pick Up The Pieces Arista 415 544 -129 25 33 0 7 8 8 7 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 405 410 -5 12 29 0 8 10 12 8 Chuck Loeb Tropical Shanachie 345 379 -34 16 30 0 9 9 9 8 Kenny G & Earth Wind, & Fire The Way You Move Arista 335 382 -47 21 33 1 10 7 6 1 Dave Koz Let It Free Capitol 313 425 -112 30 29 0 11 12 11 11 3rd Force Believe In Me Higher Octave 296 362 -66 18 27 0 12 13 13 12 Jeff Lorber Ooh La La Narada Jazz 278 287 -9 18 29 0 13 11 7 5 Paul Brown Moment By Moment GRP 257 376 -119 25 32 0 14 21 23 14 Ken Navarro You Are Everything Positive Music 229 229 0 16 21 1 15 16 15 1 Tim Bowman Summer Groove Liquid 8 215 264 -49 22 32 0 16 18 21 16 Paul Jackson, Jr. Never Too Much GRP 215 255 -40 15 24 0 17 15 18 15 Fourplay Fields Of Gold BMG 208 280 -72 30 22 0 18 14 16 11 Anita Baker How Does It Feel Blue Note 207 287 -80 22 25 0 19 22 19 1 Soul Ballet Cream 215 203 228 -25 30 33 0 20 17 14 10 Chris Botti No Ordinary Love Columbia 198 263 -65 25 24 0 21 20 20 16 David Sanborn Tin Tin Deo Verve 192 235 -43 20 25 0 22 19 17 3 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 183 245 -62 30 28 0 23 23 25 5 Marion Meadows Sweet Grapes Heads Up 175 215 -40 30 30 0 24 26 27 2 Norman Brown Up ‘N’ At ‘Em Warner Bros. 168 191 -23 30 28 0 25 30 26 5 Chris Botti Back Into My Heart Columbia 163 166 -3 30 32 0 26 24 24 1 Gerald Albright To The Max GRP / VMG / UMG 162 207 -45 30 33 0 27 28 28 27 Joyce Cooling Camelback Narada Jazz / Virgin 158 186 -28 25 20 1 28 27 22 1 Wayman Tisdale Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now Rendezvous 157 187 -30 30 27 0 29 31 29 26 Pamela Williams Fly Away With Me Shanachie 154 165 -11 18 13 0 30 39 38 30 Wayman Tisdale Ready To Hang Rendezvous 154 135 19 7 19 3 31 29 30 11 Nick Colionne It’s Been Too Long Will Keys 151 184 -33 30 24 0 32 34 35 15 Dan Siegel In Your Eyes Native Language 142 159 -17 30 29 0 33 33 32 28 Alexander Zonjic Leave It With Me Heads Up 138 160 -22 25 14 0 34 32 31 1 Richard Elliot Your Secret Love GRP 133 162 -29 25 26 0 35 25 34 3 George Benson Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise GRP / VMG / UMG 131 193 -62 30 30 0 36 36 33 16 Pieces Of A Dream It’s Go Time Heads Up 127 154 -27 30 14 0 37 38 39 31 Nick Colionne High Flyin’ Will Keys 124 136 -12 25 26 0 38 37 36 29 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch 116 136 -20 10 12 0 39 35 40 24 Daryl Hall & John Oates I’ll Be Around U-Watch 113 154 -41 22 17 0 40 41 42 29 Paul Brown 24/7 GRP 113 129 -16 25 28 0 41 44 41 14 Dave Koz All I See Is You Capitol 110 123 -13 30 25 0 42 48 47 22 The Ramsey Lewis Trio The In Crowd Narada Jazz 106 106 0 25 30 0 43 46 45 39 Seal Love’s Divine Warner Bros. 105 111 -6 22 28 0 44 49 51 2 Boney James Here She Comes Warner Bros. 99 103 -4 30 23 0 45 43 53 19 Praful Sigh Rendezvous 95 127 -32 30 32 0 46 47 49 13 Ray Charles You Don’t Know Me (w/ Diana Krall) Concord 87 110 -23 23 20 0 47 50 48 33 Richard Smith Sing A Song A440 86 96 -10 25 21 0 48 40 44 28 Rick Braun Daddy-O Warner Bros. 85 134 -49 25 21 0 49 51 50 49 Michael McDonald Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Motown 83 96 -13 19 26 0 50 54 56 26 Joyce Cooling Expression Narada Jazz / Virgin 77 89 -12 25 18 0

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Wayman Tisdale “Ready To Hang” (Rendezvous) +3 Kem “I Can’t Stop Loving You” David Sanborn “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight” (Verve) Nelson Rangell “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing” (Motown / Universal) +50 Nelson Rangell “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing” (Koch) Kem “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (Motown / Universal) (Koch) +2 Steve Cole “Thursday” (Narada Jazz) +29 Walter Beasley “Coolness” (Heads Up) Walter Beasley “Coolness” (Heads Up) +2 Anita Baker “Serious” (Blue Note) +28 Madeleine Peyroux “Dance Me To The End Of Love” (Rounder) (5 more at +1) Brian Bromberg “Choices” (A440) +20 Anita Baker “Serious” (Blue Note) Bobby Caldwell “Can’t Get Over You” (Sin-Drome) Wayman Tisdale “Ready To Hang” (Rendezvous) +19 Hiroshima “Swiss Ming” (Heads Up) Nelson Rangell “That’s The Way Of The World” (Koch) jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 29 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Albums

3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol Mindy Abair Come As You Are GRP Pattie LaBelle Timeless Journey Island /Def Jam Greg Adams Firefly 215 Records David Lanz The Good Life Decca Sandro Albert The Color Of Things 215 Records Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP Ronnie Laws Everlasting Holland Group Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Lost Treasures Shout Factory Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendevous Marc Antoine Mediteraneo Rendevous Liquid Soul Evolution Shanachie Marc Antoine The Very Best of Marc Antoine Verve Music Group Chuck Loeb eBop Shanachie Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie Bob Baldwin Brazil Chill A440 Music Group Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz Walter Beasley Go With The Flow N-Coded Music Torcuato Mariano Diary 215 Records Pete Belasco Deeper Compendia Eric Marienthal Sweet Talk Peak Regina Belle Lazy Peak Hugh Masekela Revival Heads Up David Benoit / Russ Freeman Benoit Freeman Project 2 Peak Keiko Matsui Wildflower Narada George Benson Irreplaceable GRP Maysa Smooth Sailing Encoded Matt Bianco Matt’s Mood Universal Music Michael McDonald Motown Motown Group Michael McDonald Motown Two Motown Theo Bishop Newport Nights Native Language Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up Debby Boone Reflections Of Rosemary Concord Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Records Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia Chieli Minucci Night Grooves Shanachie Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia Chieli Minucci Jewels JVC Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 Najee Embrace N-Coded Music Jeff Bradshaw Bone Deep Hidden Beach Najee Classic Masters Capitol Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. Ken Navarro All The Way Shanachie Toni Braxton Ultimate Toni Braxton LaFace Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music Braxton Brothers Rollin Peak Grady Nichols Sophistication Compendia Bridge To Havana (f. Gladys Knight) Bridge To Havana Pyramid Grady Nichols Sneak Compendia Brian Bromberg Choices A440 Music Group Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja/TSA Records Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. O’2L Doyle’s Brunch Peak Paul Brown Up Front GRP Andrew Oh Silk Ark Music Alex Bugnon Southern Living Narada Jazz Steve Oliver 3-D Koch Records Cabo Frio Island Dance Kezia Records Renee Olstead Renee Olstead 143 Records/Reprise Jonathan Cain Bare Bones Reality/AAO Music Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up Bobby Caldwell Perfect Island Nights Sin-Drome Doc Powell 97th & Columbus Heads Up Sergio Caputo That Kind of Thing Idiosyncrasy Music Doc Powell Cool Like That Heads Up Larry Carlton Sapphire Blue Bluebird Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous/N-Coded Craig Chaquico Midnight Moon Higher Octave Nelson Rangell Look Again A440 Music Group Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch Club 1600 Ridin, High N-Coded Music The Rippingtons Let It Ripp Peak Steve Cole NY LA Warner Bros. Smokey Robinson My World: The Definitive Collection Motown Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group Nick Colionne Just Come On In Three Keys Music David Sanborn Time Again Verve Music Group Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got to Play Narada Jazz David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group Couch Potato Allstars Jazz For Couch Potatoes Shanachie Seal IV Warner Bros. Brian Culbertson Come On Up Warner Bros. Seal Best: 1991-2004 Warner Bros. Eric Darius Night On The Town Higher Octave Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language Will Downing Emotions GRP Simply Red Home Simply Red Carol Duboc All Of You Gold Note Richard Smith Soulidfied A440 Music Group George Duke Duke BPM / Navarre Jimmy Sommers Love Life Higher Octave Richard Elliot Ricochet GRP Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 Records Tommy Emmanuel Endless Road Favored Nations Special EFX Party Shanachie Fattburger Work To Do Shanachie Spyro Gyra The Deep End Heads Up Helane Fontaine My Greenbrier Season Curly Girl Stanley B. All For Love Fourplay Journey RCA / Victor Wonder Stevie The Definitive Collection Motown A. Ray Fuller The Weeper A Ray Artists Music Patches Stewart Blow Koch Garry Goin Goin’ Places Compendia Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz Jeff Golub Soul Sessions GRP Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 Al Green The Absolute Best EMI Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out Peak/Concord Euge Groove Living Large Narada Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak Onaje Allan Gumbs Remember Their Innocence Ejano J. Thompson Romantic Night AMH Records Hall & Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendevous Paul Hardcastle The Jazzmasters 4 Trippin’ N’ Rhythm Nester Torres Sin Palabras Heads Up Records Everette Harp All For You A440 Music Group Two Siberians Out of Nowhere Heads Up Gabriel Mark Hasselbach Gabriel... First Name Basis Wind Tunnel Urban Knights Urban Knights V Narada Hil St. Soul Copasetik & Cool Shanachie Luther Vandross Dance With My father J Records Hiroshima The Bridge Heads Up Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP Hiroshima Obon Heads Up Various Artists Wedding Songs: A Body & Soul Time Life Collection Incognito Who Needs Love Narada Jazz Various Artists Princess Diaries 2 : Royal Engage- Walt Disney Paul Jackson Jr. Still Small Voice Blue Note ment [Original Soundtrack] Boney James Pure Warner Bros. Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge, Vol.1 Rendevous Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music Group Vlad Vladosphere Unis Jazz Crusanders Soul Axess True Life Andre Ward Steppin Up Orpheus Marcus Johnson Urban Groove Marimelj Entertain- Kim Waters Someone To Love You Shanachie ment Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie Ronny Jordan At Last N-Coded Music Kirk Whalum Into My Soul Warner Bros. Ronny Jordan After 8 N-Coded Music Peter White Confidential Columbia Jeff Kashiwa Peace Of Mind Native Language Bernie Williams The Journey Within GRP Kem Kemistry Motown Pamela Williams Sweet Saxations Shanachie Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista Jim Wilson River Hillsboro Alicia Keys The Diary Of Alicia Keys J Records Victor Wooten Soul Circus Vanguard Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up Records Alexander Zonjic Seldom Blues Heads Up jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 30 Jazz Station Panel Smooth Station Panel Call letters Frequency Market Rank Call letters Frequency Market Rank CJRT-FM* 91.1 Toronto, ON N/A KAJZ-FM 101.7 Albuquerque, NM 71 KANU-FM 91.5 Topeka, KS 195 KBZN-FM 97.9 Salt Lake City - Ogden - Provo, UT 31 KBEM-FM 88.5 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 KEZL-FM 96.7 Fresno, CA 68 KCCK-FM* 88.3 Cedar Rapids, IA 204 KCLU-FM 88.3 Los Angeles, CA 2 KHJZ-FM 95.7 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 KCSM-FM 91.1 San Francisco, CA 4 KIFM-FM 98.1 San Diego, CA 17 KEWU-FM 89.5 Spokane, WA 93 KJCD-FM 104.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 KFSR-FM 90.7 Fresno, CA 68 KJZI-FM 100.3 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 KIOS-FM 91.5 Omaha, NE - Council Bluffs, IA 73 KJZY-FM 93.7 San Francisco, CA 4 KIPO-FM* 89.3 Honolulu 62 KKSF-FM 103.7 San Francisco, CA 4 KJZZ-FM 91.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 KKSJ/KTSJ-FM 105.9 Lafayette, LA 102 KKJZ-FM 88.1 Los Angeles, CA 2 KLCC-FM 89.7 Eugene-Springfield, OR 171 KLJT-FM 102.3 Tyler-Longview, TX 148 KMHD-FM 89.1 Portland, OR 24 KMGQ-FM 97.5 Santa Barbara, CA 204 KMUW-FM 89.1 Wichita, KS 95 KOAI-FM 107.5 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 KNTU-FM 88.1 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 KOAS-FM 105.7 Las Vegas, NV 38 KPLU-FM 88.5 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 KRVR-FM 105.5 Stockton, CA 82 KRTU-FM 91.7 San Antonio, TX 30 KSKX-FM 105.5 Colorado Springs, CO 97 KSDS-FM 88.3 San Diego, CA 17 KSJS-FM 90.5 San Jose, CA 33 KSMJ-FM 97.7 Bakersfield, CA 83 KSMF-FM* 89.1 Ashland, OR 207 KSSJ-FM 94.7 Sacramento, CA 26 KSUT-FM* 91.3 Ignacio, CO N/A KTWV-FM 94.7 Los Angeles, CA 2 KTSU-FM 90.9 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 KWJZ-FM 98.9 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 KUAZ-FM 89.1 Tucson, AZ 63 KYOT-FM 95.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 KUNR-FM* 88.7 Reno, NV 231 WBRH-FM 90.3 Baton Rouge, LA 84 KUNV-FM 91.5 Las Vegas, NV 38 WEIB-FM 106.3 Hartford - New Britain - Middletown, CT 50 KUT-FM 90.5 Austin, TX 7 KUVO-FM 89.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 WFJZ-FM 106.7 Ft. Wayne, IN 105 KXJZ-FM 88.9 Sacramento, CA 26 WFSK-FM 88.1 Nashville, TN 44 WAER-FM* 88.3 Syracuse, NY 79 WGPR-FM 107.5 Detroit, MI 10 WBEZ-FM 91.5 Chicago, IL 3 WJAB-FM 90.9 Huntsville, AL 116 WBFO-FM 88.7 Buffalo - Niagara Falls, NY 52 WJJZ-FM 106.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 WBGO-FM 88.3 New York, NY 1 WJSJ/WSJF-FM 105.5 Jacksonville, FL 49 WCFJ/WSBC* 1470 AM Chicago, IL 3 WCLK-FM 91.9 Atlanta, GA 11 WJZA/WJZK-FM 103.5 Columbus, OH 35 WCMU/WUCX-FM 89.5/90.1 Mount Pleasant – Saginaw/Bay City/Midland, MI 131 WJZI-FM 93.3 Milwaukee - Racine, WI 32 WCPN-FM 90.3 Cleveland, OH 25 WJZL/WJZO-FM 93.1 Louisville, KY 55 WDCB-FM* 90.9 Chicago, IL 3 WJZR-FM 105.9 Rochester, NY 54 WDET-FM 101.9 Detroit, MI 10 WJZW-FM 105.9 Baltimore, MD 20 WDNA-FM 88.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 WJZZ-FM 107.5 Atlanta, GA 11 WDUQ-FM 90.5 Pittsburgh, PA 23 WLOQ-FM 103.1 Orlando, FL 39 WEAA-FM 88.9 Baltimore, MD 20 WEMU-FM* 89.1 Ypsilanti, MI 10 WLVE-FM 93.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 WFNX-FM 101.7 Boston, MA 133 WNUA-FM 95.5 Chicago, IL 3 WFSS-FM 91.9 Fayetteville, NC 128 WNWV-FM 107.3 Cleveland, OH 25 WGBH-FM 89.7 Boston, MA 8 WPMJ-FM 94.3 Peoria, IL 149 WGLT-FM 89.1 Peoria, IL 149 WQCD-FM 101.9 New York, NY 1 WGMC-FM 90.1 Rochester, NY 54 WSJT-FM 94.1 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 WGVU-FM 88.5 Grand Rapids, MI 67 WHRV-FM 89.5 Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Newport News, VA 40 WSJW-FM 92.7 Harrisburg - Lebanon - Carlisle, PA 80 WICN-FM* 90.5 Worcester,MA 8 WSMJ-FM 104.3 Baltimore, MD 20 WJSU-FM 88.5 Jackson, MS 123 WVAS-FM 90.7 Montgomery, AL 152 WMOT-FM 89.5 Nashville, TN 44 WVMV-FM 98.7 Detroit, MI 10 WNCU-FM 90.7 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 WXJZ-FM 100.9 Gainesville - Ocala, FL 87 WRTI-FM 90.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 WYJZ-FM 100.9 Indianapolis, IN 41 WSHA-FM 88.9 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 Music Choice National N/A WSIE-FM 88.7 St. Louis, MO 19 WTEB-FM 89.3 Greenville,NC 87 Note: WSSM, St. Louis, has changed formats and is dropped from the panel. WUAL-FM 91.5 Tuscaloosa, AL 133 WUCF-FM 89.9 Orlando, FL 39 Airplay of all stations, except as noted, is monitored by Mediaguide. WUMR-FM 91.7 Memphis, TN 48 WUSF-FM 89.7 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 To apply to become a member of a station panel, contact Tony WVPR/WVPS-FM 94.3 Burlington, VT-Plattsburgh, NY 220 WWOZ-FM 90.7 New Orleans, LA 46 Gasparre at (585) 235-4685, or email [email protected]. WWSP-FM* 89.9 Wausau-Stevens Point, WI 198 WXUT/WXTS-FM 88.3 Toledo, OH 85 Music Choice National Distribution N/A Sirius* National Distribution N/A *Denotes station not monitored by Mediaguide. Station submits a weekly airplay report. jazzweek.com • June 2, 2005 JazzWeek 31 AT

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