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Radio Q & A: Public Radio East’s TOM MALLISON page 9 On The Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Diana Krall #1 Smooth Album – Benson & Jarreau #1 College Jazz – Madeleine Peyroux #1 Smooth Single – George Benson #1 World Music – Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger think we’re going to refer to this issue down the road as MUSIC EDITOR Tad Hendrickson the “Tom Mallison” issue. Not only is Tom featured as Ithis week’s Q&A with music editor Tad Hendrickson, but CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ Tom provides his annual survey of new and catalog holiday PHOTOGRAPHER Tom Mallison music (p. 29), which I’m sure will remind hosts and program- PHOTOGRAPHY mers of a few songs or albums they may have forgotten. Plus Barry Solof Tom’s recent favorite releases comprise our Closing Number Contributing Editors page (p. 32.) Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman In the Dec. 25 issue, we’ll be looking at the top 100 CDs Founding Publisher: Tony Gasparre of 2006 – both jazz and smooth – and we’ll also be looking ADVERTISING: Devon Murphy for you to submit your top 10 CDs of the year. We’ll compile Call (866) 453-6401 ext. 3 or everyone’s top tens and include them in that issue. The dead- email: [email protected] line for your submissions is Friday, Dec. 15, so please put on SUBSCRIPTIONS: your thinking caps. Send your top 10 CDs of 2006 via email Free to qualified applicants Premium subscription: $149.00 per year, to [email protected]. And to make is life easier w/ Industry Access: $249.00 per year and by extension mine, include your name, aﬃliation, title, To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ AMEX/PayPal go to: program time/name in the email and list the CDs in 1-10 or- http://www.jazzweek.com/account/ der, including artist, title and label. subscribe.html There’s no prize involved; only the admiration or conster- nation of your colleagues. AIRPLAY MONITORING BY – Ed Trefzger

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News ...... 4 WGBH Fundraiser Will Be First Leg of NPR’s Toast of the Nation ...... 4 HighNote Inks Tom Harrell To Multi-CD Deal ...... 5 Music and Industry News In Brief ...... 6 Jazz Birthdays ...... 8 Features 9 Radio Q&A: Tom Mallison, Public Radio East ...... 9 Sounds of the Holidays ...... 29 Jazz Radio ...... 12 Jazz Album Chart ...... 13 College Jazz Chart ...... 14 CD and Book Reviews...... 15 Frank LoCrasto...... 15 Loreena McKennitt ...... 15 12 Paul Tynan ...... 15 The Essential Jazz Recordings: 101 CDs ...... 16 Jazz Add Dates ...... 17 Jazz Current CDs ...... 18 Jazz Radio Panel ...... 21 Smooth Jazz Radio ...... 22 Smooth Album Chart ...... 23 Smooth Singles Chart...... 24 22 Smooth Currents...... 25 Smooth Radio Panel ...... 26 World Music Radio ...... 27 World Music Album Chart ...... 28 Closing Number Tomthejazzman’s Current Top 6 ...... 32 27

Cover Photo: Tom Mallison with Wynton Marsalis at JVC Newport 2005 (courtesy Tom Mallison) JazzWeek Volume 3 Number 4 jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 3 News WGBH Fundraiser Will Be First Leg of NPR’s Toast of the Nation

BOSTON – This New Year’s Eve, History Month project, New Life has lowed by the Karrin Allyson Quin- Kendrick Oliver and the New Life created a jubilant sound and dedicat- tet at the Kansas City Rep. Next up Jazz Orchestra will be heard live, coast ed fan base that have, over the course is an exclusive NPR concert with the to coast and around the world, as part of a decade, taken the 19-piece group Derek Trucks Blues Band and Big Bad of NPR’s Toast of the Nation live jazz to performances up and down the East Voodoo Daddy, and the coast-to-coast broadcast. WGBH 89.7 will pro- Coast, to PBS for a double Emmy- live music concludes with the McCoy duce the Boston leg of the broadcast winning television special on the life of Tyner Trio with Christian McBride featuring New Life, as part of NPR’s and Jeff “Tain” Watts and special guest international broadcast produced by Joe Lovano, from Yoshi’s in Oakland, WBGO-FM, Newark. New Life, California. whose buoyant, signature sound has The New Life Jazz Orchestra is a been described as “Count Basie meets vibrant, energetic big band of twenty- Mahalia Jackson” will be performing and thirty-something phenoms that for the radio listeners and a small “stu- has been captivating audiences, selling dio” audience from Berklee College of out concert venues, and turning heads Music’s intimate David Friend Recital throughout the jazz scene since its in- Hall. The broadcast will be hosted by ception in 1995. New Life, which Ol- WGBH 89.7’s Eric Jackson, now in his iver often refers to as his primary in- 25th year on “Eric In The Evening.” strument, combines Basie-style swing, The Boston portion of the broad- head-bobbin’ arrangements with high- cast will be performed and heard from powered rhythms, an unrestrained 8:00-9:00 pm Eastern Time, Sunday, brass section, elegant vocals and a tal- Dec. 31. The 200 NPR stations who ented assortment of spectacular solo- celebrate New Year’s Eve with Toast ists to produce its infectious sound. have the additional option of rebroad- The group has also been known to re- casting the music on New Year’s Day. veal a Sunday-morning gospel influ- Toast of the Nation will air on NPR Duke Ellington, and now to a world- ence on numerous arrangements. Worldwide and around the world for wide broadcast with NPR. Listener-supported WGBH 89.7 U.S. servicemen and women on Amer- The performance will be in an in- is Boston’s NPR arts and culture sta- ican Forces Network radio. timate club setting at Berklee, and is a tion. The station is an active partic- Performing on New Year’s at Berk- fundraiser for WGBH 89.7. ipant in New England’s vibrant mu- lee will be one of the finest young big After New Life at Berklee, then sic community, presenting more than bands in the land, the powerful, gos- later the broadcast jumps to the Big 300 performances every year, includ- pel-influenced New Life Jazz Orches- River Concert featuring New Or- ing live broadcasts and remote record- tra, directed by bandleader/composer leans musicians at Chicago’s Sympho- ings from such diverse venues as Tan- and 1997 Berklee alumnus, Kendrick ny Center. At midnight Eastern time glewood, the Lowell Folk Festival, the Oliver. Created by Oliver in 1995 to Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Terri- Newport Jazz Festival, and WGBH’s JW back Roy Hargrove for a Berklee Black tory Orchestra parties at Tonic, fol- own studios. jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 4 HighNote Inks Tom Harrell To Multi-CD Deal

NEW YORK – HighNote Records as a leader and first release since 2003’s raised in Northern California, the has announced the signing of ac- Wise Children. trumpeter was in his 20s when he be- claimed jazz trumpeter Tom Harrell to “I’ve always enjoyed Tom’s work gan touring with Stan Kenton (1969), a multi-disc contract. Harrell, who re- and take advantage of every chance to Woody Herman (1970-1971) and ceived a Grammy nomination in 1999 see him in concert so I’m understand- Horace Silver (1973-1977). Moving to for his big band recording Time’s Mir- ably delighted the opportunity arose New York City in the mid-’70s Harrell ror, was voted Best Trumpeter in both for us to record him and help distrib- played with Cecil Payne and Bill Ev- the 1996 Downbeat Critics and Read- ute his music internationally,” Fields ans (1979), Lee Konitz’s Nonet (1979- ers Polls and the Jazz Times Reader’s said. 1981) and George Russell (1982). Poll of 1997. The trumpeter is sched- Renowned internationally for a dis- Harrell then toured internationally uled to begin recording at Rudy Van tinctive trumpet sound that combines with the Phil Woods Quintet (1983- Gelder Studios on Dec. 5 with his the power of Clifford Brown with the 1989) before embarking in earnest on current band consisting of saxophon- lyricism of Chet Baker, Harrell has a solo career during which he made re- ist Wayne Escoffery, pianist Danny been hailed by The Los Angeles Times cordings for Contemporary, Chesky Grissett, bassist Ugonna Ukegwo and for “… [spinning] out improvisational and BMG. In 2006 Harrell received drummer Jonathan Blake. The yet-to- lines filled with instant melodies. Like a grant by Chamber Music Ameri- be-named project, the first of a series a lyricist who illuminates phrases with ca and the French American Cultural of titles to be released on the Manhat- subtle internal rhymes, Harrell’s solo- Exchange to compose new pieces for a tan-based jazz label founded and run ing captivates both the hearts and the trumpet-piano duo project to be pre- by music industry veteran Joe Fields, minds of his listeners.” miered in a series of concerts with the will be the trumpeter’s 21st recording Born in Urbana, Ill., in 1946 and French pianist Baptiste Trotignon. JW

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AVAILABLE NOW Visit www.chrismcnulty.com …and look for more new Elefant Dreams Bookings: Releases in Fall ’06 Heidi Berg Jazz Management • [email protected] and Spring ’07 www.bdcdistribution.com • [email protected] www.elefantdreams.com jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 5 News Music and Industry News In Brief NEW YORK – The Blue Note Label from her performances once per year Armstrong’s The Dukes in 1938. In 1941, Group, a unit of EMI Music, and the first to the cause. The past 10 years have Butch joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra, full-scale, multi-genre music division generated a great deal of support for a a band that played in the style of Duke dedicated to serving the adult music very worthy cause. Deborah and The Blue Ellington, and remained with that band market, will become the jazz repertoire Note continue the concerts in honor of after serving in the Navy during World War center for EMI Music worldwide. In her father Douglas E. Davis, Sr. who lost II. As one of the great early jazz drummers, addition, the Group has appointed Josh his battle with the disease in 1981, The Ballard also was highly sought after for Lerman as vice president of International Blue Note Family, and on behalf of all the performances and recordings in both the for The Blue Note Label Group, it was patients and their families who are battling U.S. and Europe. During his illustrious announced by Blue Note Label Group blood related cancers. Deborah no longer career, other jazz greats with whom President and CEO Bruce Lundvall. As runs marathons but now participates in Ballard performed include Duke Ellington, new headquarters for EMI’s global jazz the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light Count Basie, Sonny Greer, Ella Fitzgerald, repertoire, The Blue Note Label Group will The Night Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge Arnette Cobbs, Lucy Millinder, Bootsie now assume responsibility for coordinating held annually in October. Funds raised at Barnes, Terry Clark, Sarah Vaughn, Bob and exploiting Jazz releases through EMI the concert are added to her total raised Dorsey, Eddy Vincent and Mercer Ellington. labels on a global basis. Previously, EMI’s for the LTN walk. For the year 2006 she In addition to teaching music, the 89-year- jazz repertoire center had been in London raised a grand total of $9020, and invite old Ballard currently performs with the and part of the EMI Classics Centre. As you to be a part of helping her to reach her Philadelphia Legends of Jazz Orchestra. vice president of International, Lerman goal of $10K for 2007. The Mellon Jazz Community Award will be responsible for marketing Jazz recognizes local individuals, organizations, repertoire on a global basis as well as PHILADELPHIA – In recognition of his more musicians, programs and institutions for creating international marketing strategies than six decades of performing with some their significant contributions to jazz in the for all records under the Blue Note Label of the most demanding jazz bandleaders, southeastern Pennsylvania area. Group umbrella. Lerman, who has more along with his continued commitment to than 14 years of international marketing share his vast knowledge and experience ORLANDO, Fla. – A consortium of top U.S. and publicity experience in the music with tomorrow’s generation of jazz radio companies came together one year industry, was most recently vice president drummers, George “Butch” Ballard has ago in a strategic alliance to accelerate of International Product Development/New been named the recipient of the 2006 the rollout of HD Digital Radio. The HD Media for the Atlantic Records Group. Mellon Jazz Community Award. “We Digital Radio Alliance has renewed its are pleased to honor a jazz legend and a charter, with broadcasters increasing their NEW YORK – Jazz vocalist and former true gentleman who is still plying his craft advertising commitment to $250 million. U.S. Jazz Ambassador Deborah Davis with his peers. And just as Butch Ballard Over 1,000 U.S. radio stations are currently and The Blue Note Jazz Club will hold was first taught the drum basics more broadcasting in HD, reaching 81% of the their 10th Annual Jazz Benefit Concert than 60 years ago, he understands the population and over 230 million people. for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society importance of passing these skills along to More than 500 of those FM stations on Jan. 1, 2007. The benefit has been his students,” said David Kutch, chairman are providing HD2 multicast channels, held annually the first Monday of the year of Mellon Financial Corporation’s Mid- dramatically expanding programming since 1998. Davis began campaigning Atlantic region. “When you look at Butch’s choices in 167 markets. “The radio for the Leukemia Society in 1997 by impressive background and credentials, industry is in a whole new place today running a marathon in Dublin Ireland with it’s no wonder that the ‘All Music Guide’ on the Alliance’s one- year anniversary,” the Leukemia Society Team in Training. states that he provided the rhythm for a said Peter Ferrara, president and C.E.O. of Deborah finished the 26.2 mile marathon, veritable Mount Rushmore of jazz stars and the Alliance. “We have driven a wave of while wishing she had skates the last 8 big band giants.” Born in Camden, N.J. in progress on digital radio supported by a miles. The following year she decided to 1918, Ballard moved to the Frankford area wealth of new content and formats, as well enrolled in the 38 mile inline skate, but of Philadelphia at an early age and still lives as new HD Radio receivers, an explosion was unable to participate due to an injury. in that neighborhood. As a youngster, he in retail availability; and new automotive Not one to easily accept defeat Deborah would follow local parades and admire the partners and devices that are turning soon realized that as a jazz singer she drummers. Eventually, his father agreed to the in-car radio environment digital. We had a much better platform for raising let young Butch take drum lessons for 75 are grateful to all our partners for their funds. After learning that the Blue Note cents a week. His first public performance leadership and vision, and we’re excited family also had a close link to the disease was with the Frankford Boys Club, and to expand our marketing commitment to she ask them to donate the cover charge his first professional job was with Louis ensure that every consumer in the ➤ jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 6 News

Music and Industry News In Brief (continued) Target your market! United States discovers HD Digital Radio.” Gulf Coast and much more. Each program Twelve months ago, the number of stations will offer a mix of classic records, new providing HD2 multicast programming releases and topical selections drawing on stood at just 89. Today it is over 500 and music news, upcoming regional concerts counting. and more. Each month Global Village will also offer a feature focusing on a particular WICHITA, Kan. – Chris Heim will be artist, style or theme. Kicking things off the producer and host of a new nightly in January is a look back at some of the jazz and world music program, Global best releases of 2006. Heim, a Chicago Village, airing weeknights at 9 p.m. on native, joins KMUW after having served as KMUW beginning Jan. 1. According to music director at Chicago’s WBEZ, which the station, Global Village will offer an will scrap most of its music programming innovative and fresh approach to music and at the start of 2007. Heim is a freelance Advertise in music programming, crossing genres and writer and reviewer and a longtime veteran boundaries in a way rarely heard on today’s of public and progressive radio and also JazzWeek radio dial. The program features music created, produced and hosted a world Reach not just jazz and college from around the globe, along with jazz, music program that ran for 16 years, one radio, but musicians, clubs, retailers rock and other styles inspired by “world of the longest running shows of its kind and promoters ... all people in the music” along with the many distinctive in the country. Licensed to Wichita State jazz or world music field who now regional styles from around the country, University, KMUW operates at 100,000 can subscribe free to JazzWeek. For including as Cajun and zydeco music from watts at 89.1 FM and serves south central rates and more information, contact Louisiana,�� the “red dirt” sounds of Texas Kansas. More info on KMUW may be found Devon Murphy at 866-453-6401, and Oklahoma, blues from Chicago to the on the station’s web site at kmuw.org. ext. 3 or at [email protected]. JW

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jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 7 News Curtis Fuller (1934) December 23 Jazz Birthdays Dannie Richmond (1935) Chet Baker (1929) December 11 Eddie Palmieri (1936) Frank Morgan (1933) McCoy Tyner (1938) December 16 December 24 December 12 Andy Razaf (1895) Baby Dodds (1898) Eddie Barefield (1909) Turk Murphy (1915) Cladys “Jabbo” Smith (1908) Frank Sinatra (1915) Sam Most (1930) Ray Bryant (1931) Bob Dorough (1923) Johnny “Hammond” Smith (1933) Chris McGregor (1936) Dodo Marmarosa (1925) Joe Farrell (1937) Woody Shaw (1944) Joe Williams (1928) John Abercrombie (1944) Ralph Moore (1956) Toshiko Akiyoshi (1929) Rene McLean (1946) Louis Moutin (1961) Grover Washington, Jr. (1943) December 17 François Moutin (1961) Alex Acuña (1944) Ray Noble (1903) December 25 Michael Carvin (1944) Sy Oliver (1910) Kid Ory (1890) Tony Williams (1945) Sonny Red (1932) Cab Calloway (1907) December 13 Walter Booker (1933) Chris Woods (1925) Sonny Greer (1895) December 18 Bob James (1939) Ben Tucker (1930) Fletcher Henderson (1897) Ronnie Cuber (1941) Reggie Johnson Born (1940) Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson (1917) December 26 Mark Elf (1949) Harold Land (1928) Monty Budwig (1929) December 14 Leo Smith (1941) John Scofield (1951) Budd Johnson (1910) December 19 Cassandra Wilson (1955) Ted Buckner (1913) Bob Brookmeyer (1929) December 27 Clark Terry (1920) Bobby Timmons (1935) Bunk Johnson (1889) Cecil Payne (1922) December 20 Booty Wood (1919) Phineas Newborn (1931) Walter Norris (1931) Jerome Cooper (1946) Larry Willis (1940) Dan Barrett (1955) December 21 December 28 Panama Francis (1918) Earl “Fatha” Hines (1903) December 15 Ed Thigpen (1930) Stan Kenton (1911) Hank Crawford (1934) John Hicks (1941) Lonnie Liston Smith (1940) Billy Butler (1925) Michel Petrucciani (1962) December 22 Gene Quill (1927) David Berkman (1964) Barry Harris (1929) Joe Lee Wilson (1935)

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jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 8 Radio Q&A: Tom Mallison, Public Radio East

om Mallison has been a steady presence in the jazz community thanks to the long-running An Evening With Tom The TJazzman. But more than simply doing a radio show, Mallison is an award-winning advocate for jazz music, helping to grow the community by linking his North Carolina audience to the many artists, labels and concert venues that are also part of the scene. Of course he’s a regular of the JazzWeek and IAJE conferences where he seems to know everyone and talk to everyone while somehow catching a ton of shows as well. He’s a jazz ﬁend and a Southern gentleman all rolled into one, which explains why he’s so liked and respected. – Tad Hendrickson

JazzWeek: When did you first get into radio? Tom Mallison: I started collecting Jazz when I was 12 years old and was listening to Sid McCoy on WCFL in Chicago. I played saxophone, so the music was what attracted me more than singers and words. In 1962 I won a radio-programming contest using my collection. The station offered me an air shift the next week and that was the real first experience in being on the radio. It was a Top 40 station, but they allowed me to program without boundaries. I was playing Basie, Ellington, Ferguson, Jamal, Three Sounds, Herbie Mann, Miles Davis, Cannonball along with Percy Faith, Nat King Cole, Ted Heath, Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bushkin. Just good listenable music. You’ve been a DJ for a number of years. Two questions: How do you think the environment has changed? How has your approached to programming and DJ-ing changed. My experience as an outsider coming insider, in com- mercial radio, to do programming has generally been that most radio stations were not operated like a real photos courtesy Tom Mallison business. Lots of poor and faulty equipment. ➤ jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 9 Radio Q&A: Tom Mallison (continued)

Lots of emotion and reactionary behavior. I have always programmed and en- gineered my own programs and usually was the only person at the stations while I was on the air. Five hours is a long stretch at the microphone. What special challenge does this present, either for you or in trying to keep the audience onboard? Time flies very quickly when you love what you are doing. Selecting music, honoring listener suggestions, taking phone calls and monitoring email, and Now I am much multi-tasking, makes the evening go by very quickly. Sometimes it is after five hours that I realize I need a bathroom break. Within the five hours I some- more conscious what segment the program because I realize I have a different listener base following NPR News than I do after several hours of programming – at the end of introducing of the programming I know I have the real dedicated listeners who are not of- listeners to new fended and who want to hear extended tracks and more adventurous artists and selections. releases and You court listener feedback. What are some things you’ve learned from artists. For the that? young listeners the One of the most common items is they want me to talk more and tell stories “ about the artist, selections and share my personal experiences. Since I hear ev- new releases are erything I say I tend to not talk as much as some radio personalities. I believe the listeners are there to hear my programming and not my talk, so I try to familiar and the program with a good flow and connectiveness of selections to keep the listeners. Listeners do like to know what I have played and how to add much of the classics are new music to their collection. I have a distribution list of listeners that I use each to them. With the week to send out my playlist by time played, artist/group, selection and label. I also send out the JazzWeek Top 50 list to this same distribution list to help lis- older listener it is teners be able to order the selections I play and those that are on the list. the reverse. ... Seems like a good idea to me. How much new music do you play each week? That all depends on what you call new music. That has changed through the years. In the last couple of years I have played probably 95% releases from the last six months with jazz evergreens sprinkled in the mix. Years ago I was playing 75% evergreens and a minimum of new music. Now I am much more conscious of introducing listeners to new releases and artists. For the young listeners the new releases are familiar and the classics are new to them. With the older listener it is the reverse, the classics are nostalgia and the new releases broaden and educate them to the current music scene. As someone who has done radio as a hobby and a passion rather than as a job, how do you think that has affected your approach? Having been employed by a Fortune 10 (DuPont) company I have much more of a business focus and think of the listeners in the context of customers. Without them there is certainly no need for me to be programming music. I can listen to what I like in the comfort of home or in my car. I believe this is why I am so willing to openly communicate with listeners, take calls, suggestions and try to understand what they want from TomtheJazzman in addition to what I believe I can offer to them to broaden their knowledge, under- ➤ standing, education and enjoyment of listening. jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 10 Radio Q&A: Tom Mallison (continued)

How much programming do you do in advance of the show? I drive about 45 miles to the station each Sunday afternoon to begin a 6 p.m. program. All that is cast inGod stone is the first selection of the evening that I decide while driving to the station. I have boxes of the current releases, newest releases and classics I always have with me. Input from listeners help me in the direction I take on a specific evening as well as current events. If an artist has passed I might dedicate a segment to legacy, also artists that might be involved in television specials like the recent Tony Bennett special. Really, if we talk about ADVANCE, to me that is listening and thinking about the music prior to driving down to the station. I spend hours each week listening and reading JazzWeek, JazzTimes, Jazziz, Down Beat and email. I am always expanding my database, so that I have the most and newest information to share or consider in my programming. What kind of jazz scene is there in Eastern Carolina? What makes it unique? I am at a public radio station that covers most all of Eastern North Carolina. We have quite a few jazz societies: in New Bern, Morehead City, Wilmington and here as FRIENDS of Jazz at East Caro- lina University. There are restaurants that mostly feature jazz only one night a week. The societies bring in top-notch musicians. We are close to the Raleigh Dur- ham area so driving up there is very easy to hear performances at Duke, UNC and NC State. We are also not too far form Norfolk, so we can drive up there for nightly events. The many colleges and universities in NC offer great facilities and concert series for good entertainment. Here in Greenville at ECU in the last few Tom Mallison with Tierney Sutton at the Jazz Jounalists Association Awards. years we have had Tierney Sutton, Marcus Roberts, Ray Charles, Maynard Fergu- son, Basie Orchestra, Mark Whitfield, Nicholas Payton, Tony Bennett, Wyn- ton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Dave Brubeck, Terell Stafford, Jon Faddis, Carl Allen, Joey DeFrancisco and the Yellowjackets. Being about five hundred miles from New York City and Atlanta, we are a good stopping off place for traveling musicians. As the first recipient of the Duke Dubois Humanitarian Award, I think a story telling us when the first time you met the man is in order. Probably in the ’80s or late ’70s. I traveled to NYC and met Duke during a JazzTimes Convention at the Hotel Roosevelt. I frequently met Duke at such conventions or at Gavin Conventions. We roomed together and I often stayed with him in his home outside of New York City. He would say why should (continued on page 31) jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 11 Jazz Radio

Eleven Straight For Diana Krall Madeleine Peyroux Is Again #1 On This Week’s College Chart

t’s now an unprecedented 11 weeks at No. 1 for Diana Krall’s latest Verve CD From This Moment On on the Jazz Album Chart. With Ithe Thanksgiving holiday dip behind us, that CD along with most on the chart, picked up spins; Krall had one add and a +27 in spins. Most-added on the Jazz Album Chart with 19 adds is the second Christmas collection from Mack Avenue, Jazz Yule Love II. The CD with the biggest increase in airplay is Keep Searchin’ (HighNote) from trombonist Steve Turre. Staying at the No. 1 spot on the College Jazz Chart is Madeleine Peyroux’s Half The Perfect World (Rounder). Jazz Chart No. 1: Diana Krall, From This The College Panel is now available as an Industry Panel selection Moment On (Verve) through Mediaguide’s Music Monitor.

College Jazz No. 1: Madeleine Peyroux, Jazz Increased Spins: Steve Turre, Keep Jazz Most Added: Various Artists, Jazz Half The Perfect World (Rounder) Searchin (HighNote) Yule Love II (Mack Avenue)

Jazz Album Chart p. 13 Jazz Add Dates p. 17 College Jazz Chart p. 14 Jazz Current CDs p. 18 Jazz Reviews p. 15 Jazz Radio Panel p. 21 jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 12 airplay data JazzWeek Jazz Album Chart Dec. 11, 2006 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Diana Krall From This Moment On Verve Music Group 302 275 27 12 62 1 2 2 5 2 Stefon Harris African Tarantella Blue Note 277 247 30 9 58 0 3 5 8 3 Steve Turre Keep Searchin’ HighNote 272 213 59 6 62 2 4 3 3 2 The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band Dizzy’s Business MCG Jazz 251 234 17 10 57 1 5 6 4 3 Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra Ray Sings, Basie Swings Concord/Hear Music 224 208 16 9 60 0 6 4 2 2 Louis Hayes & The Cannonball Legacy Band Maximum Firepower Savant 223 223 0 10 50 1 7 12 9 7 John Hicks Sweet Love Of Mine HighNote 217 188 29 6 56 0 8 10 9 8 Sonny Rollins Sonny, Please Doxy 212 190 22 6 58 0 9 8 11 4 Terry Gibbs Findin’ The Groove Jazzed Media 207 197 10 12 49 0 10 7 5 5 The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project Simpatico Artist Share 199 199 0 10 55 0 11 9 7 2 Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau Metheny Mehldau Nonesuch 196 193 3 11 47 0 12 16 14 12 Jimmy Heath Big Band Turn Up The Heath Planet Arts 191 146 45 3 48 5 13 13 12 11 Dave Valentin Come Fly With Me HighNote 184 167 17 5 53 5 14 10 17 10 Russell Malone Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. One MAXJAZZ 161 190 -29 3 52 7 15 14 15 5 Ted Nash & Still Evolved In The Loop Palmetto 158 148 10 12 45 1 16 28 25 16 Ben Riley Memories of T Concord 154 116 38 5 48 3 17 30 30 17 MB3 Jazz Hits Volume 1 Mel Bay 151 105 46 3 46 9 18 18 18 9 Delfeayo Marsalis Minions Dominion Troubadour Jass Records 150 142 8 11 45 0 19 23 22 17 Javon Jackson Now Palmetto 149 124 25 8 45 0 20 14 23 14 Tomo I’ll Always Know Torii Records 148 148 0 6 38 1 21 27 28 21 Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic Columbia 139 118 21 6 52 13 22 21 24 7 Houston Person & Bill Charlap You Taught My Heart To Sing HighNote 137 130 7 14 35 1 23 22 13 2 Cedar Walton One Flight Down HighNote 135 128 7 15 42 1 24 24 19 12 Madeleine Peyroux Half The Perfect World Rounder 134 123 11 14 38 1 25 17 21 17 Papa John DeFrancesco Desert Heat Savant 132 145 -13 9 43 0 26 25 29 20 Lynne Arriale Live Motema 131 120 11 7 44 1 27 19 16 16 Mike LeDonne On Fire: Live At Smoke NYC Savant 123 138 -15 9 45 1 28 25 35 14 Sean Jones Roots Mack Avenue 117 120 -3 13 37 0 29 28 20 20 The Roger Kellaway Trio Heroes IPO Recordings 113 116 -3 10 39 0 30 32 42 30 Neal Miner The Evening Sound Smalls Records 109 99 10 5 35 2 31 31 32 21 Jim Tomlinson The Lyric... w/ Stacey Kent O+ 105 100 5 10 33 0 32 NR NR 32 The Brubeck Brothers Intutition Koch 103 67 36 1 41 7 32 35 33 7 Roy Haynes & The Fountain of Youth Band Whereas Dreyfus Jazz 103 94 9 14 35 1 34 42 NR 34 Don Aliquo Jazz Folk Young Warrior 96 80 16 2 30 5 34 39 42 6 Kenny Garrett Beyond The Wall Nonesuch 96 85 11 13 41 2 36 33 34 9 Gladys Knight Before Me Verve Music Group 95 97 -2 11 23 0 37 37 26 1 Dr. Lonnie Smith Jungle Soul Palmetto 92 89 3 20 39 0 37 NR 47 37 Nilson Matta & Friends Walking With My Bass Blue Toucan Music 92 67 25 3 24 4 39 40 39 22 Keith Jarrett Carnegie Hall Concert ECM 89 83 6 10 32 0 40 20 36 4 Geri Allen Timeless Portaits and Dreams Telarc 88 136 -48 14 29 0 41 41 NR 41 David Gilmore Unified Presence RKM Music 84 82 2 8 28 1 41 NR NR 41 Phil Kelly My Museum Origin 84 70 14 1 23 4 43 NR 50 43 John Patitucci Line By Line Concord Jazz 83 69 14 3 32 2 44 44 38 11 Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian Nonesuch 82 78 4 10 30 0 45 36 31 16 Mulgrew Miller Live At The Kennedy Center: Volume 1 MAXJAZZ 78 91 -13 12 30 1 45 NR NR 11 Nancy Wilson Turned To Blue MCG Jazz 78 72 6 19 30 2 47 NR 49 12 Don Byron Do the Boomerang: The Music of Junior Blue Note 77 67 10 7 29 0 Walker 47 43 42 37 Mike Melvoin You Know City Light 77 79 -2 7 20 0 47 NR NR 39 Stanton Moore III Telarc 77 56 21 5 23 0 47 NR NR 47 Bob DeVos Shifting Sands Savant 77 54 23 1 28 12

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Various Artists Jazz Yule Love II (Mack Avenue) +19 Steve Turre Keep Searchin’ (HighNote) +59 HD2 Songs From The Last Century (Blue Toucan Music) Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic (Columbia) +13 MB3 Jazz Hits Volume 1 (Mel Bay) +46 Pete Zimmer Judgment (Tippin’ Records) Various Artists Jazz Yule Love II (Mack Avenue) Bob DeVos Shifting Sands (Savant) +12 Jimmy Heath Big Band Turn Up The Heath (Planet Arts) +45 Wayne Wallace Dedication (Patois Records) Skafish Tidings Of Comfort And Joy: A Jazz Piano Trio Ben Riley Memories of T (Concord) +38 Bill Anschell More To The Ear Than Meets The Eye (Origin) Christmas (La Befana) +11 The Brubeck Brothers Intutition (Koch) +36 Taylor/Fidyk Big Band Live At Blues Alley (OA2 Records) The Kerry Strayer Orchestra Christmas In Kansas City: Music Stefon Harris African Tarantella (Blue Note) +30 Rashied Ali Quintet Judgment Day, Vol. 1 (Survival) From The Plaza Lighting Ceremony (Self Released) +10 John Mackay Organoptics (Chicken Coup) Dave Wilson My Time (Dreambox Media) MB3 Jazz Hits Volume 1 (Mel Bay) +9 Mayra Casales Woman On Fire - Mujer Ardiente (Afrasia) jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2006 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 13 airplay data JazzWeek College Jazz Chart Dec. 11, 2006 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 2 1 Madeleine Peyroux Half The Perfect World Rounder 145 120 25 14 42 2 2 3 NR 2 Norah Jones Not Too Late Blue Note 134 93 41 2 34 5 3 31 59 3 Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic RPM/Columbia 122 27 95 5 79 60 4 46 5 2 Al Di Meola Consequence Of Chaos Telarc 103 22 81 12 33 1 5 35 42 5 Garage A Trois Outre Mer [Original Soundtrack] Spire Artists Media/Telarc 85 27 58 5 70 0 6 6 4 4 Javon Jackson Now Palmetto 57 53 4 9 19 1 7 37 22 7 Diana Krall From This Moment On Verve 54 26 28 13 25 6 8 5 1 1 Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood Out Louder Indirecto 53 55 -2 14 24 0 9 7 6 1 Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra Ray Sings, Basie Swings Hear/Concord 50 52 -2 9 25 2 10 86 18 3 Regina Carter I’ll Be Seeing You (A Sentimental Journey) Verve/UMG 44 15 29 25 31 0 11 20 26 11 Bradley Leighton East Coast Project [Sampler] Pacific Coast Jazz 41 32 9 4 5 0 12 8 39 8 The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band Dizzy’s Business MCG Jazz 39 46 -7 11 16 0 13 29 50 13 Steve Turre Keep Searchin’ HighNote 36 28 8 5 20 1 14 38 12 12 The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project Simpatico ArtistShare 35 26 9 11 16 0 15 23 16 5 Stanton Moore III Telarc 33 31 2 10 11 0 16 NR NR 16 Bradley Leighton Back To The Funk Pacific Coast Jazz 33 10 23 2 4 0 17 14 8 8 Russell Malone Live At Jazz Standard - Volume One MAXJAZZ 32 35 -3 3 20 3 18 17 14 1 The Dirty Dozen Brass Band What’s Going On Shout! Factory 30 34 -4 17 16 0 19 61 45 19 Urban Jazz Coalition Down To Get Up Major 6th 29 19 10 15 4 0 20 NR NR 20 Various Artists New Orleans Putumayo 29 6 23 1 16 1 21 63 NR 21 The Brubeck Brothers Intuition Koch Classics 28 18 10 3 25 17 22 42 20 20 Sonny Rollins Sonny, Please Doxy 28 23 5 6 22 5 23 52 54 12 Ben Riley Memories Of T Concord 27 21 6 5 18 0 24 78 36 24 Wayne Wallace Dedication Patois 27 16 11 4 18 4 25 NR NR 25 Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey The Sameness Of Difference Hyena 26 6 20 1 20 0 26 43 17 12 Stefon Harris African Tarantella Blue Note 25 23 2 10 19 1 27 30 9 1 Don Byron Do The Boomerang: The Music Of Junior Blue Note 24 27 -3 10 11 0 Walker 28 18 100 10 Kenny Garrett Beyond The Wall Nonesuch 24 33 -9 14 16 3 29 58 38 29 John Hicks Sweet Love Of Mine HighNote 23 20 3 6 13 1 30 77 NR 30 Ike Turner Risin’ With The Blues Zoho 23 16 7 2 10 7 31 32 46 31 The Jimmy Heath Big Band Turn Up The Heath Planet Arts 23 27 -4 3 17 3 32 19 NR 19 David Sills Down The Line Origin 23 33 -10 5 4 0 33 47 NR 33 Sean Jones Roots Mack Avenue 22 22 0 2 8 0 34 NR 74 17 Bob Mintzer Big Band Old School: New Lessons MCG Jazz 21 5 16 6 7 0 35 59 86 35 David Berger & The Sultans Of Swing Hindustan Such Sweet Thunder 20 20 0 3 4 0 36 98 66 36 Mingus Big Band Live In Tokyo Sue Mingus/Sunnyside 19 13 6 8 13 2 37 71 87 7 Dr. Lonnie Smith Jungle Soul Palmetto 19 17 2 21 15 1 38 27 51 27 Eldredge Jackson Listening Pleasure JEA 19 29 -10 23 1 0 39 22 30 22 Nouvelle Vague Nouvelle Vague Peacefrog/Luaka Bop 19 32 -13 7 9 1 40 NR NR 40 Various Artists Jazz Yule Love II Mack Avenue 18 8 10 1 11 11 41 40 10 10 Eliane Elias Around The City Bluebird/RCA Victor 18 25 -7 17 6 0 42 68 25 25 Kahil El’zabar Big M: A Tribute To Malachi Favors Delmark 17 17 0 4 12 4 43 13 32 3 Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau Metheny Mehldau Nonesuch 17 36 -19 12 15 2 44 NR 33 5 Ted Nash & Still Evolved In The Loop Palmetto 17 7 10 9 15 0 45 70 NR 45 Christian Jacob Contradictions Wilder Jazz 17 17 0 3 6 0 46 49 NR 46 Paradise Presents: Jazz Funk Hip HoPoetry Jazz Funk Hip HoPoetry Self-Released 17 22 -5 3 2 0 47 93 NR 47 Deep Blue Organ Trio Goin’ To Town - Live At The Green Mill Delmark 17 14 3 2 13 0 48 NR NR 8 Ray Mantilla Good Vibrations Savant 17 8 9 23 4 0 49 NR 24 24 MB3 Jazz Hits Volume 1 Mel Bay 16 11 5 2 10 0 50 88 NR 50 Reuben Wilson Movin’ On Savant 16 14 2 2 7 2

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic (RPM/Columbia) +60 Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic (RPM/Columbia) +95 Vittor Santos Renewed Impressions (Adventure) The Brubeck Brothers Intuition (Koch Classics) +17 Al Di Meola Consequence Of Chaos (Telarc) +81 Various Artists Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album (Nonesuch) Various Artists Jazz Yule Love II (Mack Avenue) +11 Garage A Trois Outre Mer [Original Soundtrack] (Spire Artists Chembo Corniel & Andrea Brachfeld Beyond Standards (Consolidated Artists) Vittor Santos Renewed Impressions (Adventure) +9 Media/Telarc) +58 Bell Orchestre Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light (Rough Trade) Diane Delin Offerings For A Peaceable Season (BluJazz) +8 Norah Jones Not Too Late (Blue Note) +41 George Duke T-Jam [Single] (Bpm/Navarre) Ike Turner Risin’ With The Blues (Zoho) +7 Regina Carter I’ll Be Seeing You (A Sentimental Journey) Kyle Eastwood Now (Candid/Rendezvous) (Verve/UMG) +29 Pete Zimmer Judgment (Tippin’) Diana Krall From This Moment On (Verve) +28 Will Donato Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get [Single] (Generation) Various Artists Italian Cafe (Putumayo) Joe Lovano Joyous Encounter (Blue Note) jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2006 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 14 journs to Greece, Turkey, Mongolia and China and other Reviews points on the globe. Her voice is as angelic as ever, filled with Frank LoCrasto moody sorrow and quivering with vibrato for effect. High- lights include clos- When You’re There (Maxjazz) er “Never-Ending Road,” the hymn-like NOT THAT A musician has choice when they are trying to “Penelope’s Song” get the word out, but its nice to see and hear a debut CD and the driving “Car- done right. Here we have Texas-born pianist Frank LoCras- avanserai.” None- to coming out of the theless, it’s the near box with nine com- mystical piece called positions of his own, “The Gates Of Istan- and he gets help real- bul” that stands out. izing the potential of Hopefully it won’t be each song from a reg- another 10 years be- ular quintet, a singer fore the next album. Also look for a PBS special in Janu- as well as string and ary. woodwind sections. – Dave Flynn When You’re There opens with a nice Contact: Brad Hunt semi-bossa nova with Phone: 845.358.3003, Email: [email protected] orchestra that would make a good segue-way from jazz to Add Date: Now bossa if one is looking for an elegant bridge. While cer- Release Date: Nov. 21 tainly a jazz player, LoCrasto also integrates the harmo- nies and unconventional compositional ideas of non-jazzers like Steely Dan and Radiohead into his music. Sometimes Paul Tynan these ideas take a while to unpack, hence nine songs last- Radio Infrequency (Nohjoh) ing 77 minutes, but the ideas are generally good ones – the orchestral work on “Overture/The Rathskeller/Interlude” is NO OFFENSE TO bassists and drummers out there, but some- as good as any jazz-classical fusion as these ears have heard. times its nice to hear a trio play chamber style. A trumpet- Without a doubt, one of the very best debuts this year. er/flugelhorn player with a nice smooth tone that seldom – Tad Hendrickson goes too high or low, Paul Tynan can be found teaching students and leading ensembles at St. Francis Xavier Uni- Contact: Clayton McDonnell versity in Antigonish, Phone: (314) 918-9170 Email: [email protected] Nova Scotia, Cana- Add Date: Now da. He’s joined here Release Date: Nov. 21 by longtime guitar- ist Noel Johnston and Loreena McKennitt pianist Dave Resti- vo, and the three roll An Ancient Muse (Verve) through this taste- ful program of origi- CANADA HAS ITS fair share of music stars, you need look no nals that draw heavi- further than Neil Young, k.d. lang, Sarah McLachlan and ly upon improvisation others, but Loreena McKennitt is as big as any of them. without tossing it in With a sound that recalls elegant tonal shading of Enya your face. Restivo mixed with the storytelling capacity that honors her Irish does a particularly nice job in filling in the harmonic holes roots, the singer has attracted a huge fanbase around the with his right hand while (rhythmically speaking) driving world. Here on her seventh studio album and first in 10 the bus with his left. (All the same, the three each seem years, McKennitt fancies herself something of a traveling particularly attuned to keeping the songs moving.) “Song songwriter, letting her Celtic leaning songs reflect her so- For Mality” is a nice short take on the trio’s chemistry, ➤ jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 15 Reviews (continued) and the title track works just as well. The other four tunes from including best ofs or collections – for example The Es- stretch out a bit, but the darker more ambient sound of the sential Herbie Hancock or Wayne Shorter’s The Classic Blue band seems all the more fitting for evening programming, Note Recordings. Secondly, so it works out anyway. he appreciates the efforts of – Tad Hendrickson current artists, with recent releases from Bill Charlap, Contact: Nohjoh Charlie Haden and Joe Phone: (469) 293-5701 Email: [email protected] Lovano among the set. For Add Date: Now jazz novices, this book is Release Date: December 1 an excellent starting point in building a solid jazz CD The Essential Jazz Recordings: 101 CDs library; for serious collec- tors, it’s a nice shopping by Ross Porter (McClelland & Stewart) list for what’s missing (I’m about half way there.) And ANYONE WHO HAS ever had to compile a list of the best for radio stations, a copy of of anything knows how hard it is to narrow it down. That this book would be an ex- makes the herculean task of choosing 101 essential jazz cellent studio reference for CDs even more impressive. Canadian jazz radio legend newer hosts, for biograph- Ross Porter has assembled his list into a handy volume that ical information, or as a memory tickler when looking for a includes concise and informative two- or three-page biog- classic to drop into the next set. raphies and reviews of each CD. A couple of things Por- – Ed Trefzger ter does are especially thoughtful: first, he doesn’t shy away ��

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jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 16 Jazz Radio Adds Here are upcoming add dates for new releases, and add dates that have passed recently. This listing was current as of press time. JazzWeek industry subscribers may update this information online at jazzweek.com. Add dates may also be submitted via email to [email protected]. October 16, 2006 November 27, 2006 Michael Wolff – Underwater (Wrong Records) Bob Devos – Shifting Sands (Savant) Tomo – I’ll Always Know (Torii Records) Reuben Wilson – Movin’ On (Savant) John Patitucci – Line By Line (Concord Records) December 4, 2006 Sonny Rollins – Sonny, Please (Doxy) David Berger – The Harlem Nutcracker (Such Sweet Thunder Inc.) October 17, 2006 December 11, 2006 Sathima Bea Benjamin – Song Spirit (Ekapa Records) Boston Brass – The Stan Kenton Christmas Carols (Summit October 23, 2006 Records) Janice Borla – From Every Angle (BluJazz) January 1, 2007 Jazz Folk – Don Aliquo (Young Warrior Records) Brian Groder – Torque (Latham Records) Matt Savage – Quantum Leap (Savage Records) Jason Campbell JC and the Jazz Hoppers – Chillin’ At Home (Jazz- October 24, 2006 Hop) Mitchel Forman – Perspectives (Marsis Jazz) January 22, 2007 October 30, 2006 Alex Garcia’s AfroMantra – Uplifting Spirit (AfroMantra Records) Diane Delin – Offerings For A Peaceable Season (BluJazz) Jane Drake – Brand New Woman (Self Released) October 31, 2006 Aaron Comess – Catskills Cry (RedEye) Pete Zimmer Quintet Featuring George Garzone – Judgment (Tippin’ Records) Towner Galaher – Panorama (Towner Galaher Music) November 6, 2006 Robert Lee Irving III Trio – New Momentum (Sonic Portraits) November 9, 2006 Scenes: Stowell/Johnson/Bishop – Along the Way (Origin) The Dynamic Les DeMerle Band – Cookin’ at the Corner, Vol. 1 (Origin) Brubeck Brothers w/ Taylor Eigsti – Intuition (Koch) The Jimmy Heath Big Band – Turn Up The Heath (Planet Arts Recordings) November 13, 2006 MB3 (Vic Juris, Jimmy Burno, Cory Christiansen) – Jazz Hits Volume 1 (Mel Bay Records) Rez Abbasi – Bazaar (Zoho Music) November 14, 2006 Southside Cindy & The Slip-Tones – Change From A Penny (South Side Records) November 20, 2006 Susie Thorne – Blue Skies, Clear Day (Effie Records) Tomas Janzon – Coast to Coast to Coast (Changes Music) Wayne Wallace – Dedication (Patois Records) November 21, 2006 The Kerry Strayer Orchestra – Christmas In Kansas City (Rhombus) Various – Jazz Yule Love II (Mack Ave.) Various – The Ultimate Jazz Christmas (Blue Note)

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Rez Abassi Bazaar Zoho Music Chembo Corniel & Andrea Brachfeld Beyond Standards CAP Susanne Abbuehl Compass ECM Larry Coryell Laid Back & Blues Rhombus Muhal Richard Abrams Streaming PI Recordings Jon Crosse Kind Of Blue & Pink Jazz Cat Rashied Ali Quintet Judgment Day, Vol. 1 Survival Rick Culver I‘m Old Fashioned Sea Breeze Don Aliquo Jazz Folk Young Warrior Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra In Progress Pony Boy Records Geri Allen Timeless Portaits and Dreams Telarc Meredith d‘Ambrosio Wishing On The Moon Sunnyside Bill Anschell More To The Ear Than Meets The Origin The Dalton Gang Last Year‘s Waltz SSM Records Eye Lynne Arriale Live Motema Roger Davidson Pensando En Ti Soundbrush Records Lisa B What‘s New, Pussycat? Piece Of Pie Records Jamie Davis It‘s A Good Thing Unity Music Philippe Baden Powell Estrada De Terra (Dirt Road) Adventure Music Miles Davis Cool & Collected Columbia/Legacy The Sheryl Bailey 3 Live @ The Fat Cat Guitar 9 Ernest Dawkins The Messenger - Live at the Delmark Original Velvet Lounge Bang On A Can & Don Byron A Ballad for Many Cantaloupe Hamilton De Holanda Quintet Brasilianos Adventure Music Patricia Barber Mythologies Blue Note The Deep Blue Organ Trio Goin‘ to Town - Live at the Green Delmark Mill Ray Barretto Standards Rican-ditioned Zoho Music Papa John DeFrancesco Desert Heat Savant Nik Bartsch‘s Ronin Stoa ECM Diane Delin Offerings For A Peaceable Season Blujazz Tom Beckham Center Songs Sunnyside Les DeMerle Cookin‘ At The Corner: Volume One Origin Sathima Bea Benjamin Song Spirit Ekapa Bob DeVos Shifting Sands Savant Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic Columbia Al Di Meola Consequence of Chaos Telarc George Benson & Al Jarreau Breezin‘ Concord Joe Diorio Trio Live Mel Bay Steven Bernstein‘s Millennial MTO Volume 1 Sunnyside Dirty Dozen Brass Band What‘s Goin‘ On? Shout Factory Territory Orchestra Pat Bianchi East Coast Roots Jazzed Media George Duke In A Mellow Tone BPM Big Neighborhood 11:11 Origin Records Dominique Eade + Jed Wilson Open Jazz Project David Bixler Call It a Good Deal Zoho Music Mark Egan As We Speak Wavetone Janice Borla From Every Angle Blujazz Kahil El‘zabar Big M: A Tribute To Malachi Favors Delmark Ramona Borthwick A New Leaf Whaling City Sound Eliane Elias Around The City RCA / Victor Boston Brass & The Brass All-Stars The Stan Kenton Christmas Carols Summit Elin Lazy Afternoon Blue Toucan Music Big Band Ed Breazeale Just Beyond Reactor Records Kellylee Evans Fight or Flight? Enliven Media Randy Brecker & Michael Brecker Some Skunk Funk Telarc Connie Evingson Stockholm Sweetnin‘ Minnehaha Music Alan Broadbent Every Time I Think of You Artistry Jon Faddis Teranga Koch Ray Brown Bassics: The Best Of The Ray Brown Concord Laika Fatien Look At Me Now! Body and Soul Trio 1977-2000 Mark Feldman What Exit ECM The Brubeck Brothers Intutition Koch Mitchel Forman Perspectives Marsis Jazz Paul Brusger Go To Plan B CAP The Frank & Joe Show Submarine Bus Venture Hiram Bullock Too Funky 2 Ignore BHM Music Eric Frazier In Your Own Time Eric Frazier Music Jane Bunnett Guantanamo Blues Project Vol. 1 Blue Note Von Freeman Good Forever Premonition Gene Burkert The Jazz Pallette Sea Breeze Fred Fried The Wisdom Of Notes Ballet Tree Produc- Scott Burns Passages Origin Records tions Don Byron Do the Boomerang: The Music of Blue Note Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian Nonesuch Junior Walker Mike Frost Project Comin‘ Straight At Ya‘ Blujazz Elliot Caine Quintet Blues From Mars Rhombus Kenny G I‘m In The Mood For Love ... The Arista Ann Hampton Calloway Blues In The Night Telarc Most Romantic Melodies Of All Time Royce Campbell Elegy To A Friend Moon Cycle Records Towner Galaher Panorama Self Released Caribbean Jazz Project Mosaic Concord Records Kenny Garrett Beyond The Wall Nonesuch The Paul Carlon Octet Other Tongues Self Released The Jeff Gauthier Goatette One & The Same Cryptogramophone Marc Cary Focus Motema Terry Gibbs Findin‘ The Groove Jazzed Media Mayra Casales Woman On Fire - Mujer Ardiente Afrasia Gerry Gibbs & The Thrasher Band Faces Unknown SMS Jazz Gilbert Castellanos Underground Seedling Gerry Gibbs & The Thrasher Big Live At Luna Whaling City Sound Band The Catz In The Hatz Resilience Rhombus The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Dizzy‘s Business MCG Jazz Band Ray Charles & The Count Basie Ray Sings, Basie Swings Concord/Hear Music Joe Gilman View So Tender: Wonder Revisited, Capri Orchestra Vol. 1 The Cheebacabra Exile In The Woods Wax Orchard David Gilmore Unified Presence RKM Music Gene Cipriano First Time Out Resort Music Ginai Jazz Island Black Hawaiian Nels Cline New Monastery Cryptogramophone Publishing Dave Glasser Above The Clouds Arbors Freddy Cole Because Of You HighNote Gnappy Unloaded Bean Pie Richie Cole & The Alto Madness Rise‘s Rose Garden Jazz Excursion Orchestra Marcus Goldhaber The Moment After Fallen Apple Mary Foster Conklin Blues For Breakfast Rhombus Gil Goldstein Under Rousseau‘s Moon Half Note Records Marc Copland, Randy Brecker Both/And Nagel Heyer Gordon Goodwin‘s Big Phat Band The Phat Pack Immergent jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 18 Jazz Radio Currents

Grismore/Scea Group Well Behaved Fish Accurate Charles Lloyd Sangam ECM Scott Hamilton Nocturnes and Serenades Concord Jazz Joe Locke & Geoffrey Keezer Group Live In Seattle Origin Lionel Hampton featuring Sylvia Out of Sight Music Chuck Loeb Good To Go Heads Up Bennett Everette Harp In The Moment Shanachie Kristin Lomholt Spell Whaling City Sound Winard Harper Make It Happen Piadrum Jacques Loussier Bach: The Brandenburgs Telarc Stefon Harris African Tarantella Blue Note Joe Lovano Streams of Expression Blue Note Donald Harrison The Survivor Nagel Heyer Romero Lubambo Softly Billy Hart Quartet HighNote The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Simpatico Artist Share Project Elias Haslanger Dream Story Cherrywood Records Doug MacDonald Gentle Rain Sea Breeze Louis Hayes & The Cannonball Maximum Firepower Savant John Mackay Organoptics Chicken Coup Legacy Band Roy Haynes & The Fountain of Youth Whereas Dreyfus Jazz Rudresh Mahanthappa Codebook PI Recordings Band Russell Malone Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. One MAXJAZZ HD2 Songs From The Last Century Blue Toucan Music Kimber Manning Eventually R & K Productions Jimmy Heath Big Band Turn Up The Heath Planet Arts Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra In Pursuit of the 9th Man Hipnotic Heernt Locked In A Basement Raz Daz Tania Maria Intimidade Blue Note Joan Hickey Between The Lines OA2 Records Marguerite Mariama Wild Women Never Get The Blues: Power Light John Hicks Sweet Love Of Mine HighNote Well, Not Anymore! Buck Hill Relax Severn Branford Marsalis Braggtown Marsalis Music Lisa Hilton Midnight In Manhattan Ruby Slippers Delfeayo Marsalis Minions Dominion Troubadour Jass Productions Records Dave Holland Quintet Critical Mass Dare2/Sunnyside Mark Masters Ensemble Wish Me Well Capri Tony Horowitz Paz Y Amore Rhombus Masters Of Groove Masters Of Groove Meet DJ-9 Jazzateria Hot Club Of Detroit Hot Club Of Detroit Mack Avenue Nilson Matta & Friends Walking With My Bass Blue Toucan Music Luther Hughes & Cannonball-Col- Second Helping Primrose Lane Rebeca Mauleon Descarga En California Universal Music trane Project Latino Human Motion Human Motion Self-Produced MB3 Jazz Hits Volume 1 Mel Bay Charlie Hunter/Bobby Previte Come In Red Dog, This Is Tango Ropeadope Kit McClure Just the Thing: The Sweethearts Red Hot Leader Project Revisited Susi Hyldgaard Blush Enja/Justin Time Cassandre McKinley Til Tomorrow: Remembering Marvin MAXJAZZ Gaye Sherman Irby Organ Starter Black Warrior John McLaughlin Industrial Zen Verve Music Group Records Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa Raw Materials Savoy Jazz Chris McNulty Whispers The Heart Elefant Dreams Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa Raw Materials Savoy Jazz Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood Out Louder Indirecto D. 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Ted Nash & Still Evolved In The Loop Palmetto Mike Stern Who Let The Cats Out? Heads Up Jacqui Naylor The Color Five Ruby Records The Gene Stone Quintet Tenor Combustion Rhombus Scott Neumann and Osage County Scott Neumann and Osage County Chicken Coup The Kerry Strayer Orchestra Christmas In Kansas City: Music Self Released From The Plaza Lighting Ceremony Ed Neumeister Reflections Artist Share Dave Stryker The Chaser Mel Bay One For All The Lineup Sharp Nine Helen Sung Trio Helenistique Fresh Sound New Nancy Osbourne Hot Swing, Cool Jazz Self Released Talent Brian Swartz Three Summit Ed Palermo Big Band Take Your Clothes Off When You Cuneiform Dance Eric Swinderman In Pursuit Of The Sound Bonbelle Panoramic Rhythm Through The Unobstructed Rhythmic Union John Taylor Angel Of The Presence Camjazz View Kat Parra Birds In Flight Self Released Taylor / Fidyk Big Band Live At Blues Alley OA2 Records John Patitucci Line By Line Concord Jazz Susie Thorne Effie Records Jim Pearce Prairie Dog Ballet Oak Avenue Ximo Tibar & Fourlights Eclipse Sunnyside Publishing Luis Perdomo Awareness RKM Music Jim Tomlinson The Lyric... w/ Stacey Kent O+ Houston Person & Bill Charlap You Taught My Heart To Sing HighNote Tomo I‘ll Always Know Torii Records Madeleine Peyroux Half The Perfect World Rounder James Torme Comin‘ Home Rogalan Records Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, & Ballads CAM Jazz/Sunnyside Brian Trainor Why Try To Change Me Now? Summit Joey Baron Trio Beyond Saudades ECM John Pizzarelli Dear Mr. Sinatra Telarc Trio East Best Bets Origin Records Valery Ponomarev Beyond The Obvious Reservoir Ike Turner Risin‘ With The Blues Zoho Music John Proulx Moon And Sand MAXJAZZ Steve Turre Keep Searchin‘ HighNote Chad Rager Groove 21st Century Groove Strokeland Records Dave Valentin Come Fly With Me HighNote Paul Renz Beyond Blues Gabwalk Records Various Artists Guitar Visions Dreyfus Ben Riley Memories of T Concord Various Artists New Orleans Christmas Putumayo Ripplegroove Under The Microscope Self Released Various Artists Winds Of Brazil Adventure Music Smokey Robinson Timeless Love New Door Various Artists Jazz Yule Love II Mack Avenue Reuben Rogers The Things I Am Piadrum Various Artists Explorations - Classic Picante Concord Picante Sonny Rollins Sonny, Please Doxy Regrooved, Vol. 1 Aldo Romano Chante Dreyfus Jerry Vivino Walkin‘ with the Wazmo Zoho Music Michele Rosewoman & Quintes- The In Side Out Self Produced Larry Vuckovich Trio Street Scene Tetrachord sence Max Wagner This Can‘t Be Love Capri Frank Rosolino The Last Recording Sea Breeze Rick Wald Castaneda‘s Dreams Glowbow Records Diana Ross Blues In The Night Motown The Chris Walden Big Band No Bounds Origin Lin Rountree Groovetree BDK Wayne Wallace Dedication Patois Records Daniel Santiago On The Way Adventure Music Cedar Walton One Flight Down HighNote Vittor Santos Renewed Impressions Adventure Music Weather Report Forecast: Tomorrow Sony Matt Savage Trio Quantum Leap Savage Records/Pal- metto Mark Weinstein O Nosso Amor Jazzheads Scenes Along The Way Origin Mort Weiss Mort Weiss Meets Sam Most SMS Jazz Anton Schwartz Radiant Blue Anton Jazz Mort Weiss The B3 And Me SMS Jazz Jennifer Scott Emotional Girl Carltunes Wendolina Tenderly Sail Away Barbara Sfraga & Center Search Timelessness Frozen In Time SyncTimiCity Kenny Werner Democ Racy: Live At The Blue Note Half Note Records Quest The Bud Shank Big Band Taking The Long Way Home Jazzed Media Kenny Wheeler It Takes Two! Sunnyside Sherik‘s Syncopated Taint Septet Husky Hyena Records Carla White A Voice In The Night Bright Moon Records The Shook-Russo Quartet The Shook-Russo Quartet Featuring Summit Scott Whitfield Live at Charlie O‘s Summit Greg Gisbert Liam Sillery On The Fly OA2 Records Wesla Whitfield Livin‘ On Love HighNote Edward Simon Unicity Camjazz Rob Whitlock Sketchin‘ 2 Sketchin‘ Records Skafish Tidings Of Comfort And Joy: A Jazz La Befana Steve Wiest Big Band Excalibur Arabesque Piano Trio Christmas Dave Wilson My Time Dreambox Media Cecilia Smith Dark Triumph CEA Music Nancy Wilson Turned To Blue MCG Jazz Charlie Smith On The Double C4 Reuben Wilson Movin‘ On Savant Daniel Smith Bebop Bassoon Zah Zah Anthony Wilson Nonet Power Of Nine Groove Note Dr. Lonnie Smith Jungle Soul Palmetto Winds of Brazil Winds of Brazil Adventure Music Gary Smulyan Hidden Treasures Reservoir Michael Wolff Love And Destruction Wrong Records Bob Sneider & Paul Hofmann Escapade Sons of Sound World Saxophone Quartet Political Blues Justin Time Ken Song Goin‘ Wes Primrose Lane Records Pete Zimmer Burnin‘ Live At The Jazz Standard Tippin‘ Records Esperanza Spalding Junjo Ayva Music Pete Zimmer Judgment Tippin‘ Records Tomasz Stanko Quartet Lontano ECM Amy Stephens My Many Moods jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 20 Jazz Station Panel Call letters Frequency Market Rank Call letters Frequency Market Rank CJRT-FM* 91.1 Toronto, ON N/A WESM-FM* 91.3 Princess Anne, MD 152 KAJX-FM* 91.5 Aspen, CO N/A WFCR-FM 88.5 Springfield, MA 82 KANU-FM 91.5 Topeka, KS 195 WFNX-FM 101.7 Boston, MA 133 KBCS-FM 91.3 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 WFSS-FM 91.9 Fayetteville, NC 128 KBEM-FM 88.5 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 WGBH-FM 89.7 Boston, MA 8 KCCK-FM* 88.3 Cedar Rapids, IA 204 WGLT-FM 89.1 Peoria, IL 149 KCLU-FM 88.3 Los Angeles, CA 2 WGMC-FM 90.1 Rochester, NY 54 KCME-FM 88.7 Colorado Springs, CO 96 WGVU-FM 88.5 Grand Rapids, MI 67 KCSM-FM 91.1 San Francisco, CA 4 WHRV-FM 89.5 Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Newport News, VA 40 KEWU-FM 89.5 Spokane, WA 93 WICN-FM* 90.5 Worcester, MA 110 KFSR-FM 90.7 Fresno, CA 68 WICR-FM 88.7 Indianapolis, IN 41 KIOS-FM 91.5 Omaha, NE - Council Bluffs, IA 73 WJSU-FM 88.5 Jackson, MS 123 KIPO-FM* 89.3 Honolulu 62 WKNS-FM†† 90.3 Greenville - New Bern - Jacksonville, NC 88 KJZZ-FM 91.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 WLRN-FM 91.3 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 KKJZ-FM 88.1 Los Angeles, CA 2 WMOT-FM 89.5 Nashville, TN 44 KLCC-FM 89.7 Eugene-Springfield, OR 171 WMUA-FM 91.1 Springfield, MA 82 KMHD-FM 89.1 Portland, OR 24 WMUB-FM 88.5 Cincinnati, OH 27 KMUW-FM 89.1 Wichita, KS 95 WNCU-FM 90.7 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 KNTU-FM 88.1 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 WPFW-FM 89.3 Washington, DC 8 KPLU-FM 88.5 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 WRTI-FM 90.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 KRTU-FM 91.7 San Antonio, TX 30 WSHA-FM 88.9 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 KSDS-FM 88.3 San Diego, CA 17 WSIE-FM 88.7 St. Louis, MO 19 KSJS-FM 90.5 San Jose, CA 33 WSNC-FM 90.5 Greensboro - Winston-Salem - High Point, NC 45 KSMF-FM* 89.1 Ashland, OR 207 WTEB-FM 89.3 Greenville, NC 87 KSUT-FM* 91.3 Ignacio, CO N/A WTJU-FM 91.1 Charlottesville, VA 231 KTSU-FM 90.9 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 WUAL-FM 91.5 Tuscaloosa, AL 133 KUAZ-FM 89.1 Tucson, AZ 63 WUCF-FM 89.9 Orlando, FL 39 KUER-FM 90.1 Salt Lake City - Ogden - Provo, UT 31 WUMR-FM 91.7 Memphis, TN 48 KUNR-FM* 88.7 Reno, NV 231 WUSF-FM 89.7 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 KUNV-FM 91.5 Las Vegas, NV 38 WVPR/WVPS-FM 94.3 Burlington, VT-Plattsburgh, NY 220 KUOP-FM† 91.3 Stockton, CA 81 WVTF-FM 89.1 Roanoke - Lynchburg, VA 115 KUT-FM 90.5 Austin, TX 7 WWOZ-FM††† 90.7 New Orleans, LA 46 KUVO-FM 89.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 WWSP-FM* 89.9 Wausau-Stevens Point, WI 168 KXJZ-FM 88.9 Sacramento, CA 26 WWUH-FM* 89.9 Hartford-New Britain, CT 51 WAER-FM* 88.3 Syracuse, NY 79 WXUT/WXTS-FM 88.3 Toledo, OH 85 WBEZ-FM 91.5 Chicago, IL 3 WYPR-FM 88.1 Baltimore, MD 20 WBFO-FM 88.7 Buffalo - Niagara Falls, NY 52 Music Choice* Cable National Distribution N/A WBGO-FM 88.3 New York, NY 1 WBLU/WBLV-FM 88.9/90.3 Grand Rapids, MI/Muskegeon, MI 66/232 WCLK-FM 91.9 Atlanta, GA 11 Airplay of all stations, except as noted, is monitored by Mediaguide. WCMU/WUCX-FM 89.5/90.1 Mount Pleasant – Saginaw/Bay City/Midland, MI 131 WCPN-FM 90.3 Cleveland, OH 25 To apply to become a member of a station panel, email WDCB-FM* 90.9 Chicago, IL 3 [email protected] WDET-FM 101.9 Detroit, MI 10 *Denotes station not monitored by Mediaguide. Station submits a weekly airplay report. WDNA-FM 88.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 †Repeats KXJZ WDUQ-FM 90.5 Pittsburgh, PA 23 ††Repeats WTEB for a portion of its programming WEAA-FM 88.9 Baltimore, MD 20 ††† New Orleans Mediaguide monitoring is offline. WEMU-FM* 89.1 Ypsilanti, MI 10 Mediaguide has ended monitoring XM and it will be dropped next week. jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 21 Smooth Jazz Radio

Benson and Jarreau Tops Charts Norah Jones’ “Thinking About You” Has Biggest Spincrease

t the top of the singles chart is George Benson’s “Morn- ing” from his Concord CD with Al Jarreau, Givin’ It Up. AThe CD tops this week’s album chart. Seeing the biggest increase in spins was Not Too Late (Blue Note), the forthcoming CD from Norah Jones, with airplay for “Thinking About You” up by 71 spins. The single and album both moved up to No. 24. Kenny G’s “You’re Beautiful” (Arista) had the most adds, +8. A reminder: Mediaguide is capping albums at 78 weeks and singles at 52 weeks before they move to recurrent. Album Chart No. 1: George Benson and Al Jarreau, Givin’ It Up (Concord)

Singles Chart No. 1: George Benson, Most Added: Kenny G, “You’re Beautiful” Spincrease: Norah Jones, “Thinking “Morning” (Concord) (Arista) About You” (Blue Note)

Smooth Album Chart p. 23 Smooth Currents p. 25 Smooth Singles Chart p. 24 Smooth Radio Panel p. 26

jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 22 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Album Chart Dec. 11, 2006 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 2 2 1 George Benson & Al Jarreau Givin’ It Up Concord 530 526 4 16 27 0 2 1 1 1 Boney James Shine Concord 519 527 -8 16 28 0 3 3 3 2 Pieces Of A Dream Pillow Talk Heads Up 420 444 -24 41 27 0 4 4 4 1 The Jazzmasters The Jazzmasters V Trippin ’N’ Rhythm 411 398 13 24 26 0 5 6 7 5 Marion Meadows Dressed To Chill Heads Up 396 381 15 33 27 0 6 5 5 1 Mindi Abair Life Less Ordinary GRP/UMG/Verve 377 387 -10 37 25 0 7 8 6 5 Eric Darius Just Getting Started Narada Jazz/Virgin 356 340 16 40 24 0 8 7 8 7 David Benoit Full Circle Peak/Concord 343 340 3 27 25 0 9 11 9 9 India.Arie Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship Motown 295 260 35 12 28 1 10 9 14 4 Wayman Tisdale Way Up! Rendezvous 278 285 -7 35 26 0 11 12 23 11 Various Artists Forever For Always For Luther II Rendezvous 265 250 15 3 24 1 12 10 10 9 Lionel Richie Coming Home Island 251 273 -22 20 24 0 13 14 16 13 The Philippe Saisse Trio The Body And Soul Sessions G & N/Rendezvous 250 243 7 18 25 0 14 13 12 12 Aaron Neville Bring It On Home... The Soul Classics Bergundy 242 244 -2 12 24 0 15 17 13 1 Peter White Playin’ Favorites Columbia 226 209 17 27 25 0 16 16 17 4 Nick Colionne Keepin’ It Cool Narada 221 213 8 35 24 0 17 18 19 17 Michael Lington A Song For You Rendezvous 211 196 15 15 19 0 18 15 11 6 Fourplay Fourplay X RCA 208 242 -34 24 25 0 19 19 15 11 Ray Parker, Jr. I’m Free Raydio 197 189 8 35 22 0 20 20 18 8 Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae Capitol 171 178 -7 29 16 0 21 21 22 18 Jim Brickman Escape SLG 167 171 -4 12 17 2 22 23 21 20 Lee Ritenour Smoke ’N’ Mirrors I.E./Peak 158 140 18 18 16 1 23 25 79 23 Kenny G I’m In The Mood For Love...The Most Arista 150 108 42 3 18 5 Romantic Melodies Of All Time 24 35 NR 24 Norah Jones Not Too Late Blue Note 138 67 71 2 18 11 25 24 24 23 Natalie Cole Leavin’ Verve 135 116 19 13 12 0 26 22 20 12 Rick Braun Yours Truly Artizen 122 157 -35 31 22 0 27 26 26 22 David Pack The Secret of Movin’ On Peak/Concord 98 108 -10 6 19 0 28 27 27 26 Joyce Cooling Revolving Door Narada Jazz 86 102 -16 11 10 0 29 28 25 4 Ramsey Lewis With One Voice Narada 85 101 -16 36 17 0 30 31 30 30 Chuck Loeb Presence Heads Up 81 71 10 3 13 1 31 29 29 18 Chris Standring Soul Express Trippin ’N’ Rhythm/V2 80 79 1 36 11 0 32 32 45 32 Paolo Rustichelli Neopagan Next Age 76 69 7 3 8 0 33 30 28 17 Gerald Albright New Beginnings Peak/Concord 66 75 -9 44 11 0 34 38 31 28 Michael Franks Rendezvous In Rio Sleeping Gypsy/Koch 58 54 4 27 9 0 35 40 34 29 Bobby Lyle Hands On Heads Up 58 52 6 27 7 0 36 37 36 28 Oli Silk So Many Ways Trippin ’N’ Rhythm 56 59 -3 23 6 0 37 33 33 23 Everette Harp In The Moment Shanachie 53 68 -15 20 9 0 38 36 32 32 Doc Powell Doc Powell DPR/Heads Up 52 60 -8 19 5 0 39 34 35 30 Dave Koz At The Movies Capitol 52 68 -16 6 9 0 40 39 37 32 Janita Seasons of Life Lightyear 51 53 -2 35 10 0 41 52 40 40 Steve Cole TRUENarada Jazz 49 31 18 4 13 2 42 43 39 15 Boz Scaggs Fade Into Light Virgin/EMI 48 48 0 55 15 0 43 44 42 32 The Rippingtons 20th Anniversary Peak 47 45 2 19 4 0 44 41 38 26 Dan Siegel Departure Native Language 47 51 -4 24 8 1 45 46 41 39 Michael Manson Just Feelin’ It 215 41 40 1 9 5 0 46 42 43 24 Jason Miles What’s Going On? Virgin/Narada Jazz 40 49 -9 38 8 0 47 50 65 47 Chris Botti Chris Botti - Live: With Orchestra And Sony 38 35 3 3 3 0 Special Guests 48 62 44 44 Kyle Eastwood Now Candid/Rendezvous 37 24 13 4 12 1 49 47 48 34 Greg Adams Cool To The Touch Ripa 37 40 -3 12 5 0 50 48 73 48 Lin Rountree Groovetree Nu Millenium 36 39 -3 3 4 0

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Norah Jones Not Too Late (Blue Note) +11 Norah Jones Not Too Late (Blue Note) +71 Gil Parris Strength (215) Kenny G I’m In The Mood For Love...The Most Kenny G I’m In The Mood For Love...The Most Romantic Lafayette Harris Jr. In The Middle Of The Night (Airmen) Konstantin Klashtorni Led By You (KVK) Romantic Melodies Of All Time (Arista) +5 Melodies Of All Time (Arista) +42 O’2L Doyle’s Brunch (Peak) Jim Brickman Escape (SLG) +2 India.Arie Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship Phil Perry Classic Love Songs (Shanachie) Steve Cole TRUE (Narada Jazz) +2 (Motown) +35 Maysa Sweet Classic Soul (Shanachie) Eric Marienthal Got You Covered (Peak) Patrick Yandall Samoa Soul (Zangi) +2 Natalie Cole Leavin’ (Verve) +19 Will Downing Soul Symphony (Verve/UMG) (7 more at +1) Lee Ritenour Smoke ’N’ Mirrors (I.E./Peak) +18 Larry Gittens T-Voyce (Human Feel) Steve Cole TRUE (Narada Jazz) +18 George Nardello Pure Sax (Westtown) jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2006 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 23 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Singles Chart Dec. 11, 2006 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 2 1 George Benson Morning Concord 522 523 -1 16 27 0 2 2 1 1 Boney James The Total Experience (w/ George Duke) Concord 503 519 -16 16 27 0 3 4 3 1 The Jazzmasters Free As The Wind Trippin ’N’ Rhythm 411 398 13 23 26 0 4 3 4 3 Pieces Of A Dream Forward Emotion Heads Up 401 426 -25 36 27 0 5 5 5 5 Marion Meadows Dressed To Chill Heads Up 394 379 15 32 26 0 6 6 6 5 David Benoit Beat Street Peak/Concord 343 340 3 27 25 0 7 8 7 7 India.Arie The Heart Of The Matter Motown 294 260 34 12 27 1 8 9 24 8 Kirk Whalum Give Me The Reason Rendezvous 265 250 15 3 24 1 9 10 14 9 Gregg Karukas Girl In The Red Dress V2 257 243 14 18 21 1 10 7 8 7 Lionel Richie I Call It Love Island 251 273 -22 20 24 0 11 12 15 11 Mindi Abair Bloom GRP/UMG/Verve 232 232 0 31 25 1 12 15 13 11 Eric Darius If I Ain’t Got You Narada Jazz/Virgin 223 211 12 34 22 0 13 14 16 13 Brian Simpson Saturday Cool Rendezvous 222 213 9 35 21 0 14 17 17 14 Richard Elliot Say It’s So Artizen 213 198 15 28 25 3 15 18 18 15 Michael Lington It’s Too Late Rendezvous 211 196 15 15 19 0 16 11 9 5 Fourplay My Love’s Leavin’ (w/ Michael McDonald) RCA 208 242 -34 23 25 0 17 16 10 1 Peter White What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) Columbia 205 209 -4 27 25 0 18 13 11 11 Aaron Neville It’s All Right Bergundy 204 216 -12 12 23 0 19 19 12 9 Ray Parker, Jr. Mismaloya Beach Raydio 197 189 8 35 22 0 20 21 19 3 Euge Groove Chillaxin’ Narada Jazz 183 170 13 38 25 0 21 20 25 20 Jim Brickman Escape (w/ Marc Antoine) SLG 166 171 -5 12 17 2 22 22 26 22 Wayman Tisdale Way Up Rendezvous 154 161 -7 18 17 0 23 23 21 4 Nick Colionne Always Thinking Of You Narada 153 141 12 35 21 0 24 40 106 24 Norah Jones Thinking About You Blue Note 138 67 71 3 18 11 25 26 28 25 Natalie Cole Day Dreaming Verve 135 115 20 13 12 0 26 30 31 1 Brian Culbertson Let’s Get Started GRP/Verve 133 108 25 49 26 0 27 32 116 27 Kenny G You’re Beautiful Arista 128 97 31 3 17 5 28 29 29 28 The Philippe Saisse Trio Lovely Day G & N/Rendezvous 118 110 8 14 10 1 29 27 27 1 The Philippe Saisse Trio Do It Again G & N/Rendezvous 117 115 2 38 24 0 30 25 22 8 Corinne Bailey Rae Put Your Records On Capitol 116 117 -1 29 15 0 31 24 23 3 Wayman Tisdale Get Down On It Rendezvous 111 124 -13 35 21 0 32 28 20 1 Mindi Abair True Blue GRP/UMG/Verve 107 113 -6 37 21 0 33 31 30 4 Ramsey Lewis Oh Happy Day Narada 85 101 -16 36 17 0 34 37 36 34 Chuck Loeb Good To Go Heads Up 81 71 10 5 13 1 35 35 33 14 Chris Standring I Can’t Help Myself Trippin ’N’ Rhythm/V2 80 79 1 36 11 0 36 38 49 36 Paolo Rustichelli My Geisha Next Age 76 69 7 3 8 0 37 34 32 32 Joyce Cooling Mildred’s Attraction Narada Jazz 72 81 -9 11 8 0 38 33 34 27 David Pack Biggest Part Of Me Peak/Concord 72 84 -12 6 16 0 39 36 35 28 Nils Georgy Porgy Baja 72 73 -1 16 6 0 40 41 40 40 Lee Ritenour Forget Me Nots I.E./Peak 70 62 8 13 8 2 41 47 48 41 Eric Darius Slick Narada Jazz/Virgin 57 50 7 13 3 0 42 43 39 28 Oli Silk Easy Does It Trippin ’N’ Rhythm 56 59 -3 23 6 0 43 46 37 33 Bobby Lyle Passion Drive Heads Up 56 51 5 27 7 0 44 39 38 35 Dave Koz It Might Be You Capitol 52 68 -16 6 9 0 45 42 45 42 Corinne Bailey Rae Like A Star Capitol 51 61 -10 9 6 0 46 63 43 43 Steve Cole TRUENarada Jazz 49 31 18 4 13 2 47 44 53 44 Nick Colionne If You Ask Me Narada 49 53 -4 7 6 0 48 49 44 37 The Rippingtons Bingo Jingo Peak 47 45 2 19 4 0 49 45 41 29 Dan Siegel Street Talk Native Language 47 51 -4 28 8 1 50 50 42 25 Eric Darius Chillin’ Out Narada Jazz/Virgin 43 43 0 38 5 0

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Kenny G “You’re Beautiful” (Arista) +8 Norah Jones “Thinking About You” (Blue Note) +71 Aaron Neville “Rainy Night In Georgia (w/ Chris Botti)” (Bergundy) Chris Botti “The Look Of Love (w/ Paula Cole)” (Sony) Norah Jones “Thinking About You” (Blue Note) +5 India.Arie “The Heart Of The Matter” (Motown) +34 Kyle Eastwood “Now” (Candid/Rendezvous) Kyle Eastwood “Now” (Candid/Rendezvous) +4 Kenny G “You’re Beautiful” (Arista) +31 Peter White “Mister Magic” (Columbia) Kirk Whalum “Give Me The Reason” (Rendezvous) +3 Brian Culbertson “Let’s Get Started” (GRP/Verve) +25 Konstantin Klashtorni “Back It Up” (KVK) Lafayette Harris Jr. “Saturday” (Airmen) Wayman Tisdale “Way Up” (Rendezvous) +2 Peter White “Mister Magic” (Columbia) +21 Richard Bona “Please Don’t Stop (w/ John Legend)” (Decca) Paolo Rustichelli “My Geisha” (Next Age) +2 Natalie Cole “Day Dreaming” (Verve) +20 Gil Parris “Strength” (215) Black Gold Massive “Let It Flow” (USA) Paul Hardcastle “Smooth Jazz Is Bumpin’ (w/ Maxine Hardcastle)” (Trippin ’N’ Rhythm) jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2006 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 24 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Tracks

2AZZ1 Q’d Up Self-Released Jack Prybylski 3 Cats SuShan Aaron Neville It’s All Right Bergundy Jack Prybylski Bright Spot (w/ Ken Navarro) SuShan Aaron Neville Rainy Night In Georgia (w/ Chris Bergundy Janita Enjoy The Silence Lightyear Botti) Janita I Miss You Lightyear Alan Hewitt Joyride 215 Jason Miles I Heard It Through The Grapevine Virgin/Narada Jazz Althea Rene In The Moment Chocolate Caramel/Alliant Jason Miles Sexual Healing Virgin/Narada Jazz Andy Snitzer Passion Play Native Language Javon Jackson Where Is The Love (w/ Lisa Fischer) Palmetto Black Gold Massive Let It Flow USA Jeff Golub Cream And Sugar Narada Jazz Bob Baldwin All In A Days Work 215 Jill Jenson Sunshine Away Bai Mai Bob James Choose Me Tappan Zee/Koch Jim Brickman Escape (w/ Marc Antoine) SLG Bob James Lay Down With You Tappan Zee/Koch John Legend Save Room G.O.O.D./Columbia Bobby Lyle Passion Drive Heads Up Jonathan Butler Mandela Bay Rendezvous Boday Six To Twelve Sound Knowledge Joyce Cooling At The Modern Narada Jazz Boney James Aquas De Marco (Waters Of March) Concord Joyce Cooling Mildred’s Attraction Narada Jazz Boney James Let It Go Concord Joyce Cooling Revolving Door Narada Jazz Boney James Shine Concord Ken Navarro Stoned Soul Picnic Positive Music Boney James The Total Experience (w/ George Concord Kenny G The Shadow Of Your Smile Arista Duke) Kenny G You’re Beautiful Arista Bradley Leighton What You Gonna Say (w/ Jason Pacific Coast Jazz Kim Waters Dream Machine Shanachie Miles) Brian Culbertson Let’s Get Started GRP/Verve Kim Waters Hot Tub Shanachie Brian Simpson Saturday Cool Rendezvous Kirk Whalum For The Cool In You Rendezvous Briza Splashdown Gemini Sun Kirk Whalum Give Me The Reason Rendezvous Cassandra Wilson Go To Mexico Blue Note Kirk Whalum Someone To Love Rendezvous Chris Botti Let There Be Love (w/ Michael Columbia Kirk Whalum Wey U Rendezvous Buble) Konstantin Klashtorni Back It Up KVK Chris Botti The Look Of Love (w/ Paula Cole) Sony Kyle Eastwood I Can’t Remember Candid/Rendezvous Chris Standring I Can’t Help Myself Trippin ’N’ Rhythm/V2 Kyle Eastwood Now Candid/Rendezvous Chuck Loeb Good To Go Heads Up Lafayette Harris Jr. Honeylike Airmen Corinne Bailey Rae Like A Star Capitol Lafayette Harris Jr. Saturday Airmen Corinne Bailey Rae Put Your Records On Capitol Larry Gittens Too Hot Human Feel Corinne Bailey Rae Trouble Sleeping Capitol Lee Ritenour Blue Days (Dias Azuis) I.E./Peak Dan Siegel Street Talk Native Language Lee Ritenour Capetown I.E./Peak Danny Federici Miss You V2 Lee Ritenour Forget Me Nots I.E./Peak Dave Koz It Might Be You Capitol Lee Ritenour Lovely Day I.E./Peak David Benoit Beat Street Peak/Concord Lee Ritenour Motherland I.E./Peak David Boswell Simple Life My Quiet Moon Lee Ritenour Povo I.E./Peak David Pack Biggest Part Of Me Peak/Concord Lee Ritenour Smoke N’ Mirrors I.E./Peak D-For Sunrise Self-Released Lee Ritenour Southwest Passage I.E./Peak Doc Powell Cab Ride DPR/Heads Up Lee Ritenour Spellbinder I.E./Peak Doc Powell Circumstances DPR/Heads Up Lee Ritenour Township I.E./Peak Doc Powell It’s Too Late DPR/Heads Up Lee Ritenour Waters Edge I.E./Peak Doc Powell Me, Myself & Rio DPR/Heads Up Lin Rountree Candy Nu Millenium Earth, Wind & Fire To You (w/ Brian McKnight) Sanctuary Lionel Richie I Call It Love Island Eric Darius Chillin’ Out Narada Jazz/Virgin Luther Vandross Shine J Eric Darius If I Ain’t Got You Narada Jazz/Virgin Main Gazane Naima Apria Eric Darius Slick Narada Jazz/Virgin Marilyn Scott Share It Prana/Mailboat Eric Darius Steppin’ Up Narada Jazz/Virgin Marion Meadows Dressed To Chill Heads Up Eric Marienthal New York State Of Mind Peak Mark Cassara Je Vous Aime Rhombus Euge Groove Chillaxin’ Narada Jazz Mark Hollingsworth On The Mark Windshore Everette Harp Just As You Are Shanachie Maysa Love Comes Easy Shanachie Everette Harp Monday Speaks (w/ Norman Brown) Shanachie Maysa Wishing On A Star Shanachie Fourplay My Love’s Leavin’ (w/ Michael RCA Michael Franks Rendezvous In Rio Sleeping Gypsy/Koch McDonald) Gene Dunlap Forgiveness (w/ Everette Harp) 215 Michael Franks Samba Do Soho Sleeping Gypsy/Koch George Benson Morning Concord Michael Franks The Chemistry Of Love Sleeping Gypsy/Koch George Benson & Al Jarreau Let It Rain Concord Michael Franks The Cool School Sleeping Gypsy/Koch George Nardello All I Wanna Do Westtown Michael Franks The Question Is Why Sleeping Gypsy/Koch Gerald Albright Big Shoes Peak/Concord Michael Franks Under The Sun Sleeping Gypsy/Koch Gerald Albright Deep Into My Soul Peak/Concord Michael Lington It’s Too Late Rendezvous Gerald Albright Georgia On My Mind Peak/Concord Michael Manson Just Feelin’ It 215 Gerald Albright New Beginnings Peak/Concord Miki Howard Inseparable Shanachie Gerald Albright We Got The Groove Peak/Concord Mindi Abair Bloom GRP/UMG/Verve Gil Parris Jazz Night Out 215 Mindi Abair Do You Miss Me? GRP/UMG/Verve Gil Parris Strength 215 Mindi Abair Far Away GRP/UMG/Verve Gnarls Barkley Crazy Downtown/Atlantic Mindi Abair It Must Be Love GRP/UMG/Verve Greg Adams Felix The Cat Ripa Mindi Abair Long Ride Home GRP/UMG/Verve Greg Adams If I Ever Lose My Faith In You Ripa Mindi Abair Rain GRP/UMG/Verve Gregg Karukas Girl In The Red Dress V2 Mindi Abair True Blue GRP/UMG/Verve Horace Alexander Young So Special Design Najee 3:00 AM Heads Up India.Arie The Heart Of The Matter Motown Natalie Cole Day Dreaming Verve jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 25 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Tracks

Nelson Rangell City Lights Koch Nelson Rangell Free As The Wind Koch Smooth Station Panel Nestor Torres House Call Heads Up Call letters Frequency Market Rank Nick Colionne Always Thinking Of You Narada KABQ-FM 104.1 Albuquerque, NM 71 Nick Colionne If You Ask Me Narada KAJZ-FM 101.7 Albuquerque, NM 71 Nick Colionne Liquid Narada KBZN-FM 97.9 Salt Lake City - Ogden - Provo, UT 31 Nils Georgy Porgy Baja Norah Jones Thinking About You Blue Note KHJZ-FM 95.7 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 O’2L Riders On The Storm Peak KIFM-FM 98.1 San Diego, CA 17 Oli Silk Easy Does It Trippin ’N’ Rhythm KJCD-FM 104.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 Pamela Williams Positive Vibe Shanachie KJZY-FM 93.7 San Francisco, CA 4 Paolo Rustichelli My Geisha Next Age KKSF-FM 103.7 San Francisco, CA 4 Patrick Yandall Samoa Soul Zangi KKSJ/KTSJ-FM 105.9 Lafayette, LA 102 Patrick Yandall Smile For Today Zangi Paul Brown Cosmic Monkey GRP/Verve KLJT-FM 102.3 Tyler-Longview, TX 148 Paul Hardcastle Smooth Jazz Is Bumpin’ (w/ Maxine Trippin ’N’ Rhythm KMGQ-FM 97.5 Santa Barbara, CA 204 Hardcastle) KOAI-FM 107.5 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 Peter White Mister Magic Columbia Peter White What Does It Take (To Win Your Columbia KOAS-FM 105.7 Las Vegas, NV 38 Love) KRVR-FM 105.5 Stockton, CA 82 Phil Perry Hello Shanachie KSKX-FM 105.5 Colorado Springs, CO 97 Pieces Of A Dream Forward Emotion Heads Up Pieces Of A Dream Wake Up Call Heads Up KSMJ-FM 97.7 Bakersfield, CA 83 Praful Moon Glide Rendezvous/Therapy KSSJ-FM 94.7 Sacramento, CA 26 Ramsey Lewis Oh Happy Day Narada KTWV-FM 94.7 Los Angeles, CA 2 Ray Parker, Jr. Mismaloya Beach Raydio KWJZ-FM 98.9 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 Ricardo Scales Nice & Easy Bay Sound KYOT-FM 95.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 Richard Bona Please Don’t Stop (w/ John Legend) Decca WBRH-FM 90.3 Baton Rouge, LA 84 Richard Elliot Say It’s So Artizen Rick Braun Groove Is In The Heart Artizen WEIB-FM 106.3 Hartford - New Britain - Middletown, CT 50 Rick Braun Walk On The Wild Side Artizen WFJZ-FM 106.7 Ft. Wayne, IN 105 Shilts Look What’s Happened Artizen WFSK-FM 88.1 Nashville, TN 44 Smokey Robinson Love Is Here To Stay New Door/UMG WGPR-FM 107.5 Detroit, MI 10 Soul Providers Encore Fast Life WJAB-FM 90.9 Huntsville, AL 116 Spyro Gyra Lil’ Mono Heads Up Spyro Gyra Spyro Time Heads Up WJJZ-FM 95.5 Trenton, NJ 141 Spyro Gyra The Lowdown Heads Up WJSJ/WSJF-FM 105.5 Jacksonville, FL 49 Spyro Gyra The Voodooyoodoo Heads Up WJZA/WJZK-FM 103.5 Columbus, OH 35 Spyro Gyra Walkin’ Home Heads Up WJZI-FM 93.3 Milwaukee - Racine, WI 32 Spyro Gyra Wrapped In A Dream Heads Up WJZL/WJZO-FM 93.1 Louisville, KY 55 Steve Cole TRUENarada Jazz WJZR-FM 105.9 Rochester, NY 54 Steve Oliver Good To Go Koch Steve Oliver Tradewinds Koch WJZW-FM 105.9 Washington, DC 8 Steve Tyrell He’s A Tramp Walt Disney WJZZ-FM 107.5 Atlanta, GA 11 Steve Tyrell Once Upon A Dream Walt Disney WLOQ-FM 103.1 Orlando, FL 39 Steve Tyrell When She Loved Me Walt Disney WLVE-FM 93.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 Steve Tyrell When You Wish Upon A Star (w/ Walt Disney WNUA-FM 95.5 Chicago, IL 3 Chris Botti) Steve Tyrell You’ll Be In My Heart (w/ Dave Koz) Walt Disney WNWV-FM 107.3 Cleveland, OH 25 Steve Tyrell You’ve Got A Friend In Me (w/ Dr. Walt Disney WQCD-FM 101.9 New York, NY 1 John) The Jazzmasters Free As The Wind Trippin ’N’ Rhythm WRMU-FM 91.1 Alliance, OH (Canton, OH) 128 The Philippe Saisse Trio Do It Again G & N/Rendezvous WSJT-FM 94.1 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 The Philippe Saisse Trio Fire And Rain G & N/Rendezvous WSJW-FM 92.7 Harrisburg - Lebanon - Carlisle, PA 80 The Philippe Saisse Trio Lovely Day G & N/Rendezvous WSMJ-FM 104.3 Baltimore, MD 20 The Rippingtons Bingo Jingo Peak WVAS-FM 90.7 Montgomery, AL 152 Turning Point Cruise Control Native Language Ultrablue Guilty Pleasures 215 WVMV-FM 98.7 Detroit, MI 10 Ultrablue Shiver 215 WVSU-FM 91.1 Birmingham, AL 57 Urban Jazz Coalition Back In The ‘Ville Major 6th WXJZ-FM 100.9 Gainesville - Ocala, FL 87 Vanessa Williams Show And Tell Lava WYJZ-FM 100.9 Indianapolis, IN 41 Warren Hill Low Rider Pop Jazz/Native Language Wayman Tisdale Get Down On It Rendezvous Wayman Tisdale It’s A Good Day (w/ Jeff Lorber & Rendezvous Tom Braxton) Wayman Tisdale Way Up Rendezvous Airplay of all stations is monitored by Mediaguide. Will Donato Winter Walkin’ (Winter Wonderland) Generation To apply to become a member of a station panel, email Will Downing Superstar Verve/UMG [email protected] William Woods Under My Skin Qantar/Whaling City Sound William Woods Whadja Expect? Whaling City Sound jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 26 World Music Radio

Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Again #1 Electric Gypsyland 2 Is Most Added

opping the World Music Chart this week for a fourth straight week is the ArtistShare Latin jazz release from Brian Lynch Tand Eddie Palmieri, Simpatíco. The week’s most added is Crammed Disc’s compilation Electric Gypsyland 2 with 22 adds. The biggest increase in spins was for Putu- mayo’s One World, Many Cultures collection at +81. No releases made a debut on the chart this week. The World Music Panel is now available as an Industry Panel selection through Mediaguide’s Music Monitor. Note: World releases are now limited to 26 weeks as currents; they will still be tracked by Mediaguide but not reported here. World Music No. 1: The Brian Lynch/Ed- die Palmieri Project, Simpatíco (Artist- Share)

Most Added: Various Artists, Electric Increased Airplay: Various Artists, Seri- Gypsyland 2 (Crammed Discs) ous Times (Ghetto Arc/XLl)

World Album Chart p. 28

jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 27 airplay data JazzWeek World Music Albums Dec. 11, 2006 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project Simpatico ArtistShare 164 162 2 11 53 0 2 11 8 2 Various Artists One World, Many Cultures Putumayo 141 60 81 6 43 15 3 2 2 1 Brazilian Girls Talk To La Bomb Verve Forecast 141 134 7 14 49 6 4 9 NR 4 Various Artists Electric Gypsyland 2 Crammed Discs 139 71 68 2 63 22 5 3 3 3 Various Artists Rhythms Del Mundo: Cuba Hip-O/Universal 117 114 3 4 47 8 6 4 6 4 Rodrigo & Gabriela Rodrigo & Gabriela ATO 87 94 -7 12 29 5 7 5 4 1 Eliane Elias Around The City Bluebird/RCA Victor 81 88 -7 17 30 0 8 34 14 8 Nilson Matta Walking With My Bass Blue Toucan 63 28 35 11 18 4 9 10 5 4 Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars Living Like A Refugee ANTI- 60 66 -6 10 28 1 10 8 17 8 Forro In The Dark Bonfires Of Sao Joao Nublu 57 73 -16 3 28 4 11 19 11 5 Easy Star All-Stars Radiodread Easy Star 55 39 16 17 32 2 12 7 50 7 Various Artists Serious Times Ghetto Arc/XL 54 74 -20 5 28 1 13 18 7 1 Various Artists Acoustic Africa Putumayo 50 42 8 16 28 3 14 NR NR 5 Chembo Corniel & Andrea Brachfeld Beyond Standards Consolidated Artists 45 3 42 21 23 0 15 38 44 15 Buju Banton Too Bad Gargamel 44 23 21 10 25 3 16 16 15 6 Caribbean Jazz Project Mosaic Concord Picante 42 46 -4 12 20 1 17 13 9 2 Ray Barretto Standards Rican-ditioned Zoho 41 54 -13 18 20 0 18 17 16 4 Ziggy Marley Love Is My Religion Tuff Gong 40 45 -5 23 19 0 19 41 28 16 Mayra Casales Woman On Fire - Mujer Ardiente Afrasia 39 21 18 10 20 5 20 36 35 14 Los Amigos Invisibles Superpop Venezuela Gozadera 39 27 12 18 29 1 21 24 10 10 Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Panic In Babylon Narnack 37 34 3 4 22 7 22 33 52 22 Urban Legend Tranquilidad Cubana [EP] Blind Lemon 36 28 8 3 16 7 23 14 25 14 Nakai Reconnections Canyon 36 51 -15 6 22 2 24 26 24 24 The Idan Raichel Project The Idan Raichel Project Cumbancha 35 31 4 6 24 12 25 63 72 25 Tarrus Riley Parables VP 34 14 20 3 17 10 26 20 30 8 Laika Fatien Look At Me Now! Body & Soul 34 39 -5 15 13 1 27 22 36 22 Rihanna A Girl Like Me SRP/Def Jam 34 36 -2 3 6 0 28 40 46 28 The Paul Carlon Octet Other Tongues Deep Tone 33 21 12 6 18 4 29 37 32 25 HD2 Songs From The Last Century Blue Toucan 33 24 9 11 15 1 30 44 27 1 Jose Gonzalez Veneer Hidden Agenda/Impe- 33 20 13 17 20 1 rial/Mute 31 31 19 5 Various Artists Blues Around The World Putumayo 31 29 2 21 16 0 32 58 26 4 Novalima Afro Mr. Bongo/Quango 28 16 12 16 18 1 33 25 37 25 Various Artists Babel [Original Sountrack] Concord 27 32 -5 3 21 9 34 79 75 11 Sizzla Waterhouse Redemption Greensleeves 27 11 16 18 14 0 35 48 NR 35 Various Artists Riddim Driven: Gully Slime Natural Bridge/VP 25 18 7 5 12 4 36 23 51 2 Ali Farka Toure Savane World Circuit/Nonesuch 25 35 -10 19 19 3 37 39 40 3 Tania Maria Intimidade Bel Horizon/Blue Note 25 22 3 18 20 0 38 42 34 1 Marisa Monte Universo Ao Meu Redor Metro Blue/Blue Note 24 20 4 12 19 2 39 6 21 6 Elin Lazy Afternoon Blue Toucan 24 81 -57 15 17 0 40 50 49 37 Collie Buddz Collie Buddz Sony Urban/Epic 21 17 4 14 14 0 41 15 61 15 Nickodemus Endangered Species Wonderwheel/ESL 21 50 -29 4 10 2 42 35 31 2 Marisa Monte Infinito Particular Metro Blue 21 27 -6 12 13 3 43 52 39 39 Roger Robin Take It Slow VP 21 17 4 12 14 3 44 60 43 43 Gyptian My Name Is Gyptian VP 20 15 5 10 17 1 45 61 67 34 Various Artists Riddim Driven: Dem Time Deh Legends/VP 20 15 5 13 11 1 46 28 33 1 Esperanza Spalding Junjo Ayva 20 31 -11 18 10 0 47 51 42 42 Various Artists The Biggest Ragga Dancehall Anthems 2006 Greensleeves 19 17 2 4 7 0 48 49 53 46 Various Artists The Biggest Reggae One-Drop Anthems Zest/Greensleeves 19 18 1 6 13 2 2006 49 77 NR 15 Various Artists Italian Cafe Putumayo 19 12 7 17 9 0 50 29 41 23 Tanya Stephens Rebelution VP 18 30 -12 18 13 0

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Various Artists Electric Gypsyland 2 (Crammed Discs) +22 Various Artists One World, Many Cultures (Putumayo) +81 Various Artists Old Skool Riddim (FiWi) Various Artists One World, Many Cultures (Putumayo) +15 Various Artists Electric Gypsyland 2 (Crammed Discs) +68 Sizzla The Overstanding (Damon Dash Music Group/Koch) The Idan Raichel Project The Idan Raichel Project Chembo Corniel & Andrea Brachfeld Beyond Standards Mexican Institute Of Sound Mejico Maxico (Nacional) Various Artists Confessions Riddim (Juke Boxx) (Cumbancha) +12 (Consolidated Artists) +42 Daville On My Mind [Single] (Fashozy Records) Tarrus Riley Parables (VP) +10 Nilson Matta Walking With My Bass (Blue Toucan) +35 Various Artists Lovebird Riddim (Irie Vibrations) Various Artists Babel [Original Sountrack] (Concord) +9 Buju Banton Too Bad (Gargamel) +21 K-Salaam The World Is Ours (Shining Star) Various Artists Rhythms Del Mundo: Cuba (Hip-O/Universal) +8 Tarrus Riley Parables (VP) +20 Various Artists Reggae Hits 35 (Jet Star) Various Artists Poison Gas Riddim (Ethiopian Taste/Fingas) Cham Ghetto Story (Madhouse/Atlantic) jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2006 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 28 Sounds of the Holidays

by Tom Mallison

ecember kicks off my season of music from Bah, HumDuck. One of the some of the Friends playing solo. playing Christmas jazz on the good listens for this year is The Har- Some of my favorites from years in Dradio. It is something I have lem Nutcracker by David Berger and the past include McCoy Tyner’s “I’ll Be shared with our listeners for many the Sultans of Swing. Home for Christmas,” Arthur Blythe’s years. It is one of the most spiritual Notable releases in recent years “The Christmas Song,” and Dex- times of the year as so many ter Gordon’s “Have Yourself A artists put themselves into Merry Little Christmas.” Other their arrangements and solos favorites include Nat King Cole, of the many selections we have Mel Torme, Lou Rawls, Ma- traditionally enjoyed since halia Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, childhood. It has never been a Stan Kenton, Vince Guaraldi, black or white category when it David Benoit, Danny Gottlieb/ comes to playing this wonder- Pete Levin, Doc Severinsen, Al ful music. I am the first to ad- Gray, Etta Jones with Houston mit there is a large grey zone Person, and Al Jarreau. I contin- and to me the listeners just en- ue to program Ray Charles with joy and appreciate the music. Betty Carter doing “Baby its Too often we in radio get hung Cold Outside.” In recent years I up on genres and definitions have featured the greats on piano when all the listeners really such as Oscar Peterson, George care about is what they hear in Shearing, Dave Brubeck, Vince the moment and how it relates Diane Delin’s Offerings For A Peaceable Season (BluJazz) Guaraldi, David Benoit, Mar- to the previous selection the is one of several notable 2006 releases. ian McPartland, Marcus Rob- up coming selection. To me it erts and Pete Jolly. Verve/GRP/ is all about programming and keeping were from Hiroshima, The Yellowjack- Universal has their three early releases a good flow of selections. I truly appre- ets, Anton Schwartz, Royce Camp- on GRP as well as the Traditional and ciate the compilations since they offer bell and a great reissue from Ramsey Contemporary compilations of holiday the diversity that helps in program- Lewis. I also enjoy Nat King Cole, music. Blue Note and RCA have great ming. Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett and compilations also, not to mention a A few of the notable releases for of course the Stan Kenton Orchestra. great CD by Dianne Reeves. I really 2006 include violinist Diane Delin on I have also just found a release from a like the Blue Note cover with Santa BluJazz, and quite a few new compi- couple of years ago by Jimmy McGriff Lundvall somewhat disguised and in- lations such as Jazz Yule Love II from doing holiday tunes. Recently I found side the cover in a different pose. The Mack Avenue, Christmas Break from on the Internet a great find in a three release by Chet Baker is a listener fa- Telarc, The Boston Brass playing Stan CD set from NPR that is entitled An vorite as is the CD from Don Lam- Kenton Christmas Carols on Summit, NPR Jazz Christmas featuring Mari- phere, and selections by the Modern as well as a release from The Air Force an McPartland and Friends. These are Jazz Quartet. From Canada, Justin Band with A Holiday Note from Home. three very classic CDs rendering vari- Time has several great compilations There is even a new release from Gor- ous Christmas and seasonal selections offering many artists that usually are don Goodwin’s Big Phat Band playing with Marian and Friends and also just not in the mainstream of radio ➤ jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 29 Sounds of the Holidays (continued from page 29)

programming. Concord has two great Verve CD along with Kenny Burrell Vince Guaraldi are great gifts espe- compilations along with releases from and Mahalia Jackson singing “O Holy cially for youngsters and enjoyed by Scott Hamilton, Rosemary Clooney, Night” mixed with John Coltrane’s ar- listeners of all ages. There are quite Rob McConnell, Dave McKenna and rangement of “Greensleeves.” You can a few great releases from Mannheim several others. MoJazz also joins the add a taste of Hank Crawford playing Steamroller that offer great sounds for club with a compilation of holiday se- the “The Christmas Song” and “Win- listeners looking for fantastic sound. lections. Warner Bros. has their share ter Wonderland” right along with Joe In a nutshell, it is a time of the year of releases including sever- when the music speaks loudest al compilations plus music and boundaries become skewed from Take Six, Boney James, so go ahead and treat your lis- FourPlay and Kirk Whalum. teners. You can mix the great Milestone-Fantasy-Presitge, sounds from the many Narada of course, has the clas- and Windham Hill compilations sic Vince Guaraldi “Charlie with all of these artists and have Brown Christmas” and two great sounds of the season. It is compilations of jazz masters like walking up to a musical buf- like Dexter Gordon, Bob- fet with all gourmet entrees. This by Timmons, Ruth Brown, music is so strong and has sur- Chet Baker, and Red Gar- vived hundreds of years so you land all swinging to the holi- can make it great for your listen- day sounds. From Germany ers. Just give them the opportu- there are two compilations of nity to hear these wonderful art- Nagel Heyer artists and a re- ists and you will probably pick lease from Randy Sandke all up many new listeners with a lit- diggin’ the opportunity to tle promotion and they will stick spread holiday cheer. with you after the holiday for the There are many other Mack Avenue’s Jazz Yule Love II is among the new compila- great sounds. great releases and I’ll just list tions for 2006. Happy listening. the names of the artist to jog your memory: Grover Wash- You can listen to ington, Jr, Dan Moretti, Joe Vincel- Williams and Mel Torme, Diana Krall TomtheJazzman every Sunday li, Ann Hampron Callaway, Wynton and Herb Alpert. There are great vo- night NOW on Public Radio East Marsalis, Eric Reed, Charlie Byrd, cal groups represented by Manhattan on the World Wide Web on your PC live each Sunday Evening from 6- Richard Stolzman, Celestial Naviga- Transfer, The Ritz, Beachfront Prop- 11 p.m. ET. Tom is programming tions, Peter Kater, Ottmar Liebert, erty, Rare Silk, Singers Unlimited and all Christmas Music each Sunday Cyrus Chestnut, Harry Connick, Jr., Take Six. Ray Brown has a great com- during December featuring Max Jazz Artists, Natalie Cole, Ray pilation from Telarc that features many most of the releases mentioned Charles, Don Coster, Booker T and vocalists that is great listening. Jimmy above and many more. Just go the MGs, Jimmy McGriff, Warren Smith’s Christmas CD on Verve is a to http://publicradioeast.org and Hill, Peter White, Paul Horn and real listener favorite. click on the left side to LISTEN. Paul Winter. These are only a few of If you enjoy piano jazz you can’t go Tom will try to answer your the great items on the Holiday Buffet. wrong with the holiday CDs from Os- questions if you send them to him at Step up and enjoy. car Peterson, Dave Brubeck, George [email protected] This time of the year allows for Shearing, and Marcus Roberts. Of the mixing of Jimmy Smith from his course, the Charlie Brown CDs by jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 30 Radio Q&A: Tom Mallison (continued from page 11)

you pay for a hotel room out of your own pocket when you can stay with me at my home or in a hotel when the company was paying for the room in the first place and there was not additional expense of the record company. One time after Gavin we drove up to visit with Neal Sapper in Sonoma. I remember one year after Gavin in San Francisco, Duke, Matt Hughes and I drove down the California coast to L.A. Matt visited music friends and I again stayed with Duke and his son’s family. We had a ball playing with the grandkids and teaching them how to use a new PC Duke had given them for Christmas. I remember Duke’s grandson telling me when I left that I could come back any time and play with him on his computer. Duke was a giving person. He and I often talked about there being two types of people: GIVERS and TAKERS. I believe we were so close because we both enjoyed giving. When was the last time you saw him? This was after a JazzTimes Convention that was held in New Jersey just outside on NYC in Excursus. After the convention Duke rode with me down to Washington, D.C. We met up with Vinny Valentino for dinner and stayed at the Watergate Ho- tel. We had this giant suite the label had booked and Duke was really ticked off they were spending all that money when they were cutting his allotment of CDs for Tom Mallison catches up with Dr. Billy Taylor in the exhibition hall at the 2006 IAJE radio promotion. The next morning Duke Conference in Manhattan. met up with Diana Krall for interviews at WDCU with Faunee Williams. That was the last time as I drove on to NC and he went back to NYC. As someone who’s finished with his day job, what keeps you working at radio when most others are hitting the golf course or downshifting into a less demanding schedule? First off, I do not consider it work though it does take up a considerable amount of my time each week. I have been programming jazz radio at the current station, Public Radio East, for over 21 years and in total for 45 years. It is in my DNA and my therapy. I like the interaction with listeners and for the most part they don’t even know who TomtheJazzman is other than a familiar voice on the radio. I believe you should retire to something rather than from something. Radio along with my other volunteer efforts along with two children and one grandson keep me pretty busy. Of course, as most know, I love to travel and always find some jazz along the way like going to NYC the week before Christmas and seeing David “Fathead” Newman and Chris Botti while in the city. There always seems to be some hot button I am working on that is pushing the envelope or outside the nine dots that keeps me on my toes and energized. JW jazzweek.com • December 11, 2006 JazzWeek 31 Closing Number Tomthejazzman’s Current Top 6 hile interviewing Tom Mallison for this week’s issue, Tad Hendrickson asked Tom for a list of Whis recent favorites. Here are his top 6, with a few honorable mentions. Pat Martino Remember: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery (Blue Note) Karrin Allyson Footprints (Concord)

Jaco Pastorius Big Band The Word Is Out (Heads Up)

Eldar Live At The Blue Note (Columbia)

David “Fathead” Newman Cityscape (HighNote)

Joe Locke/Geoﬀrey Keezer Group Live In Seattle (Origin)

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