JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • January 12, 2005 Volume 1, Number 8 • $7.95 In This Issue: NEA Jazz in the IAJE 2005 WRAP UP ISSUE Schools. 4 Verizon Funds NEA Jazz Masters. 6 Radio Track back at IAJE . 7 IAJE Round Up (Sort of) . 14 IAJE Snapshots . 17 Reviews and Picks. 19 Jazz Radio . 21 Smooth Jazz Radio. 28 Radio Panels. 35 More News . 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Dr. Lonnie Smith (1/7) Steve Turre (1/12) #1 Smooth Album – Various: For Luther #1 Smooth Single – Richard Elliot JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger Are you rested up yet? CONTRIBUTING EDITORS If you attended IAJE 2005 in Long Beach, you’re probably still trying Keith Zimmerman to catch up on sleep. With so much to do and so many folks to see, I don’t Kent Zimmerman know how you can be expected to cover everything. Tad Hendrickson It was great to see the return of the radio track; we’ve got a rundown CONTRIBUTING WRITER on what went on in those sessions, and we plan on helping IAJE make Tom Mallison those workshops even better in 2006. Included in that is coverage of the PHOTOGRAPHY “Legends of Radio” panel, and our session on radio airplay. Barry Solof Tad Hendrickson was on the go at IAJE, too. He has his own run- down of the conference, but slightly tongue in cheek. PUBLISHER Check out some of the photos from there, too. Tony Gasparre One of the most positive things to come from the conference was the ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre NEA/Jazz at Lincoln Center “NEA Jazz in the Schools” program. The (585) 235-4685 x3 or NEA will provide curricula and CD/DVD packages to schools, with fund- email: [email protected] ing from Verizon. That telecom giant is also funding another year of NEA SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: Jazz Masters. 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With the switch, look for us each Wednesday from now on. – Ed Trefzger, Editor AIRPLAY MONITORING BY Mediaguide 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. Suite 150 Berwyn, PA 19312 Published weekly by 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone: (585) 235-4685 fax: (585) 235-4685 [email protected] Copyright ©2005 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. jazzweek.com • January 12, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents January 12, 2005 News . 4 NEA, J@LC Team to Create ‘NEA Jazz in the Schools’ . 4 WZMR Drops Smooth Jazz for Country . 5 Jazz Returns to Airwaves of Athens, Ohio . 5 Verizon Foundation Continues NEA Jazz Masters Funding. 6 Radio Track Returns to IAJE 2005 . 7 McPartland Receives Honorary Doctorate at Berklee Ceremony . 9 6 Students Chosen From Across the Nation for Grammy Jazz Ensembles Program . 10 Dave Koz Leads Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert . 11 Christian McBride Joins Jazz Museum in Harlem as Co-Director . 11 Dr. Billy Taylor, Art Blakey, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael Honored. 12 Birthdays . 13 Features IAJE Round Up (Sort of) . 14 14 IAJE Snapshots . 17 Reviews and Picks . 19 Abram Wilson . 19 Darek Oles . 19 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra . 19 Editors’ Picks . 20 Jazz Charts . 21 Jazz Album Chart 1/7 . 22 Jazz Album Chart 1/12 . 24 21 Jazz Add Dates . 25 Jazz Current CDs . 26 Jazz Radio Panel . 35 Smooth Jazz Charts . 28 Smooth Album Chart 1/7 . 29 Smooth Singles Chart 1/7 . 30 Smooth Album Chart 1/12 . 32 Smooth Singles Chart 1/12 . 33 28 Smooth Current CDs . 34 Smooth Radio Panel . 35 Cover Photos by Dr. Jazz, Tom Mallison JazzWeek and Barry Solof Volume 1 Issue 8 jazzweek.com • January 12, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News NEA, J@LC Team to Create ‘NEA Jazz in the Schools’ LONG BEACH, Calif. – The Na- on literacy and education, technology tional Endowment for the Arts has and work force development, and do- announced the launch of NEA Jazz in mestic violence solutions. the Schools, an educational resource In his announcement, NEA for high school teachers of social stud- chairman Dana Gioia said, “The NEA ies, U.S. history, and music. The web- is committed to creating model pro- based curriculum and DVD instruc- grams of artistic excellence and broad tional kit explores jazz as an indigenous national reach, especially in the area of American art form and as a means to arts education. Following on the suc- understand American history. cess of our Shakespeare in American The announcement was made on Communities educational toolkit, we Friday, Jan. 7, at a press conference as look forward to providing high qual- part of the International Association ity, free materials to teachers to help for Jazz Education’s annual confer- them fill their classrooms with jazz ence. music and history.” NEA Jazz in the Schools is pro- In a video presentation following Ed Trefzger duced by Jazz at Lincoln Center and Gioia’s remarks, Jazz at Lincoln Cen- Patrick R. Gaston, president of the Verizon will include a teachers’ guide with five ter artistic director Wynton Marsalis Foundation, comments to the audience units featuring teacher tips, activities, said, “It’s our privilege to be working about the foundation’s grant of $100,000 to and assessment methods. Each kit also with the National Endowment for the NEA Jazz In The Schools. includes student materials, a timeline Arts to further this mission, and we’re poster, a CD, and a DVD featuring looking forward to reaching a whole in this broadband age. We are pleased video and musical excerpts along with new audience – our American histo- to play a role in this exciting initiative all print materials in digital form. ry and social studies teachers and their that will reach thousands of students In February, a sampler contain- students. Jazz music gives us a dif- through the use of web-based technol- ing the first curricular unit, which ad- ferent, more homegrown mythology, ogies.” dresses the advent of jazz and the role with heroes like Ella Fitzgerald and The National Endowment for the of African Americans in its develop- Duke Ellington. Jazz provides a voice Arts has taken a leadership role in sup- ment, will be available online. Sep- for some of our nation’s most signifi- porting jazz artists and organizations tember 2005 is the launch date for the cant historic events.” since 1970, providing millions of dol- complete kit. Presenting a facsimile check to lars in grants and awards. NEA jazz NEA Jazz in the Schools is made Gioia, Patrick R. Gaston, president programming has grown significantly possible through a $100,000 grant of the Verizon Foundation said, “This in recent years to include an expansion from the Verizon Foundation, the Verizon Foundation grant reflects of the NEA Jazz Masters programs as philanthropic arm of Verizon Com- our commitment to help organiza- well as broadcast initiatives, musical munications. The foundation supports tions implement innovative youth pro- recordings, publications, and research. programs and organizations focusing grams that use teaching tools available continued next page ... jazzweek.com • January 12, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News NEA Jazz in the Schools WZMR Drops Smooth (continued from previous page) Jazz for Country WZMR, which had been a member of The NEA Jazz in the Schools program lications, an annual high school jazz the JazzWeek smooth jazz panel, has dropped its smooth jazz format. Until continues the NEA’s enhancement of band competition and festival, a band a new format is chosen, the station its jazz programs, investing in jazz ed- director academy, a jazz appreciation will simulcast its country sister station, ucation to help reconnect young peo- curriculum for children, advanced WFFG, “Froggy Country.” PD Kevin ple to a defining American art form. training through the Juilliard Insti- Callahan told the Albany, N.Y., Business The National Endowment for the tute for Jazz Studies, music publish- Review, “We had to let the format go. It Arts is a public agency dedicated to ing, children’s concerts, lectures, adult had a lot of listeners, but unfortunately it supporting excellence in the arts–both education courses, film programs, and just didn’t translate to our clients in terms new and established–bringing the arts student and educator workshops. of the revenue a radio station needs to to all Americans, and providing lead- Jazz at Lincoln Center will pro- operate.” ership in arts education. Established duce hundreds of events during its WZMR had been broadcasting holiday by Congress in 1965 as an independent 2004-05 season. This is the inaugural music until the Jan. 7 switch. Both agency of the federal government, the season in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new stations are owned by Pamal Endowment is the nation’s largest an- home – Frederick P. Rose Hall – the Broadcasting Inc. of Latham, N.Y. nual funder of the arts, bringing great first-ever performance, education, and art to all 50 states, including rural ar- broadcast facility devoted to jazz. Jazz Returns to Airwaves eas, inner cities, and military bases. The Verizon Foundation is the of Athens, Ohio Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for- philanthropic arm of Verizon Com- Athens, Ohio, which had been without a profit arts organization dedicated to munications.