JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • September 18, 2006 Volume 2, Number 42 • $7.95 Industry Q&A: JANA LA SORTE page 10 On The Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Dr. Lonnie Smith #1 Smooth Album – Peter White #1 College Jazz – Madeleine Peyroux #1 Smooth Single – Peter White #1 World Music – Eliane Elias JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger MUSIC EDITOR Tad Hendrickson kay. After beating up on jazz radio a little bit over the last CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ three weeks, I thought I’d better balance it out with some of PHOTOGRAPHER Othe things jazz radio does right and does better than other Tom Mallison formats. PHOTOGRAPHY 1. Jazz radio plays more new artists than any other profes- Barry Solof sional format. Over the last three years, at least 600 albums have Contributing Editors made the JazzWeek top 50. No commercial radio format plays Keith Zimmerman that many new records in a year, and other than some non-comm Kent Zimmerman triple-As and college radio, no other radio genre comes close. (We Founding Publisher: Tony Gasparre can argue about how many of those should be played, but it’s still ADVERTISING: Devon Murphy an impressive and commendable number.) Call (866) 453-6401 ext. 3 or 2. Jazz radio is not part of the whole sleazy money/payola mess. email:
[email protected] The lack of money in jazz is certainly part of that, but the relation- SUBSCRIPTIONS: ships between promoters, labels and radio are built on trust, not Free to qualified applicants free electronics, wads of cash, limos or vacations.