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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • January 8, 2007 Volume 3, Number 7 • $7.95 World Music Q&A: The Chieftains’ PADDY MOLONEY 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 – Lynch/Palmieri JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger anuary 10-13 marks the 2007 International Association MUSIC EDITOR Tad Hendrickson fo Jazz Education Annual Conference. Here’s a quick Jplug for the events JazzWeek is sponsoring each day CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ from 10:00 a.m. to noon: PHOTOGRAPHER Tom Mallison Thursday Workshop: Jazz Radio In Crisis: Why That’s A Good Thing PHOTOGRAPHY Barry Solof This session will focus on why some stations are disappearing or seeing big drops in audience, whie other stations with more progressiveapproaches are Contributing Editors seeing audience increases. 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JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) is published weekly by ������������� – Ed Trefzger 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone/fax: (866) 453-6401 [email protected] Copyright ©2006 Trefzger Media LLC jazzweek.com • January 8, 2007 JazzWeek 2 Contents January 8, 2007 News . 4 Arturo Sandoval Inks Contract With Telarc. 4 Berklee Expands City Music Network Nationwide . 5 Music and Industry News In Brief . 6 Jazz Birthdays . 8 Features 9 Artist Q&A: Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains . 9 Jazz Radio . 12 Jazz Album Chart . 13 College Jazz Chart . 14 Reviews . 15 Wayne Bergeron . 15 Hendrik Meurkins . 15 Sarah Partridge . 15 12 Wycliffe Gordon / Jay Leonhart . 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 Smooth Currents. 25 22 Smooth Radio Panel . 26 World Music Radio . 27 World Music Album Chart . 28 Closing Number Top 5 Chieftains Albums. 34 Jan. 1, 2007 Charts . 29 29 JazzWeek Volume 3 Number 7 jazzweek.com • January 8, 2007 JazzWeek 3 News Arturo Sandoval Inks Contract With Telarc CLEVELAND – Cleveland-based work with the most recognizable art- Bob Woods. “His influence on music Telarc International Corporation has ist in Latin jazz,” said Telarc President in general and the trumpet in particu- announced that trumpet virtuoso Ar- lar is legendary. Arturo is an icon and turo Sandoval has signed an exclusive we are proud to welcome him to the recording contract with the compa- Telarc family.” ny. His debut recording for the label is “I am very happy to be signing schedule to be released in May 2007. to Telarc and reuniting with producer Sandoval has been awarded four Carl Griffin, with whom I first worked Grammy Awards, six Billboard Awards when I arrived in the U.S. in the ear- and an Emmy Award. Recently, he was ly ’90s,” Sandoval said. “I am having a awarded his sixth Billboard Award for great time making a brand new album Best Latin Jazz Album. Granted po- of original compositions, the band litical asylum in July 1990 and U.S. sounds fierce, and I am very excited citizenship in 1999, Sandoval and his about how it’s turning out. I can’t wait family currently live in Miami. for everyone to hear it.” JW “It’s an honor and privilege to Recording great music and helping musicians more effectively market their own jazzweek.com • January 8, 2007 JazzWeek 4 News Berklee Expands City Music Network Nationwide BOSTON – Berklee College of Music when pilot projects begin in March, with musical instruments and equip- has announced the City Music Net- 2007 at the Experience Music Project ment. work – a new partnership with com- in Seattle; A Place Called Home and Partner sites will plug into a vir- munity organizations across the U.S. Sound Art in Los Angeles; eSharp tual City Music Network, giving them to deliver high-quality contempo- Music in Washington D.C.; and the instant access to Berklee’s online mu- rary music instruction to underserved Mount Airy Cultural Center in Phila- sic resources. The curriculum, which youth. delphia. teaches music theory, ear training and In a dramatic expansion of the col- The Berklee PULSE is the name performance, is based on a library of lege’s groundbreaking, Boston-based of the methodology used by the City popular R&B, rock, hip-hop, and jazz City Music program, Berklee will Music Network partners and their songs, six of which are being record- bring its real-time and web-based mu- programs, for example: The Berklee ed by The Movement Orchestra - the sic education to students nationwide, PULSE at Experience Music Project. touring ensemble for Christina Agu- regardless of financial means or loca- Apple Computer will serve as a key ilera, Babyface, Patti LaBelle, and tion. Students who complete the re- technology partner, providing serv- others. Webcasting and videoconfer- quired coursework are qualified to er support and access to iTunes Uni- encing technologies will provide face- audition for scholarships to Berklee’s versity. Berklee will also partner with to-face interaction between City Mu- Boston campus for five-week summer members of NAMM, the Interna- sic Network students at partner sites programs and undergraduate study. tional Music Products Association, to as well as with faculty and students at Over 200 students will be served provide City Music Network students Berklee’s Boston campus. JW ��������������������� ��������������������� ������������� ������������� �������������� ���������� ���������������� ���������������� jazzweek.com • January 8, 2007 JazzWeek 5 News Music and Industry News In Brief SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Bud Katzel DJ Klock, Electric City, The Frequency, with artists like Christian McBride, Sex passed Saturday, December 30, in Santa Skip Heller, Larval and Reminder, Mob, King Britt, Philadelphia Experiment, Rosa, Calif. He is survived by his wife offering full length albums exclusively via DJ Logic and Tin Hat, the releases on tap Jackie, son Mitchell and daughter Susan. download at Ropeadope.com and all other to launch Ropeadope Digital will represent Bud earned a journalism degree from major digital music retailers. This will a diverse spectrum of genre-bending the University of Missouri at Columbia. mark the beginning of an ongoing series sounds and styles, bridging together old He began his career at Decca Records in of Ropeadope Digital releases throughout school jazz, hip-hop, electronica, prog Chicago in 1952 as the Mid-West Regional 2007 and, in the process, establish the way rock, soul and just about every other style Promotion Representative. His next job Ropeadope presents new music and artists imaginable, while running the gamut from was at Roulette Records and then to GRP in the future. In addition, all of Ropeadope well-established artists to debut releases where he was the Sr. VP of Sales. He Digital’s artists will maintain ownership of by new names who are well on their way served as a consultant to N2K and in most their masters. Ropeadope will license only to becoming marquee artists. recent years was a consultant to Concord the digital rights for its releases. Royalties Records. will be based on a complete profit share SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Co-founders basis between the label and its artists. “I of A&M Records and Grammy Award BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Ropeadope, the haven’t been this excited about anything winners Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss will trend-setting independent record label, in the music industry for years,” says be honored by The Recording Academy clothing company, Internet destination and Ropeadope founder Andy Hurwitz. “While at its annual Grammy Salute To Industry all around lifestyle-defining endeavor,