JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • June 26, 2006 Volume 2, Number 31 • $7.95 In This Issue: 4th JazzWeek Awards Recipients. 4 JJA Jazz Awards . 7 A Great Day On 42nd Street. 8 JAZZWEEK SUMMIT 2006 Music and Industry News In Brief . 9 Reviews and Picks . 17 Jazz Radio . 19 Smooth Jazz Radio. 26 Radio Panels. 25, 30 News. 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Eric Alexander #1 Smooth Album – Brian Culbertson #1 Smooth Single – Phillipe Saisse Trio JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger Many Thanks MUSIC EDITOR hat a whirlwind three days this year’s JazzWeek Summit Tad Hendrickson was. We covered so many topics, saw so much music, and CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Wsaid hello to so many friends, old and new. Keith Zimmerman I’d like to thank JazzWeek regulars Tad Hendrickson and Kent Zimmerman Devon Murphy for all of their help in planning and executing the CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ PHOTOGRAPHER event, Barry Solof for all the photography in this issue from the Tom Mallison Summit, Tom Mallison for helping pull all the panels together, PHOTOGRAPHY and Linda Yohn, Marilyn Harris and Russ Haines for help get- Barry Solof ting set up. I’d also like to thank the event sponsors, Mack Avenue Re- Founding Publisher: Tony Gasparre cords, Blue Note, Palmetto, Sunnyside and HighNote. ADVERTISING: Devon Murphy Special thanks goes to Dick LaPalm, Freddy Mancuso and Call (866) 453-6401 ext. 3 or Sony Classical for the performance and reception with Eldar and email: [email protected] to Mark Rini and Josh Ellman of Groov Marketing for the per- SUBSCRIPTIONS: formance and reception with the Avishai Cohen Trio. 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JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) is published weekly by – Ed Trefzger, Editor ������������� 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone/fax: (866) 453-6401 [email protected] Copyright ©2006 Trefzger Media LLC jazzweek.com • June 26, 2006 JazzWeek 2 Contents June 26, 2006 News . 4 Fourth Annual JazzWeek Award Recipients Named At Summit . 4 Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2006 Jazz Awards . 7 A Great Day on 42nd Street . 8 Music and Industry News In Brief ... 9 Birthdays . 11 Features 4 JazzWeek Summit 2006: Artists Up Close and Personal . 12 Summit Panels: The Real Nitty-Gritty. 15 Reviews . 17 Reuben Rogers. 17 Marc Cary. 17 Elliott Caine Quintet . 17 Larry Vuckovich Trio. 18 12 Jazz Charts . 19 Jazz Album Chart . 20 Jazz Add Dates . 21 Jazz Current CDs . 22 Jazz Radio Panel . 25 Smooth Jazz Charts . 26 Smooth Album Chart . 27 Smooth Singles Chart. 28 19 Smooth Current CDs . 29 Smooth Radio Panel . 30 Closing Number A Few Final Glimpses of JazzWeek Summit 2006 . 31 26 Cover Photos: Top: Neil Tesser, Linda Yohn, Bob Seymour, Josh Ellman; Center: Eldar; Bottom: Petra Henderson, Blaise Lantana, Russ Haines, Susan Gatschet Reese, Elizabeth JazzWeek Farriss. (Photos by Barry Solof) Volume 2 Number 31 jazzweek.com • June 26, 2006 JazzWeek 3 News Fourth Annual JazzWeek Award Recipients Named At Summit JazzWeek Awards winners in attendance at the summit gather for a class of 2006 photo. Front row, L to R: Vikki Rzepka, Telarc; Dave Love, Heads Up; Linda Yohn, WEMU; Susan Gatschet Reese, KUVO. Back row: Russ Haines, WWSP; Matt Hughes, New World ‘n’ Jazz; Terry Coen, Palmetto Records; Derrick Lucas, WGMC; Arturo Gómez, KUVO; Ian Murray, Concord Records. ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The fourth an- category and the top five nominees in radio and record business. Previous nual JazzWeek Awards were presented each comprised the ballot. recipients of the award include Tom at the JazzWeek Awards brunch dur- WEMU, Ypsilanti, Mich., mu- Mallison, Public Radio East (N.C.) in ing the fifth annual JazzWeek Summit sic director Linda Yohn was chosen 2003; Dick LaPalm, The Jazz Lobby- on June 17, 2006, in Rochester, N.Y. the 2006 Duke Dubois Humanitari- ist, in 2004; and Joe Fields, HighNote Award winners in 13 categories an Award winner in recognition of her Records, 2005. were chosen by readers of JazzWeek in passionate advocacy of jazz and jazz A donation of $400 will be made balloting during May, while the Duke radio. The award is named for the late to the IAJE Duke Dubois Scholarship Dubois Award winner was chosen by a jazz radio promoter Duke Dubois, who Fund from contibutions made by at- selection committee. JazzWeek read- was a pioneer in the field and a men- tendees at this year’s summit. ers submitted nominations for each tor and friend to so many in the jazz (continued on page 5) jazzweek.com • June 26, 2006 JazzWeek 4 News JazzWeek Awards (continued from page 4) Awards were presented by JazzWeek editor and pub- lisher Ed Trefzger and music editor Tad Hendrickson in an awards ceremony that included a brunch buffet and a cele- bration performance by the Mark Elf Trio. JazzWeek Awards Recipients • Station of the Year, Major Market: KUVO, Denver • Station of the Year, Medium Market: WWOZ, New Orleans • Station of the Year, Small Market: KANU, Lawrence, Kan. • Programmer of the Year, Major Market: Arturo Gómez, KUVO, Denver • Programmer of the Year, Medium Market: Derrick Lu- cas, WGMC, Rochester, N.Y. • Programmer of the Year, Small Market: Russell Haines, WWSP, Stevens Point, Wis. • Record Company Promotion Representative Of The Year: Vikki Rzepka, Telarc • Major Label Of The Year: Concord • Independent Label Of The Year: Palmetto Records • Independent Promotion Company Of The Year: New World ‘n’ Jazz Promotion & Marketing • Record Of The Year: Jaco Pastorius Big Band The Word Is Barry Solof Linda Yohn, 2006 Duke Dubois Award Recipient Out (Heads Up) • Instrumentalist Of The Year: Chris Potter • Vocalist Of The Year: Kurt Elling A R T. • Duke Dubois Humanitarian Award: Linda Yohn, Music Director, WEMU, Ypsilanti, Mich. A S K F O R JazzWeek is a weekly publication covering the jazz and MORE. smooth jazz industry. JazzWeek publishes the only national jazz radio airplay chart and also publishes the most compre- hensive smooth jazz singles and album airplay charts, all of For more information about the which are powered by Mediaguide. In its July 17, 2006 is- importance of arts education, please contact sue, JazzWeek will add College Jazz and World Music air- www.AmericansForTheArts.org. play charts. The JazzWeek Summit is an annual conference for jazz radio, record labels, independent promoters and musicians, covering all aspects of radio programming, promotion, and music selection. The 2007 JazzWeek Summit, planned for JW June, will be announced in late fall. jazzweek.com • June 26, 2006 JazzWeek 5 News Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2006 Jazz Awards NEW YORK – The Jazz Journalists 2) Musician of the Year – Sonny Rollins Association (JJA) held its tenth an- 3) Up & Coming Musician of the Year – nual Jazz Awards, honoring jazz mu- Dafnis Prieto sicians and their supporters, on Mon- 4) Jazz Album of the Year – Thelonious day, June 19, at B.B. King’s Blues Club Monk Quartet with John Coltrane At and Grill in New York City. In at- Carnegie Hall (Blue Note) tendance at the sold–out event were 5) Jazz Reissue of the Year, single CD – over 500 musicians, journalists, pho- Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman, Song X tographers, and industry executives. (Nonesuch) There were musical performances by 6) Jazz Reissue of the Year, boxed set – the Dewey Redman Ensemble, the Sy Miles Davis, The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 Johnson Quartet featuring saxophonist (Columbia/Legacy) Original Recordings by Craig Handy, T.C. III, the Anheuser- Stan Tonkel; Compiled by Adam Holzman Busch/Jazzmobile Vocal Competition & Bob Belden winner, and pianist Ezra Weiss, who 7) Jazz Record Label of the Year – Concord performed his ASCAP Young Jazz Music Group, Concord/Fantasy/Telarc Composers Award–winning compo- 8) Jazz Events Producer of the Year – WGBH, Boston sition “Winter Machine,” featuring George Wein, Festival Productions Eric Jackson, WGBH trumpeter Michael Phillip Mossman, 9) Jazz Composer of the Year – Andrew Rollins alto saxophonist Antonio Hart, tenor Hill 21) Soprano Saxophonist of the Year – saxophonist Kelly Roberge, and bass- 10) Jazz Arranger of the Year – Maria Jane Ira Bloom ist Corcoran Holt. Schneider 22) Baritone Saxophonist of the Year – Based on votes cast by over 400 11) Male Jazz Singer of the Year – Kurt James Carter JJA members (writers, broadcasters, Elling photographers and new media profes- 23) Clarinetist of the Year – Paquito 12) Female Jazz Singer of the Year – D’Rivera sionals worldwide), and presented at a Dianne Reeves fundraiser supporting the non-prof- 24) Flutist of the Year – Sam Rivers 13) Latin Jazz Album of the Year – Bebo it JJA’s education, audience-outreach 25) Pianist of the Year – Bill Charlap Valdés, Bebo de Cuba (Calle 54) and professional mentoring initiatives, 26) Organ-keyboards of the Year – Joey 14) Small Ensemble Group of the Year – awards were given in 41 categories of DeFrancesco Wayne Shorter Quartet achievement.