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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 Volume 2, Number 11 • $7.95 In This Issue: Surprises at Berklee 60th Anniversary Concert . . . . . 4 Classical Meets Jazz in JALC ‘Jazz Suite’ Debut ...... 5

ALJO Embarks On Tour . . . . . 8 News In Brief . . . . . 6 Reviews and Picks . . . . . 15 Jazz Radio . 18 Smooth Jazz Radio...... 25 Industry Legend Radio Panels. . 24, 29 BRUCE LUNDVALL News...... 4 Part One of our Two-part Q&A: page 11

Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Jae Sinnett #1 Smooth Album – Richard Elliot #1 Smooth Single – Brian Simpson JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger n part one of our two part interview with Bruce Lundvall, the MUSIC EDITOR Tad Hendrickson Blue Note president tells music editor Tad Hendrickson that Iin his opinion radio indeed does sell records. That’s the good CONTRIBUTING EDITORS news. Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman But Lundvall points out something that many others have CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ pointed out in recent years: radio doesn’t make hits. As he tells Tad, PHOTOGRAPHER “When I was a kid I would hear a new release and they would play Tom Mallison it over and over again. Not like Top 40, but over a period of weeks PHOTOGRAPHY you’d hear a tune from the new Hank Mobley record. That’s not Barry Solof really happening much any more.” Lundvall understands the state Founding Publisher: Tony Gasparre of programming on mostly non-commercial jazz stations, and ac- ADVERTISING: Devon Murphy knowledges that kind of focused airplay doesn’t happen. Call (866) 453-6401 ext. 3 or This ties into my question of last week – does mainstream jazz email: [email protected] radio play too much music that’s only good, but not great? I’ve SUBSCRIPTIONS: received a few comments; please email me with your thoughts on Free to qualified applicants this at [email protected]. I’ll share them in a future issue. Premium subscription: $149.00 per year, w/ Industry Access: $249.00 per year To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ ••• AMEX/PayPal go to: http://www.jazzweek.com/account/ subscribe.html Thanks to those of you who have recently become subscribers. Please encourage those you know in the business to sign up for a AIRPLAY MONITORING BY complimentary subscription at jazzweek.com. We hope to make a bigger impact in several areas: in radio, where more broadcasters will have access; at retail, where buyers and store owners will see Mediaguide what’s hot on radio; and among musicians, who will have access 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. to industry information. Suite 150 As you plan your advertising buys, please feel free to con- Berwyn, PA 19312 tact Devon Murphy at (866) 453-6401 extension 3, or at

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News ...... 4 Berklee 60th Celebration Concert Includes Surprise Collaborations ...... 4 Classical Meets Jazz in U.S. Premiere of Igor Raykhelson’s ‘Jazz Suite’ . . . . 5 Music and Industry News In Brief ...... 6 Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Set For ‘Unforgettable’ Tour ...... 8 JAI Announces Winners of ‘Jazz Up Your Campus’ Contest ...... 9 Birthdays ...... 10 4 Features Legends of Jazz: Bruce Lundvall ...... 11 Reviews ...... 15 David “Fathead” Newman ...... 15 Tony Monaco ...... 15 Nicole Pasternak ...... 15 Monk’s Music Trio ...... 16 11 André Ceccarelli Trio with Biréli Lagrène ...... 16 Jazz Charts ...... 18 Jazz Album Charts ...... 19 Jazz Add Dates ...... 20 Jazz Current CDs ...... 21 Jazz Radio Panel ...... 24 Smooth Jazz Charts ...... 25 Smooth Album Charts...... 26 18 Smooth Singles Charts ...... 27 Smooth Current CDs ...... 28 Smooth Radio Panel ...... 29 Classifieds ...... 17

Cover Photo: Bruce Lundvall (courtesy EMI Group/Blue Note) JazzWeek Volume 2 Number 11 jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 3 News Berklee 60th Celebration Concert Includes Surprise Collaborations

BOSTON – Paul Simon, Herbie Han- cock, Gloria Estefan, Juan Luis Guer- ra, Gary Burton, Michel Camilo, concert host Bill Cosby and producer Phil Ramone took the stage to create un- precedented, full-ride music scholarships in their names for outstanding U.S. music students at Three Score: The Berklee 60th Anniversary Con- cert, at the Wang Theatre, in Boston, Jan. 28. “Notice that there’s been no smoke, and no synching of the lips,” said Bill Cosby to the sold out crowd of 3,600. “At Berklee, you have to be on your own - you have to be you.” Cosby, who wore a custom-made “Berklee Foot- ball” shirt for the occasion, jammed Phil Farnsworth/Berklee College of Music Pianist Michel Camilo and vibraphonist Gary Burton perform during a concert celebrating briefly with Gary Burton and Michel the 60th anniversary of the Berklee College of Music. Camilo, showing off his nascent vibra- phone skills. “I should always be announced as anza Spalding teamed with Camilo for awards are not unknown for student having the flu, which raises a certain a new take on the standard “Autumn athletes in the U.S., this program is amount of sympathy. And glee,” joked Leaves,” and Italian vocalist/pianist the first of its kind by a music college. Paul Simon, who, despite battling a fe- Chiara Civello’s performance of “The Berklee will also create scholar- ver, thrilled the audience with inspired Wrong Goodbye” showed why she is ships in each of the performers’ names renditions of hits “Mrs. Robinson” and one of Berklee’s brightest stars. for online learning at Berkleemusic. “Slip Slidin’ Away.” Herbie Hancock The Presidential Scholarships cre- com, the college’s groundbreaking on- joined Simon on stage for “Graceland.” ated in the names of the concert’s spe- line school. This will give primary and Both artists received honorary doctor- cial guest performers will bring some secondary school students whose mu- ates from Berklee in 1986. of the nation’s best young musicians sic programs have been eliminated the A highlight of the evening includ- to study at Berklee with all tuition, chance to advance their skills through ed an electrifying duet between Gary housing, and fees covered at no cost Berklee’s online extension school. Burton and Michel Camilo backed for them or their families. They are Each of the Presidential Scholar- by an all-star rhythm section of Steve earmarked for students who have the ships will be presented to one excep- Gadd and Abe Laboriel. energy, passion, and creativity to suc- tional student annually for the next 10 Memorable performances were also ceed, but who are without the finan- years. Their total value, which is also turned in by two of Berklee’s more re- cial resources to realize their dreams being supported with fundraising ef- JW cent grads. Bass/vocal phenom Esper- of studying at Berklee. While such forts, is in the millions of dollars. jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 4 News Classical Meets Jazz in U.S. Premiere of Igor Raykhelson’s ‘Jazz Suite’

NEW YORK – World-renowned vio- in solo and chamber appearances. Col- musician. His performance of Nostal- list Yuri Bashmet and jazz saxophone laborations with Mr. Bashmet and Mr. gie at a Kremlin State dinner for Vlad- virtuoso Igor Butman will merge their Butman inspired him to compose the imir Putin and Bill Clinton prompt- talents and orchestras at Lincoln Cen- “Jazz Suite,” a crossover piece combin- ed the U.S. President to write in “My ter’s Rose Theatre on Wed., Feb. 22, ing both musical styles. Life” that Butman is “my favorite liv- for the U.S. premiere of composer Igor “I’ve had the pleasure of performing tenor saxophonist” and to include Raykhelson’s “Jazz Suite for Viola, ing with both Yuri and Igor Butman, him on the CD The Bill Clinton Col- Saxophone, Piano and Orchestra.” so to premiere “Jazz Suite” with them lection. The program will feature piec- in the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center Butman opened the 2003-2004 es from the classical repertoire of the is very exciting,” Raykhelson said. Jazz at Lincoln Center season with Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra Crossover Concerto featuring “Jazz Wynton Marsalis in Moscow Nights and jazz arrangements of Russian clas- Suite” premieres Wed., Feb. 22 at Lin- and has performed and recorded with sics by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Kor- coln Center’s Rose Theater. the world’s top jazz musicians in- sakov. Violist Yuri Bashmet, one of the cluding Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, “Yuri Bashmet’s artistry has in- world’s greatest musicians, has ap- Jack DeJohnette, Randy Brecker, Pat spired many composers to write for peared with the top orchestras includ- Metheny, Gary Burton, Louis Bell- him, myself included,” said Igor ing the Berlin Philharmonic, Bos- son, Grover Washington Jr., Billy Tay- Raykhelson whose composition “Ada- ton Symphony, Chicago Symphony, lor, Walter Davis Jr., Monty Alexan- gio for Viola and String Orchestra” Los Angeles Philharmonic and Lon- der, Lionel Hampton, Eddie Gomez premiered to critical acclaim at Carn- don Philharmonic. Moscow Soloists, and Lyle Mays. egie Hall in April 2003. a chamber ensemble Bashmet found- Since 1999 Butman’s Big Band has Raykhelson, a New York City ed comprised of young graduates of toured all over Russia and regularly resident originally from St. Peters- the Moscow Conservatory, has per- appears at Moscow’s top jazz venue Le burg, studied jazz and classical pia- formed at Carnegie Hall, the Royal Club where Igor is the artistic direc- no at Leningrad’s Rimsky-Korsakov Albert Hall and Suntory Hall in To- tor and acts as a musical ambassador Conservatory. He tours internation- kyo, among others. connecting Russian and U.S. jazz mu- ally both as jazz and classical pianist Igor Butman is Russia’s top jazz sicians. JW Frank Macchia Mo'Animals

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• NEW YORK – On Feb. 21, Andrew Hill will different sounds. It’s Hargrove’s first new a collection of spiritually uplifting songs release Time Lines, marking the beginning straight-ahead record in over 10 years. that celebrate life and music. While his of his third era as a leader for Blue Note • DETROIT – Famed guitarist, composer, previous recordings included numerous Records. Hill is reunited on Time Lines tracks featuring fairly lavish production, arranger and producer Oscar Castro- with trumpeter Charles Tolliver, who this time Oliver committed the project’s Neves, a leading figure of the international twice recorded with him on Blue Note in Brazilian music scene since the early 1960s, design to a slightly scaled back approach the ’60s. Hill’s resurgence began with two placing much more of an emphasis on follows up his critically lauded 2003 Mack acclaimed Palmetto recordings at the turn his guitar and voice. Oliver averages Avenue release Playful Heart with All One, of the century as well as the Blue Note to be released on March 14. The 14-track between 150-200 live gigs a year. Oliver release of previously unheard sessions has been nominated, alongside genre program features special guest, noted titled Passing Ships. Hill will bring his superstars Chris Botti, Richard Elliot Brazilian vocalist Luciana Sousa, and and superproducer/guitarist working quartet of tenor saxophonist/ an all-star line-up of instrumental talent Paul Brown, clarinetist Greg Tardy, bassist John as “Best International Artist” by the that includes violinist Charlie Bisharat, and drummer to 2006 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards Hebert Eric McPherson bassist Brian Bromberg and keyboardist Birdland in early March, and will be joined committee. Don Grusin, Gary Meek on woodwinds, by trumpeter Tolliver for the engagement. Alex Acuña and Mike Shapiro on drums • Jazz flutist Alexander Zonjic has been Hill was also recently named Playboy’s and Kevin Ricard on percussion, on works nominated for two Canadian Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year for 2006. that tap a broad range of Brazilian and Jazz Awards and will reprise his role as • NEW YORK – May 2 marks the Verve global influences. “It’s really four albums host of the second annual competition to Records release of two new recordings in one,” Castro-Neves joked, referring to a be held April 7 in Mississauga, Ontario from Roy Hargrove. The simultaneous repertoire that includes Brazilian classics, at the Living Arts Centre near Toronto. releases showcase two aspects of the vintage U.S. pop and jazz standards, Zonjic’s nominations are for Best Wind trumpeter/composer’s musical diversity. originals that are embellished with the Instrumentalist and for Broadcaster of the Distractions is from The RH Factor, his latest pop music ingredients, and a nod Year. Winners will be determined through neo-soul/jazz fusion outfit which made its to both the classical music and bolero on-line voting and by a panel of industry debut with 2003’s Hard Groove. The Roy traditions. professionals. Zonjic was raised and still Hargrove Quintet is featured on Nothing lives in Windsor, Ontario. He is also host of • NEW YORK – KOCH Records will release Serious, featuring the hard-bop, straight- a popular daily morning show on Detroit’s Radiant, Steve Oliver’s second KOCH ahead jazz group which has continued release, on March 21. Radiant contains to tour as Hargrove experiments with (continued) NEW FROM PACIFIC COAST JAZZ BRADLEY LEIGHTON SHERRI ROBERTS Back to the Funk The Sky Could Send You Jazz/pop flute stylist, recording artist and clinician Her latest recording produced and arranged Bradley Leighton’s by Harvie S with third solo release special guests, combines groove legendary saxophonist with soul that will Phil Woods and take you back to trumpet virtuoso the funk. Lew Soloff. In Stores In Stores January 17 February 7 Pacific Coast Jazz Blue House Recordings/ Pacific Coast Jazz DISTRUBUTED AVAILABLE AT EXCLUSIVELY BY

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Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Set For ‘Unforgettable’ Tour NEW YORK – Celebrating a Gram- “The ALJO is comprised of the my nomination for their debut album, cream of the crop in Latin jazz musi- Una Noche Inolvidable (An Unforgetta- cians. We are performing the seminal ble Night) on Palmetto Records in the works of the Latin jazz masters and Best Traditional Tropical Latin Al- commissioning a new body of work for bum category, Jazz at Lincoln Cen- this genre,” said O’Farrill. “We are ter’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with deeply committed to the precepts of Arturo O’Farrill will embark on “An groove and clavé This is the real deal, Unforgettable Night” tour that will get ready to swing hard!” take the critically acclaimed Latin jazz Since 2002, the Afro-Latin Jazz big band throughout the U.S. includ- Orchestra has been a resident orches- ing a debut performance in Monterrey, tra at Jazz at Lincoln Center. This Mexico. “The Unforgettable Night” large ensemble, comprised of 18 so- tour will commence in Chapel Hill, loists, plays classics of the Afro-Latin N.C., on March 3 and end in Norfolk, jazz tradition, commissions new work Va., on May 12. In each city, the Afro- and leads educational events while on Latin Jazz Orchestra will present mas- the road and at the new home of Jazz terworks from the Latin jazz canon, as at Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose JW Jazz at Lincoln Center well as commissions from contempo- Hall. Arturo O’Farill rary composers. ��

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JAI Announces Winners of ‘Jazz Up Your Campus’ Contest

NEW YORK – Jazz Alliance Inter- to express their essay points at the 33rd on marketing studies and was recently chosen as a Louisiana Young Hero. national (JAI), a subsidiary of the In- Annual IAJE Conference, held Jan. ternational Association for Jazz Edu- 11-14 in New York City. Sponsored • Cassie Peterson, of the University of cation (IAJE) has announced the five by a grant from the National Endow- Southern California, has not only received winners of its “Jazz Up Your Campus ment for the Arts, JAI and IAJE host- a merit scholarship to her university, but has also recorded three award-winning Contest”, a creative endeavor intend- ed these contest winners at the confer- jazz vocalist projects. ed to promote jazz on college campus- ence. The five winners are: es and celebrate the continuum of jazz. • Renee Fabian, a sophomore at West • Dawn Howard, of Howard University, is Chester University of Pennsylvania, is a The contest was designed to engage currently studying Jazz Studies and was creative, culturally aware students and Music Education and Performance major a past recipient of the 2005-6 Mordecai who currently performs in ten musical demonstrate how jazz relates to today’s Wyatt Johnson Scholarship. ensembles. most renowned artists. • Ian Evans, a sophomore at Tuskegee Participants were asked to com- University, is majoring in Administrative As “Jazz Deputies,” winners will pose an essay that would articulate the Business and has participated in a receive a one-year paid internship with significant themes of expressionism, substantial number of leadership and Jazz Alliance International to help co- innovation, and freedom that are in- mentoring programs. ordinate grassroots efforts on college corporated in jazz to diverse students. • Shayla Price, a sophomore from Southern campuses nationwide to promote jazz All of the�� entered participants were University and A and M College, is focusing and widen audiences for the music. later chosen as semifinalists and asked JW

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jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 10 Legends of Jazz: Bruce Lundvall

here is a long tradition of visionaries helming record labels and presenting great artists to the public. Bruce TLundvall is obviously such a person. His 45 years in the business has put him at the epicenter of countless ca- reers and movements. After 20 years with Columbia/CBS, Lundvall has been the head of Blue Note records. As the President of EMI Jazz and Classics, Lundvall also oversees Manhattan, Angel and now the Narada group of labels. What follows is the ﬁrst part of a freewheeling two-part interview recently done in Lundvall’s oﬃce that covers music, artists, radio and the industry. The second part will run in next week’s issue.

EMI Group/Blue Note – Tad Hendrickson Bruce Lundvall, President, EMI Jazz and Classics JazzWeek: You now do your own radio show. Bruce Lundvall: For a year now. They asked me at Sirius if I would like to do a Blue Note hour and I said that it sounded like a great idea, but could I do it from my office. I’m not a disc jockey. I have no background it in, except going back to college radio. They said I’d have to come to the offices on 49th St. They told me I could put away two shows in an hour, but I knew that wasn’t the case when you start out. I’m not schooled in it. I started doing it because I figured it was good for the label, which is nice because it’s an hour commercial for Blue Note twice a week: 6-7 on Friday Nights and 9-10 on Sunday morn- ings. It’s been fun to do. Each show has a different theme – we’ll either cover an instrument, or an artist, or a style on Blue Note. Whether anyone’s listen- ing, I don’t really know. We’ve gotten some interesting emails and we’re reaching some people, so I’m going to continue doing it. I need a lot of editing because I’m not a pro. It’s funny: we’ll go through and they’ll say to me, “Don’t use the word ‘great’ so much.” It’s how I talk in conversing with you, but when you’re on the air you have to pay attention to such things.

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Is it selling records? I don’t know. All I know is that I am serving pro bono. They gave me a unit for my car, which cost me more to install than the unit costs! When were you DJ-ing in college? It was ’55 and ’56 when I was at Bucknell. It was the local college station that probably didn’t reach much more than the campus. When I was a kid I It’s a little different now. Yeah. Sirius’s Matt Abramowitz helps me with the shows – he’s there with the would hear a new engineer and we go over things. I usually put the shows together on the week- release and they ends and bring them in and Matt will sometimes have ideas, which we’ll do. Is satellite the future? Will terrestrial stick around? would play it over Both will be around. I think satellite offers a great opportunity with a number and over again. Not of different very specific channels. People seem to like it. like Top 40, but over What’s the importance of terrestrial radio to Blue Note? It’s all important. There are no more commercial jazz stations – they’re all pub- “a period of weeks lic radio stations now. We need them all. Unfortunately they don’t focus new releases now like they did in the old days, playing the songs with any degree of you’d hear a tune repetition. When I was a kid I would hear a new release and they would play from the new Hank it over and over again. Not like Top 40, but over a period of weeks you’d hear a tune from the new Hank Mobley record. That’s not really happening much Mobley record. That’s any more. There is a lot of very good music, programmed the way they want to not really happening program it, but there is no real focus on new releases. Does radio sell records? much any more. Yeah, of course. That’s how you find out about new releases and that’s even how you find out about catalog records you want to buy, particularly for the initiate. It’s still an important point of reference. You are also head of EMI Classics, which is the classical wing of the label. Talk radio has been cutting into classical programming as well as jazz. Are you hearing the same kind of talk from your classical people as you are from the jazz ones? Pretty much. But it’s important when [the news and arts talk shows] do a pro- file on artists, or things like that. The internet hasn’t been as important for us, but NPR has been a very effective tool for all kinds sophisticated music. Robert Glasper was the first new signing in five years, at least of an unknown artist? Well, Bill Charlap wasn’t that well known. We also have a new one coming out by Chicago singer Jackie Allen [Tangled]. We’re looking at some other people as well right now. It’s true that sales have declined to such a degree, continued ... jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 12 Legends of Jazz: Bruce Lundvall (continued)

particularly with new artists. We’ve been very cautious lately, but we’re not get- ting out of the jazz business. We’re not dropping anybody. We’re looking at a number of people and a number of new ideas too. I still see you out at the clubs upon occasion. We get out at night. [Blue Note Director of A&R] Eli Wolf goes out a lot. I go out, but not as much as I used to. I just don’t have the energy anymore, but I used to go out a lot. I still do auditions, I still go out, and I still listen to our musicians and people that they are excited about. Are Glasper and Allen a beginning of a new trend in signings? I think we’re going to start signing again a little more actively. What was it about Glasper that made you want to sign him? Our in-house publicity person Cem Ku- rosman saw him and liked him. And he took me down to the Blue Note to see him and I liked Robert’s songs and I liked his playing. I thought he had a lot of origi- nality, so we put him in the studio to do a demo, which I don’t normally do. We loved the demo, and wanted to sign him and go forward, so that’s what we did. It didn’t take a long time, but we didn’t sign him on the spot. Not like I did with Jason Moran. You did? EMI Group/Blue Note Yeah. I saw him play with Greg Osby and Photographed at Blue Note’s Manhattan offices upon Robert Glasper’s signing with I went up to him and said: “You’ve got Blue Note are from left: Perry Greenfield (Product Manager, Blue Note Records), to be on Blue Note.” And that was that. Bruce Lundvall (CEO & President, EMI Jazz & Classics), Glasper, Tom Evered (VP & Things happen in diﬀerent ways. I heard General Manager, EMI Jazz & Classics), Eli Wolf (Director of A&R, Blue Note Records) one demo from Norah Jones and said: “That’s it. Find yourself an attorney, I want you on Blue Note.” I heard a rumor that she saved Blue Note from bankruptcy. [Laughs.] No. No. No. Blue Note is owned by EMI. EMI would have to be in trouble. Blue Note has made a proﬁt every year since I’ve been here. A lot of it is because of the catalog, or some of our releases that sell well enough, like a Bobby McFerrin or other things that go over the top like Cassandra Wilson did for several records, Dianne Reeves, any number of people. Then you get lucky with the US3 record and McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” That did

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like three million worldwide. Then Norah came along – her first one is up to 20 million and her second record is over 10 million. We’re very fortunate. She didn’t save us from bankruptcy, but she gave us a big leg up for sure. Everyone assumes that you’re just a jazz guy, but you’ve done more than that in the past. Most of our staff At Columbia I did all sorts of different kind of music because that’s what we did as a label. At CMA I was the president of the CMA board for two years in here are musicians Nashville. And I signed a lot of people: I signed rock ’n’ roll bands, not terribly or were musicians well but I did, Broadway musicals, all kinds of different things. This is a good thing because it broadens your perspective. I’m doing the Broadway soundtrack and they love music. version of The Color Purple on Angel. We’ve brought Blue Note well beyond jazz since Norah Jones because everyone wanted to be on the label. We did So music is first and Anita Baker, Al Green, Amos Lee. foremost in their We know Norah’s success was an aberration, but why do these people come minds. to a jazz label looking for a deal? “ The people here love music and are so into music that the artists feel comfort- able here. It’s a small group of people, but every one of them is 100% dedicated. Most of our staff here are musicians or were musicians and they love music. So music is first and foremost in their minds. Friendships develop between artists and the staff, and it’s happened with damn near every artist on the label. Arif Mardin said it best when he said: “I was at Atlantic at the very beginning and there would be music playing from every office. There was Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd Ahmet Ertegen, and myself. We’d run from office to office listen- ing to music. It happened for a lot of years, but for the last few years at Atlantic it was more like a boardroom.” When he came here – he’s retired now – everyone listened to music in their offices. He loved that spirit and had missed it. I think that is the highest compliment we could get in this day and age. What do you look for in an artist? I try and find an individual artist. Someone who is unique and has their own voice. That is my standard for what we should do here. It’s not to find a radio record or something that sounds like some other band. For me, the only way I find to be successful is to have an artist that has their own voice. Who is special. Who has something sort of magical. Finding an artist who sounds like another artist is a waste of time. Even if you have a hit, you don’t really have an artist, so what do you have? Our standard is to maintain a high standard of musicality on the artist roster. We may not always achieve that, but most of the time we do. JW

Next week in Part II: the story of Bird stealing Bruce’s hat, what’s up with Jazz Alliance International, and more about Lundvall’s plans for the future of Blue Note and his thoughts on the future of jazz in general.

jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 14 Reviews and Picks

David “Fathead” Newman is one of his best. Here on his sixth Cityscape (HighNote) album and first on NEWMAN’S RAY CHARLES tribute was inescapable in 2005, the new Chicken so the question is will people be ready for more so early in Coup imprint, Mo- 2006? The short answer is: yes. And here’s why. Whereas naco set aside (for the last album was the most part) the a quintet album blues tunes on Fi- with vibes, this ery Blues; instead, one is a very sweet doing B3 bebop horn-friendly sep- versions of tunes tet that sounds big like Joe Hender- enough to be a lit- son’s “Recordame” tle big band – nev- and Charlie Parker’s “Donna Lee.” He goes a little further er more so than afield on the bossa nova tune “O Berquino” with surpris- on Strayhorn’s “A ingly solid results. His pen is potent as well, offering the Flower Is A Love- excellent “Roz Da Cat” and “Rudy And The Fox.” Much some Thing” and has been made of the connection between B3 trio and the Howard Johnson’s church, but while that is certainly part of the equation, well-arranged and what is really striking about East To West is Monaco suc- funky “Here Comes Sonny Man.” A personal favorite is cess at making the B3 trio format both flexible and bebop “Goldfinger,” on which the band plays it kitsch free on one friendly. of John Barry’s greatest themes. It’s also worth noting that – Tad Hendrickson the leader pulls three tunes from 1977’s underappreciated Contact: Mike Carlson Front Money. Now entering his sixth decade as a performer, Phone: (800) 729-7450 the funky Newman sounds as fresh as the proverbial daisy. Email: [email protected] Maybe he’s eating right; maybe he’s charged up by the re- Add Date: Feb. 6 Release Date: now sponse of Brother Ray. Whatever the reason, he’s got himself one hell of a follow up. – Tad Hendrickson Nicole Pasternak Contact: Michael Hurzon Phone: (305) 669-2677 In A Word (Garagista) Email: [email protected] AS A SINGER working in a number of groups throughout the Add Date: Feb. 6 Northeast and occasionally New York, Nicole Pasternak is Release Date: Jan. 31 one of those many jazz musicians who stoutheartedly work as a regional artist. There isn’t a lot of range in her voice, Tony Monaco which is often light and seemingly restrained, but the tim- bre creates a tension that is broken by wonderful flights of East To West (Chicken Coup) phrasing and her scatting. She also has a delicious vibrato TONY MONACO WRAPS himself up in Jimmy Smith’s legacy that sometimes slips out at the end of a phrase. Here with by naming his label Chicken Coup and putting a chicken piano (Don Friedman), bass (Dennis Irwin) and occasional- on the cover of East To West, but it’s hard to find fault in this. ly saxophone (Ralph Lalama), her subtle voice is well paired After all, Smith was the man and Back At The Chicken Shack continued ... jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 15 Reviews and Picks

Nicole Pasternak (continued) bone leads to jolt the listener to attention. “Monk’s Dream,” “Crepuscule With Nellie,” and “San Francisco Holiday” are with a straight- good upbeat places to start, while the stark take on “’Round ahead band that Midnight” and the jaunty “Blue Monk” provide a bit of sticks close to the emotional contrast. tunes on this stan- Contact: Michael Hurzon – Ed Trefzger dards-heavy collec- Phone: (305) 669-2677 tion – the exception Email: [email protected] is the solo saxo- Add Date: Feb. 6 phone flight “You,” Release Date: Jan. 31 which segues won- derfully into “Inch- André Ceccarelli Trio with Biréli worm.” Not a singer who is going to set Lagrène the world on fire, Pasternak and her band does prove that there is still quality Avenue Des Diables Blues (Dreyfus Jazz) when you dig below the surface of jazz. THE TITLE TRANSLATES to “Avenue of the Devils’ Blues,” – Tad Hendrickson a fitting description of the smoldering organ trio led by one of the most prolific drummers on the European jazz Contact: Mark Elf scene. While not a Phone: (516) 599-6589 Email: [email protected] household name in Add Date: Feb. 6 the U.S., the vet- Release Date: Jan. 17 eran percussionist Ceccarelli has per- Monk’s Music Trio formed on more than 1,000 re- Monk’s Bones (CMB Records) codings. The trio, which includes the WHILE THELONIOUS MONK didn’t work with a trombon- heir to the organ ist very often, Monk’s Music Trio demonstrates on Monk’s greats of the past, Bones that the ’bone fits perfectly with Monk’s tunes. Pianist Joey DeFrancesco, Si Perkoff, drum- and guitarist Biré- mer Chuck Bern- li Lagrène, here on stein, and bassist electric guitar for the first time in eight years, take each Sam Bevan add a tune to a rolling boil. Recommended tunes include Miles pair of trombonists Davis’ “Nardis”, “Summertime” (a tribute to Jimmy Smith), to their third re- and the title tune. lease, the legendary – Ed Trefzger Roswell Rudd and Contact: Tatsuya Koeda Bay Area ’bonist Phone: (212) 398-5859 Email: [email protected] (and son of Si) Max Add Date: Feb. 6 Perkoff. The trom- Release Date: Jan. 24 bone tandem is a perfect fit for the quirkiness and in- herent humor of the familiar Monk tunes, especially on the more uptempo numbers. The ebullient performances are fun and fresh, with just enough discordance in the trom- jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 16 Classifieds GET YOUR CD HEARD AT for jazz and smooth jazz fans FOR SALE SERVICES RADIO! Offering The Most as well. Combine an advertise- Thorough Radio Promotional ment in JazzWeek with ads Find the top 50 jazz and LISA REEDY PROMOTIONS smooth jazz CDs at jazzweek. 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Jae Sinnett’s The Sinnett Hearings Tops the Chart

Album Is Most Added and Has Biggest Spin Increase

rummer and composer Jae Sinnett’s new CD The Sinnett Hearings (J-Nett) tops Dthis week’s jazz chart in its debut week, thanks in part to extensive featured airplay on NPR’s Weekend Edition and to adds on many stations. The album picked up 46 stations and added 276 spins.

Second most-added this week with 31 stations was Vibes (Summit) from Gerald Beck- ett. The Sinnett Hearings (J-Nett) by drummer Jae Sinnett tops the jazz chart in its debut week. The Ultimate Adventure(Stretch Records), by Chick Corea had the second biggest increase in airplay this week, 117 spins.

Jazz Album Chart p. 19 Jazz Add Dates p. 20 Jazz Current CDs p. 21 Jazz Radio Panel p. 24 Vibes (Summit) from flutist Gerald Beckett, added 31 stations as the week’s second most added release. jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 18 airplay data JazzWeek Jazz Album Chart Feb. 6, 2006 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 NR NR 1 Jae Sinnett The Sinnett Hearings J-Nett Records 280 4 276 1 51 46 2 16 24 1 Various Artists Our New Orleans 2005 Nonesuch 261 156 105 8 61 3 3 1 2 1 Dianne Reeves Good Night and Good Luck [Soundtrack] Concord 242 283 -41 16 52 1 4 3 4 1 Joe Locke & The Milt Jackson Tribute Band Rev-elation Sharp Nine 225 251 -26 15 55 2 5 2 1 1 Houston Person All Soul HighNote 212 258 -46 14 48 0 6 13 19 6 Mark Colby Speaking of Stan Hallway Records 211 170 41 3 43 2 7 4 11 4 Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar Sony 198 197 1 16 30 0 8 5 5 5 Rodney Jones Dreams and Stories Savant 194 195 -1 11 43 0 9 8 15 3 Mike LeDonne Night Song Savant 191 187 4 15 42 0 10 7 12 7 Various Artists Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Blue Note 190 190 0 11 48 1 11 17 20 1 Brad Mehldau Day Is Done Nonesuch 177 154 23 18 58 0 12 12 6 6 Trio da Paz Somewhere Blue Toucan Music 170 175 -5 18 31 1 13 5 9 3 Clayton Brothers Back In The Swing Of Things Hyena Records 167 195 -28 15 36 0 14 11 7 5 Robert Glasper Canvas Blue Note 165 177 -12 15 49 0 15 32 33 15 Chris Stewart Phoenix: A Tribute to Cannonball Adderley Self Released 151 96 55 3 30 3 16 9 8 8 Geoffrey Keezer Wildcrafted: Live At The Dakota MAXJAZZ 148 179 -31 12 44 1 17 15 23 15 Radam Schwartz Conspiracy For Positivity Blue Ark Records 142 157 -15 8 35 1 18 20 21 18 Wallace Roney Mystikal HighNote 141 129 12 12 39 1 19 14 14 8 Jimmy Ponder What’s New HighNote 139 169 -30 15 36 1 20 18 15 5 The Great Jazz Trio ’S Wonderful 441 Records 137 151 -14 13 36 1 21 NR NR 21 Carmen Lundy Jazz & The New Songbook: Live at the Afrasia 131 64 67 1 37 16 Madrid 21 9 10 9 Alan Broadbent ’Round Midnight Artistry 131 179 -48 16 41 1 23 29 47 23 Roger Davidson Trio Ten To Twelve Soundbrush Records 130 100 30 3 39 7 24 27 32 24 Laura Caviani Going There Self Released 127 107 20 3 39 4 25 21 17 12 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra w/ Wynton Don’t be afraid... the music of Charles Palmetto 121 122 -1 13 40 0 Marsalis Mingus 26 26 18 1 Gerald Wilson Orchestra In My Time Mack Avenue 119 111 8 22 37 0 27 NR NR 27 Chick Corea The Ultimate Adventure Stretch Records 117 NR 117 1 19 19 28 NR NR 28 Ray Marchica In The Ring Sons of Sound 115 36 79 1 37 23 29 NR NR 29 Eugene Marlow A Summer Afternoon With You MEII Enterprises 114 53 61 1 36 21 30 19 13 9 Julius Tolentino Just The Beginning Sharp Nine 109 139 -30 14 40 1 31 42 45 31 Bob Lark Until You Hallway Records 107 79 28 3 32 3 32 37 44 32 Steve Kuhn Trio Quiereme Mucho Sunnyside/Venus 105 90 15 7 24 1 32 NR NR 32 Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra East Diamonds For Nat Summit 105 53 52 1 34 14 34 35 43 34 Nia Quintet End of Time Blujazz 104 92 12 4 25 1 34 22 27 1 Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall Blue Note 104 120 -16 19 41 0 34 23 30 20 Tineke Postma For The Rhythm 215/Munich Records 104 117 -13 13 24 0 37 NR NR 37 Gerald Beckett Flute Vibes Summit 102 4 98 1 34 31 38 NR NR 38 Shahida Nurullah The Ruby and the Pearl Alembra Arts 101 35 66 1 33 21 38 25 28 25 Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band Rumba Buhaina - The Music of Art Blakey Random Chance 101 112 -11 13 29 0 and The Jazz Messengers 40 NR NR 40 Grant Geissman Say That! Futurism Records 97 7 90 1 34 25 41 NR NR 41 Hiromi Spiral Telarc 95 41 54 1 30 13 42 28 25 25 Deanna Witkowski Length of Days Artist Share 94 104 -10 7 26 2 43 24 41 24 Marlon Jordan w/ Stephanie Jordan You Don’t Know What Love Is Louisiana Red Hot Records 92 116 -24 4 28 2 44 NR NR 44 Edsel Gomez Cubist Music Zoho Music 90 39 51 1 37 18 44 47 NR 44 Steve Tyrell Songs of Sinatra Hollywood Records 90 72 18 2 24 4 46 47 37 32 Marc Johnson Shades of Jade ECM 82 72 10 17 32 1 46 32 36 16 Barbara Morrison Live @The Dakota Dakota Live Label 82 96 -14 14 29 1 48 31 25 23 Bill Ransom Generations Bongo Time Records 78 97 -19 11 18 0 49 35 47 35 Joel Harrison Harrison On Harrison HighNote 77 92 -15 9 28 2 50 46 28 2 Tierney Sutton I’m with the Band Telarc 75 74 1 22 26 0

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Jae Sinnett The Sinnett Hearings (J-Nett Records) +46 Jae Sinnett The Sinnett Hearings (J-Nett Records) +276 E.S.T. Viaticum (215 Records) Gerald Beckett Flute Vibes (Summit) +31 Chick Corea The Ultimate Adventure (Stretch Records) +117 Sherri Roberts The Sky Could Send You (Pacific Coast Jazz) Larry Goldings Quartet (Palmetto) Grant Geissman Say That! (Futurism Records) +25 Various Artists Our New Orleans 2005 (Nonesuch) +105 Marty Ehrlich News On The Rail (Palmetto) Ray Marchica In The Ring (Sons of Sound) +23 Gerald Beckett Flute Vibes (Summit) +98 Peter Paulsen Trio Tri-cycle (Wahbo Records) Larry Goldings Quartet (Palmetto) +23 Grant Geissman Say That! (Futurism Records) +90 Tony Monaco East To West (Chicken Coup) Eugene Marlow A Summer Afternoon With You Ray Marchica In The Ring (Sons of Sound) +79 Novak & Haar Old Friends (Self Produced) (MEII Enterprises) +21 Carmen Lundy Jazz & The New Songbook: Live at the Madrid Russ Reinberg Blue Scarlett (Jazzed Media) Anthony Brown’s Orchestra Rhapsodies (Water Baby) Shahida Nurullah The Ruby and the Pearl (Alembra Arts) +21 (Afrasia) +67 Jean-Michel Pilc Live At Iridium, New York (Dreyfus)

jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2006 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 19 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]. January 30, 2006 February 28, 2006 Larry Goldings – Quartet (Palmetto) Marian McPartland – Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz with Shirley Chick Corea – Ultimate Adventure (Stretch/Concord) Horn (The Jazz Alliance) Frank Macchia – Mo’ Animals (Cacophony. Inc) Ben Goldberg Quintet – The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact Monk’s Music Trio – Monk’s Bones (CMB Records) (Cryptogramophone) January 31, 2006 Brian Bromberg – Wood 2 (Artistry) John McNeil – East Coast Cool (Omnitone) Paul Shapiro – It’s in the Twilight (Tzadik) Zaxariades – Mr. Z (FreeHam Records) March 6, 2006 February 2, 2006 Christian Scott – Rewind That (Concord Jazz) Mark Colby – Speaking of Stan (Hallway Records) Jaco Pastorius Big Band – The Word Is Out (Heads Up) Colin Stranahan – Transformation (Capri Records) February 6, 2006 Billy Kilson – Pots and Pans March 7, 2006 Carlos Barbosa-Lima – Carioca (Zoho Music) Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Solo (Blue Note) Sergio Mendes – Timeless (Concord) Karen Blixt – Spin This (TBA) Andre Ceccarelli featuring Bireli Lagrene – Avenue Des Diables Virginia Mayhew – Sandan Shuffle (Renma) Blues (Dreyfus Jazz) March 9, 2006 David ‘Fathead’ Newman – Cityscape (HighNote Records) Mike Melvoin - Dan Jaffe – Playing The Word (City Light Music) Ernie Andrews – How About Me (HighNote Records) March 14, 2006 Jack DeJohnette featuring Bill Frisell – The Elephant Sleeps But Still David Sills – Down The Line (Origin Records) Remembers (Golden Beams) Larry Willis Trio – The Big Push (HighNote Reocrds) March 20, 2006 Nicole Pasternak – In A Word (Garagista) 3ósity – 3ósity (Capri Records) Tony Monaco – East To West (Chicken Coup) Odean Pope w/M. Brecker/Carter/Lovano – Locked & Loaded (Half Note Records) February 7, 2006 Arthur Kell Quartet – Traveller (Fresh Sound) March 21, 2006 Chris Walden Big Band – Winter Games (Origin Records) Joey DeFrancesco – Title TBD (Concord Jazz) Tania Maria – Intimidade (Blue Note) February 13, 2006 Manuel Valera – Melancolia (Mavo Records) March 28, 2006 The Mary Lou Williams Collective – Zodiac Suite: Revisited (Mary Karrin Allyson – Footprints (Concord Jazz) Records) April 4, 2006 Tony Cimorosi – Horizon (Epoch) Cassandra Wilson – Thunderbird (Blue Note) Perry Conticchio – Speak Your Truth (Liven Up Jazz) Erin Boheme – What Is Love (Concord Jazz) February 14, 2006 Marian McPartland – Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz with John Carol Robbins – Jazz Play (Jazzcats) Medeski (The Jazz Alliance) Doris Day – The Love Album (Feinery) Taylor Eigsti – Lucky To Be Me (Concord Jazz) George Cotsirilos – On The Rebop (OA2 Records) Marisa Monte – TBA (Blue Note) Federico Britos & Jorge Garcia – TBA (TBA) Medeski Martin & Wood – Greatest Hits (Blue Note) Oscar Castro-Neves – All One (Mack Ave.) Pat Martino – Remember: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery (Blue Note) February 20, 2006 April 18, 2006 Anthony Wonsey – The Thang (Sharp Nine) Jackie Allen – Tangled (Blue Note) Bob Mintzer Big Band – Old School: New Lessons (MCG/Heads Up) April 24, 2006 Tom Scott Featuring Phil Woods – Bebop United (MCG/Heads Up) Ben Allison – New Quartet (Palmetto) Keith Oxman w/ Curtis Fuller – Dues In Progress (Capri Records) May 16, 2006 February 21, 2006 Dr. John – Mercernary (Blue Note) Andrew Hill – Time Lines (Blue Note) Gianluca Petrella – Indigo4 (Blue Note) May 22, 2006 Steve Kahn – The Green Field (Tone Center) Dr. Lonnie Smith – TBA (Palmetto) February 27, 2006 July 17, 2006 Fred Hersch – In Amsterdam: Live At Bimhuis (Palmetto) Frank Kimbrough – Play (Palmetto) Paul Bollenback – Brightness Of Being (Elefant Dreams) jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 20 Jazz Radio Currents

Daisuke Abe On My Way Back Home Nagel Heyer The Claudia Quintet Semi-Formal Cuneiform Affinity Route 66 Rhombus Clayton Brothers Back In The Swing Of Things Hyena Records Annette A. Aguilar & String Beans No Cheap Dates Self Released Hilary Noble and Rebecca Cline Enclave Zoho Music Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring The Battle: Live at Smoke HighNote Billy Cobham All That Groove Just Groove Daniel Almada and Martin Tango Crash Justin Time Evita Cobo Invitation Self Released Iannacone Tim Coffman Crossroads Blujazz Leny Andrade Bossa Novas Albatroz Mark Colby Speaking of Stan Hallway Records Ivo Antognini Jazz Project Feggari Mou Self Released Richie Cole & The Alto Madness Back On Top Jazz Excursion Peter Apfelbaum & The New York It Is Written HighNote(ACT) Orchestra Hieroglyphics Common Ground High Voltage Delmark Susie Arioli Band Learn To Smile Again Justin Time Gloria Cooper Dedicated To You Origin Antonio Arnedo Colombia Adventure Music Chick Corea The Ultimate Adventure Stretch Records Kyle Asche The Hook Up OA2 Records Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey & Lenny Electric Chesky Michael Attias Renku Playscape White Gregg August Late August Iaguessa Records Dan Cray Trio Save Us! Blujazz David Axelrod The Edge: David Axelrod At Capitol Capitol Jamie Cullum Catching Tales Verve Music Group Records 1966-1970 Paquito d’Rivera The Jazz Chamber Trio Chesky The Bad Plus Suspicious Activity? Columbia Dave’s True Story Simple Twist Of Fate Bepop Amy Banks When The Sun Comes Out Self Released Kenny Davern In Concert Arbors Dan Baraszu Nightfall Blue Canoe Roger Davidson Trio Ten To Twelve Soundbrush Records Cris Barber Comes Love Paws Here Ron Davis Trio & The Shimmering Shimmering Rhythm Davinor Ray Barretto Time Was... Time Is O+ Rhythm Ensemble Kenny Barron Live At Bradley’s II: The Perfect Set Sunnyside Phil DeGreg Brasilia Strugglebaby Gerry Beaudoin Trio Swing Cafe North Star Melodye Dewine Nocturnal Velvet SMS Jazz Gerald Beckett Flute Vibes Summit Gene Diamond Bittersweet Rhombus Heather Bennett Reflections In Red Apria Dirty Dozen Brass Band This is the Dirty Dozen Brass Band Shout Factory George Benson Best of George Benson Live GRP Collection Gene Bertoncini Quiet Now Ambient Bob Dogan Rings Big Foot Jazz Bethany and Rufus Bethany and Rufus bethanyandrufus.com Julia Dollison Observatory Like So Music Faruq Z. Bey With The Northwoods Rwanda Qubic Tommy Dorsey The Sentimental Gentleman Of Bluebird/Legacy Improvisers Swing: Centennial Collection The Big Three Trio We Got Rhythm Beezwax Dave Douglas Keystone Greenleaf Music John Bishop Nothing If Not Something Origin Will Downing Soul Symphony GRP Michael Blake Right Before Your Very Ears Clean Feed Dr. John & The Lower 911 Sippiana Hericane Blue Note Blue Cat Express Spirit Of New Orleans Rhombus E.S.T. Viaticum 215 Records Paul Bollenback Brightness of Being Elefant Dreams Kyle Eastwood Paris Blue Rendevous Bona Fide Soul Lounge Heads Up Marty Ehrlich News On The Rail Palmetto Chris Botti To Love Again Sony Harris Eisenstadt Ahimsa Orchestra Nine Winds BOX (Binder/Weber/Ulrich) Ten Variations on an Unknown Origin Records Either/Orchestra Ethiopiques 20: Live In Addis Buda Musique Theme Doug Ellington & New Urban Groove Life Llama Productions Ruby Braff Controlled Nonchalance at the Arbors Dewey Erney Lucky To Be Me Primrose Lane Regattabar, Vol. 2 Estrada Brothers Two For The Road Cougar Breakestra Hit The Floor Ubiquity Avram Fefer & Bobby Few Kindred Spirits Boxholder Records Joshua Breakstone Memoire: The French Sessions, Capri Vol. 2 Fieldwork Simulated Progress PI Recordings Dee Dee Bridgewater J’ai Deux Amours Sovereign Artists Amina Figerova September Suite 215 Records Alan Broadbent ’Round Midnight Artistry Bob Florence Friends, Treasures, Heroes Summit Anthony Brown’s Orchestra Rhapsodies Water Baby Yves François Blues For Hawk Delmark Alex Budman & The Contemporary Instruments Of Mass Pleasure OA2 Records Nneena Freelon Blueprint of a Lady: The Once and Concord Records Jazz Orchestra Future Life of Billie Holiday The Budos Band The Budos Band Daptone The Don Friedman VIP Trio Timeless 441/Village Leslie Byers & The Jazz Cats Undecided Red Lip Records Bill Frisell East/West Nonesuch Cadwallader, Asetta & Dixson Quicker Than The Eye Stanza USA Gabin Mr. Freedom Astralworks Neil Caine Backstabber’s Ball Smalls Records Tony Gairo/Gary Rissmiller Jazz Treacherous Sea Breeze Royce Campbell Plays For Lovers Moon Cycle Records Orchestra Richard Galliano Ruby, My Dear Dreyfus Jazz Campbell & The Groovediggers Right Now! Self Produced Frank Gambale Natural High Wombat Alex Candelaria Yeahway Evander Garage a Trois Outre Mer [Original Soundtrack] Telarc Gerald Cannon Gerald Cannon Woodneck Records Sara Gazarek Yours Native Language Vincius Cantuaria Silva Hannibal Grant Geissman Say That! Futurism Records Ginny Carr After All These Years HouseKat Herb Geller Plays the Arthur Schwartz Hep Jazz Kenny Carr Friday at Five TAS Management Songbook James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ali Gold Sounds Brown Brothers Gilfema Gilfema Obliqsound Jackson & Reginald Veal Richard Glaser Band That’s Okay Richard Glaser Music Carlos Cascante Y Su Timbao Recuerdos Bettrmusik Robert Glasper Canvas Blue Note Sara Caswell But Beautiful Arbors Larry Goldings Quartet Palmetto Laura Caviani Going There Self Released Edsel Gomez Cubist Music Zoho Music Joyce/Dori Caymmi Rio Bahia Far Out Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Rumba Buhaina - The Music of Art Random Chance Craig Chaquico Holiday Higher Octave Band Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Bill Charlap and Sandy Stewart Love Is Here To Stay Blue Note Gospel Keyboard Trio Heavenly Keys The Sirens Record- Buddy Charles We’re Here Jazzed Media ings Buddy Charles We’re Here Jazzed Media Alex Graham The Good Life Origin Yashmin Charnet-Abler Jobim, etc. Bossa Nova Music The Great Jazz Trio ’S Wonderful 441 Records Cyrus Chestnut Genuine Chestnut Telarc George Gruntz Piano Works II: Ringing The ACT Billy Childs Lyric Lunacy Music Luminator Don Grusin Old Friends and Relatives Bad Dog Cintron Back in the Day ARK 21 Roland Guerin Groove, Swings And Harmony II Jazz Maniacs Clairdee Music Moves Sin-Drome Charlie Haden Music Liberation Not in our Name Verve Music Group Charmaine Clamor Searching For The Soul FreeHam Orchestra Ken Clark Organ Trio Mutual Respect Severn jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 21 Jazz Radio Currents

Hagberg/Bergeron Quartet Jobim Now Teal Creek Record- Carmen Lundy Jazz & The New Songbook: Live at Afrasia ings the Madrid Jim Hall & Enrico Pieranunzi Duologues CAM Jazz/Sunnyside Brian Lynch Latin Jazz Sextet Conclave Criss Cross Rich Halley Mountains and Plains Louie Mambo Kings Live! Mambokingdom Herbie Hancock Possibilities Vector Recordings Music Curt Hanrahan To Be Again Blujazz Eyal Maoz Edom Tzadik Donald Harrison New York Cool Half Note Records Ray Marchica In The Ring Sons of Sound Joel Harrison Harrison On Harrison HighNote Sherrie Maricle & The Diva Jazz TNT: A Tommy Newsom Tribute Lightyear Orchestra Richie Hart Greasy Street Zoho Music Eugene Marlow A Summer Afternoon With You MEII Enterprises Ken Hatfield String Theory Arthur Circle Wynton Marsalis Amongst the People: Live at the Blue Note Steve Heckman Live At Yoshi’s World City House of Tribes Stockton Helbing Lodestar Self Released Mike Marshall Brazil Duets Adventure Music Nachito Herrera Bembe en Mi Casa SF Music Joel Martin Jazzical: Perestroika! MCS Records Conrad Herwig Obligation Criss Cross Angelyna Martinez Labor of Love MexiScott Music Calvin Hill I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Arichi Willie Martinez Family Cuch Be Witcha Lisa Hilton My Favorite Things Ruby Slippers Productions Productions Eugene Maslov Where The Light Comes From Self Released Hiromi Spiral Telarc Bob Masteller The Jazz Corner Swings Latin Self Released Holly Hoffman Minor Miracle Capri Greta Matassa Favorites From A Long Walk Origin Records The Bill Holman Band Live Jazzed Media Susan May Black Coffee Southport Adam Holzman and Brave New Jazz Rocket Science Nagel Heyer Earl May Quartet Swinging The Blues with Barry Arbors World Harris Stan Hope Put On A Happy Face Savant Bill Mays Trio Live at Jazz Standard Palmetto JC Hopkins Biggish Band Underneath a Brooklyn Moon Tigerlily Records Joe McBride Texas Hold’em Heads Up Shirley Horn But Beautiful ... The Best of Shirley Verve Music Group John McNeil East Coast Cool OmniTone Horn Marian McPartland Piano Jazz w/ Elvis Costello Concord Lena Horne Seasons Of A Life Blue Note Marian McPartland w/ Bruce Piano Jazz The Jazz Alliance Hornheads Fat Lip Bone 2B Wild Music Hornsby The Hot 8 Brass Band Rock With The Hot 8 Louisiana Red Hot Marian McPartland w/ Teddy Wilson Piano Jazz The Jazz Alliance Records Brad Mehldau Day Is Done Nonesuch Ted Howe Elton Exposed: Revealing The Jazz Summit Don Menza Menza Lines Jazzed Media Soul Of Elton John Charlie Hunter, Chinna Smith and Earth Tones GSE/Green Street Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman Song X Nonesuch Ernest Ranglin Hendrik Meurkens Amazon River Blue Toucan Music Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey The Sameness Of Difference Hyena Records Miami Saxophone Quartet Midnight Rumba Fourtitude Records Jaspects In ‘House’ Sessions Jaspects Mulgrew Miller Live At Yoshi’s: Vol. 2 MAXJAZZ Jazzanova Blue Note Trip Blue Note Bob Mintzer Big Band Old School: New Lessons MCG Jazz Brett Jensen Trios Origin The Mizell Brothers Mizell Blue Note Kelley Johnson Music is the Magic Sapphire Modern Traditions Ensemble New Old Music Adventure Music Marc Johnson Shades of Jade ECM Tony Monaco East To West Chicken Coup Marc Courtney Johnson & The Dan Marc Courtney Johnson DreamyJazz Ben Monder Oceana Sunnyside Cray Trio Thelonious Monk Quartet with John At Carnegie Hall Blue Note Bujo Kevin Jones Tenth World Motema Coltrane Rodney Jones Dreams and Stories Savant Monk’s Music Trio Monk’s Bones CMB Records Betty Joplin Visions of the Moment Preserved Moments Francisco Mora Catlett River Drum 1er Cru Music Dan Moretti & Once Through Passing Place Whaling City Sound Sheila Jordan Celebration: Live at the Triad HighNote Frank Morgan Raising The Standard: Live At The HighNote Marlon Jordan w/ Stephanie Jordan You Don’t Know What Love Is Louisiana Red Hot Jazz Standard Vol.2 Records Barbara Morrison Live @The Dakota Dakota Live Label Beat Kaestli Happy, Sad and Satisfied B&B Productions Paul Motian Band Garden Of Eden ECM Jerry Kalaf Seems Like Old Times Self Released Moutin Reunion Quartet Something Like Now Lightyear/Nocturne Jeff Kaye Just Like Me Jazzed Media Mark Murphy Once To Every Heart Verve Music Group Geoffrey Keezer Wildcrafted: Live At The Dakota MAXJAZZ David Murray Quartet w/ Strings Waltz Again Justin Time Paul Keller Orchestra A Tribute To Benny Goodman PKO Najee My Point of View Heads Up Grace Kelly Times Too Self Released Milton Nascimento Pieta Savoy Jazz Bill Kirchner Everything I Love Evening Star Records Calvin Newborn New Born Yellow Dog Konono No. 1 Congotronics Crammed Discs PJ Newman The Hand of Dog Origin Records Jonathan Kreisberg Unearth Mel Bay Nia Quintet End of Time Blujazz Joachim Kuhn Piano Works I - Allegro Vivace ACT Novak & Haar Old Friends Self Produced Steve Kuhn Trio Quiereme Mucho Sunnyside/Venus Shahida Nurullah The Ruby and the Pearl Alembra Arts John La Barbera Big Band Fantazm Jazz Compass Mark O’ Connor’s Hot Swing Trio Live In New York OMAC Bireli Lagrène Swing ‘81 Le Chant du Monde Hod O’Brien Second Set Reservoir Abe Lagrimas Jr. Dimensions Pass Out Records Luis Ochoa Cimarron Cuban Music Elissa Lala Touch of Your Voice - New Takes on OmniTone Productions Chet Baker Odyssey: The Band Back In Time PI Recordings Lalo Half Moon Self Released Kayode Olajide Iba Self Released Michel Lambert Le Passant Rant The Onus Triphony Hipnotic Paula Lammers A Blanket of Blue Nightingale Jazz Oregon Prime CAM Jazz/Sunnyside Bob Lark Until You Hallway Records organissimo This Is The Place Big “O” Records Pascal Le Boeuf Migration Le Boeuf Bros. Music Jeffrey Osbourne From The Soul Koch Mike LeDonne Night Song Savant Greg Osby Channel Three Blue Note Ranee Lee and Oliver Jones Just You, Just Me Justin Time Matt Otto Red Origin Records Eric Lewis Hopscotch Fortress Michael Pag√°n Pag’s Groove Capri Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra w/ Don’t be afraid... the music of Palmetto Maceo Parker School’s In! BHM Music Wynton Marsalis Charles Mingus Joe Locke & The Milt Jackson Rev-elation Sharp Nine Peter Paulsen Trio Tri-cycle Wahbo Records Tribute Band Charlie Peacock Love Press Ex-Curio Emergent/92e Pat Longo Extreme Heat Jazzed Media Dave Peck Good Road LPS Records Jeremy Pelt Identity MAXJAZZ jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 22 Jazz Radio Currents

P. J. Perry Time Flies Justin Time Lew Tabackin Trio Tanuki’s Night Out MFC Sacha Perry Eretik Smalls Records Tango Crash Tango Crash Justin Time Houston Person All Soul HighNote Ximo Tebar Goes Blue Sunnyside Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson & Play Morricone Sunnyside Temple University Jazz Ensemble Room 323 Sea Breeze Joey Baron Ben Thomas Triskaidekaphobia Origin Jean-Michel Pilc Live At Iridium, New York Dreyfus Pyeng Threadgill Of The Air Random Chance Bucky Pizzarelli & Frank Vignola Moonglow Hyena Records Paul Tillotson Tequila Time! Scrapper Kerry Politzer Labyrinth The Orchard Julius Tolentino Just The Beginning Sharp Nine Jimmy Ponder What’s New HighNote Tomasso-Rava Quartet La Dolce Vita Camjazz Tineke Postma For The Rhythm 215/Munich Records Kevin Toney 110 Degrees And Rising Shanachie Frank Potenza and Shelly Berg First Takes Azica Records Tonic Vintage Vocals It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat Man Swings SKM Creative, Inc. Chris Potter Underground Sunnyside Samuel Torres Skin Tones One Soul Rachael Price Dedicated To You Self Released Trio Con Brio At 8200 Brill Strugglebaby Quadro Nuevo Luna Rossa Justin Time Trio da Paz Somewhere Blue Toucan Music Tom Rainer & Glenn Cashman Blue In Green Primrose Lane Trio Mocoto Beleza! Beleza!! Beleza!!! Crammed Discs Joyce Randolph Just A Little Blue Myrlys Music Erik Truffaz Saloua Blue Note Bill Ransom Generations Bongo Time Records Tryptych Myth The Beautiful AUM Fidelity Enrico Rava Full of Life Camjazz Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band For J.G. Sea Breeze Enrico Rava Tati ECM Mike Tucker Collage Self Released The Reese Project Vicodin Dreams 95 North Steve Tyrell Songs of Sinatra Hollywood Records Dianne Reeves Good Night and Good Luck Concord James Blood Ulmer Birthright Hyena Records [Soundtrack] Russ Reinberg Blue Scarlett Jazzed Media Upper Left Trio Sell Your Soul Side Origin Randy Reinhart at the Mill Hill Playhouse: As Long Arbors Bebo Valdés Bebo De Cuba Calle 54 As I Live Dave Valentin World on a String HighNote Nika Rejto Teazing Socrates Unika Music Ken Vandermark The Color of Memory Atavistic Tim Ries The Rolling Stones Project Concord Various Artists Putumayo Presents: Swing Around Putumayo Herlin Riley Cream of the Crescent Criss Cross the World Lenny Roberts The City Life Shuffle Self Released Various Artists Sprout [Soundtrack] Record Collection Sherri Roberts The Sky Could Send You Pacific Coast Jazz Various Artists Symphonic Jobim Adventure Music Bob Rodriguez Corridor CreOp Muse Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Sony Guitar Sonny Rollins Without A Song: The 9/11 Concert Milestone Various Artists So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute To J Records Wallace Roney Mystikal HighNote Luther Vandross Pamela Rose Just For A Thrill Three Handed Various Artists Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Impulse Ada Rovatti Airbop Apria Reworked Roswell Rudd & The Mongolian Blue Mongol Sunnyside Various Artists Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Blue Note Buryat Band Benefit Ali Ryerson & Steve Rudolph Soul Quest PA-CT Various Artists Gilles Peterson Digs America: Luv N’ Haight/Ubiq- Brownswood USA uity San Francisco ChamberJazz SFCJQ Music Wizards Various Artists Our New Orleans 2005 Nonesuch Quartet Poncho Sanchez Do It! Concord Picante Various Artists A Celebration of New Orleans Music Rounder to Benefit MusiCares Hurricane David Sancious 9 Piano Improvisations Not By Sight Relief 2005 Moacir Santos Choros & Alegria Adventure Music Various Artists I Heard It on NPR NPR Carl Saunders Can You Dig Being Dug? ItsusJazz Various Artists Four Dead Batteries Hightone Jenny Scheinman 12 Songs Cryptogramophone Various Artists I Believe To My Soul Rhino Lalo Schifrin Kaleidoscope: Jazz Meets The Aleph Records Gerald Veasley At The Jazz Base! Heads Up Symphony #6 James Jabbo Ware/The Me We and Vignettes In The Spirit Of Ellington Y’all of New York Inc. Radam Schwartz Conspiracy For Positivity Blue Ark Records Them Orchestra Rhoda Scott Encore, Encore, Encore.. Sunnyside Kim Waters All For Love Shanachie Paul Seaforth When Did You Leave Heaven? Rhombus Ernie Watts Spirit Song Flying Dolphin Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra Sacred Music of Duke Ellington Origin Aaron Weinstein A Handful Of Stars Arbors Jim Self InnerPlay Bassett Hound Ezra Weiss Persephone UMOJA Records Laura Welland Dissertation On The State Of Bliss OA2 Records Joey Sellers’ Jazz Aggregation El Payaso Nine Winds Wendolina Tenderly Sail Away Vince Seneri Street Talk Senful Records Dwight West The Time Is Right Blue Ark Records John Sheridan Dream Band Arbors Westwind Brass Jazztet LMP Productions Mark Sherman One Step Closer CAP Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Rendezvous (Red) The Liam Sillery Quintet Minor Changes OA2 Records Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Rendevous Frank Sinatra w/ Tommy Dorsey The Essential Frank Sinatra w/ Bluebird/Legacy Orchestra Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Brad Wheeler The Future Was Yesterday Origin Records Jae Sinnett The Sinnett Hearings J-Nett Records Richard Whiteman All Or Nothing At All Cornerstone Records Slammin’ All-Body Band Slammin’ All-Body Band Crosspulse Records Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra East Diamonds For Nat Summit Sonido Isleño Vive Jazz Tresero Jessica Williams Live At Yoshi’s Vol. 2 MAXJAZZ Soulive Breakout Concord Reuben Wilson Fun House Savant Spyro Gyra Wrapped In A Dream Heads Up Gerald Wilson Orchestra In My Time Mack Avenue Bobo Stenson Goodbye ECM Anthony Wilson Trio Savivity Groove Note Amy Stephens My Many Moods Deanna Witkowski Length of Days Artist Share Amy Stephens Group My Many Moods OA2 Records Woody Witt Quintet w/ Randy Square Peg, Round Hole Apria Chris Stewart Phoenix: A Tribute to Cannonball Self Released Brecker Adderley William Woods Every Part of Me Whaling City Sound Grant Stewart 4 Criss Cross Nat Yarbrough Triple Play Capri Don Stiernberg & John Carlini By George Blue Night L. Zaide Planet Chill: Memoirs Of A Jazz Rebel Phi Nicola Stilo/Toninho Horta Duets Adventure Music Band Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Vienna Nights BHM Music Phillip Strange and Larry Marshall In The Moment Summit Syndicate Stryker/Slagle Band Live at the Jazz Standard Zoho Music Zaxariades Mr. Z FreeHam Tierney Sutton I’m with the Band Telarc Denny Zeitlin Solo Voyage MAXJAZZ Brian Swartz Quartet Live At The Jazz Bakery Summit jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 23 Jazz Station Panel Call letters Frequency Market Rank Call letters Frequency Market Rank CJRT-FM* 91.1 Toronto, ON N/A WFCR-FM 88.5 Springfield, MA 80 KAJX-FM* 91.5 Aspen, CO N/A WFNX-FM 101.7 Boston, MA 133 KANU-FM 91.5 Topeka, KS 195 WFSS-FM 91.9 Fayetteville, NC 128 KBCS-FM 91.3 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 WGBH-FM 89.7 Boston, MA 8 KBEM-FM 88.5 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 WGLT-FM 89.1 Peoria, IL 149 KCCK-FM* 88.3 Cedar Rapids, IA 204 WGMC-FM 90.1 Rochester, NY 54 KCLU-FM 88.3 Los Angeles, CA 2 WGVU-FM 88.5 Grand Rapids, MI 67 KCME-FM 88.7 Colorado Springs, CO 96 WHRV-FM 89.5 Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Newport News, VA 40 KCSM-FM 91.1 San Francisco, CA 4 WICN-FM* 90.5 Worcester, MA 8 KEWU-FM 89.5 Spokane, WA 93 WICR-FM 88.7 Indianapolis, IN 41 KFSR-FM 90.7 Fresno, CA 68 WJSU-FM 88.5 Jackson, MS 123 KIOS-FM 91.5 Omaha, NE - Council Bluffs, IA 73 WKNS-FM†† 90.3 Greenville - New Bern - Jacksonville, NC 88 KIPO-FM* 89.3 Honolulu 62 WLRN-FM 91.3 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 KJZZ-FM 91.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 WMOT-FM 89.5 Nashville, TN 44 KKJZ-FM 88.1 Los Angeles, CA 2 WMUA-FM 91.1 Springfield, MA 80 KLCC-FM 89.7 Eugene-Springfield, OR 171 WMUB-FM 88.5 Cincinnati, OH 27 KMHD-FM 89.1 Portland, OR 24 WNCU-FM 90.7 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 KMUW-FM 89.1 Wichita, KS 95 WPFW-FM 89.3 Washington, DC 8 KNTU-FM 88.1 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 WRTI-FM 90.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 KPLU-FM 88.5 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 WSHA-FM 88.9 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 KRTU-FM 91.7 San Antonio, TX 30 WSIE-FM 88.7 St. Louis, MO 19 KSDS-FM 88.3 San Diego, CA 17 WSNC-FM 90.5 Greensboro - Winston-Salem - High Point, NC 45 KSJS-FM 90.5 San Jose, CA 33 WTEB-FM 89.3 Greenville, NC 87 KSMF-FM* 89.1 Ashland, OR 207 WUAL-FM 91.5 Tuscaloosa, AL 133 KSUT-FM* 91.3 Ignacio, CO N/A WUCF-FM 89.9 Orlando, FL 39 KTSU-FM 90.9 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 WUMR-FM 91.7 Memphis, TN 48 KUAZ-FM 89.1 Tucson, AZ 63 WUSF-FM 89.7 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 KUER-FM 90.1 Salt Lake City - Ogden - Provo, UT 31 WVPR/WVPS-FM 94.3 Burlington, VT-Plattsburgh, NY 220 KUNR-FM* 88.7 Reno, NV 231 WVTF-FM 89.1 Roanoke - Lynchburg, VA 115 KUNV-FM 91.5 Las Vegas, NV 38 WWOZ-FM 90.7 New Orleans, LA 46 KUOP-FM† 91.3 Stockton, CA 81 WWSP-FM* 89.9 Wausau-Stevens Point, WI 168 KUT-FM 90.5 Austin, TX 7 WXUT/WXTS-FM 88.3 Toledo, OH 85 KUVO-FM 89.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 WYPR-FM 88.1 Baltimore, MD 20 KXJZ-FM 88.9 Sacramento, CA 26 Music Choice* Cable National Distribution N/A WAER-FM* 88.3 Syracuse, NY 79 Sirius* Satellite National Distribution N/A WBEZ-FM 91.5 Chicago, IL 3 XM Beyond Jazz Satellite National Distribution N/A WBFO-FM 88.7 Buffalo - Niagara Falls, NY 52 XM Real Jazz Satellite National Distribution N/A WBGO-FM 88.3 New York, NY 1 Airplay of all stations, except as noted, is monitored by Mediaguide. WBLU/WBLV-FM 88.9/90.3 Grand Rapids, MI/Muskegeon, MI 66/232 WCLK-FM 91.9 Atlanta, GA 11 To apply to become a member of a station panel, email WCMU/WUCX-FM 89.5/90.1 Mount Pleasant – Saginaw/Bay City/Midland, MI 131 [email protected] WCPN-FM 90.3 Cleveland, OH 25 WDCB-FM* 90.9 Chicago, IL 3 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 WEMU-FM* 89.1 Ypsilanti, MI 10 jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 24 Smooth Jazz Radio

Simpson Again Tops Singles, Elliot Again Tops Albums

Nils Has Biggest Spin Increase

rian Simpson maintains the top spot on the singles chart with “It’s All BGood” from the pianist’s album It’s All Good (Rendezvous), while Richard El- iot stays atop on the album chart with Met- ro Blue (Artizen) on the strength of two singles, “Mystique” and “People Make the World Go ’Round.” David Stellmach’s single, “Spring Lake” Brian Simpson is again at No. 1 with the single “It’s (Rendezvous) and Adani & Wolf’s “Where All Good” from the album It’s All Good (Rendezvous). Would I Be” (Therapy/Rendezvous) were the most added, with each picking up nine stations. Picking up the biggest increase in spins was Nils’ “Summer Nights” (Baja) which picked up 58 this week. His album Paciﬁc Coast Highway gained 83 spins on the album chart.

Smooth Albums p. 26 Smooth Singles p. 27 Smooth Current CDs p. 28 Saxophonist Richard Elliot again tops the album chart Smooth Radio Panel p. 29 with two top 50 singles from Metro Blue. jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 25 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Album Chart Feb. 6, 2006 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 2 1 Richard Elliot Metro Blue Artizen 693 710 -17 34 31 0 2 4 5 1 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 622 539 83 53 31 0 3 2 1 1 Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous 608 647 -39 24 31 0 4 3 3 3 Rick Braun Shining Star [Single] Artizen 551 559 -8 23 30 1 5 7 7 3 Walter Beasley For Her Heads Up 538 506 32 37 30 0 6 6 4 1 Euge Groove Just Feels Right Narada Jazz 514 519 -5 25 30 0 7 8 6 5 Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up 504 484 20 64 29 0 8 5 8 1 Brian Culbertson It’s On Tonight GRP/Verve 468 529 -61 30 31 0 9 10 10 9 Paul Brown The City GRP/Verve 415 391 24 16 31 0 10 9 11 9 Chris Botti To Love Again: The Duets Columbia 396 396 0 16 29 0 11 11 9 1 Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous 392 390 2 64 27 0 12 13 14 12 Najee My Point Of View Heads Up 369 337 32 29 28 0 13 12 15 12 Kim Waters Steppin’ Out [Single] Shanachie 343 364 -21 25 25 0 14 14 13 10 David Pack The Secret of Movin’ On Peak/Concord 322 328 -6 28 26 0 15 15 12 2 Boney James Pure Warner Bros. 320 314 6 64 29 0 16 17 17 15 Boz Scaggs Fade Into Light Virgin/EMI 284 256 28 11 26 0 17 16 19 5 Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music 261 270 -9 50 25 0 18 19 18 1 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous 249 244 5 64 28 0 19 23 23 19 Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Rendezvous 244 223 21 20 22 0 20 20 24 13 3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave 240 240 0 52 22 0 21 18 20 2 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 228 245 -17 47 27 0 22 21 21 1 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP 205 231 -26 59 29 0 23 22 16 1 Paul Hardcastle 4 Trippin ’N’ Rhythm 201 227 -26 30 29 0 24 24 22 15 Chieli Minucci The Juice [Single] Shanachie 198 211 -13 35 21 0 25 25 26 22 Soul Ballet She Rides [Single] 215 197 194 3 28 19 0 26 34 34 12 Kem Album II Universal/Motown 193 164 29 29 20 0 27 27 28 22 Various Artists Def Jazz GRP 188 181 7 24 21 0 28 26 33 26 Gregg Karukas Looking Up V2 184 185 -1 20 18 0 29 31 32 15 Jonathan Butler Jonathan Rendezvous 180 171 9 35 19 0 30 32 30 30 Marc Antoine Modern Times Rendezvous 177 170 7 25 17 0 31 33 29 20 Raul Midon State Of Mind Manhattan 176 165 11 33 17 0 32 38 37 1 Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista 171 147 24 59 29 0 33 28 27 15 Warren Hill Popjazz Pop Jazz/Native Language 170 176 -6 28 17 0 34 29 25 4 Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. 169 176 -7 32 24 0 35 35 36 14 Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz 160 158 2 52 24 0 36 43 40 16 Michael Buble It’s Time 143/Reprise 158 136 22 29 15 1 37 30 31 4 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 158 175 -17 64 21 0 38 36 35 2 Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz 149 155 -6 46 23 0 39 40 41 5 Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie 136 140 -4 50 23 0 40 41 38 3 Paul Brown Up Front GRP 133 140 -7 59 28 0 41 42 45 14 Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note 132 137 -5 29 21 0 42 47 48 1 Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP/Universal/VMG 131 114 17 64 31 0 43 44 42 11 Jeff Golub Temptation Narada Jazz 126 131 -5 30 17 0 44 39 39 4 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 123 142 -19 64 22 0 45 37 46 30 Camiel Sunset Rendezvous 118 147 -29 25 17 0 46 45 47 22 Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch 109 119 -10 48 18 0 47 55 51 25 Daryl Hall & John Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch 97 88 9 29 15 0 48 48 43 4 Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 97 112 -15 56 22 0 49 46 50 25 The Ramsey Lewis Trio Time Flies Narada Jazz 97 116 -19 59 19 0 50 49 53 16 Fourplay Journey BMG 97 111 -14 64 20 0

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge 2 (Rendezvous) +9 Nils Pacific Coast Highway (Baja) +83 Kim Waters All For Love (Shanachie) Adani & Wolf Adani & Wolf (Therapy/Rendezvous) +8 Walter Beasley For Her (Heads Up) +32 Bob Baldwin All In A Days Work [Single] (215) Andre Delano Full Circle (7th Note) Jaco Pastorius Big Band The Word Is Out Najee My Point Of View (Heads Up) +32 Will Donato Earth Shakin’ [Single] (Generation) (Heads Up) +4 Kem Album II (Universal/Motown) +29 Mark Hollingsworth On The Mark (Windshore) Spyro Gyra Wrapped In A Dream (Heads Up) +2 Boz Scaggs Fade Into Light (Virgin/EMI) +28 Spyro Gyra Wrapped In A Dream (Heads Up) Alexander Zonjic Sweat [Single] (Heads Up) (6 more at +1) Paul Brown The City (GRP/Verve) +24 Turning Point Matador (Native Language) Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album (Arista) +24 George Duke Duke [Sampler] (Bpm) Anders Holst Five (Self Released)

jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2006 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 26 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Singles Chart Feb. 6, 2006 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous 600 625 -25 24 29 0 2 2 2 2 Rick Braun Shining Star Artizen 551 559 -8 22 30 1 3 3 5 3 Richard Elliot Mystique Artizen 532 529 3 14 30 0 4 5 4 3 Walter Beasley Coolness Heads Up 530 497 33 37 30 0 5 4 3 1 Euge Groove Get Em Goin› Narada Jazz 514 519 -5 25 30 0 6 7 8 6 Nils Summer Nights Baja 440 382 58 17 30 1 7 6 6 6 Marion Meadows Suede Heads Up 420 402 18 64 28 0 8 11 12 8 Paul Brown Winelight GRP/Verve 368 340 28 16 30 2 9 12 11 9 Najee Made Up My Mind Heads Up 362 332 30 25 27 0 10 8 10 8 Kim Waters Steppin’ Out Shanachie 343 364 -21 25 25 0 11 10 9 9 Chris Botti Good Morning Heartache (w/ Jill Scott) Columbia 337 351 -14 16 29 0 12 14 16 12 Michael Lington Pacifica Rendezvous 294 272 22 16 26 1 13 15 15 10 Boz Scaggs Lowdown (Unplugged) Virgin/EMI 284 256 28 22 26 0 14 13 13 8 David Pack You’re The Only Woman Peak/Concord 280 294 -14 28 24 0 15 9 7 1 Brian Culbertson Hookin’ Up GRP/Verve 261 354 -93 30 29 0 16 18 19 16 Boney James 2:01 AM Warner Bros. 228 213 15 35 29 1 17 20 22 17 3rd Force You Got It Higher Octave 205 203 2 17 19 0 18 16 14 1 Paul Hardcastle Serene Trippin ’N’ Rhythm 201 227 -26 30 29 0 19 19 17 10 Chieli Minucci The Juice Shanachie 198 211 -13 35 21 0 20 21 20 18 Soul Ballet She Rides 215 197 194 3 28 19 0 21 17 18 5 Ken Navarro You Are Everything Positive Music 196 216 -20 50 24 0 22 23 21 17 Gerald Albright Hey Young World GRP 188 181 7 24 21 0 23 22 24 21 Gregg Karukas Show Me the Way V2 184 185 -1 20 18 0 24 25 25 1 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 182 157 25 53 28 0 25 34 51 25 Brian Culbertson Let’s Get Started GRP/Verve 174 133 41 5 21 5 26 30 37 26 Kirk Whalum Whip Appeal Rendezvous 169 142 27 17 19 2 27 24 23 17 Warren Hill Still In Love Pop Jazz/Native Language 169 174 -5 28 17 0 28 32 31 27 Jonathan Butler Rio Rendezvous 161 138 23 19 17 2 29 26 26 2 Steve Cole Thursday Narada Jazz 149 155 -6 46 23 0 30 33 28 28 Raul Midon If You’re Gonna Leave Manhattan 143 136 7 31 15 0 31 29 27 1 Wayman Tisdale Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now Rendezvous 142 144 -2 64 25 0 32 31 30 4 Chuck Loeb Tropical Shanachie 136 140 -4 50 23 0 33 36 34 2 Kenny G & David Sanborn Pick Up The Pieces Arista 136 121 15 59 29 0 34 27 29 4 Paul Jackson, Jr. Never Too Much GRP 133 146 -13 49 22 0 35 28 32 1 Richard Elliot People Make The World Go ’Round Artizen 128 144 -16 34 28 0 36 35 33 2 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 126 130 -4 47 22 0 37 45 44 1 Gerald Albright To The Max GRP/Universal/VMG 125 106 19 64 30 0 38 39 42 38 Marc Antoine Modern Times Rendezvous 106 113 -7 13 10 0 39 51 57 39 Camiel El Alba Rendezvous 106 91 15 25 17 0 40 46 38 7 Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. 106 105 1 33 20 0 41 37 41 30 Paul Taylor East Bay Bounce Peak 102 115 -13 17 13 1 42 38 40 13 Nelson Rangell Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing Koch 101 114 -13 41 16 0 43 47 39 16 Kem I Can’t Stop Loving You Universal/Motown 99 103 -4 29 17 0 44 43 46 11 Mindi Abair Make A Wish GRP 98 109 -11 29 16 0 45 48 59 45 Jeff Lorber Everybody Knows That Narada Jazz 95 95 0 11 13 2 46 49 53 46 Joe McBride Double Down Heads Up 94 92 2 15 9 0 47 58 54 27 Michael Buble Home 143/Reprise 94 73 21 29 12 0 48 40 35 1 Tim Bowman Summer Groove Liquid 8 94 111 -17 56 21 0 49 42 48 22 The Ramsey Lewis Trio The In Crowd Narada Jazz 94 110 -16 59 18 0 50 44 56 15 Fourplay Fields Of Gold BMG 92 106 -14 64 19 0

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound David Stellmach “Spring Lake” (Rendezvous) +9 Nils “Summer Nights” (Baja) +58 Wayman Tisdale “Cruisin’” (Rendezvous) Adani & Wolf “Where Would I Be (Sem Seu Amor)” (w/ Brian Culbertson “Let’s Get Started” (GRP/Verve) +41 Kem “Find Your Way (Back In My Life)” (Universal/Motown) Ken Navarro “Stoned Soul Picnic” (Positive) Praful) (Therapy/Rendezvous) +9 Walter Beasley “Coolness” (Heads Up) +33 Bob Baldwin “All In A Days Work” (215) Chris Botti “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?” Najee “Made Up My Mind” (Heads Up) +30 Will Donato “Earth Shakin’” (Generation) (w/ Sting) (Columbia) +7 Paul Brown “Winelight” (GRP/Verve) +28 Andre Delano “Footsteps” (7th Note) Kirk Whalum “Can We Talk” (Rendezvous) Brian Culbertson “Let’s Get Started” (GRP/Verve) +5 Boz Scaggs “Lowdown” (Unplugged) (Virgin/EMI) +28 Kim Waters “Daydreaming (w/ Maysa)” (Shanachie) Jaco Pastorius Big Band “River People” (Heads Up) +4 Alexander Zonjic “Sweat” (Heads Up) Spyro Gyra “Midnight Thunder” (Heads Up) +3 George Duke “Sausalito” (Bpm) jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2006 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 27 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Albums

3D Riff To The Smooth [Single] 215 Kyle Eastwood Paris Blue Candid/Rendezvous 3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave Eliane Elias Dreamer Bluebird/Arista Blake Aaron Spin Zone [Single] 215 Richard Elliot Metro Blue Artizen Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP Eric Essix Somewhere In Alabama Essential Greg Adams Firefly 215 Euge Groove Just Feels Right Narada Jazz Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP/VMG/UMG Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI Acoustic Alchemy American/English Higher Octave Danny Federici Out Of A Dream V2 Eric Alexander Dead Center Highnote Fourplay Journey BMG Marc Antoine Mediterraneo Rendezvous Ray Fuller A. The Weeper A Ray Artists Marc Antoine Modern Times Rendezvous Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista Average White Band Greatest And Latest Liquid 8 Richard Galliano Ruby, My Dear Dreyfus Aya Strange Flower Naked Sara Gazarek Yours Stiletto/Native The Bad Plus Suspicious Activity? Columbia/Sony BMG Language Larry Gittens Too Hot [Single] Human Feel Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note Garry Goin Goin’ Places Compendia Bob Baldwin All In A Days Work [Single] 215 Jeff Golub Temptation Narada Jazz Bob Baldwin Brazil Chill A440 Metheny Group Pat The Way Up Nonesuch Elastic Band Joshua Redman Momentum Nonesuch Herbie Hancock Possibilities Hancock/Hear Walter Beasley For Her Heads Up Paul Hardcastle 4 Trippin ’N’ Rhythm Pete Belasco Deeper Compendia Everette Harp All For You A440 George Benson Best Of George Benson Live GRP/UMG/VMG Richie Hart Greasy Street Zoho George Benson Irreplaceable GRP/VMG/UMG Mark Hasselbach Gabriel Gabriel... First Name Basis Wind Tunnel Matt Bianco Matt’s Mood UMG Lalah Hathaway Outrun The Sky AgU/Sanctuary Bona Fide Soul Lounge Heads Up Vincent Herring Eric Alexander & The Battle: Live At Smoke HighNote Chris Botti To Love Again: The Duets Columbia Warren Hill Pop Jazz Pop Jazz/Native Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia Language Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 Lisa Hilton My Favorite Things Lisa Hilton Rick Braun Shining Star [Single] Artizen Hiroshima Obon Heads Up Brian Bromberg Choices A440 Mark Hollingsworth On The Mark Windshore Brian Bromberg Choices Artistry Anders Holst Five Self Released Clayton Brothers Back In The Swing Of Things Hyena Stan Hope Put On A Happy Face Savant Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. Shirley Horn But Beautiful: The Best Of Shirley Verve/UMG Horn On Verve Paul Brown The City GRP/Verve Boney James Pure Warner Bros. Paul Brown The City GRP/Verve Dean James Brighter Days Silhoette Paul Brown Up Front GRP Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive VMG Shelby Brown No Boundaries S. 2 Tha B. Marc Johnson Shades Of Jade ECM/Universal Michael Buble It’s Time 143/Reprise Classics Jonathan Butler Jonathan Rendezvous Kevin Jones Bujo Tenth World Motema Cafe Soul All Stars Love Pages You Norah Jones Feels Like Home Blue Note/EMI Camiel Sunset Rendezvous Ronny Jordan After 8 Encoded Kenny Carr Friday At Five TAS Management Gregg Karukas Looking Up V2 Mark Cassara Let’s Talk Sax Rhombus Jeff Kashiwa Peace Of Mind Native Language Craig Chaquico Midnight Noon Higher Octave Kem Album II Universal/Motown Craig Chaquico Midnight Noon Higher Octave Chaka Khan Classikhan Sanctuary Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord Diana Krall The Girl In The Other Room Verve Chiara Civello Last Quarter Moon Verve Jonathan Kreisberg Unearth Mel Bay Avishai Cohen At Home Razdaz/Sunnyside David Lanz The Good Life Decca Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album AM/UMG John Coltrane Thelonious Monk & At Carnegie Hall Thelonious/Blue Note Chuck Leavell Tomato Jam [Single] Evergreen Arts Conspire Passing Time L.A.P. Bradley Leighton Just Doin’ Our Thang Pacific Coast Jazz Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got To Play Narada Jazz/Virgin Rupert Leighton Beyond Reflection Self Released Brian Culbertson It’s On Tonight GRP/Verve Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous Brian Culbertson Nice & Slow Atlantic Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie Jamie Cullum Catching Tales Verve Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz Jamie Cullum Twenty Something Verve Kevin Mahogany Big Band Zebra Eric Darius Night On The Town Higher Octave Wynton Marsalis Live At The House Of Tribes Blue Note Andre Delano Full Circle 7th Note Veronica Martell The Art Of Intimacy Apria Will Donato Earth Shakin’ [Single] Generation Hugh Masekela Revival Heads Up Will Donato Espana [Single] Generation Joe McBride Texas Hold’Em Heads Up George Duke Duke [Sampler] Bpm Michael McDonald Motown Two Motown George Duke T-Jam [Single] Bpm/Navarre Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up Candy Dulfer Right In My Soul Eagle Raul Midon State Of Mind Manhattan Gene Dunlap Peaceful Days 215 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Chieli Minucci The Juice [Single] Shanachie jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 28 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Albums

Frank Morgan Raising The Standard: Live At The HighNote Jazz Standard Vol.2 Smooth Station Panel Najee My Point Of View Heads Up Call letters Frequency Market Rank Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music KAJZ-FM 101.7 Albuquerque, NM 71 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja KBZN-FM 97.9 Salt Lake City - Ogden - Provo, UT 31 Novecento Dreams Of Peace Favored Nations KHJZ-FM 95.7 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 O’2L Doyle’s Brunch Peak KIFM-FM 98.1 San Diego, CA 17 John Oates Daryl Hall & Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch KJCD-FM 104.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 Steve Oliver 3-D Koch KJZY-FM 93.7 San Francisco, CA 4 Renee Olstead Renee Olstead 143/Reprise Jeffrey Osborne From The Soul JayOz/Koch KKSF-FM 103.7 San Francisco, CA 4 David Pack The Secret of Movin’ On Peak/Concord KKSJ/KTSJ-FM 105.9 Lafayette, LA 102 Maceo Parker School’s In BHM KLJT-FM 102.3 Tyler-Longview, TX 148 Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Rounder KMGQ-FM 97.5 Santa Barbara, CA 204 Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up KOAI-FM 107.5 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 Positive Flow The City Streets [Single] Shanachie KOAS-FM 105.7 Las Vegas, NV 38 Praful Pyramid In Your Backyard Rendezvous/Therapy KRVR-FM 105.5 Stockton, CA 82 Benoit/Freeman Project The The Benoit/Freeman Project 2 Peak KSKX-FM 105.5 Colorado Springs, CO 97 Reese Project The Vicodin Dreams 95 North KSMJ-FM 97.7 Bakersfield, CA 83 Brubeck Quartet The Dave London Flat, London Sharp Telarc KSSJ-FM 94.7 Sacramento, CA 26 Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch KTWV-FM 94.7 Los Angeles, CA 2 The Rippingtons Wild Card Peak KWJZ-FM 98.9 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 David Sanborn Closer Verve KYOT-FM 95.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 Boz Scaggs Fade Into Light Virgin WBRH-FM 90.3 Baton Rouge, LA 84 Seal Best: 1991-2004 Warner Bros. WEIB-FM 106.3 Hartford - New Britain - Middletown, CT 50 Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous WFJZ-FM 106.7 Ft. Wayne, IN 105 Hil St Soul Copasetik & Cool Shanachie WFSK-FM 88.1 Nashville, TN 44 Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 WGPR-FM 107.5 Detroit, MI 10 Soul Ballet She Rides [Single] 215 WJAB-FM 90.9 Huntsville, AL 116 Spyro Gyra The Deep End Heads Up WJJZ-FM 106.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 WJSJ/WSJF-FM 105.5 Jacksonville, FL 49 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak WJZA/WJZK-FM 103.5 Columbus, OH 35 Tekneek Joy Ride Tek South WJZI-FM 93.3 Milwaukee - Racine, WI 32 Tha’ Hot Club Tha’ Hot Club Shanachie WJZL/WJZO-FM 93.1 Louisville, KY 55 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous WJZR-FM 105.9 Rochester, NY 54 To The Bone Spread Love Like Narada WJZW-FM 105.9 Baltimore, MD 20 Wildfire Kevin Toney Quiet Conversation [Single] Shanachie WJZZ-FM 107.5 Atlanta, GA 11 Nestor Torres Sin Palabras Heads Up WLOQ-FM 103.1 Orlando, FL 39 Scofield Trio John Enroute Verve WLVE-FM 93.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 Arriale Trio The Lynne Come Together Motema WNUA-FM 95.5 Chicago, IL 3 Lewis Trio The Ramsey Time Flies Narada Jazz WNWV-FM 107.3 Cleveland, OH 25 Various Artists Def Jazz GRP WPMJ-FM 94.3 Peoria, IL 149 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP WQCD-FM 101.9 New York, NY 1 Various Artists Groove Boutique: Volume One Tommy Boy WSJT-FM 94.1 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Columbia/Legacy/ Guitar Sony BMG WSJW-FM 92.7 Harrisburg - Lebanon - Carlisle, PA 80 Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge, Vol.1 Rendezvous WSMJ-FM 104.3 Baltimore, MD 20 Various Artists Sprout [Soundtrack] Record Collection WVAS-FM 90.7 Montgomery, AL 152 Gerald Veasley At The Jazz Base! Heads Up WVMV-FM 98.7 Detroit, MI 10 Lee Venters Vermillion Sands Lifeforce Jazz WVSU-FM 91.1 Birmingham, AL 57 Waldino Get Loose Self Released WXJZ-FM 100.9 Gainesville - Ocala, FL 87 Andre Ward Steppin’ Up Orpheus WYJZ-FM 100.9 Indianapolis, IN 41 Kim Waters All For Love Shanachie Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie Kim Waters Steppin’ Out [Single] Shanachie Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Rendezvous Peter White Confidential Columbia Pamela Williams Sweet Saxations Shanachie *KEZL and KJZI have changed formats and are dropped from the Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake VMG panel. Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up Airplay of all stations is monitored by Mediaguide. Alexander Zonjic Seldom Blues Heads Up To apply to become a member of a station panel, email [email protected] jazzweek.com • Feb. 6, 2006 JazzWeek 29

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