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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • Oct. 19, 2005 Volume 1, Number 47 • $7.95 In This Issue: Higher Ground ARTIST CD Slated for November . 4 Q&A JazzWeek Jazz and Smooth Panels Add Stations . 6 Father of Russian Jazz Lundstrem . 7 Latin Grammy DAVID Performers Announced . 8 BENOIT page 10 Reviews and Picks . 13 Jazz Radio . 16 HIGHER Smooth Jazz GROUND Radio. 22 Radio CD page 4 Panels. 28 News. 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Monk Quartet w/ Coltrane #1 Smooth Album – Paul Hardcastle #1 Smooth Single – Paul Hardcastle JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger MUSIC EDITOR s we were going to “press” (or whatever you call it Tad Hendrickson for an electronic publication) I got an email from CONTRIBUTING EDITORS AWWOZ’s Dwayne Breashears that the station is Keith Zimmerman back on the air in New Orleans, broadcasting from studios Kent Zimmerman CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ in Baton Rouge. That is indeed wonderful news. WWOZ PHOTOGRAPHER will be welcome in a city that seems to be – in some as- Tom Mallison pects, anyway – recovering more quickly than originally PHOTOGRAPHY Barry Solof anticipated. Founding Publisher: Tony Gasparre This issue has the list of new radio panelists – check ADVERTISING: Call (585) 328-3104 or email: [email protected] out page 6. We’re very pleased to have them on board. If you need contact information for them, send an email to SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: Charter Rate: $199.00 per year, [email protected], and an automatic reply will be JazzWeek w/ Industry Access – Charter Rate: $249.00 per year sent to your email. To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ AMEX/PayPal go to: http://www.jazzweek.com/account/ We’re just a few weeks away from our anniversary as subscribe.html a weekly publication. Look for an announcement about a new subscription plan that will greatly expand the circu- AIRPLAY MONITORING BY lation of this magazine. We’ll pass that along soon. – Ed Trefzger, Editor Mediaguide 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. Suite 150 Berwyn, PA 19312 JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) is published weekly by 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone: (585) 235-4685 fax: (585) 235-4685 [email protected] Copyright ©2005 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. jazzweek.com • Oct. 19, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents Oct. 19, 2005 News . 4 Blue Note Slates Higher Ground CD for November 22 Release . 4 JazzWeek Radio Panels To Expand Effective Oct. 26 Issue . 6 Oleg Lundstrem, ‘Father of Russian Jazz’, 89 . 7 Latin Grammy Performers Announced . 8 Birthdays . 9 Features 4 Artist Q&A: David Benoit. 10 Reviews . 14 E.S.T. 13 Chris Botti . 13 Barbara Morrison . 13 Julius Tolentino . 14 Ben Monder . 14 10 Jazz Charts . 16 Jazz Album Chart . 17 Jazz Add Dates . 18 Jazz Current CDs . 19 Jazz Radio Panel . 28 Smooth Jazz Charts . 21 Smooth Album Chart . 23 Smooth Singles Chart. 24 16 Smooth Current CDs . 26 Smooth Radio Panel . 28 Classifieds . 15 21 Photo from Higher Ground Benefit Concert by Frank Stewart/Jazz at Lincoln Center JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 47 jazzweek.com • Oct. 19, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Blue Note Slates Higher Ground Concert CD for November 22 Release lue Note Records will release Higher Ground, a CD that doc- Buments Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Ben- efit Concert, a landmark evening of musical offering that was mounted by Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Artistic Di- rector, Blue Note recording artist and New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis on Sept. 17, less than three weeks after Hurricane Katrina imparted its dev- astation upon the Gulf Coast. Street date is Nov. 22. The concert and auction produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center have already raised over $2 million to date, and all proceeds from sales of the CD will also go directly to the Higher Ground Re- Frank Stewart/Jazz at Lincoln Center lief Fund established by Jazz at Lincoln The Jordan Family performs at Frederick P. Rose Hall during the Higher Ground Relief Center and administered through the Benefit Concert on Sept. 17. Baton Rouge Area Foundation, a non- profit community foundation, to ben- Midler, Art & Aaron Neville, Dianne Other standout moments include efit the musicians, music industry re- Reeves, James Taylor, Cassandra Wil- New Orleans-born trumpeter Ter- lated enterprises and other individuals son & Buckwheat Zydeco. ence Blanchard’s emotive and sweep- and entities from the areas in Great- Higher Ground collects the high- ing performance of “Over There,” Art er New Orleans who were impacted by lights of the evening from Shirley Cae- & Aaron Neville’s funky take on “Go Hurricane Katrina and to provide oth- sar’s rousing opener “This Joy” through To The Mardi Gras,” Diana Krall’s er general hurricane relief. Cassandra Wilson’s prayerful reading laidback rendition of “Basin Street The concert, which took place of Duke Ellington’s “Come Sunday” Blues” featuring Cyrus Chestnut on at Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orches- piano, James Taylor’s heartfelt “Never Hall in New York City and was tele- tra. These 15 tracks pay tribute to the Die Young,” Norah Jones’s sweet solo vised nationally on PBS and broad- city of New Orleans, one of the great- piano reading of Randy Newman’s “I cast on XM Satellite Radio and NPR est musical and cultural centers in all Think It’s Going To Rain Today,” and member radio stations in the U.S. and the world, through a multitude of mu- Wynton Marsalis’s celebratory tribute worldwide, boasted a remarkable ar- sical moods & styles: Early to Mod- to New Orleans icon Louis Armstrong ray of talent including Norah Jones, ern Jazz, Gospel, New Orleans Funk, on “Dippermouth Blues.” Diana Krall, Wynton Marsalis, Bette Folk, & Pop. continued ... jazzweek.com • Oct. 19, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News Higher Ground CD To Be Released Nov. 22 (continued) 12. Irvin Mayfield, Jr. - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (5:20) 13. The Jordan Family - Here’s To Life (6:00) 14. Joe Lovano - Blackwell’s Message (5:00) 15. Cassandra Wilson and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - Come Sunday (8:50) About the Baton Rouge Area Foundation The Higher Ground Relief Fund will be administered and distributed Frank Stewart/Jazz at Lincoln Center through The Baton Rouge Terence Blanchard moves the audience at Frederick P. Rose Hall during the Higher Ground Area Foundation, a non-profit Relief Benefit Concert on Sept. 17 with his performance of “Over There”. organization that forms partnerships with philanthropists, nonprofit “New Orleans is the birthplace of HIGHER GROUND - CD TRACK organizations and other community jazz. The city’s diverse population of LISTING leaders to ensure that its community can exceed any challenge, and that Spanish, French, British, West Afri- 1. Shirley Caesar - This Joy (2:40) its residents have every opportunity cans and Americans created an orig- 2. Terence Blanchard - Over There (7:00) to succeed. It helps Fund Donors inal music that embodies the funda- create a lasting legacy and fulfill mental principals of democracy. Jazz 3. Art & Aaron Neville - Go To The Mardi their philanthropic goals. at Lincoln Center was established to Gras (5:00) The Baton Rouge Area Foundation celebrate jazz and so we are particu- 4. Diana Krall - Basin Street Blues (5:40) helps nonprofit organizations larly moved to action by the destruc- 5. James Taylor - Never Die Young (4:00) succeed with their plans to tion visited on the Crescent City by implement programs that will 6. Dianne Reeves - The House I Live In Katrina,” said Marsalis. have positive, lasting impacts (4:40) “The focus of the Fund will be in our community. It recognizes to help those individuals and families 7. Marcus Roberts - New Orleans Blues opportunities for improvement in the evacuated from the greater New Or- (4:45) area, raise awareness, and promote leans area as they address immediate 8. Norah Jones - I Think It’s Going To long-term solutions. concerns related to housing, food, ed- Rain Today (3:00) Steady leadership and a flexible ucation, health care and basic surviv- 9. Wynton Marsalis Hot Seven - strategic plan have helped the Baton al necessities. The Fund will also pro- Dippermouth Blues (2:20) Rouge Area Foundation implement vide resources to assist individuals over and sustain the visions of passionate 10. Buckwheat Zydeco - I’m Gonna Love time to rebuild their homes and liveli- philanthropists for more than 40 You Anyway (4:35) years. For more information about hoods,” said Derek E. Gordon, presi- 11. Bette Midler and the Lincoln Center the foundation and its relief funds, dent and CEO of Jazz at Lincoln Cen- go to www.braf.org. ter. Jazz Orchestra - Is That All There Is (4:00) jazzweek.com • Oct. 19, 2005 JazzWeek 5 News JazzWeek Radio Panels To Expand Effective Oct. 26 Issue ffective with the next issue of • KBCS, Seattle/Tacoma lem/High Point, N.C. JazzWeek, the Jazz Album Chart • KCME, Colorado Springs, Colo. • WVTF, Roanoke/Lynchburg Va. Eradio panel will expand to 83 sta- • KUER, Salt Lake/Ogden/Provo • WYPR, Baltimore, Md. tions from 67, and the Smooth Album Utah In addition, KAJX, Aspen, Colo. and Singles Chart panel will add an • KUOP, Stockton, Calif. (repeats returns to the Jazz panel as a report- additional station. KXJZ, Sacramento for the Stockton ing station. With input from radio promot- market) On the smooth panel, non-com- ers and labels, more than two dozen • WBLV/WBLU, Grand Rapids, mercial station WVSU, Birmingham, stations were considered for addition Mich Ala. is added, bringing the total num- to the panel. Stations chosen, for the • WFCR, Springfield, Mass. ber of stations on that panel to 50.