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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 Volume 2, Number 2 • $7.95 In This Issue: IAJE 2006 Set HOLIDAY RELEASES 2005 for Manhattan in January. . . . . 4 19 new CDs Drummer Roy Brooks, 67 . . 6 reviewed, Marsalis Music including Announces New Honors Diana Krall Series ...... 7 page 10 Reiner Schwarz Joins CJRT . . 8 December and Reviews and Picks . . . . . 18 Jazz Make a Jazz Radio . 21 Great Recipe Smooth Jazz page 16 Radio...... 28

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MUSIC EDITOR enjoy hearing Christmas music – once it’s close to the Tad Hendrickson holiday. Around the country there are stations already CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Iplaying all holiday music, and they’ve been doing it for Keith Zimmerman weeks, in some cases. Now that Thanksgiving is past us, Kent Zimmerman CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ it’s time to start including some music of the season for PHOTOGRAPHER many stations, and there’s a pretty nice selection of new Tom Mallison holiday releases this year. We’ve got our capsule reviews PHOTOGRAPHY Barry Solof of 19 of them starting on page 10. And if you’re looking for more ideas about how to program music of the season Founding Publisher: Tony Gasparre on your station, check out Tom Mallison’s second annual ADVERTISING: Devon Murphy Call (866) 453-6401 ext. 3 or look at holiday favorites on page 16. email: [email protected]

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News ...... 4 IAJE: World’s Largest Jazz Conference Returns to Manhattan Jan. 11-14, 2006 . 4 Drummer Roy Brooks, 67 ...... 6 Marsalis Music Launches Honors Series With Drummers Cobb, Carvin. . . . . 7 Tower, Other Businesses Reopen in New Orleans ...... 7 Reiner Schwarz Joins Toronto’s JAZZ.FM91 ...... 8 Birthdays ...... 9 6 Features Holiday Music Roundup 2005 ...... 10 December and Jazz Make a Great Recipe for Radio Programming ...... 16 Reviews ...... 18 Arthur Kell ...... 18 Moacir Santos ...... 18 Dr. John And The Lower 911 ...... 18 10 Jazz Charts ...... 21 Jazz Album Chart ...... 22 Jazz Add Dates ...... 23 Jazz Current CDs ...... 24 Jazz Radio Panel ...... 27 Smooth Jazz Charts ...... 28 Smooth Album Chart ...... 29 Smooth Singles Chart...... 30 21 Smooth Current CDs ...... 31 Smooth Radio Panel ...... 32 Classifieds ...... 20

Cover photo: Diana Krall by Sam Taylor Wood/Verve Music Group 28 JazzWeek Volume 2 Number 2 jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News IAJE: World’s Largest Jazz Conference Returns to Manhattan Jan. 11-14, 2006

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Inter- two performances. On Thursday, Jan. Song; Jazz Big Band Graz featuring national Association for Jazz Educa- 12, with Djangology, a tribute to Djan- Theo Bleckmann and the music of tion (IAJE) returns to New York City go Reinhart featuring gypsy guitarist John Hollenbeck; John Fedchock NY for its 33rd Annual Conference Jan. 11- Bireli Lagrene. And on Saturday, Jan. Sextet; Jim Cullum Jazz Band; Kar- 14, 2006. The Hilton New York and 14, with the world premiere of rin Allyson; EST; Sheraton New York Hotels will serve a clarinet concerto written Robert Glasp- as the headquarters for the largest an- and arranged by Mi- er; Stefon Harris nual gathering of the global jazz com- chael Abene for spe- & Blackout; Andy Milne & munity, with over 7,000 educators, mu- cial guest Paquito Dapp Theory; Dave McMurdo Jazz sicians, industry executives, exhibitors, D’Rivera (broadcast Orchestra; I Am Three Mingus Big media and students from 35 countries live on German Public Radio.) Band/Orchestra/Dynasty; Bob Mint- expected to attend. New York is com- Nordic Now, a consortium of pro- zer Big Band; Nimmons ‘N’ Nine... mitted to host the conference again in fessional and student groups from Now!; Kitty Margolis; The Millenni- 2007 and in 2010. IAJE heads north Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Fin- um Jazz Orchestra & Fay Claasen; Li- to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2008. land will showcase the vibrant Scan- onel Loueke’s Gilfema Trio; Jean-Mi- Education, teacher training and dinavian jazz community. A highlight chel Pilc Trio; Dafnis Prieto Quintet; networking will be firmly at the will be a closing night performance by Kenny Werner Trio; Christian Scott; heart of the conference agenda, com- Norway’s Trondheim Jazz Orchestra Andy Scott-Dave Hassell Duo; Curti! bined with an impressive performance with special guest, Grammy winning s Stigers; U.S. Army Blues Jazz En- schedule. In addition, the conference pianist-composer Chick Corea. Corea, semble with Buddy DeFranco; Uni- will feature a 75,000 square-foot in- who is set to receive an NEA Jazz Mas- versity of North Texas One O’Clock dustry exposition, commission pre- ters Award during the conference, will Lab Band; Javon Jackson Band, and mieres, technology presentations, re- also perform that evening with Jack many more. search papers, award ceremonies, and DeJohnette and Eddie Gomez (their The IAJE Conference will host top school groups from Europe, Aus- first time together as a trio.) the National Endowment for the Arts tralia, Croatia, Peru, Israel, Canada, The No Name Horses Jazz -Or Jazz Masters Awards Concert for the and the United States. chestra directed by Makoto Ozone, 16th consecutive year on Friday, Jan. IAJE Executive Director Bill Mc- comprised of first call studio jazz mu- 13. Initiated in 1982, the NEA Jazz Farlin said, “It’s a program suited for a sicians based in Japan, are among the Master title is the highest honor pre- city that has served as the vanguard of musical highlights of the evening con- sented by the American government jazz for more than 50 years and is a re- certs. Also performing at the confer- to the nation’s jazz artists. In addition flection of how far IAJE has come as ence: Ravi Coltrane Quartet; Maria to the coveted designation, each NEA the association officially representing Schneider Orchestra; Oscar Castro- Jazz Master will receive a fellowship the jazz field.” Neves; Monty Alexander Trio featur- award of $25,000 and be invited to The WDR Big Band from Co- ing Hassan Shakur and Herlin Ri- participate in outreach efforts, includ- logne, Germany returns to IAJE with ley; Jane Ira Bloom/Like Silver, Like continued ... jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News

IAJE 2006 Set for Manhattan (continued) ing broadcasts and NEA Jazz Masters in 2004, Dr. Oscar Peterson in 2003, The conference host radio station On Tour. The awards concert will fea- Quincy Jones in 2002 and Ken Burns WBGO Jazz 88 FM will have daily ture performances by The Count Basie in 2001. live broadcasts on site. Orchestra with special guest Nnenna The International Jazz Festivals Other conference highlights will Freelon and the Jon Faddis Jazz Or- Organization (IJFO) and the IAJE include the world premiere of the Herb chestra. The seven fellowship award will present the 5th annual Internation- Alpert Endowment Fund Gil Evans recipients for 2006 are: percussionist al Jazz Award for New Talent, which Commission and the ASCAP/IAJE Ray Barretto, the most widely record- recognizes a rising artist who has yet to Commissions honoring Ornette Cole- ed conguero in jazz history; vocalist ex- sign a major record contract. The 2006 man; a performance by winners of the traordinaire Tony Bennett, who infus- award will be presented to Norwegian Montreux Jazz Festival piano and sax- es his passion for jazz in every phrase; saxophonist Kjetil Møster. A Graduate ophone competition; a SOCAN spon- arranger-composer Bob Brookmey- of the Trondheim Music Conservato- sored premiere of works by Canadi- er, the master orchestrator of modern ry, Møster has participated in a large an jazz composer Phil Nimmons; and jazz ensembles, small and large; pia- number of groups in Norway, from the performances by IAJE talent recogni- nist-composer Chick Corea, who has Trondheim Jazz Orchestra with Chick tion ensembles including the Sisters in dazzled audiences in every idiom from Corea and Pat Metheny, to free explo- Jazz Collegiate All-Stars, the IAJE/ acoustic avant-garde to samba-tinged rations with Paal Nilssen-Love and NFAA Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fel- fusion; clarinet virtuoso Buddy De- Maja Ratkje. Møster will also perform lowship All-Stars, the AAJC/HBCU Franco, who triumphantly spans the during the conference. Student All-Star Big Band, and the swing and bebop eras; blazing trum- The 2006 IAJE Conference indus- Community College All-Star Student peter Freddie Hubbard, one of the de- try track, under the auspices of Jazz Big Band. fining voices of hard bop; and talent Alliance International, will focus on Other awards presented during manager John Levy, who for over 50 career development, new media, the the IAJE Conference will include the years has managed the careers of such recording industry, and personalized IAJE Jazz Education Hall of Fame to artists as Carmen McRae, Joe Wil- consultation. These insightful and of- Berklee College of Music retired Pres- liams, and Nancy Wilson. ten times controversial panels and ident Lee Berk, IAJE Humanitarian The 6th Annual IAJE Gala Din- workshops are geared to members of Award to NEA Jazz Master IAJE Ad- ner is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. the jazz recording, journalism, pre- visory Council member Jimmy Heath, 11, in the Trianon Ballroom of the senting, performing, retail, and radio and the first IAJE Jazz Ambassador Hilton New York Hotel, the gala will industry. With sponsorship and sup- Award to Australian educator and be hosted by NEA Jazz Master and port from JazzTimes, BET Jazz: The trumpeter Pat Crichton. GRAMMY® Award winning vocalist 24-Hour Jazz Channel, Jazziz, Down The deadline for the advance full Nancy Wilson with proceeds benefit- Beat, JazzWeek, NARAS, the Jazz conference registration fee of $328 ing the IAJE Global Outreach Fund. Journalists Association, WBGO Jazz U.S., which includes a one-year IAJE North Sea Jazz Festival director Theo 88 FM, Billboard Magazine, and DL membership, is December 16. After van den hoek will receive the Law- Media, the industry track will provide December 16, the full registration fee rence Berk Leadership Award during an opportunity for industry members will be $363 U.S. Current IAJE mem- the Gala for his service and support of to interact with jazz educators and mu- bers can deduct $68 U.S. The confer- IAJE and the 2006 IAJE Presidents sicians in a series of sessions that en- ence registration fee covers all sessions Award winner will be announced. The courage honest exchange of ideas and and activities except the IAJE Gala. IAJE Presidents Award, which hon- strategies for the future. Among the For more information or to register ors an individual for their extraordi- Industry Track highlights are exclu- for the conference or gala, call IAJE nary contributions to the field of jazz sive one-on-one interviews with NEA at (785) 776-8744, fax (785) 776-6190, education, was presented to Herbie Jazz Masters Sonny Rollins, Dr. Billy or log on to www.iaje.org. Hancock in 2005, Wynton Marsalis Taylor, and Clark Terry. JW jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 5 News Drummer Roy Brooks, 67

DETROIT – Drummer Roy Brooks, Max Roach’s all percussion group a native of Detroit and a fixture on its M’Boom in 1970. jazz scene, died Nov. 15 at the age of That same year, he recorded per- 67. He had suffered from multiple ill- haps his most critically-acclaimed al- nesses. bum, The Free Slave (first released on Brooks, a busy hard bop drummer Muse and reissued on 32jazz) which throughout the 1960s, came to wide- also introduced trumpeter Woody spread attention during his years with Shaw, tenor saxophonist George Cole- the Horace Silver quintet from 1959- man, pianist Hugh Lawson, and bass- 64. ist Cecil McBee to a wider audience. Brooks then moved to New York In the mid-1970s, Brooks returned for the next 11 years, where he worked to Detroit, where he became a mentor with a number of prominent jazz musi- to many young musicians. cians, including Jackie McLean, Dex- Brooks suffered from mental ill- ter Gordon, Pharoah Sanders, Wes ness for decades, and was arrested and Oct. 2002 issue of JazzTimes. Montgomery, Sonny Stitt, Abdul- imprisoned in 2000 after increasing- Brooks is survived by his estranged lah Ibrahim, Randy Weston, Charles ly erratic behavior during the previ- wife and two sons. Mingus, Milt Jackson, and Yusef La- ous decade. He was featured in a cover (Obituary compiled from various teef. He was a founding member of story on jazz and mental illness in the sources.) JW ��

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jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 6 News Marsalis Music Launches Honors Series With Drummers Cobb, Carvin

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Having es- whom he has known since before I was The first two titles in the Hon- tablished a commitment to document- born, and with Andrew, who is also ors Series join previous releases by ing the music of emerging jazz artists, a colleague of mine from my teach- contemporary leaders Marsalis, Har- Marsalis Music now directs its focus to ing days at San Francisco State. Jim- ry Connick, Jr. and Joey Calderazzo established, if often underappreciated, my also told me how pleased he was to and new players Doug Wamble and giants with a new Honors Series of re- play with Orlando.” Miguel Zenón. JW cordings. Drummers Jimmy Cobb and Marsalis Music Honors Michael Michael Carvin launch this ongoing Carvin features a younger master per- Tower, Other project on March 7, 2006 with quartet cussionist who has been as influen- discs produced by label head Branford tial in his role as “coach” at the drum Businesses Reopen Marsalis. school he has headed for three decades in New Orleans “We want to put the spotlight on as through his performances with the musicians who have contributed so likes of Jackie McLean, Freddie Hub- NEW ORLEANS – Tower Records, much, yet often get taken for grant- bard and Dizzy Gillespie. “I’ve know has announced that its French Quar- ed,” Marsalis explained, “and we also Carvin for years, since I first came to ter store will re-open for business as wanted a situation in which the artist New York,” Branford notes. “He’s one of Friday, Nov. 25. Meanwhile, New recorded the music of his or her choice. of those stalwart guys, and he has taught Orleans’ Riverwalk Marketplace re- Artists have their own conception, and most of the major drummers who have opened its doors on Monday, Nov. 21 as a producer, it’s my job to make sure emerged in the past 15 years.” Carvin’s to tourists and local customers, signal- that everyone is on the same page and album includes his longstanding pia- ing another step in the road to eco- that the music sounds as good as it nist Carlton Holmes as well as rising nomic recovery for the city of New can.” tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Marsalis Music Honors Jimmy Cobb and, in his first recording, newcomer “The reopening of Riverwalk is presents the legendary drummer in a bassist Dezron Douglas. an important step in the journey New quartet completed by alto saxophon- For producer Marsalis, an impor- Orleans faces to rebuild the vital tour- ist Andrew Speight, who first worked tant feature of the Honors Series is the ism industry. For 20 years, Riverwalk with Cobb in Nat Adderley’s quintet; opportunity to provide both exposure has been an essential part of the visitor pianist Ellis Marsalis, an old friend and a learning experience for young experience. As New Orleans begins to who had never played with Cobb be- talents such as LaFleming (whom the rebuild, Riverwalk is ready and proud fore; and bassist Orlando LaFleming, saxophonist met at a European jazz to be a part of welcoming visitors and a young British bassist drawing atten- festival) and Douglas (who is currently local customers back home,” said John tion for his work in Jane Monheit’s studying at the University of Hartford Bucksbaum, chief executive officer of band. The program includes several and first met Marsalis at a Connect- General Growth Properties (GGP). of Cobb’s own original compositions. icut high school). “It’s my hope that, From beignets at Cafe du Monde “Including Jimmy Cobb in the Hon- wherever possible, some younger play- to rides on the legendary Riverboat ors Series was a no-brainer,” Branford ers are included on all of the Honors Cajun Queen, customers can enjoy sev- admits. “After all, he’s Jimmy Cobb, sessions, so that the veterans can pass eral discounts at Riverwalk through- one of the most influential drummers down their wisdom and experiences out the holiday season. Customers will in the music and a major contributor to while getting a new view of things at enjoy live music on opening day and the Miles Davis sound. It’s great that the same time. It’s a good opportunity every weekend by the Riverwalk Jazz JW he got to record with my dad (Ellis), for everybody.” Band. jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 7 News Reiner Schwarz Joins Toronto’s JAZZ.FM91

TORONTO – Legendary Canadi- Ross Porter, President and CEO ture spot crowns a multi-media career an broadcast veteran Reiner Schwarz, of JAZZ.FM91, who said that Fri- which credits Reiner Schwarz with pi- whose multiple career accomplish- day night late-night programming has oneering the free-form progressive ra- ments have enhanced nearly every as- been reformatted to continue to build dio format that took CHUM-FM to pect of that country’s entertainment on the station’s steadfast commitment the top of the ratings in the late ‘60’s. industry for the past three decades, to serve the broad interests and infor- He moved from there to do much the has turned his talents back to music mation appetites of the Toronto radio same for CHOM-FM in Montreal, radio broadcasting for JAZZ.FM91 station’s listeners, while continuing to then to assignments as producer, writ- (CJRT). satisfy their preference for jazz music. er, and host for the CBC and CTV be- In a departure from pre-recorded “In the entertainment industry, fore becoming the readily recognized Friday night programming, free-think- Reiner Schwarz is widely recognized as host of TVOntario’s popular “Night- ing communicator Reiner Schwarz a one-man ‘tour de force’,” Porter said. music.” Stints as a lead dramatic actor shares his love of jazz and his often “He is one of the most innately curious on film and television have paralleled offbeat philosophical views on life in and intelligent thinkers I know, with a his successes in broadcast production, general, live from 10:00 p.m. Friday mind that moves along creative paths management, and program develop- to 4:00 a.m. Saturday (with an encore that promise to offer unique new per- ment since the late ’70s. presentation of Friday night’s first two spectives on the way our world works Schwarz started his new program hours of�� the show from 4:00 to 6:00 for late-night listeners.” Nov. 11. CJRT is a reporting member a.m. Saturday morning). The JAZZ.FM91 overnight fea- of the JazzWeek jazz panel. JW

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jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 8 News Birthdays December 5 December 13 Art Davis (1934) Sonny Greer (1895) November 28 Egberto Gismonti (1947) Reggie Johnson Born (1940) George Wettling (1907) December 6 Mark Elf (1949) Gigi Gryce (1927) Dave Brubeck (1920) December 14 Gato Barbieri (1934) Jay Leonhart (1940) Budd Johnson (1910) Roy McCurdy (1936) Miroslav Vitous (1947) Ted Buckner (1913) November 29 Harvie Swartz (1948) Clark Terry (1920) Danny Alvin (1902) December 8 Cecil Payne (1922) Billy Strayhorn (1915) Jimmy Smith (1925) Phineas Newborn (1931) Jerome Cooper (1946) Ed Bickert (1932) December 9 Dan Barrett (1955) Billy Hart (1940) Bob Scobey (1916) Chuck Mangione (1940) Donald Byrd (1932) December 15 Randy Brecker (1945) Jimmy Owens (1943) Stan Kenton (1911) Adam Nussbaum (1955) Billy Butler (1925) December 10 Gene Quill (1927) November 30 Ray Nance (1913) Barry Harris (1929) Jack Sheldon (1931) Bob Cranshaw (1932) Curtis Fuller (1934) Johnny Dyani (1945) Franco Ambrosetti (1941) Dannie Richmond (1935) December 1 Dianne Schuur (1953) Eddie Palmieri (1936) Jimmy Lyons (1933) Ole Amund Gjersvik (1963) December 16 Jaco Pastorius (1951) December 11 Andy Razaf (1895) December 2 McCoy Tyner (1938) Turk Murphy (1915) Charlie Ventura (1916) December 12 Wynton Kelly (1931) Sam Most (1930) Eddie Barefield (1909) Johnny “Hammond” Smith (1933) December 3 Frank Sinatra (1915) Joe Farrell (1937) Sylvia Syms (1919) Dodo Marmarosa (1925) John Abercrombie (1944) Herbie Nichols (1919) Joe Williams (1928) Rene McLean (1946) Webster Young (1932) Toshiko Akiyoshi (1929) Grover Washington, Jr. (1943) December 17 December 4 Ray Noble (1903) Alex Acuña (1944) Russell Jacquet (1917) Sy Oliver (1910) Michael Carvin (1944) Jim Hall (1930) Sonny Red (1932) Tony Williams (1945) Dennis Charles (1933) Walter Booker (1933) Andy LaVerne (1947)

jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 9 Holiday Music Roundup 2005

hristmas songs and holiday favorites are loved by most folks, but probably more out of nos- talgia than for the quality of the tunes (or else we’d hear “Rudolph” or “Rockin’ Around Cthe Christmas Tree” all year long.) After a while, it’s enough to make even the most sentimental radio host or jazz fan cry “Bah Humbug!” However, many songs, especially those from the Great American Songbook era, survive and get reinvented (or retreaded) each year. This holiday season, we gave a listen to many of the new releases for the 2005 season. And to tickle your memory a bit, Tom Mallison reminds us about recordings from past years – and his favorites from 2005 – to help you pull together that holiday programming on page 16.

Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass

Christmas Album (Shout Factory) HERE’S A TOP candidate for those who like their Christmas music fun and kitschy. Long out of print, this 1968 release is a Christmas version of the Amer- iachi sound we know and love. Highlights include “My Favorite Things” and a vocal debut from Alpert himself on “The Christmas Song.” Of particular note is the vocal work of Shorty Rogers, whose wordless choral arrangements have that haunting ’60s feel that seemed to be everywhere back then. One gripe, and this goes for all the Shout Factory stuﬀ: The original album is a scant 32 minutes long and this is reissued with no extras. Nonetheless, a good one for Christmas parties. – Tad Hendrickson Kenny G

The Greatest Holiday (Arista) THIS GREATEST HITS collection (Mr. Gorelick has done three Christmas albums) features four new tunes and 12 ghosts from Christmases past. A new highlight is the big band version of “Jingle Bell Rock,” which has a blustery but swingin’ arrangement by Randy Waldman. The G-man’s new version of “My Favorite Things,” on the other hand, will give Coltrane’s transcendent versions a run for their money. Many people complain about the manic pace of the holiday season. Here, for better or worse, is an album that will slow things down, hope- fully so you can stop and drink the eggnog. – T.H. continued ... jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 10 Holiday Music Roundup 2005 (continued)

Marcus Johnson

Smooth Jazz Christmas (Three Keys Music) IF KENNY G sets a mellow tone with his holiday collection, then Marcus Johnson creates a party atmosphere with a more urban, upbeat take on the Christmas cat- alog. An album of mostly instrumentals, soulful singer Keith Ailer joins John- son with warm vocals on the radio single “The Christmas Song” and on “Silent Night.” Johnson, a morning host on D.C.’s WJZW, has blended R&B grooves and smooth jazz sounds for the hippest Christmas record of the season. – Ed Trefzger Eddie Higgins Trio

Christmas Songs (Sunnyside) PIANIST HIGGINS, ALONG with drummer Joe Ascione and bassist Jay Leonhart, have created what may be the best Christmas album of 2005. Avoiding any gimmicks, the trio gives us fairly straight ahead jazz renditions of traditional and pop tunes, with a relaxed and delicate touch. Higgins’ breezy, swinging style, Leonhart’s bowed bass, and Ascione’s light brushwork combine to create a Christmas CD of real substance. – E.T. Various Artists

40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas (Peak/Concord) DAVID BENOIT, WHO has taken the baton as the musical guardian of the Pea- nuts animated specials, has assembled an all-star cast for a jazz, smooth jazz and vocals celebration of the Vince Guaraldi compositions for “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Vanessa Williams, Toni Braxton, Brian McKnight and Chaka Khan all contribute ﬁne vocals, and the instrumental tracks, including Benoit, Dave Koz, Rick Braun, Norman Brown, Gerald Albright, Eric Marienthal and the Rippingtons are fresh and contemporary, even while paying homage to the original renditions. – E.T. Diana Krall

Christmas Songs featuring the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (Verve) RECALLING THE HEYDAY of pop just before the advent of rock ’n’ roll, Diana Krall swings her way through an album of traditional holiday tunes and Christ- mas standards. John Clayton provides most of the album’s lush arrangements, with Johnny Mandel contributing a pair. Krall is relaxed and sultry throughout, and the band and its charts are killer. This one’s destined to be a jazz and standards holiday-season mainstay for years to come. – E.T. continued ... jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 11 Holiday Music Roundup 2005 (continued)

Kate and Anna McGarrigle

The McGarrigle Christmas Hour (Nonesuch) FEATURING THE CANADIAN folk duo and their assorted children (Rufus and Martha Wainwright) and Emmylou Harris, the opening of the disc will be a shock to the system for some: the opening choral pieces wouldn’t be out of place at midnight mass. Harris brings a little bit of character to “O Little Town Of Bethlehem” and Rufus’s droll barroom blues version of “What Are You Doing New Years Eve” is up to his usual odd but engaging standards. The highlight is the melancholy but not sappy “Counting Stars” with its stark narration juxta- posed against an ethereal backing. Not jazz, any of it, but pretty descent Christ- mas album that goes well beyond the obvious. – T.H.

Plan 9

The 9 Days Of Christmas (Plan 9) A SMOOTH JAZZ Christmas album is probably a one-two punch that will send some screaming to their stocking hoping to ﬁnd the Miles Davis’s Cellar Door box set to cleanse their palette. But whereas Christmas music and smooth can both suﬀer from a lack of emotional punch, The 9 Days Of Christmashas a strong Latin infusion that helps these tunes move along in short order. Highlights include “Oh Come Emmanuel,” which sounds like it could be an 11 O’clock number in a Broadway show, and the Afro-Latinized “Good King W.” A word of warning: the R&B-ish take on “Silent Night” was not a good idea on any terms. – T.H.

Anita Baker

Christmas Fantasy (Blue Note) BAKER SET OUT to record a Christmas album for when the kids have gone to bed, and succeeded; certainly the Frosty-as-ladies-man introduction to the album sets that tone. While including mostly familiar tunes – there are a cou- ple of originals – Baker has created vibrant arrangments that breathe new life into those chestnuts. Including such players as George Duke, Joe Sample, Larry Carlton, Barry Eastmond, and the Yellow Jackets, the album provides welcome new seasonal material for jazz, smooth jazz, and urban formats alike. – E.T.

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Jane Monheit

The Season (Epic) THE YOUNG CHANTEUSE takes a decidedly pop turn on this CD, which is one of three Christmas releases (along with Anita Baker and Diana Krall) that Al Schmidt had a hand in recording this year. In what seems like a Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains in Elmer Gantry move, Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” startles a bit with its overt R&B sensuality. Monheit returns to her more wholesome personna on other tracks, and plays to her strengths on tracks like “The Christ- mas Waltz,” or the duo with guitarist Miles Okazaki, “I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day.” While its glossy, tinsel sheen may give jazzheads pause, the CD should be a big retail winner for Monheit. – E.T.

Brian Setzer Orchestra

Dig That Crazy Christmas (Surfdog) SETZER FIRST ARRIVED as the singer/guitarist for the Stray Cats, a band that pillaged old rock-a-billy poses for the MTV’s ﬁrst generation of fans. For more than a decade Setzer’s solo career has been leading a retro swing big band. He lifts riﬀs from Goodman, Miller and others while adding his own lyrics. While this may annoy purists to no end, Dig That Crazy Christmas is another Christmas album that won’t bring the Holiday work party to a screeching halt. – T.H.

Kenny Ellis

Hanukkah Swings! (Favored Nations) CANTOR TURNED JAZZ singer ... now where have we heard that one before? El- lis takes traditional tunes and gives them some big band moxie. Sometimes there’s a little kitsch, sometimes a little schmaltz, but Kenny shows others who have the chutzpah to make non-jazz tunes swing how a real mensch does it. It’s not all swingin’ though; the Latin-tinged “Ocho Kandelikas” (paying tribute to Sephardic Jews in Spain) and the calypso “Hanu-calypso” (rhymes with Pough- keep-so) add to the fun. Even so, this is no novelty album, but a novel take on Jewish tradition. – E.T. continued ... jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 13 Holiday Music Roundup 2005 (continued)

Tonic Vintage Vocals

It Aint Over ’Til The Fat Man Swings (SKM Creative) CHICAGO-BASED QUARTET TONIC sings in the retro tradition of groups like Man- hattan Transfer and New York Voices, but with a little more Rat Pack hipness. This album includes a handful of Christmas novelties with several new compositions performed in snappy, four-part harmony. While none of the new tunes are likely to become holiday staples, their slightly snarky tone is a nice antidote to some of the more treacly sounds of the season. – E.T. Jimmy Sommers

A Holiday Wish ( Jimmy Sommers) ANOTHER SMOOTH JAZZ Christmas eﬀort, A Holiday Wish is from alto saxophonist Jimmy Sommers. Sommers is joined by the like-minded Chris Botti here on opener “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and it’s pretty good – neither have any saccharine-sounding delay on their instruments and the each take turns working the melody. Sommers himself can be favorably compared to David Sanborn in that he plays in the smooth vein but eschews the stereotypes – not a wind chime to be heard here. – T.H. Various Artists

Christmas Of Peace (Redeemer Presbyterian) ISSUED BY Redeemer Presbyterian Church and featuring 40 musicians, Christ- mas Of Peace is a mix of contemplative jazz (think George Winston) and clas- sical arrangements. It’s a fairly good music with solid and tasteful playing and singing with such folks as John Patitucci and the Emerson String Quartet lend- ing their talents. All proceeds from this go to the New Song Community Part- nership in Harlem. “Away In The Manger” is the best-known song here, with the rest of the 11 tracks being considerably more obscure. – T.H. The David Leonhardt Jazz Group

I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Big Bang Records) DAVID LEONHARDT HAS done a really nice job of creating interesting new arrangements of well-known tunes while preserving the familiarity of the material. Singer Nancy Reed has a warm voice and a sweet presence that blends perfectly with the light, airy sound of the quartet. Standout tracks include “We Three Kings,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “Sleigh Ride,” and the opening “Let It Snow.” – E.T.

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Various Artists

Christmas Remixed Vol 2.(Six Degrees) THIS IS LIKELY to send Uncle Albert running to kitchen in terror if he’s a traditional jazz fan – Bing, Bird, Ella and Mahalia are all recontextualized. King Kooba’s remix of Charlie Parker’s “White Christmas” sounds odd and unbal- anced and the same can be said for MNO’s remix of Rosemary Clooney’s “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.” Better is the fun hip-hop oriented version of Charles Brown’s “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” and Kaskade’s version of Big Crosby’s “White Christmas.” Downright brilliant is Red Baron’s remix of Ber- lin Symphony Orchestra’s “Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairy.” Deﬁnitely another one for the Holiday parties instead of the family gatherings, unless you’re trying to impress your know-it-all niece in college. – T.H. Gap Mangione

Family Holidays ( Josh Music) PIANIST GAP MANGIONE assembles his big band for a few performances and recording dates on occasion, and gathered some Rochester, N.Y. hometown boys made good and some regular collaborators – including Steve Gadd, Grant Geissman, Tony Levin, Gerry Niewood, and Pat LaBarbera – for a Christmas album of mostly large ensemble charts. Fresh arrangments of “O Christmas Tree,” “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve,” “Sleigh Ride” and “Christmas Waltz” by the big band are a treat. Gap and Grant also get together for a cool, hip-hop tinged “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” in an excursion from the big band material. – E.T. Paul Winter Consort & Friends

Silver Solstice (Living Music) WHILE WINTER WAS a promising jazz musician signed by no less than John Ham- mond in the early ’60s, by the end of the decade his Consort backing band had taken a decidedly ethnic (African, Asian and South American) feel with heavy ambient overtones that would become the prototype for new age music. This double disc eﬀort was recorded during his 25th annual solstice event at NYC’s monolithic Cathedral of St. John the Divine. While much of this is the new age vein, there’s a few gems: the gospelized “Sound Over All Waters” and Luciana Souza on “Silent Night” and Jobim’s short little piece “Luiza.” – T.H.

jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 15 December and Jazz Make a Great Recipe for Radio Programming by Tom Mallison

his time of the year oﬀers some of Empire Brass, and Manhattan Trans- music are from Blue Note, RCA, Sa- the most wonderful arrangements, fer all from Telarc have been wonder- voy and Columbia. From Germany Tinstrumentation, selections and ful programming tools. Verve/GRP/ there are two compilations of Nagel programming opportunities for radio Universal has their three early releases Heyer artists and a release from Randy programmers. It is a time of the year on GRP as well as the Traditional and Sandke all diggin’ the opportunity to when we can almost forget about for- Contemporary compilations of holiday spread holiday cheer. mats, genres, and day part program- music. Blue Note and There are good rep- ming and allow the music to speak to RCA have great compi- resentations from the our ears and souls. I have been sharing lations also, not to men- trumpet with releases music of the season with my listeners tion a great release last by Wynton Marsalis, for many, many, many years and have year by Dianne Reeves. Chet Baker, Rick Braun collected a wealth of great sounds and From Canada, Justin and Chris Botti. get excited now to see more music of Time has several great Two very bombas- the season being released by both art- compilations oﬀering tic sounding releases ists and labels. The compilations make many artists that usual- are Keith Foley’s Music for great programming. ly are not in the main- for Christmas on DMP Some of my favorites from years in stream of radio pro- Tom Mallison with Wynton and Eric Darken’s A the past include McCoy Tyner “I’ll Be gramming. Concord has Marsalis at the 2005 Newport Drummer Boy’s Christ- Home for Christmas,” Arthur Blythe two great compilations Jazz Festival. mas distributed by War- “The Christmas Song,” and Dex- along with releases from ner Bros. ter Gordon’s “Have Yourself A Mer- Scott Hamilton, Rosemary Clooney, Notable new releases in 2004 were ry Little Christmas. These are all from Rob McConnell, Dave McKenna and from Hiroshima, The Yellowjack- Columbia’s Jingle Bell Jazz CD. Other several others. MoJazz also joins the ets, Dianne Reeves, Anton Schwartz, favorites include Nat King Cole, Mel club with a compilation of holiday se- Royce Campbell and a great reissue Torme, Lou Rawls, Mahalia Jackson, lections. Warner Bros. has their share from Ramsey Lewis. 2005 brings even Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Stan of releases including several compila- more new releases for great listening. Kenton, Vince Guaraldi, David Ben- tions plus music from Take Six, Boney New current releases, many being oit, Danny Gottlieb/Pete Levin, Doc James, FourPlay and Kirk Whalum. reviewed by JazzWeek, include Diana Severinsen, Al Gray, Etta James with Milestone-Fantasy-Presitge, of Krall with the Clayton-Hamilton Big Houston Person, and Al Jarreau. I course, has the classic Vince Guaral- Band on Verve, Barbara Montgom- continue to program Ray Charles with di Charlie Brown Christmas and two ery on Two Beans, Marcus Johnson Betty Carter doing “Baby it’s Cold compilations of jazz masters like Dex- on Three Keys Music, Eddie Higgins Outside.” ter Gordon, Bobby Timmons, Ruth Trio on Sunnyside, Ricardo Scales on In recent years Oscar Peterson, Brown, Chet Baker, and Red Garland Bay Sound, Craig Chaquico on High- Ray Brown, George Shearing, Dave all swinging to the holiday sounds. er Octave, Herb Alpert on Shout Fac- Brubeck, Nancy Wilson, Al DiMeola, Other great compilations of holiday continued ... jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 16 December and Jazz (continued)

tory, Anita Baker on Blue Note, David iday season a different beat, Gumbo ahead and treat your listeners. You can Leonhardt on Big Bang, Gap Man- Christmas by the Dixieland Ramblers mix the great sounds from the many gione on Josh and Jane Monheit on and Leon Redbones’ Christmas Island. Narada and Windham Hill compila- Epic, Kenny Ellis on FM and Brian Don Lanphere offers up Year tions with all of these artists and have Setzer on Surfdog. There is another Round Christmas while guitarist Steve great sounds of the season. It is like new release, 40 Years of Charlie Brown Laury has Holiday CD. Gregg Karu- walking up to a musical buffet with all Christmas, this year featuring vari- kas featuring Shelby Flint has Home gourmet entrees. ous artists from Peak/Concord. Just for the Holidays and the Sackville All Not to be overlooked is a handful released by guitarist Jack Wilkins is Star Christmas are other interesting re- of releases from Mannheim Steam- Christmas Jazz Guitar. leases for seasonal programming. There roller on American Gramaphone that are many releases from Windham Hill and Narada that can be programmed with other more mainstream artists and make for interesting listening for your listeners. These are only a few of the great items on the Holiday Buffet. Step up and delight your listeners and expand your collection. This time of the year allows for the mixing of Jimmy Smith from his Verve CD along with Kenny Burrell and Mahalia Jackson singing “O Holy Night” mixed with John Coltrane’s arrangement of “Greensleeves.” You can provide great eclectic programming or There are many other great releases add a taste of Hank Crawford playing blended with the selections mentioned and I’ll just list the names of the artist the “The Christmas Song” and “Win- previously. They have over six holi- to jog your memory: Grover Washing- ter Wonderland” right along with Joe day releases, by Mannheim Steamroll- ton, Jr, Dan Moretti, Joe Vincelli, Ann Williams and Mel Torme, Diana Krall er, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Hampron Callaway, Marcus Roberts, and Herb Alpert. There are great vo- Mannheim Steamroller is the #1 sell- Wynton Marsalis, Eric Reed, Charlie cal groups represented by Manhattan ing Christmas group of all time. This Byrd, Richard Stolzman,Thom Rotel- Transfer, The Ritz, Beachfront Prop- music is so strong and has survived la, Freddy Cole, Celestial Navigations, erty, Rare Silk, Singers Unlimited and 2000 years so you can make it great Peter Kater, Kim Pensyl, Ottmar Li- Take Six. for your listeners. Just give them the ebert, Cyrus Chestnut, Harry Con- Another of the hidden gems you opportunity to hear these wonderful nick, Jr., Max Jazz Artists, Natalie can feature, especially this time of artists and you will probably pick up Cole, Ray Charles, Don Coster, Book- the year, is of Bob Belden arrange- many new listeners with a little pro- er T and the MGs, Jimmy McGriff, ments featuring Kenny Barron, Stefon motion and they will stick with you af- Tom Kubis Big Band, Warren Hill, Harris, Ron Carter and Lewis Nash: ter the holiday for the great sounds. In Peter White, Paul Horn Wind Ma- Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker with great army experience of programming Holi- chine, Paul Horn and Paul Winter. rangements of the “Sugar Plum Fairy”, day Jazz I have found this season, this The Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas and “Overture”. It is on the Vertical music and these artists are a great way release is an excellent representation of Jazz label. to grow your radio audience. Of course the music of the holidays and the Latin In a nutshell, it is a time of the advanced promotion helps draw in new influence. There also is Reggae Christ- year when the music speaks loudest listeners. mas by Riddem Nation giving the hol- and boundaries become blurred so go Happy listening! JW jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 17 Reviews and Picks

Arthur Kell rhythms. The follow up to 2004’s Ouro Traveller (Fresh Sounds New Talent) Negro, Choros & BASSIST ARTHUR KELL has traveled extensively over the years Alegria features a (one can go to arthurkell.com to read his road journals), but laundry list of play- wherever he goes, he always returns to music. Here in a ers (including Wyn- quartet with guitar- ton Marsalis) play- ist Steve Cardenas, ing folky choros like saxophonist Gorka “Flores,” richly tex- Benitez and drum- tured tunes like “Ag- mer Joe Smith, Kell ora Eu Sei” (which presents ten (only sounds like it could nine are listed) songs be a hip TV theme in the four- to sev- song) and samba-tinged tunes like “Vaidoso.” Sonically and en-minute range. aesthetically close to jazz, here’s an album that is a great op- The times will work portunity to broaden either one’s own horizons or their pro- great for jazz radio, gramming. but music is the ob- – Tad Hendrickson vious priority and Contact: Dr. Jazz this group delivers. Kell’s compositions tend toward vamp- Phone: (800) 955-4375 ish grooves anchored by himself and Smith as Benitez and Email: [email protected] Cardenas play tender and often quite memorable melodies, Add Date: Nov. 14 Release Date: Oct. 11 at other times they’ll experiment with harmonies but not playing atonally to do so. Highlights include “I Believe Ya’” with its extended melody and galloping rhythm and the ac- Dr. John And The Lower 911 robatic and twisting “Crinkum And Crankum.” A fine effort from a group many are probably not familiar with. Sippiana Hericane (Blue Note) – Tad Hendrickson WHILE THE WATERS have receded and the clean-up process Contact: Jason Byrne is underway, New Orleans still has a long way to go before Phone: (718) 921-1330 there will be any sense of normalcy (which will undoubtedly Email: [email protected] be different after the Add Date: Nov. 28 Katrina). Sippiana Release Date: Nov. 29 Hericane is one benefit effort to remind Moacir Santos us that just because the pictures aren’t on Choros & Alegria (Adventure) the front page, the COMPOSER, ARRANGER AND singer Moacir Santos has been Big Easy and its citi- at the heart of the Brazilian music scene for 50 years, work- zens are still in crisis. ing with orchestras and educating musicians like Baden Recorded during the Powell and Sergio Mendes as well as countless listeners. increasingly horrify- His music has a rich Jobim-like substance to it that some- ing days after the le- times integrates the rich orchestra voicings with the samba (continued) jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 18 Reviews and Picks Target your market!

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vees broke, Dr. John doesn’t waste a lot of time making his points – opening track “Clean Water” and “Sweet Home New Orleans” both bear that out in about 10 seconds. The “Hurricane Suite” takes up the rest of this 25-minute EP. Of the four parts, the slow piano-driven bluesy “Calm In The Storm” is the most aﬀecting of the pieces, while the funky “Aftermath” illustrates the spiritual strength of the survivors with the emphatic refrain “Wade in the water/ Advertise in Comin’ back better than ever.” It’s also worth pointing out JazzWeek that, larger themes aside, it’s a damn ﬁne record from Dr. John. Reach not just jazz radio, but musicians, clubs, – Tad Hendrickson retailers and promoters ... all people in the jazz Contact: Groov Marketing field who now can subscribe free to JazzWeek. Phone: (877) GROOV 32 For rates and more information, contact Email: [email protected] Add Date: Nov. 21 Devon Murphy at 866-453-6401, ext. 3 or at Release Date: Nov. 22 [email protected]. ��

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Joe Locke/Milt Jackson Tribute Band Stays at No. 1

Higher Ground concert CD is Most Added

ibraphonist Joe Locke and the Milt Jackson Tribute Band stay at the No. V1 spot on the jazz chart this week with Rev-elation (Sharp Nine), a live album recorded at Ronnie Scott’s, featuring Mike LeDonne, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Ro- ker. Most added this week is the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Beneﬁt Concert CD (Blue Note), which was added on 38 stations. Rev-elation (Sharp Nine),by Joe Locke and the The biggest increase in airplay was for Milt Jackson Tribute Band, stays at No. 1 this Tommy Dorsey The Sentimental Gentleman week, with airplay on 65 stations. of Swing (Bluebird/Legacy), which many stations featured coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Dorsey’s birth on Nov. 19.

Jazz Album Chart p. 22 Jazz Add Dates p. 23 Jazz Current CDs p. 24 Jazz Radio Panel p. 27

Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert, presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center (Blue Note) was added on 38 stations. jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 21 airplay data JazzWeek Jazz Album Chart Nov. 28, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 2 1 Joe Locke & The Milt Jackson Tribute Band Rev-elation Sharp Nine 364 337 27 5 65 2 2 2 8 2 Houston Person All Soul HighNote 302 308 -6 4 62 6 3 8 4 3 Dianne Reeves Good Night and Good Luck [Soundtrack] Concord 283 212 71 6 64 3 4 3 7 3 Clayton Brothers Back In The Swing Of Things Hyena Records 243 283 -40 5 60 2 4 6 15 4 Mike LeDonne Night Song Savant 243 233 10 5 55 2 6 7 1 1 Brad Mehldau Day Is Done Nonesuch 234 223 11 8 62 1 7 NR NR 7 Tommy Dorsey The Sentimental Gentleman Of Swing: Bluebird / Legacy 225 63 162 1 20 7 Centennial Collection 8 4 5 1 Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall Blue Note 218 275 -57 9 52 0 9 20 35 9 The Great Jazz Trio ‘S Wonderful 441 Records 217 152 65 3 50 7 10 5 3 1 Gerald Wilson Orchestra In My Time Mack Avenue 215 245 -30 12 53 1 11 9 9 9 Jimmy Ponder What’s New HighNote 213 210 3 5 55 3 12 14 10 10 Robert Glasper Canvas Blue Note 203 169 34 5 52 4 13 25 25 13 Julius Tolentino Just The Beginning Sharp Nine 180 129 51 4 51 4 14 13 6 6 Shirley Horn But Beautiful ... The Best of Shirley Horn Verve Music Group 176 180 -4 5 50 1 15 16 43 15 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra w/ Wynton Don’t be afraid... the music of Charles Palmetto 174 161 13 3 50 8 Marsalis Mingus 16 18 23 16 Barbara Morrison Live @ The Dakota Dakota Live Label 172 156 16 4 43 1 17 33 NR 17 Geoffrey Keezer Wildcrafted: Live At The Dakota MAXJAZZ 162 109 53 2 48 14 18 12 21 12 Alan Broadbent ’Round Midnight Artistry 156 183 -27 6 54 1 19 15 18 12 Trio da Paz Somewhere Blue Toucan Music 151 163 -12 8 40 2 20 36 48 20 Tineke Postma For The Rhythm 215/Munich Records 146 104 42 3 44 5 21 17 11 2 Tierney Sutton I’m with the Band Telarc 139 158 -19 12 37 1 22 11 12 2 Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring The Battle: Live at Smoke HighNote 137 184 -47 12 45 1 23 NR NR 23 Rodney Jones Dreams and Stories Savant 135 77 58 1 40 17 24 19 13 6 Wynton Marsalis Amongst the People: Live at the House of Blue Note 129 153 -24 12 43 0 Tribes 25 28 32 25 Chris Botti To Love Again Sony 128 123 5 4 27 3 26 9 17 9 Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar Sony 125 210 -85 6 32 0 27 24 26 14 Dee Dee Bridgewater J’ai Deux Amours Sovereign Artists 123 133 -10 8 42 0 28 21 20 5 Nneena Freelon Blueprint of a Lady: The Once and Future Concord Records 122 150 -28 15 35 1 Life of Billie Holiday 29 NR NR 29 Various Artists Higher Ground : Hurricane Relief Benefit Blue Note 119 NR 119 1 43 38 30 44 NR 30 Jamie Cullum Catching Tales Verve Music Group 116 91 25 2 27 3 31 35 21 4 Poncho Sanchez Do It! Concord Picante 111 106 5 15 35 0 32 36 24 24 Bebo Valdés Bebo De Cuba Calle 54 110 104 6 3 37 0 33 32 29 29 Richie Hart Greasy Street Zoho Music 109 110 -1 6 43 3 34 34 32 32 Marc Johnson Shades of Jade ECM 108 107 1 7 31 2 34 41 NR 34 Wallace Roney Mystikal HighNote 108 94 14 2 45 4 34 43 43 34 Jonathan Kreisberg Unearth Mel Bay 108 93 15 6 31 2 37 21 16 9 Mark Sherman One Step Closer CAP 103 150 -47 10 32 4 38 41 36 4 Dave Valentin World on a String HighNote 102 94 8 16 36 0 39 29 14 9 Gerald Cannon Gerald Cannon Woodneck Records 101 120 -19 8 42 1 40 25 43 25 Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band Rumba Buhaina - The Music of Art Blakey Random Chance 100 129 -29 3 33 5 and The Jazz Messengers 41 50 31 6 Jeremy Pelt Identity MAXJAZZ 99 84 15 11 33 0 42 NR NR 42 Bill Ransom Generations Bongo Time Records 97 66 31 1 28 5 43 NR NR 43 Marian McPartland w/ Bruce Hornsby Piano Jazz The Jazz Alliance 96 1 95 1 12 6 44 39 NR 39 Sherrie Maricle & The Diva Jazz Orchestra TNT: A Tommy Newsom Tribute Lightyear 95 99 -4 4 23 0 45 49 50 17 Jessica Williams Live At Yoshi’s Vol. 2 MAXJAZZ 93 85 8 11 39 0 45 31 18 5 Sara Gazarek Yours Native Language 93 115 -22 12 29 1 47 40 36 36 Mark Murphy Once To Every Heart Verve Music Group 92 96 -4 3 38 1 48 45 NR 45 Donald Harrison New York Cool Half Note Records 88 90 -2 2 37 1 49 NR 38 29 Hendrik Meurkens Amazon River Blue Toucan Music 83 73 10 11 27 2 50 30 27 4 Bill Mays Trio Live at Jazz Standard Palmetto 80 119 -39 14 29 0

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Various Artists Higher Ground : Hurricane Relief Benefit Tommy Dorsey The Sentimental Gentleman Of Swing: The Don Friedman VIP Trio Timeless (441 / Village) (Blue Note) +38 Centennial Collection (Bluebird / Legacy) +162 Antonio Arnedo Colombia (Adventure Music) Marty Ehrlich News On The Rail (Palmetto) Roswell Rudd & The Mongolian Buryat Band Blue Mongol Various Artists Higher Ground : Hurricane Relief Benefit (Blue Don Menza Menza Lines (Jazzed Media) (Sunnyside) +19 Note) +119 Savina Yannatou & Primavera En Solonico Sumiglia (ECM) Rodney Jones Dreams and Stories (Savant) +17 Marian McPartland w/ Bruce Hornsby Piano Jazz (The Jazz Kyle Asche The Hook Up (OA2 Records) Geoffrey Keezer Wildcrafted: Live At The Dakota Alliance) +95 E.S.T. Viaticum (215 Records) (MAXJAZZ) +14 Dianne Reeves Good Night and Good Luck (Concord) +71 Gloria Cooper Dedicated To You (Origin) Anthony Brown’s Orchestra Rhapsodies (Water Baby) Gloria Cooper Dedicated To You (Origin) +14 The Great Jazz Trio ’S Wonderful (441 Records) +65 Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook (Rendezvous/Red) Dr. John & The Lower 911 Sippiana Hericane (Blue Note) +14 Rodney Jones Dreams and Stories (Savant) +58

jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 22 Jazz Radio Adds Here are upcoming add dates for new releases, and add dates that have passed during the last few weeks. This listing was current as of press time.

October 11, 2005 Collection (Bluebird/Legacy) Allen Broadbent – ’Round Midnight (Artistry Music) November 7, 2005 Barbara Morrisson – Live At The Dakota! (Dakota Live!) Amy Banks – When The Sun Comes Out (Self Released) October 17, 2005 November 8, 2005 Dianne Reeves – Good Night and Good Luck Soundtrack (Concord Geoffrey Keezer – Wildcrafted (MAXJAZZ) Records) David Murray Quartet with Strings – Waltz Again (Justin Time) Jamie Cullum – Catching Tales (Verve Records) Kenny Ellis – Hanukkah Swings! (Favored Nations) Joe Locke & The Milt Jackson Tribute Band – Rev-elation (Sharp Nine) November 14, 2005 The Reese Project – Vicodin Dreams (95 North Records) SLAMMIN all-body band – SLAMMIN all-body band (Crosspulse Anthony Brown’s Orchestra – Rhapsodies (Water Baby) Records) Laura Welland – Dissertation On The State Of Bliss (Origin) Pieranunzi/Baron/Johnson – Play Morricone (2-CD) (CAM Jazz/ Sunnyside) October 24, 2005 Steve Kuhn Trio – Quiereme Mucho (Sunnyside/Venus) Ben Monder – Oceana (Sunnyside) Tonic Vintage Vocals – It Ain’t Over ’Til The Fat Man Swings (SKM Hilary Noble & Rebecca Cline – Enclave (Zoho Records) Creative, Inc.) Julius Tolentino – Just The Beginning (Sharp Nine) Joel Harrison – Harrison on Harrison (HighNote) Paul Seaforth – When Did You Leave Heaven (Fine Arts/Rhombus) Rodney Jones – Dreams and Stories (Savant) Adam Holzman & Brave New World – JazzRocketScience (Nagel Jane Monheit – The Season (Epic Records) Heyer) Moacir Santos – Choros & Alegria (Adventure Music) Chris Botti – To Love Again – The Duets (Columbia) Clayton Brothers – Back In The Swing Of Things (Heyna) November 15, 2005 Daisuke Albe – On My Way Back Home (Nagel Heyer) Deanna Witkowski – Length Of Days (Artist Share) Donald Harrison – New York Cool (HalfNote) November 16, 2005 Various – 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar (Columbia Legacy) Elissa Lala – Touch Of Your Voice – New Takes On Chet Baker October 25, 2005 (Omnitone) Almada/Iannaccone – Tango Crash (Justin Time) November 21, 2005 Susie Arioli Band featuring Jordan Officer – Learn to Smile Again Nia Quintet – End Of Time (BluJazz) (Justin Time) Diana Krall – Christmas Songs (Verve) October 31, 2005 Marlon Jordan w/ Stephanie Jordan – You Don’t Know What Love Is Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – Don’t Be Afraid ... Music Of Charles (Louisianna Red Hot) Mingus (Palmetto) November 25, 2005 E.S.T. – Viaticum (215 Records) Lev Polyakin – Christmas Kaleidoscope (Mira Recordings) Frank Sinatra And Tommy Dorsey – The Essential Frank Sinatra With November 28, 2005 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (Bluebird/Legacy) Eddie Higgins – Christmas Songs (Sunnyside) Tommy Dorsey – Sentimental Gentleman Of Swing–Cenntennial

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Daisuke Abe On My Way Back Home Nagel Heyer Elaine Dame Comes Love Blujazz Affinity Route 66 Rhombus Kenny Davern In Concert Arbors Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring The Battle: Live at Smoke HighNote Ron Davis Trio & The Shimmering Shimmering Rhythm Davinor Scott Amendola Band Believe Cryptogramophone Rhythm Ensemble Tony DeSare Want You Telarc Paul Anka Rock Swings Verve Music Group Melodye Dewine Nocturnal Velvet SMS Jazz Ivo Antognini Jazz Project Feggari Mou Self Released Gene Diamond Bittersweet Rhombus Peter Apfelbaum & The New York It Is Written HighNote(ACT) Hieroglyphics Dirty Dozen Brass Band This is the Dirty Dozen Brass Band Shout Factory Antonio Arnedo Colombia Adventure Music Collection Bob Dogan Rings Big Foot Jazz Kyle Asche The Hook Up OA2 Records Tommy Dorsey The Sentimental Gentleman Of Bluebird / Legacy Gregg August Late August Iaguessa Records Swing: Centennial Collection The Bad Plus Suspicious Activity? Columbia Dave Douglas Keystone Greenleaf Music Noah Baerman Soul Force Lemel Music Will Downing Soul Symphony GRP Amy Banks When The Sun Comes Out Self Released Dr. John & The Lower 911 Sippiana Hericane Blue Note Ray Barretto Time Was... Time Is O+ Mark Dresser Time Changes Cryptogramophone Kenny Barron Live At Bradley’s II: The Perfect Set Sunnyside E.S.T. Viaticum 215 Records Gerry Beaudoin Trio Swing Cafe North Star Kyle Eastwood Paris Blue Rendevous Heather Bennett Reflections In Red Apria Marty Ehrlich News On The Rail Palmetto George Benson Best of George Benson Live GRP Either/Orchestra Ethiopiques 20: Live In Addis Buda Musique Gene Bertoncini Quiet Now Ambient Kenny Ellis Hanukkah Swings! Favored Nations Bethany and Rufus Bethany and Rufus bethanyandrufus.com Avram Fefer & Bobby Few Kindred Spirits Boxholder Records Big Neighborhood Neighbors Origin Fieldwork Simulated Progress PI Recordings Nick Bisesi Gemini Blujazz Amina Figerova September Suite 215 Records Terence Blanchard Flow Blue Note Sammy Figueroa & His Latin Jazz ... And Sammy Walked In Savant Bob Boguslaw & The Way Gabrielle’s Hand Summit Explosion Bob Florence Friends, Treasures, Heroes Summit Bona Fide Soul Lounge Heads Up Yves François Blues For Hawk Delmark Chris Botti To Love Again Sony The Frank & Joe Show 66 2/3 Hyena Records Joshua Breakstone Memoire: The French Sessions, Capri Vol. 2 Nneena Freelon Blueprint of a Lady: The Once and Concord Records Dee Dee Bridgewater J’ai Deux Amours Sovereign Artists Future Life of Billie Holiday The Don Friedman VIP Trio Timeless 441 / Village Alan Broadbent ‘Round Midnight Artistry Bill Frisell East/West Nonesuch Anthony Brown’s Orchestra Rhapsodies Water Baby Tia Fuller Pillar Of Strength Wambutia Michael Buble It’s Time 143 Records/Reprise Gabin Mr. Freedom Astralworks Alex Budman & The Contemporary Instruments Of Mass Pleasure OA2 Records Jazz Orchestra Richard Galliano Ruby, My Dear Dreyfus Jazz Cadwallader, Asetta & Dixson Quicker Than The Eye Stanza USA Garage a Trois Outre Mer [Original Soundtrack] Telarc Neil Caine Backstabber’s Ball Smalls Records Sara Gazarek Yours Native Language Will Calhoun Native Lands Half Note Records Terry Gibbs Feelin’ Good: Live In Studio Mack Avenue Royce Campbell Plays For Lovers Moon Cycle Records David Gibson The Path To Delphi Nagel Heyer Gerald Cannon Gerald Cannon Woodneck Records Gilfema Gilfema Obliqsound Kenny Carr Friday at Five TAS Management Richard Glaser Band That’s Okay Richard Glaser Music James Carter Organ Trio Out Of Nowhere Half Note Records Robert Glasper Canvas Blue Note Philip Catherine Meeting Colors Dreyfus Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Rumba Buhaina - The Music of Art Random Chance Bill Charlap Plays George Gershwin: The Blue Note Band Blakey and The Jazz Messengers American Soul Gospel Keyboard Trio Heavenly Keys The Sirens Record- Bill Charlap and Sandy Stewart Love Is Here To Stay Blue Note ings Alex Graham The Good Life Origin Buddy Charles We’re Here Jazzed Media The Great Jazz Trio ‘S Wonderful 441 Records Billy Childs Lyric Lunacy Music George Gruntz Piano Works II: Ringing The ACT Cintron Back in the Day ARK 21 Luminator City Rhythm Orchestra Vibrant Tones Limehouse Records 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 Ken Clark Organ Trio Mutual Respect Severn Orchestra Jim Hall & Enrico Pieranunzi Duologues CAM Jazz/Sunnyside Clayton Brothers Back In The Swing Of Things Hyena Records Herbie Hancock Possibilities Vector Recordings The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Live At MCG MCG Jazz Orchestra Curt Hanrahan To Be Again Blujazz Hilary Noble and Rebecca Cline Enclave Zoho Music Donald Harrison New York Cool Half Note Records Evita Cobo Invitation Self Released Joel Harrison Harrison On Harrison HighNote Tim Coffman Crossroads Blujazz Richie Hart Greasy Street Zoho Music Mark Colby Speaking of Stan Hallway Records Steve Heckman Live At Yoshi’s World City Freddy Cole This Love Of Mine HighNote Stockton Helbing Lodestar Self Released Richie Cole & The Alto Madness Back On Top Jazz Excursion Nachito Herrera Bembe en Mi Casa SF Music Orchestra Eddie Higgins Trio Christmas Songs Sunnyside Common Ground High Voltage Delmark Lisa Hilton My Favorite Things Ruby Slippers Harry Connick Jr. Occasion Marsalis Music/ Productions Rounder Records Holly Hoffman Minor Miracle Capri Gloria Cooper Dedicated To You Origin Stan Hope Put On A Happy Face Savant Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey & Lenny Electric Chesky White JC Hopkins Biggish Band Underneath a Brooklyn Moon Tigerlily Records Dan Cray Trio Save Us! Blujazz Shirley Horn But Beautiful ... The Best of Shirley Verve Music Group Jamie Cullum Catching Tales Verve Music Group Horn Hornheads Fat Lip Bone 2B Wild Music Paquito d’Rivera The Jazz Chamber Trio Chesky jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 24 Jazz Radio Currents

Ted Howe Elton Exposed: Revealing The Jazz Summit Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty I Am Three Sunnyside Soul Of Elton John The Mizell Brothers Mizell Blue Note Sherman Irby Faith BWR Modern Traditions Ensemble New Old Music Adventure Music Javon Jackson Have You Heard Palmetto Jane Monheit The Season Epic Ahmad Jamal After Fajr Dreyfus Jazz Thelonious Monk Quartet with John At Carnegie Hall Blue Note Jaspects In ‘House’ Sessions Jaspects Coltrane Jazzanova Blue Note Trip Blue Note Dan Moretti & Once Through Passing Place Whaling City Sound Kelley Johnson Music is the Magic Sapphire Frank Morgan Raising The Standard: Live At The HighNote Marc Johnson Shades of Jade ECM Jazz Standard Vol.2 Barbara Morrison Live @The Dakota Dakota Live Label Marc Courtney Johnson & The Dan Marc Courtney Johnson DreamyJazz Cray Trio Moutin Reunion Quartet Something Like Now Lightyear/Nocturne Bujo Kevin Jones Tenth World Motema Oliver Mtukudzi Nhava Heads Up Rodney Jones Dreams and Stories Savant Mark Murphy Once To Every Heart Verve Music Group Sean Jones Gemini Mack Avenue David Murray Quartet w/ Strings Waltz Again Justin Time Betty Joplin Visions of the Moment Preserved Moments Myanna One Never Knows Bridge Street Records Music Najee My Point of View Heads Up Marlon Jordan You Don’t Know What Love Is Louisiana Red Hot Records Milton Nascimento Pieta Savoy Jazz Sheila Jordan Celebration: Live at the Triad HighNote Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Dance Of The Infidel Shanachie Marlon Jordan w/ Stephanie Jordan You Don’t Know What Love Is Louisiana Red Hot Spirit Music Jamia Records Calvin Newborn New Born Yellow Dog Jeff Kaye Just Like Me Jazzed Media PJ Newman The Hand of Dog Origin Records Geoffrey Keezer Wildcrafted: Live At The Dakota MAXJAZZ Nia Quintet End of Time Blujazz Roger Kellaway Remembering Bobby Darin IPO Recordings Mark O’ Connor’s Hot Swing Trio Live In New York OMAC Calvin Keys Calvinesque’ Silverado Records Hod O’Brien Live At Blues Alley: First Set Reservoir Ilona Knopfler Live The Life Mack Avenue Arturo O’Farrill Live In Brooklyn Zoho Music Diana Krall Christmas Songs Verve Music Group Kayode Olajide Iba Self Released Jonathan Kreisberg Unearth Mel Bay The Onus Triphony Hipnotic Steve Kuhn Trio Quiereme Mucho Sunnyside/Venus Oregon Prime CAM Jazz/Sunnyside John La Barbera Big Band Fantazm Jazz Compass organissimo This Is The Place Big “O” Records Elissa Lala Touch of Your Voice - New Takes on OmniTone Jeffrey Osbourne From The Soul Koch Chet Baker Greg Osby Channel Three Blue Note Paula Lammers A Blanket of Blue Nightingale Jazz Matt Otto Red Origin Records Mike LeDonne Night Song Savant Eddie Palmieri Listen Here! Concord Jazz Ranee Lee and Oliver Jones Just You, Just Me Justin Time Maceo Parker School’s In! BHM Music Kevyn Lettau Bye Bye Blackbird MCG Jazz Charlie Peacock Love Press Ex-Curio Emergent/92e Dave Liebman Manhattan Dialogues Zoho Music Pearl Django Chasing Shadows Modern Hot Records Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra w/ Don’t be afraid... the music of Palmetto Wynton Marsalis Charles Mingus Dave Peck Good Road LPS Records Joe Locke & The Milt Jackson Rev-elation Sharp Nine Jeremy Pelt Identity MAXJAZZ Tribute Band P. J. Perry Time Flies Justin Time Pat Longo Extreme Heat Jazzed Media Houston Person All Soul HighNote Brian Lynch 24/7 Nagel Heyer Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson & Play Morricone Sunnyside The Leslie Maclean Trio That’s Time Enough KippieJosh Jazz Joey Baron Frank Mantooth Ladies Sing for Lovers MCG Jazz Jean-Michel Pilc Live At Iridium, New York Dreyfus Sherrie Maricle & The Diva Jazz TNT: A Tommy Newsom Tribute Lightyear Bucky Pizzarelli & Frank Vignola Moonglow Hyena Records Orchestra Lev Polyakin Christmas Kaleidoscope Mira Recordings Wynton Marsalis Amongst the People: Live at the Blue Note House of Tribes Jimmy Ponder What’s New HighNote Mike Marshall Brazil Duets Adventure Music Tineke Postma For The Rhythm 215/Munich Records Veronica Martell The Art Of Intimacy Apria Flora Purim Flora’s Song Narada Jazz Angelyna Martinez Labor of Love MexiScott Music Tom Rainer & Glenn Cashman Blue In Green Primrose Lane Willie Martinez Family Cuch Be Witcha Joyce Randolph Just A Little Blue Myrlys Music Productions Bill Ransom Generations Bongo Time Records Eugene Maslov Where The Light Comes From Self Released Enrico Rava Full of Life Camjazz Bob Masteller The Jazz Corner Swings Latin Self Released Enrico Rava Tati ECM Earl May Quartet Swinging The Blues with Barry Arbors Harris Joshua Redman Elastic Band Momentum Nonesuch Bill Mays Trio Live at Jazz Standard Palmetto The Reese Project Vicodin Dreams 95 North Joe McBride Texas Hold’em Heads Up Dianne Reeves Good Night and Good Luck Concord Chris McNulty Dance Delicioso Elefant Dreams [Soundtrack] Randy Reinhart at the Mill Hill Playhouse: As Long Arbors Marian McPartland Piano Jazz w/ Elvis Costello Concord As I Live Marian McPartland w/ Bruce Piano Jazz The Jazz Alliance Tim Ries The Rolling Stones Project Concord Hornsby Bob Rodriguez Corridor CreOp Muse Marian McPartland w/ Teddy Wilson Piano Jazz The Jazz Alliance Sonny Rollins Without A Song: The 9/11 Concert Milestone Brad Mehldau Day Is Done Nonesuch Wallace Roney Mystikal HighNote Pablo Mendendez Havana Blues Mambo Zoho Music Ada Rovatti Airbop Apria Don Menza Menza Lines Jazzed Media Roswell Rudd & The Mongolian Blue Mongol Sunnyside Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman Song X Nonesuch Buryat Band Hendrik Meurkens Amazon River Blue Toucan Music San Francisco ChamberJazz SFCJQ Music Wizards Miami Saxophone Quartet Midnight Rumba Fourtitude Records Quartet Poncho Sanchez Do It! Concord Picante Raul Midon State of Mind Manhattan Records Jenny Scheinman 12 Songs Cryptogramophone Mulgrew Miller Live At Yoshi’s: Vol. 2 MAXJAZZ jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 25 Jazz Radio Currents

Lalo Schifrin Kaleidoscope: Jazz Meets The Aleph Records Symphony #6 Rhoda Scott Encore, Encore, Encore.. Sunnyside Paul Seaforth When Did You Leave Heaven? Rhombus Jim Self InnerPlay Bassett Hound Records Vince Seneri Street Talk Senful Records John Sheridan Dream Band Arbors Mark Sherman One Step Closer CAP Wayne Shorter Beyond The Sound Barrier Verve Music Group The Liam Sillery Quintet Minor Changes OA2 Records Frank Sinatra w/ Tommy Dorsey The Essential Frank Sinatra w/ Bluebird / Legacy Orchestra Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Slammin’ All-Body Band Slammin’ All-Body Band Crosspulse Records Sonido Isleño Vive Jazz Tresero Soulive Breakout Concord Melvin Sparks This Is It Savant Bobo Stenson Goodbye ECM Nicola Stilo/Toninho Horta Duets Adventure Music Dave Stryker Big City Mel Bay Stryker/Slagle Band Live at the Jazz Standard Zoho Music Tierney Sutton I’m with the Band Telarc Brian Swartz Quartet Live At The Jazz Bakery Summit Ximo Tebar Goes Blue Sunnyside Ben Thomas Triskaidekaphobia Origin Pyeng Threadgill Of The Air Random Chance Julius Tolentino Just The Beginning Sharp Nine Tomasso-Rava Quartet La Dolce Vita Camjazz Kevin Toney 110 Degrees And Rising Shanachie Trio da Paz Somewhere Blue Toucan Music Erik Truffaz Saloua Blue Note Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band For J.G. Sea Breeze Bebo Valdés Bebo De Cuba Calle 54 Dave Valentin World on a String HighNote Be A Various Artists Putumayo Presents: Swing Around Putumayo the World Various Artists Sprout [Soundtrack] Record Collection Disaster Relief Various Artists Symphonic Jobim Adventure Music Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Sony Hero Guitar Various Artists So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute To J Records Luther Vandross Various Artists Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Impulse Victims of the recent hurricane need help Reworked Various Artists Higher Ground : Hurricane Relief Blue Note immediately. The American Red Cross is on the Benefit scene—providing shelter, food and counseling. Various Artists Gilles Peterson Digs America: Luv N’ Haight/Ubiq- Brownswood USA uity Gerald Veasley At The Jazz Base! Heads Up But your help is urgently needed. Your contribution Cedar Walton Underground Memoirs HighNote will help the victims of the recent hurricane Kim Waters All For Love Shanachie and thousands of other disasters across The Dave Weckl Band Multiplicity Stretch/Concord Mark Weinstein Algo Mas/Cuban Roots Jazz Heads the country each year. Ezra Weiss Persephone UMOJA The Mort Weiss Quartet The Four Of Us: Live At Steamers SMS Jazz Laura Welland Dissertation On The State Of Bliss OA2 Records Westwind Brass Jazztet LMP Productions Make a financial contribution Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Rendezvous (Red) to the Disaster Relief Fund. Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Rendevous Brad Wheeler The Future Was Yesterday Origin Records Please contact the Red Cross at Jessica Williams Live At Yoshi’s Vol. 2 MAXJAZZ 1-800-HELP NOW Reuben Wilson Fun House Savant Gerald Wilson Orchestra In My Time Mack Avenue redcross.org Anthony Wilson Trio Savivity Groove Note Deanna Witkowski Length of Days Artist Share Allen Won Quartet The Jewel In The Lotus Self-Produced Dave Young Mainly Mingus Justin Time Ruth Young This Is Always Nagel Heyer Rachel Z Grace Chesky Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Vienna Nights BHM Music Syndicate Denny Zeitlin Solo Voyage MAXJAZZ jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 26 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 WBFO-FM 88.7 Buffalo - Niagara Falls, NY 52 WBGO-FM 88.3 New York, NY 1 WBLU/WBLV-FM 88.9/90.3 Grand Rapids, MI/Muskegeon, MI 66/232 Airplay of all stations, except as noted, is monitored by Mediaguide. WCLK-FM 91.9 Atlanta, GA 11 WCMU/WUCX-FM 89.5/90.1 Mount Pleasant – Saginaw/Bay City/Midland, MI 131 To apply to become a member of a station panel, email [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 WDNA-FM** 88.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 airplay report. WDUQ-FM 90.5 Pittsburgh, PA 23 **WDNA is reporting spins while the Mediaguide listening post undergoes WEAA-FM 88.9 Baltimore, MD 20 repairs in Miami after hurricane damage. WEMU-FM* 89.1 Ypsilanti, MI 10 †Repeats KXJZ ††Repeats WTEB for a portion of its programming jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 27 Smooth Jazz Radio

Brian Culbertson is No. 1 With ‘Hookin’ Up’

Brian Simpson Has Biggest Increase in Singles Airplay

rian Culbertson moves to No. 1 on both the album and singles charts with B“Hookin’ Up” from the album It’s On Tonight (GRP/Verve).

The latest single from Brian Simpson, “It’s All Good” (Rendezvous) had the biggest increase in spins on the singles chart, while Kirk Whalum Performs the Baby Face Song- book (Rendezvous) was the top gainer on the album chart. The most added single was Jeﬀ

Brian Culbertson is at No. 1 with the single “Hookin’ Lorber’s “Everybody Knows That” (Narada Up” from It’s On Tonight (Rendezvous). Jazz), which picked up eight stations.

Smooth Albums p. 29 Smooth Singles p. 30 Smooth Current CDs p. 31 Jeff Lorber’s single “Everybody Knows That” from Flip- Smooth Radio Panel p. 32 side (Narada Jazz) was the week’s most added single. jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 28 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Album Chart Nov. 28, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 2 2 1 Brian Culbertson It’s On Tonight GRP / Verve 636 650 -14 20 33 0 2 1 1 1 Euge Groove Just Feels Right Narada Jazz 628 661 -33 15 32 0 3 3 4 3 Walter Beasley For Her Heads Up 610 588 22 27 32 0 4 4 5 1 Richard Elliot Metro Blue Artizen 539 520 19 24 33 0 5 7 6 5 Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up 527 503 24 54 30 0 6 6 7 1 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 507 506 1 43 33 0 7 8 8 7 Rick Braun Shining Star [Single] Artizen 497 484 13 13 31 1 8 5 3 1 Paul Hardcastle 4 Trippin ‘N’ Rhythm 474 514 -40 20 32 0 9 14 16 9 Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous 408 356 52 14 32 0 10 10 13 10 Herbie Hancock Possibilities Hancock / Hear 405 399 6 12 28 0 11 9 9 5 Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music 389 458 -69 40 30 0 12 11 11 2 Boney James Pure Warner Bros. 359 392 -33 54 31 0 13 12 17 10 David Pack The Secret of Movin’ On Peak / Concord 345 391 -46 18 29 0 14 22 21 14 Chris Botti To Love Again: The Duets Columbia 330 290 40 6 28 2 15 13 10 1 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP 316 380 -64 49 32 0 16 16 14 4 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 314 313 1 54 31 0 17 19 23 1 Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous 305 304 1 54 28 0 18 17 22 17 Kim Waters Steppin’ Out [Single] Shanachie 284 312 -28 15 26 0 19 NR NR 19 Boz Scaggs Fade Into Light Virgin / EMI 282 292 -10 1 27 1 20 25 29 20 Najee My Point Of View Heads Up 281 258 23 19 28 1 21 15 18 15 Chieli Minucci The Juice [Single] Shanachie 276 317 -41 25 24 0 22 18 15 1 Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista 264 307 -43 49 32 0 23 20 12 4 Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. 264 299 -35 22 29 0 24 24 20 2 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 256 267 -11 37 28 0 25 23 25 22 Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch 230 273 -43 38 22 0 26 38 42 26 Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Rendezvous 223 154 69 10 19 0 27 27 26 24 Various Artists Def Jazz GRP 219 218 1 14 20 0 28 26 24 11 Jeff Golub Temptation Narada Jazz 215 246 -31 20 18 0 29 28 27 1 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous 201 212 -11 54 29 0 30 30 33 15 Warren Hill Pop Jazz Pop Jazz / Native Language 190 207 -17 18 18 0 31 31 30 2 Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz 183 202 -19 36 25 0 32 34 34 22 Soul Ballet She Rides [Single] 215 183 185 -2 18 22 4 33 35 32 20 Raul Midon State Of Mind Manhattan 182 176 6 23 21 0 34 29 36 4 Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 179 211 -32 46 30 0 35 36 31 16 Michael Buble It’s Time 143 / Reprise 163 175 -12 19 14 0 36 32 28 5 Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie 152 194 -42 40 25 0 37 40 39 14 Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note 152 147 5 19 23 0 38 39 40 15 Jonathan Butler Jonathan Rendezvous 151 150 1 25 18 0 39 37 41 12 Kem Album II Universal / Motown 151 164 -13 19 17 0 40 33 35 3 Paul Brown Up Front GRP 147 190 -43 49 30 0 41 41 43 1 Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP / VMG / UMG 143 144 -1 54 29 0 42 45 58 37 Marc Antoine Modern Times Rendezvous 140 130 10 15 12 0 43 48 51 43 Gregg Karukas Looking Up V2 139 116 23 10 14 0 44 42 38 9 Paul Brown The City GRP / Verve 139 143 -4 19 19 0 45 44 44 13 3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave 136 135 1 42 18 0 46 43 37 4 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 132 137 -5 54 25 0 47 49 45 9 Peter White Confidential Columbia 114 115 -1 49 27 0 48 51 52 26 The Rippingtons Wild Card Peak 109 110 -1 19 10 0 49 57 59 30 Camiel Sunset Rendezvous 109 94 15 15 11 0 50 55 49 5 George Benson Irreplaceable GRP / VMG / UMG 106 101 5 54 23 0

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Soul Ballet She Rides [Single] (215) +4 Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Joe McBride Texas Hold’Em (Heads Up) Jane Monheit The Season (Epic / Sony BMG) +3 (Rendezvous) +69 Bona Fide Soul Lounge (Heads Up) Paul Brown The City (GRP / Verve) Jamie Cullum Catching Tales (Verve) +3 Brian Simpson It’s All Good (Rendezvous) +52 Jeffrey Osborne From The Soul (JayOz / Koch) Various Artists Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Jeff Lorber Flipside (Narada Jazz) +42 Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake (VMG) Concert (Blue Note / EMI) +3 Chris Botti To Love Again: The Duets (Columbia) +40 Michael McDonald Motown Two (Motown) Kim Waters All For Love (Shanachie) Chris Botti To Love Again: The Duets (Columbia) +2 Marion Meadows Player’s Club (Heads Up) +24 Will Donato Earth Shakin’ [Single] (Generation) Anita Baker Christmas Fantasy (Blue Note / EMI) +2 Najee My Point Of View (Heads Up) +23 Jane Monheit The Season (Epic / Sony BMG) Cafe Soul All Stars Love Pages (You) jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 29 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Singles Chart Nov. 28, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 2 2 1 Brian Culbertson Hookin’ Up GRP / Verve 636 650 -14 20 33 0 2 1 1 1 Euge Groove Get Em Goin’ Narada Jazz 628 661 -33 15 32 0 3 3 4 3 Walter Beasley Coolness Heads Up 604 580 24 27 32 0 4 5 5 4 Rick Braun Shining Star Artizen 497 484 13 12 31 1 5 4 3 1 Paul Hardcastle Serene Trippin ‘N’ Rhythm 474 514 -40 20 32 0 6 7 7 6 Marion Meadows Suede Heads Up 439 399 40 54 28 0 7 9 8 7 Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous 402 354 48 14 31 0 8 6 6 5 Ken Navarro You Are Everything Positive Music 389 455 -66 40 30 0 9 8 9 8 David Pack You’re The Only Woman Peak / Concord 340 382 -42 18 28 0 10 10 13 10 Nils Summer Nights Baja 327 320 7 7 30 2 11 15 16 11 Richard Elliot Mystique Artizen 318 283 35 4 27 0 12 13 12 12 Herbie Hancock Stitched Up (w/ John Mayer) Hancock / Hear 312 299 13 12 25 1 13 12 14 12 Kim Waters Steppin’ Out Shanachie 284 312 -28 15 26 0 14 18 23 14 Chris Botti Good Morning Heartache (w/ Jill Scott) Columbia 282 251 31 6 27 1 15 14 11 10 Boz Scaggs Lowdown (Unplugged) Virgin / EMI 282 292 -10 12 27 1 16 11 10 10 Chieli Minucci The Juice Shanachie 276 317 -41 25 24 0 17 19 28 17 Najee Made Up My Mind Heads Up 272 244 28 15 27 2 18 21 20 18 Boney James 2:01 AM Warner Bros. 242 228 14 25 26 0 19 22 22 11 Mindi Abair Make A Wish GRP 232 224 8 19 28 1 20 17 17 13 Nelson Rangell Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing Koch 225 254 -29 31 21 0 21 20 18 1 Richard Elliot People Make The World Go ‘Round Artizen 221 237 -16 24 33 0 22 23 21 21 Gerald Albright Hey Young World GRP 219 218 1 14 20 0 23 16 15 4 Paul Jackson, Jr. Never Too Much GRP 197 265 -68 39 25 0 24 27 30 17 Warren Hill Still In Love Pop Jazz / Native Language 188 190 -2 18 18 0 25 25 25 2 Steve Cole Thursday Narada Jazz 183 202 -19 36 25 0 26 29 31 23 Soul Ballet She Rides 215 183 185 -2 18 22 4 27 28 26 1 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 180 186 -6 43 30 0 28 24 19 7 Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. 176 204 -28 23 23 0 29 41 57 29 Michael Lington Pacifica Rendezvous 165 122 43 6 22 4 30 31 36 1 Tim Bowman Summer Groove Liquid 8 156 171 -15 46 29 0 31 26 24 4 Chuck Loeb Tropical Shanachie 152 194 -42 40 25 0 32 36 34 28 Raul Midon If You’re Gonna Leave Manhattan 151 143 8 21 21 0 33 33 33 1 Wayman Tisdale Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now Rendezvous 147 148 -1 54 28 0 34 32 27 2 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 143 169 -26 37 26 0 35 44 48 35 Gregg Karukas Show Me the Way V2 139 116 23 10 14 0 36 35 35 8 Paul Brown Cosmic Monkey GRP / Verve 139 143 -4 19 19 0 37 30 29 14 Jeff Golub Simple Pleasures Narada Jazz 135 172 -37 20 13 0 38 34 39 16 Kem I Can’t Stop Loving You Universal / Motown 134 146 -12 19 16 0 39 42 42 39 Jonathan Butler Rio Rendezvous 131 121 10 9 15 1 40 40 40 1 Gerald Albright To The Max GRP / VMG / UMG 131 127 4 54 28 0 41 38 32 7 Earth, Wind & Fire The Way You Move (w/ Kenny G) Arista 122 139 -17 45 26 0 42 54 62 42 Kirk Whalum I’ll Make Love To You Rendezvous 120 93 27 10 9 0 43 37 37 2 Kenny G & David Sanborn Pick Up The Pieces Arista 119 141 -22 49 26 0 44 50 58 44 Paul Taylor East Bay Bounce Peak 113 98 15 7 11 0 45 43 38 27 Michael Buble Home 143 / Reprise 113 121 -8 19 12 0 46 47 49 29 The Rippingtons Gypsy Eyes Peak 109 110 -1 19 10 0 47 52 46 3 George Benson Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise GRP / VMG / UMG 101 95 6 54 22 0 48 39 45 29 Paul Brown 24/7 GRP 97 134 -37 49 28 0 49 45 44 1 Soul Ballet Cream 215 93 112 -19 54 21 0 50 48 50 15 Dan Siegel In Your Eyes Native Language 92 108 -16 54 19 0

Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Jeff Lorber “Everybody Knows That” (Narada Jazz) +8 Brian Simpson “It’s All Good” (Rendezvous) +48 3rd Force “You Got It” (Higher Octave) Soul Ballet “She Rides” (215) +4 Jeff Lorber “Everybody Knows That” (Narada Jazz) +46 Camiel “El Alba” (Rendezvous) Jeff Golub “Uptown Express” (Narada Jazz) Michael Lington “Pacifica” (Rendezvous) +4 Michael Lington “Pacifica” (Rendezvous) +43 Joe McBride “Double Down” (Heads Up) Kirk Whalum “Whip Appeal” (Rendezvous) +4 Marion Meadows “Suede” (Heads Up) +40 Paul Brown “Winelight” (GRP / Verve) Kirk Whalum “For The Cool In You” (Rendezvous) +4 Richard Elliot “Mystique” (Artizen) +35 Bona Fide “Bona Fide Club” (Heads Up) Kirk Whalum “Whip Appeal” (Rendezvous) Chris Botti “Good Morning Heartache (w/ Jill Scott)” Marc Antoine “Modern Times” (Rendezvous) (Columbia) +31 Jeff Lorber “Everybody Knows That” (Narada Jazz) Kirk Whalum “Any Love” (GRP) jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 30 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 • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 31 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 KEZL-FM 96.7 Fresno, CA 68 O’2L Doyle’s Brunch Peak KHJZ-FM 95.7 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 John Oates Daryl Hall & Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch KIFM-FM 98.1 San Diego, CA 17 Steve Oliver 3-D Koch KJCD-FM 104.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 Renee Olstead Renee Olstead 143/Reprise Jeffrey Osborne From The Soul JayOz/Koch KJZI-FM 100.3 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 David Pack The Secret of Movin’ On Peak/Concord KJZY-FM 93.7 San Francisco, CA 4 Maceo Parker School’s In BHM KKSF-FM 103.7 San Francisco, CA 4 Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Rounder KKSJ/KTSJ-FM 105.9 Lafayette, LA 102 Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up KLJT-FM 102.3 Tyler-Longview, TX 148 Positive Flow The City Streets [Single] Shanachie KMGQ-FM 97.5 Santa Barbara, CA 204 Praful Pyramid In Your Backyard Rendezvous/Therapy KOAI-FM 107.5 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 Benoit/Freeman Project The The Benoit/Freeman Project 2 Peak KOAS-FM 105.7 Las Vegas, NV 38 Reese Project The Vicodin Dreams 95 North KRVR-FM 105.5 Stockton, CA 82 Brubeck Quartet The Dave London Flat, London Sharp Telarc KSKX-FM 105.5 Colorado Springs, CO 97 Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch KSMJ-FM 97.7 Bakersfield, CA 83 The Rippingtons Wild Card Peak KSSJ-FM 94.7 Sacramento, CA 26 David Sanborn Closer Verve KTWV-FM 94.7 Los Angeles, CA 2 Boz Scaggs Fade Into Light Virgin KWJZ-FM 98.9 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 Seal Best: 1991-2004 Warner Bros. KYOT-FM 95.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous WBRH-FM 90.3 Baton Rouge, LA 84 Hil St Soul Copasetik & Cool Shanachie WEIB-FM 106.3 Hartford - New Britain - Middletown, CT 50 Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 WFJZ-FM 106.7 Ft. Wayne, IN 105 Soul Ballet She Rides [Single] 215 WFSK-FM 88.1 Nashville, TN 44 Spyro Gyra The Deep End Heads Up WGPR-FM 107.5 Detroit, MI 10 Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 WJAB-FM 90.9 Huntsville, AL 116 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak WJJZ-FM 106.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 Tekneek Joy Ride Tek South WJSJ/WSJF-FM 105.5 Jacksonville, FL 49 Tha’ Hot Club Tha’ Hot Club Shanachie WJZA/WJZK-FM 103.5 Columbus, OH 35 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous WJZI-FM 93.3 Milwaukee - Racine, WI 32 To The Bone Spread Love Like Narada WJZL/WJZO-FM 93.1 Louisville, KY 55 Wildfire Kevin Toney Quiet Conversation [Single] Shanachie WJZR-FM 105.9 Rochester, NY 54 Nestor Torres Sin Palabras Heads Up WJZW-FM 105.9 Baltimore, MD 20 Scofield Trio John Enroute Verve WJZZ-FM 107.5 Atlanta, GA 11 Arriale Trio The Lynne Come Together Motema WLOQ-FM 103.1 Orlando, FL 39 Lewis Trio The Ramsey Time Flies Narada Jazz WLVE-FM 93.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 Various Artists Def Jazz GRP WNUA-FM 95.5 Chicago, IL 3 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP WNWV-FM 107.3 Cleveland, OH 25 Various Artists Groove Boutique: Volume One Tommy Boy WPMJ-FM 94.3 Peoria, IL 149 Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Columbia/Legacy/ Guitar Sony BMG WQCD-FM 101.9 New York, NY 1 Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge, Vol.1 Rendezvous WSJT-FM 94.1 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 Various Artists Sprout [Soundtrack] Record Collection WSJW-FM 92.7 Harrisburg - Lebanon - Carlisle, PA 80 Gerald Veasley At The Jazz Base! Heads Up WSMJ-FM 104.3 Baltimore, MD 20 Lee Venters Vermillion Sands Lifeforce Jazz WVAS-FM 90.7 Montgomery, AL 152 Waldino Get Loose Self Released WVMV-FM 98.7 Detroit, MI 10 Andre Ward Steppin’ Up Orpheus WVSU-FM 91.1 Birmingham, AL 57 Kim Waters All For Love Shanachie WXJZ-FM 100.9 Gainesville - Ocala, FL 87 Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie WYJZ-FM 100.9 Indianapolis, IN 41 Kim Waters Steppin’ Out [Single] Shanachie Music Choice National N/A Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Rendezvous Peter White Confidential Columbia Pamela Williams Sweet Saxations Shanachie Airplay of all stations is monitored by Mediaguide. Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake VMG Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up To apply to become a member of a station panel, email Alexander Zonjic Seldom Blues Heads Up [email protected] jazzweek.com • Nov. 28, 2005 JazzWeek 32