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Upcoming CD Release News...... 9

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Reviews and Picks...... 17 Jazz Radio . 19 CURTIS STIGERS Smooth Jazz Radio...... 24 Q&A page 13

Radio Panels. . . . . 28 News...... 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Monty Alexander #1 Smooth Album – Kenny G #1 Smooth Single – Boney James JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger ’ve caught Curtis Stigers live a few times now, and I have CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Keith Zimmerman to admit that I’ve become a big fan. His performances are Kent Zimmerman Inothing like, but remind me completely of, Tony Bennett, Tad Hendrickson in that Curtis is the consummate entertainer. CONTRIBUTING WRITER An interesting story about Curtis Stigers isn’t covered in Tom Mallison PHOTOGRAPHY the Q&A with Tad Hendrickson in this issue, but it involves Barry Solof a favorite songwriter and performer of mine – especially from my college radio days – Nick Lowe. Back in 1992, before his PUBLISHER Tony Gasparre jazz record days, Curtis recorded Lowe’s “(What’s So Fun- ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre ny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” on the soundtrack (585) 235-4685 x3 or album for The Bodyguard, a tune Lowe had written in the email: [email protected] mid-70’s, and which became an anthem for Elvis Costello SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: (you know, Diana Krall’s hubby?) Despite the fact the song Charter Rate: $199.00 per year, wasn’t in the movie, the soundtrack CD sold 15 million cop- JazzWeek w/ Industry Access – Charter Rate: $249.00 per year ies, and Lowe, who was a bit down on his luck, reaped a $1 To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ million windfall, which made it possible to revive his career AMEX/PayPal go to: http://www.jazzweek.com/account/ on Lowe’s own terms. subscribe.html We’ve got more news on the JazzWeek Summit. Our show- case includes the legendary Mike Longo, and Mack Avenue AIRPLAY MONITORING BY recording artists Ilona Knopfler and Ron Blake. It should be a fun evening. The Syracuse Jazz Fest lineup is out now, too. It’s pretty exciting as well. I’m looking forward to a good few

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News ...... 4 2005 JazzWeek Summit Artist Showcase Performers Announced ...... 4 Syracuse Jazz Fest Announces Artists ...... 5 Syracuse Fest Dedicated to WAER ...... 6 San Jose, Newport Fest Lineups ...... 8 Jazz and Tennis to Meet in Times Square ...... 8 4 Frank and Joe Show Ready 66 2/3...... 9 Johnson Departs WRTI ...... 9 Eddie Palmieri Plans New CD ...... 10 New Great Jazz Trio CD, S’Wonderful, Coming June 28 on Columbia . . . . . 11 Sirius Jazz Plans Special Shows ...... 11 Birthdays ...... 11 Features Artist Q&A: Curtis Stigers ...... 13 13 Reviews and Picks ...... 17 Dena DeRose ...... 17 Mark Masters Ensemble ...... 17 Kenny Wheeler ...... 17 Editors’ Picks ...... 18 Jazz Charts ...... 19 Jazz Album Chart ...... 20 Jazz Add Dates ...... 21 19 Jazz Current CDs ...... 22 Jazz Radio Panel ...... 28 Smooth Jazz Charts ...... 24 Smooth Album Chart ...... 25 Smooth Singles Chart...... 26 Smooth Current CDs ...... 27 Smooth Radio Panel ...... 28

24 Cover photo: courtesy curtisstigers.com JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 22 jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News 2005 JazzWeek Summit Artist Showcase Performers Announced

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Saxophonist Ron Blake and his band, singer Ilona Knopfler, and the Mike Longo Trio will perform at this year’s JazzWeek Artist Showcase, on Thursday, June 23, at the Everson Museum in Syra- cuse, N.Y. Legendary composer and band leader Mike Longo was the pia- nist with Dizzy Gillespie from 1966 to 1973. Longo also performed with Cannonball Adderley, Red Allen, and Coleman Hawkins, and studied with Oscar Peterson. He is the founder of Consolidated Artists Productions, an artist-owned record label, and has re- corded both small and large group al- bums for the label, including his most recent, Oasis from Mike Longo and The New York State of the Art En- Ed Trefzger semble. The 2005 JazzWeek Summit Artist Showcase, featuring the Mike Longo Trio, Ron Blake, Mack Avenue recording artist Ilo- and Ilona Knopfler, will be held in the world-renowned Everson Museum, designed by na Knopfler was born in Paris to mu- architect I.M. Pei. sical parents – her mother a singer and her father her accompanist – and be- sound, featuring Joey DeFrancesco ern United States. Each artist will also gan her musical career at the age of 15, and drummer Greg Hutchinson. Blake perform at the Syracuse Jazz Fest dur- singing rock in Hong Kong. But by has played with a veritable who’s who ing public concerts over the weekend the time she was 18, Knopfler had dis- in jazz, including Johnny Griffin, Ar- at the festival’s main stage at Ononda- covered the music Diane Schuur and thur Taylor, Stanley Turrentine, Jim- ga Community College. Al Jarreau, and found a love affair with my Smith, Bobby Hutcherson, Benny The Artist Showcase will be held the sound of jazz. Golson, Art Farmer, Roy Haynes, and in the Everson Museum’s auditori- Saxophonist Ron Blake will re- Ray Brown. um. Promotional opportunities for lease his second Mack Avenue CD The Artist Showcase will be a pri- a reception prior to the performanc- this summer. On Blake’s debut for vate event for JazzWeek Summit at- es are available. Those interested in the label, On Lest We Forget, produced tendees and distinguished sponsors of participating may contact Tony Gas- by Christian McBride, he celebrated the M&T Syracuse Jazz Fest, the larg- parre at (585) 235-4685 x3 or at tony. the classic Hammond B-3 organ trio est free jazz festival in the northeast- [email protected]. JW jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News Syracuse Jazz Fest Announces Artists

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Performers for the M&T Syracuse Jazz Fest have been announced by festival founder and pro- ducer Frank Malfitano. The festival, June 24-26, coincides with this year’s JazzWeek Summit, June 23-25, in Syra- cuse, N.Y. This year’s festival, the largest free jazz festi- val in the northeast, has the theme “Jazz Meets Rock, Pop and Soul.” Headlining the main stage on Friday, June 24, will be TRIO! – Stanley Clarke, Bela Fleck, and Jean Luc Ponty as well as the Randy Brecker/Bill Evans Soulbop Band, featuring Hiram Bull- ock, Dave Kikowski, Rod- ney Holmes, and Victor Bai- ley. Also on Friday’s bill is Mack Avenue recording art- Charles Wainwright Frank Malfitano ist Ron Blake and his band. “It’s unquestionably our hot- test opening night ever,” said Malfitano. Saturday’s artists include the headliner for that day, singer Gino Vanelli, whose recordings infused jazz, pop, soul, and funk. Also on Saturday’s bill are the Mike Lon- go Trio, singer Ilana Knopfler, and the Club Django Sex- tet of Toronto. Saturday’s performances will be followed by a fireworks display. Sunday wraps up with Motown legend Smokey Rob- inson. “Smokey’s a living legend and our biggest headliner since Ray Charles,” Malfitano said. Robinson is joined that day by Mel Bay recording artist guitarist Corey Christian- sen, and Toph-E and the Pussycats, featuring Will Lee, Chris Parker, David Mann, and Cliff Carter. In addition, performing artists will be holding clinics and master classes at the festival site, Onondaga Commu- nity College. Two other stages at the festival will feature school groups and upstate New York artists. JazzWeek festival attendees will be provided admis- sion to VIP seating at the festival and transportation from the JazzWeek Summit conference site, the Marx Hotel and Conference Center. A large LED video screen will project a close-up of performers to audience members. JW jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 5 News Syracuse Fest Dedicated to WAER

SYRACUSE, N.Y – The 2005 Syr- country will be attending the Jazz- acuse Jazz Fest will be dedicated to Week Summit in conjunction with the WAER-FM, Syracuse’s Jazz 88. Festi- festival. val director and founder Frank Malfit- “Over the years, we’ve stated pub- ano made the announcement at a news licly on numerous occasions that conference on Thursday, April 14. there would be no Jazz Fest without Malfitano presented a plaque com- [WAER]. We’re truly fortunate to memorating the dedication to WAER have a full-time jazz radio station in a general manager Joe Lee. “Since day market the size of Syracuse, and for all one, and for the past 25 years that Syr- they’ve done for jazz and for the festi- acuse Jazz Fest has been in operation val, this recognition and honor is long in Central New York, WAER-FM has overdue,” Malfitano said. been our staunchest ally, supporter, WAER, a service of Syracuse Uni- advocate and champion,” said Malfita- versity, reaches Syracuse and much of no. “In fact, no sponsor has been with Central New York with a 50,000 watt us longer or done more to enhance the signal. WAER is a reporting member growth and continuity of the festival.” of the JazzWeek jazz panel. Malfitano added that the honor WAER air staff, including music Tony Gasparre Frank Malfitano presents a commemorative was particularly appropriate because director Eric Cohen, are among the plaque to WAER station manager Joe Lee. so many in jazz radio from around the MCs for the festival. JW ������������������� ������������������������������������ �������������������������������� ������������������������ ������������������

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ugust 11-14 will be the dates features Stanley Clarke, Ravi Col- celebration. for major jazz festivals on both trane, Jon Faddis, Bela Fleck, Slide This year’s 51st anniversary festival Acoasts of the U.S. Hampton, Dave Liebman, Charles starts August 11 with a special screen- The San Jose Jazz Society has an- Lloyd, Joe Lovano, Wynton Marsa- ing of the documentary film “Miles nounced headliners for the 16th An- lis, Medeski Martin and Wood, T.S. Electric: A Different Kind of Blue” at nual Comcast San Jose Jazz Festival, Monk, Jean-Luc Ponty and more. the Jane Pickens Theatre. The film fea- presented by Southwest Airlines. The On Sunday, the performers will tures the late jazz icon Miles Davis in free festival, August 11-14, 2005, will include Michael Brecker, Dave Bru- concert at the 1970 Isle of Wight Fes- feature scores of premiere jazz artists beck, Gary Burton, Don Byron, Chick tival at the very beginning of his in- on nine stages in downtown San Jose, Corea, Larry Coryell, Bill Frisell, novative electric period. A Newport Calif. With more than 165,000 people Benny Green, Roy Haynes, Dave Hol- tradition continues with the annual expected to attend the four-day event, land, Hank Jones, Julian Lage, Russell Friday night celebration August 12 at the San Jose Jazz Festival is the largest Malone, Wynton Marsalis, Christian the Newport Casino at the Interna- free jazz festival in the world. McBride, Jason Moran, Joshua Red- tional Tennis Hall of Fame. The nights “This year’s jazz festival prom- man, and others. program will feature Eartha Kitt and ises to have all of the traditional as- The 2005 festival will be a contin- the Artie Shaw Orchestra under the pects people know and love, as well uation of last year’s 50th Anniversary direction of Dick Johnson. as some great new events,” said Steve Jazz and Tennis to Meet in Times Square Saperstein, general director of the San Jose Jazz Society. “We have an amaz- NEW YORK – In connection with Hills Clay Court Tennis Classic will ing lineup of top jazz performers in all the Forest Hills Clay Court Classic, play exhibition tennis on a specially jazz styles. This year, we are very excit- a USTA Pro Circuit Event scheduled constructed court in the street level, ed about the after-hours Jazz Beyond for May 7-14, 2005, The West Side open-air studio, and spectators will be stage, guaranteed to keep people up Tennis Club will host an afternoon of invited on court to try their hand at the with a new and unique fusion of mu- tennis and jazz on Tuesday, May 10, in sport. Added to the mix will be a con- sic, visual art and technology.” the heart of Times Square. A concert cert by David Sanborn on a stage also The festival features a diverse line- by saxophonist David Sanborn and ex- set up in the Times Square Studios. up, including top Latin pianist Eddie hibition tennis with top touring pros “It’s great to have this opportunity to Palmieri, percussionist Poncho San- will be open to the public at the Times play in Times Square alongside these chez and the Latin Band, the inno- Square Studios at Broadway and West world class tennis players,” said San- vative trio The Bad Plus, pianist Jason 44th Street. born, who calls New York City home. Moran, legendary vocalist Ernes- “This is a wonderful opportunity “We share a lot in common – the phys- tine Anderson and much more. This for us to celebrate two great New York icality of our performances, the ability year’s lineup also includes two NEA City and Queens legacies – world-class to improvise and the need to be men- Jazz Masters, pianist Hank Jones and tennis and America’s musical birth- tally focused.” drummer Louie Bellson. right, jazz,” said The West Side Tennis Sanborn, who was stricken with For more complete information Club president Jack Leibler. The West polio at age three and spent a year in about the San Jose Jazz Festival, visit Side Tennis Club, home of the US an iron lung, was advised by doctors www.sanjosejazz.org. Open for more than 50 years, will host to take up a wind instrument when he Also running August 11-14 will two men’s USTA Pro Circuit events was 11 to combat his diminished lung be the JVC Jazz Festival, in Newport, – The Forest Hills Clay Court Clas- capacity. Today, the world-renowned R.I. This year’s lineup has been an- sic and the Forest Hills Grass Court saxophonist includes a physical fitness nounced by NEA Jazz Master George Classic. Each event will also feature a regimen as part of his performance Wein, CEO of Festival Productions. jazz concert at the Forest Hills club. preparation. The Saturday August 13 program Top pros competing in the Forest jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 8 Record News Frank and Joe Show Ready 66 2/3 he Frank & Joe Show, featuring tially signed to HYENA as Hot Club sharp unit that would perform across guitarist Frank Vignola and per- USA, a Django Reinhardt-esque act the U.S. in 2004, ultimately playing Tcussionist Joe Ascione) return on that interpreted the work of the leg- over 100 dates. May 10, 2005 with their brand new endary gypsy guitarist. In the studio, The title of The Frank & Joe Show’s album entitled 66 2/3 on Hyena Re- during the first recording sessions, the latest effort, 66 2/3, is a play on their cords. The group, which is currently a original plan shifted focus. Producer debut, 33 1/3, alluding to the band’s sextet, also includes rhythm guitarist Joel Dorn felt the group was capable of evolution over the last two years. Ken Smith, bassist Gary Mazzaroppi much more than the obligatory gypsy The group begins a tour April 20. and percussionists Chuck Ferruggia swing and guitar jazz. Frank and Joe, and Rich Zukor. sensing an opportunity to break from Johnson Departs WRTI A 13-track collection, 66 2/3 is The an artistic pigeonhole, wholehearted- Frank & Joe Show’s second album, and ly agreed. The result, 33 1/3, was re- PHILADELPHIA – WRTI mu- will feature songs such as “It Might As leased under the new moniker The sic director Frank Johnson will leave Well Be Spring,” “My Prayer,” “Sway” Frank & Joe Show. the station April 20 to take a position and “Quizas,” reinvented in their own Despite recording practically all in Mediaguide’s suburban Philadel- inimitable style. Hyena’s Joel Dorn the parts themselves on the debut, phia office providing market research produced the set and special guest vo- Frank and Joe assembled a top flight and analysis for Jazz, Smooth Jazz and calists Jane Monheit and Janis Siegel band so that they could tour behind Oldies radio stations nationally. join Frank & Joe for “Manhattan” and the record. A Sunday night residen- Replacing Johnson on an interim “Glow Worm,” respectively. cy at New York City jazz club, Sweet basis will be Maureen Malloy. She The Frank & Joe Show were ini- Rhythm, honed them into a razor can be reached at 215-204-5819. ������������

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jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 9 Record News Eddie Palmieri Plans New CD

arlem-born, seven-time Gram- ous Palmieri ensembles. background. This record is an attempt my Award-winning pianist Ed- “For a long time I’ve wanted to do to blend those two streams, if you Hdie Palmieri celebrates his 50- a project with Eddie where he takes will.” year career as a professional musician great jazz soloists, puts them on top “I developed an orientation to jazz with Listen Here!, his latest CD for of a great Latin rhythm section, and from my early listening to records by Concord Picante, on June 14. The 68- writes material with those soloists in Art Tatum, Horace, Bill Evans, Mc- year-old piano maestro and his co-pro- mind,” said Seidel. “I’ve always heard Coy Tyner and Herbie Hancock,” said ducer Richard Seidel also assembled more jazz elements in his music, par- Palmieri. “The original Birdland was an all-star cast of guest soloists: Mi- ticularly his piano playing, than with next door to the Palladium, the great chael Brecker, Regina Carter, Chris- many other Latin musicians. dance hall, and I heard Count Basie tian McBride, Nicholas Payton, Da- “He’s been described as the ‘Lat- and all the bands that played there. vid Sanchez and John Scofield to join in Monk’, and you find that influence The exchange was quite exceptional. trumpeter Brian Lynch, trombon- in his use of dissonance and space. I The dance orchestra is where my heart ist Conrad Herwig, alto saxophonist think of him as a kind of Latin Mc- was, but jazz idiom has certainly influ- Donald Harrison, bassist John Benitez, Coy Tyner also, which you can hear enced me in terms of how I structure, Cuban traps master Horacio “El Ne- in terms of the thundering, ringing how I think of phrasing, and the har- gro Hernandez”, and master conguero sounds he gets out of the instrument. monic changes I want to use.” Giovanni�������������������������������������� Hidalgo, all veterans of vari- To that he brings, of course, his own JW

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jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 10 Record News New Great Jazz Trio CD, S’Wonderful, Coming June 28 on Columbia

n June 28, Columbia will release 1961), and Ellingtonia (tenorman Jim- ture him as a leader, co-leader, or co- S’Wonderful, by the Great Jazz my Forrest “borrowed” “Night Train” equal sideman. OTrio, featuring pianist Hank from Ellington’s “The Happy Go- “The magic word is listening,” Jones with bassist John Patitucci and Lucky Local”). Jones says. “You gain something from drummer Jack DeJohnette. Jones will turn 87 on July 31, and every experience you have. Players of S’Wonderful represents the fifth he is in a particularly prolific period; this caliber take me to a different level. installment of the Great Jazz Trio S’Wonderful is one of a half-dozen re- I gain. I learn. I grow richer, and I can since 1975, when Jones recorded Han- leases in the first half of 2005 to fea- do it better the next time.” ky Panky with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Grady Tate. In subsequent Sirius Jazz Plans Special Shows editions, Jones has interacted with Carter and legendary drummer Tony Williams; with bassist Eddie Gomez NEW YORK – Upcoming special jazz vis will feature Mingus’s most beloved and drummer Al Foster; and, most re- shows on Sirius Satellite Radio include pieces and explain how he poured his cently, with bassist Richard Davis and programs from regulars Bruce Lund- talent – and temperament – into each drummer Elvin Jones, Hank’s younger vall and Gary Burton as well as special one. brother, who passed away on May 18, visits by Dave Holland and Joel Dorn. Special guest host Joel Dorn spins 2004, two weeks before this record- On Wednesday, April 20, at 7 p.m. records from his early days on Philly ra- ing. ET, and repeated Friday at midnight, dio: all those songs that made the stu- On S’Wonderful, the trio address- bandleader and bassist Dave Holland dio phone light up, from Eddie Har- es material drawn from various points takes over the controls to present an ris’s “Exodus” to Wes Montgomery’s along Jones’ 70-year timeline as a hour of music straight from his record “Bumpin’ on Sunset.” Jazz I Dig starts working musician with a fresh, for- collection, with the big bands that at 10 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 24. ward-oriented spirit. have influenced his most recent album And on Sunday, April 24 from 10 The title track, “I Surrender Dear” Overtime, including Duke Ellington, a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, it’s another weekly and “Lover Come Back To Me” were Charles Mingus, and Count Basie. installment of Artist’s Choice with Gary all repertoire staples of tenor sax king On Friday, April 22 at 6 p.m. ET, Burton, broadcasting this week on the Coleman Hawkins, a long-time Jones Bruce Lundvall looks at the art of the road from Colorado. employer, while Jones has known collaboration. The Blue Note Hour “Sweet Lorraine” since the ‘30s, when will feature the creative and competi- Nat Cole and Art Tatum – both ear- tive side of jazz when artists come to- A R T. ly pianistic influences, along with Ted- gether to record. Expect fireworks A S K F O R from Woody Shaw and Freddie Hub- dy Wilson and Fats Waller – recorded MORE. their classic versions. bard, John Scofield and Pat Metheny, The trio also takes on the mod- Joe Lovano and Greg Osby, and much ern blues (“Moanin’,” by Bobby Tim- more. There’s an encore presentation For more information about the importance of arts education, please contact mons); the modern ballad (“Days Of on Sunday morning at 9 a.m. ET. www.AmericansForTheArts.org. Wine and Roses”), odd time signatures Also on Friday, from 7 p.m. to 1 (Paul Desmond’s iconic “Take Five”); a.m. ET, Les Davis celebrates the leg- the spiritual (“Greensleeves,” which acy of bassist, composer and autobiog- both Hawkins and the John Coltrane rapher Charles Mingus (born April 22, Quartet with Elvin Jones recorded in 1922). Throughout the program Da- jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 11 News Birthdays April 27 May 4 Freddie Watts (1943) Maynard Ferguson (1928) April 20 April 28 Lars Gullin (1928) Tito Puente (1923) Mario Bauza (1911) Richard Williams (1931) Ran Blake (1935) Blossom Dearie (1926) Don Friedman (1935) Beaver Harris (1936) John Tchicai (1936) Ron Carter (1937) Joe Bonner (1948) Steve Khan (1947) May 5 April 21 Willie Colon (1950) Paul Barbarin (1899) Mundell Lowe (1922) April 29 Fred Astaire (1899) Slide Hampton (1932) Duke Ellington (1899) Bix Beiderbecke (1903) Ian Carr (1933) Jean “Toots” Thielemans (1922) Stanley Cowell (1941) April 22 Big Jay McNeely (1928) Jack Walrath (1946) Charles Mingus (1922) Ray Barretto (1929) May 6 Paul Chambers (1935) George Adams (1940) David Friesen (1942) Don Menza (1936) Steve Gadd (1945) May 8 April 23 April 30 Mary Lou Williams (1910) Bunky Green (1935) Percy Heath (1923) Keith Jarrett (1945) April 24 Abdul Wadud (1947) May 10 Aaron Bell (1922) May 1 Mel Lewis (1929) Johnny Griffin (1928) Ira Sullivan (1931) Ahmed Abdullah (1947) Frank Strazzeri (1930) Shirley Horn (1934) May 11 Joe Henderson (1937) Carlos Ward (1940) King Oliver (1885) Collin Walcott (1945) James Newton (1953) Irving Berlin (1888) Stafford James (1946) May 2 J C Higginbotham (1906) April 25 Bing Crosby (1904) Carla Bley (1938) Earl Bostic (1913) Richard “Groove” Holmes (1931) May 12 Ella Fitzgerald (1918) May 3 Gerald Wiggins (1922) Willis Jackson (1932) Yank Lawson (1911) Gary Peacock (1935) April 26 John Lewis (1920) May 13 Jimmy Giuffre (1921) Jimmy Cleveland (1926) Maxine Sullivan (1911) Teddy Edwards (1924) Jimmy Merritt (1926) Gil Evans (1912) Woody Herman (1913) Red Garland (1923)

jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 12 Artist Q&A: Curtis Stigers

by Tad Hendrickson

hile Curtis Stigers has a brand new record out on Con- cord, JazzWeek caught up with the singer/saxophonist af- Wter a long weekend as the defacto spokesman and host of the Gene Harris Jazz Festival in Stigers’ home- town of Boise. The singer resurrected his rock- star moves for a Friday night gig in the lo- cal hockey arena, and it sounded like he’d been through the ringer by the time JazzWeek caught up him on Monday morning. Nonethe- less, he proved himself to be a first rate racon- teur even as cobwebs were cleared out.

JW: Your sense of fun and showmanship is some- thing that seems all too rare in jazz today. CS: I don’t understand it. I just think you can be a great jazz musician with integrity, with attitude, with an edge, and still care about the audience. I’ve seen footage of Coltrane and Miles Davis play, and while it wasn’t exactly a Sammy Davis, Jr. show, but still…. El- vin Jones was amazing to watch on stage. There’s a dif- ference between being intense on stage and being inso- lent on stage. Too many young players are insolent or rude to the audience. I come from a different place. I grew up with Gene Harris as my mentor. He lived here in Boise and I saw him play a couple times a week. He was so inclusive. He was a different type of jazz guy than Coltrane or Davis, but he could burn, or blow the place down. And he’d still include the audience and still include the band. He made people feel like he wanted to be there, and that’s still important. I look at this album (I Think It’s Going to Rain Today) as more of a summation of what your Concord work Norman Seeff continued ... jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 13 Artist Q&A: Curtis Stigers

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has moved towards rather than a departure. I definitely sort of found a place that I’ve been looking for for the last four re- cords. I grew up listening to the radio. It never occurred to me to listen to one kind of music. I just wanted to play music and I’d hear songs – I heard Sonny Rollins play “Blue Seven” and I wanted to do that; then I’d hear Neil Young do “Heart Of Gold” and I wanted to do that. It went on and on and on. But I’m a jazz singer: it’s what I do best. It’s where I live and where I belong. Was the transition from pop to jazz a difficult one? For a long time I kept jazz separate from pop and country and rock. I was a jazz purist. On my first Concord record, I wanted to show people that I was a real jazz singer. I wasn’t just some Rod Stewart rock guy who now sang jazz. Then with the last record I wanted to see if I could take a bunch of songs that move me, that weren’t by Gershwin or whomever, and make them good jazz records. When I got in there I realized I could almost let go of whether it was jazz or pop or country, and just do songs. So you just picked up with this one, where you left off with the other? Yes. I was so comfortable with these guys that it was just like falling off a log to record with them again. They are such great players and they are open to the kind of thing that I was doing. They’re young guys who grew up with pop music, just like I did. Is your next one going to have this same approach? I have a list of hundreds and hundreds of songs that Stigers’ latest: I Think It’s Going to Rain I haven’t gotten to. Great songs that I want to record Today (Concord) debuts at No. 37 on the get put on the list. So who knows what I’m gonna do next. JazzWeek Jazz Album chart this week. Do you actually keep a list? Oh yeah. That’s the key to doing this, thinking “I need to record this” every time I hear a great song. I’m not going to be able to come up with a list of 10 really great songs I want to record in a month before a recording session. It’s a cumulative sort of thing. I’m always listening for great songs in the same way that I’m always listening for a great line. I think that the two originals are two of the best songs on the record. Good. I’m very lucky to be able to collaborate with Larry Goldings. He’s in- credibly versatile: every style he plays in sounds like he was born there. That’s the thing that amazes me about him. He can play like Meade Lux Lewis or continued ... jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 14 Artist Q&A: Curtis Stigers

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Oscar Peterson or Bill Evans. But it always sounds like Larry. The way he swings and how he does it just works. He’s a great player and an amazing ar- ranger. He can write too. I just sort of pester him until he sends me a tape with seven or eight ideas on it. He’s so busy I have to do that a couple of months ahead. By the time I get the tape it’s filled with absolute gems. This time I got around to finishing two of them. Being a dad has really cramped my writing style considerably. I wrote most of my songs on my pop records, and I am a songwriter, but with a daughter is in pre-school it’s all I could do. Getting back to songwriting – that’s sort of my goal, if I have a goal, for the next record. “Playing Is it harder to write jazz songs? When you write pop songs, it’s easier to write these confessional songs. With live doesn’t jazz you have to be more clever about fitting in the really personal stuff with the kind of general Tin Pan Alley kind of stuff. It’s really hard to write a just sustain song that works really well with a quartet or quintet without it sounding sort me; it’s who of meandering. It either sounds too much like a Tin Pan Alley song, which means it’s not personal. Or it sounds too confessional or Joni Mitchell-ly that I am.” it doesn’t quite work the way a jazz tune does. To work in jazz you sort of have an AAB shape. You got to have a bridge. It can’t have a big chorus, like you’d have in a pop tune. What I’m saying is that I’m still learning how to write this kind of tune. I’m teaching myself how to balance the confessional with the old school, Rogers and Hart kind of shape. The good news is you have 40 or 50 years to figure it out, as opposed to a pop star, which is typically already irrelevant by the time they hit your age. I didn’t look at it that way when I made the switch; I just sort of needed to move forward with something that suited me best. Stepping back and looking at it, it really does make sense. When I hear your music, I think you go dangerously close to being hep-cat cliché when you scat and some of the songs you’ve done. But you have great musicians behind you, you exude a certain warmth and a sense of fun that makes the music appealing and you really likeable. Well thanks. Humor is a big part of what I do and I try to get it in there. I do realize that there is a very thin line between bad and good jazz singers. I grew up studying jazz singers. Mark Murphy was my hero. There was Ella and Sar- ah and Joe Williams and Sinatra. Doing that now, you can seem like a cliche or a lounge singer. Your right though, the band does save me. I figured out that if I’m gonna do a jazz version of a Dylan song, or a Kinks song, it’s got to have an edge of some sort. It’s gonna have to stand on its head if it’s going to be dif- ferent than a corny Steve Lawrence version. That is definitely the line I walk. So is it a good time to be a jazz singer? Everyone keeps saying that jazz has finally come around again. It’s pop mu- continued ... jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 15 Artist Q&A: Curtis Stigers

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sic again and there’s a renaissance. But didn’t we hear that 10 years ago, and 10 years before that? Jazz is jazz, it’s the red-headed step child of pop music. It has a certain crowd and every once in a while an artist manages to sneak through to broader audience. Diana Krall did an amazing thing in that she stuck to her guns and played music that swings. Then suddenly 8 million people bought her records. It’s a fluke, but God love her. I happen to be a huge fan of her and what she does. Very few singers swing as well as she does. Is jazz singing the new black? No. There’s a few guys doing Sinatra impressions and few really good singers that at least touch on jazz. Other than that, it’s all about market- ing and what you wear if you are going to bust through.

Norman Seeff What’s the best part of being a jazz singer, versus a pop singer? It’s that I get to play. When I was a pop singer, I’d sit at home and wait for my singles to become hits. Then I’d go out and play. It costs so much to play that I’d just sit and wait. It was agony for me, because I grew up playing music. Playing live doesn’t just sustain me; it’s who I am. JW jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 16 Reviews and Picks

Dena DeRose master piece Porgy & Bess is hard to pass up. Leading a 16- piece band that features a number of notables, Masters does A Walk In The Park (MAXJAZZ) an excellent job toeing the line between retaining the spirit EVEN THOUGH SHE’S recorded five albums over the last 10 of the original scores years, comparisons to Diana Krall are going to be inevitable and putting his own for Dena DeRose. She’s a blonde pianist who came to sing- stamp on the ar- ing late in her musi- rangements. He gets cal development, and excellent support like Krall (at least from the players in on her last album), the execution of these DeRose also toss- ideas and strong so- es in a few originals loing, in particu- to go with standards lar, from trumpeter and modern pop Tim Hagans, tenor- classics. Happily, the man Billy Harper thing that works for and bari player Gary Krall also works for Smulyan. Rich and swinging, filled with rainbow of tonal DeRose – they are shading, and not at all didactic (thankfully), this succeeds both excellent singers and pianists. Playing in a trio setting, on several levels. – Tad Hendrickson DeRose’s voice has a seductive purr and a slight vibrato ac- Contact: Mitchell Feldman centuates when she stretches out syllables. Her keyboard Phone: (303) 433-0021 skills recall the flexibility and subtlety of Kenny Barron and Email: [email protected] Release Date: March 22 romantic yearnings Hank Jones. The lilting crescendos and Add Date: May 5 tugging nuances in her playing fit well with her voice, and the two instruments often complete or at least compliment each other – this most apparent when she vocalizes along Kenny Wheeler to a solo (“All The Way”), but can be heard in such gems as “Meditation.” Her first album for MAXJAZZ, A Walk In What Now? (Cam Jazz) The Park should see this singer’s career go to new level be- DRUMMER-LESS JAZZ GROUPS can have a certain floating cause the goods are here to take her there. feeling that recalls – Tad Hendrickson chamber music while Contact: Groov Marketing still remaining whol- Phone: (877) GROOV 32 ly in the jazz idiom. Email: [email protected] Such is the case here Release Date: April 26 with flugelhorn play- Add Date: April 26 er Kenny Wheeler’s quartet, which also Mark Masters Ensemble features bassist Dave Holland, saxophon- Porgy & Bess Redefined (Capri) ist Chris Potter and WE PROBABLY DON’T need more versions of “I Loves You pianist John Taylor. Porgy,” “Summertime” and “Ain’t Necessarily So,” but to hear these Gershwin classics couched in the composers’ continued ... jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 17 Reviews and Picks

Kenny Wheeler (continued) Editors’ Picks Roz Corral Telling Tales (Blujazz) The four roll from opener “Iowa City” to closer “Verona” It is hard to believe that this is Roz’s debut release. This record with several interesting stops along the way. Elaborating on is a mixture of standards and lesser-known songs that aptly display her talents as a vocalist. She is one of a handful of a language developed through friendships between them singers, male or female, who uses her voice as an instrument over the years (the group as a whole has only played togeth- rather than just singing the notes. Her back up band on this er Montreal in 2003), this recording is based on individual recording is Bruce Barth, Larry Grenadier, John Hart, Steve ties that go back many years. Holland is rock solid through- Wilson, Steve Davis, and Jeff Ballard. Key tracks: “I’ll Never Be out (check out his intro to “March Mist”), doing most of The Same”, “Wheelers and Dealers,” and “I’ve Got No Strings”. the rhythmic heavy lifting, while Potter and Taylor provide Dr. John The Best Of The Parlophone Years (Blue Note) counterpoint to and coloring for Wheeler. The leader is in Over the last eight years, Dr. John has released four recordings a particularly lyrical mood here on these eight melancholy that are all very different, but are in his own distinctive style. originals, offering up a dreamy eloquence that sets the tone This album is a Best Of collection that includes two extra for stellar performances all around. – Tad Hendrickson tracks: “Careless Love” which was unissued until now, and “Look Out” which was only released in Japan. Special guests Contact: Garrett Shelton include B.B. King, Paul Weller, Jools Holland, Randy Newman, Phone: (646) 519-3560 and members of Supergrass, just to name a few. Key Tracks: Email: [email protected] Pick any to fit your mood. Release Date: April 25 Jane Ira Bloom Like Silver, Like Song (Artistshare) Add Date: May 5 Jane’s latest release is with her elecktro-acoustic band featuring Mark Dresser on bass and Bobby Previte on drums. Jane is known to be experimental with her recordings and performances. This album has those tracks; however it has several tracks that will fit a traditional jazz format. This album features twelve original compositions that are as innovative, to say the least. The CD features a downloadable mp3 version of Reach radio the music. Key Tracks: “Singing in Stripes”, “Magnetic”, and “I programmers Have Dreamed”. Marian McPartland & Friends 85 Candles – Live In New York (Concord Jazz) This jazz celebration was recorded by National Public Radio/ SCERN and Concord Records on March 21, 2003. Now this event is available on CD for the first time and probably would make a great fundraising premium. (Just dropping a hint.) This is a 2-CD set that includes special guests Ravi Coltrane, Karrin Allyson, Jason Moran, Dr. Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, Curtis Stigers, and the list goes on. Key Tracks: “The Nearness of You”, “But Not For Me”, Lester Leaps In”, and “Summertime”. Daria Feel The Rhythm (Jazz’M Up Records) This recording is like an iPod set on shuffle play. Each track is different but the Latin theme keeps it together. This disc has Advertise in Jazz, Blues, Samba, Afro-Brazilian, Rhumba, Bossa, Tango, Cha-Cha, Brazilian/Fusion, and great vocals on all of it. This disc can work for jazz stations and smooth jazz stations that JazzWeek dare to stray from the pack. Jazz Key Tracks: “All Or Nothing At Call Tony Gasparre at All”, “Turn Around”, and “Under The Moon And Over The Sky”. (585) 235-4685, ext. 3 Smooth Jazz Key Tracks: “Feel The Rhythm”, “Don’t You Worry or email About A Thing”, and “Fragile”. [email protected] – compiled by Tony Gasparre jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 18 Jazz Radio

Monty Alexander’s Live Is Number One

La Espade de la Noche from Ted Nash & Odeon is Most Added

onty Alexander’s Live at The Irid- ium (Telarc) moves up to the No. M1 spot on this week’s Jazz Album Chart with airplay on 57 stations. Legacy (Concord) from Joey DeFrances- co with the late Jimmy Smith moves down to the No. 2 position with airplay on 54 sta- tions. Most Added was Ted Nash & Odeon’s La Espade de la Noche (Palmetto) with 21 stations. Curtis Fuller’s Keep It Simple is the Monty Alexander’s Live at The Iridium (Telarc) highest debut at No. 25 and had the Most climbs to this week’s No. 1 spot. Incresed Airplay with 129 additional spins this week.

Jazz Album Chart p. 20 Jazz Add Dates p. 21 Jazz Current CDs p. 22 Jazz Radio Panel p. 28 Ted Nash & Odeon are the week’s most added with their Palmetto CD La Espade de la Noche. jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 19 airplay data JazzWeek Jazz Album Chart April 20, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 2 3 1 Monty Alexander Live At The Iridium Telarc Jazz 304 279 25 8 57 2 2 1 1 1 Joey DeFrancesco w/Jimmy Smith Legacy Concord Jazz 258 285 -27 11 54 0 3 4 4 3 One More Music of Thad Jones IPO Recordings 235 219 16 5 46 2 4 7 NR 4 Eldar Sony Classical 233 188 45 2 50 10 5 21 NR 5 Scott Hamilton/Bill Charlap Trio Back In New York Concord Jazz 229 139 90 2 45 10 6 3 2 1 David “Fathead” Newman I Remember Brother Ray HighNote 227 236 -9 12 49 0 7 6 6 6 BeatleJazz With A Little Help From Our Friends Lightyear 213 192 21 6 43 1 8 22 14 8 Connie Evingson Gypsy In My Soul Minnehaha Music 212 133 79 5 35 0 9 19 NR 9 Gary Burton Next Generation Concord Jazz 211 143 68 2 48 14 10 8 7 6 Avishai Cohen Trio & Ensemble At Home Razdaz 205 178 27 9 49 2 11 17 18 11 The Chris Walden Big Band Home Of My Heart Origin Records 182 148 34 9 38 3 11 23 28 11 Babatunde Lea Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost Motema 182 129 53 3 40 12 13 12 21 12 Amina Figarova Come Escape With Me Munich Records 170 161 9 6 44 4 14 13 16 13 John Pizzarelli Knowing You Telarc Jazz 169 156 13 3 38 4 15 5 5 3 Randy Johnston Is It You? HighNote 168 200 -32 11 39 0 16 16 7 1 Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird Concord Jazz 165 150 15 16 32 0 17 15 12 12 Phil Woods Groovin’ To Marty Paich Jazzed Media 164 153 11 6 40 1 18 NR 48 18 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Records 157 59 98 3 39 12 19 11 11 11 Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up 156 163 -7 6 38 1 20 19 16 13 Kurt Rosenwinkel Deep Song Verve Music Group 149 143 6 7 47 2 21 25 22 10 Bireli Lagrene & Gipsy Project Move Dreyfus Jazz 146 116 30 11 37 2 22 14 19 13 Dave Holland Big Band Overtime Dare2/Sunnyside 145 154 -9 8 42 1 23 9 9 3 Kevin Mahogany Big Band Zebra Records/Mahogany 142 174 -32 11 35 0 Jazz 24 29 13 9 Reed Kotler Tomo Torii Records 140 109 31 11 24 0 25 31 27 25 Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan & George The Classic Concert Live Concord Jazz 131 100 31 8 25 1 Shearing 25 10 10 3 Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood Blue Note 131 169 -38 13 40 1 25 NR NR 25 Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple Savant 131 2 129 1 26 19 28 27 20 13 Ken Walker Sextet Terra Firma Synergy Music 123 112 11 13 27 1 28 24 15 3 David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group 123 121 2 14 25 0 28 17 23 16 Los Hombres Calientes Vol 5: Carnival Basin Street 123 148 -25 6 38 0 31 38 33 6 Jay Leonhart Cool Sons of Sound 109 90 19 14 24 0 32 33 31 3 Christian Jacob Styne and Mine WilderJazz 105 97 8 14 22 0 33 NR NR 33 Lea DeLaria Double Standards Telarc 104 54 50 1 29 8 34 36 24 8 Fred Hersch Ensemble Leaves Of Grass Palmetto 102 91 11 7 27 0 34 41 34 10 Caribbean Jazz Project Here and Now: Live In Concert Concord Picante 102 84 18 16 24 1 36 30 28 28 John Ellis One Foot In The Swamp Hyena Records 97 105 -8 3 29 3 37 NR NR 37 Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz 95 37 58 1 30 18 38 32 41 32 Joe Williams Havin’ A Good Time! Hyena Records 94 99 -5 3 33 5 39 35 40 17 Pat Metheny Group The Way Up Nonesuch 93 92 1 11 25 0 40 33 36 31 Dale Fielder Baritone Sunride Clarion Jazz 92 97 -5 4 28 1 41 NR NR 41 Sakesho We Want You To Say Heads Up 91 53 38 1 23 2 42 26 26 15 Avery Sharpe Trio Dragonfly JKNM 88 114 -26 10 28 2 42 NR NR 1 Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot Palmetto 88 50 38 23 26 1 44 42 48 38 Rigmor Gustafsson & The Jacky Terrason Close To you HighNote(ACT) 87 78 9 5 29 3 Trio 44 27 39 27 Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra The Minute Game Summit 87 112 -25 6 27 0 46 NR NR 46 Diane Schuur w/ Caribbean Jazz Project Schuur Fire Concord Records 84 32 52 1 25 14 46 45 24 23 Dan Haerle Trio Standard Procedure Blujazz 84 77 7 9 21 0 48 47 38 16 Corey Christiansen Awakening Mel Bay 81 69 12 12 19 0 49 NR NR 1 Steve Turre The Spirits Up Above HighNote 79 59 20 23 25 0 50 39 37 11 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme Palmetto 76 87 -11 13 25 0

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Ted Nash & Odeon La Espade de la Noche Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple (Savant) +129 Ted Nash & Odeon La Espade de la Noche (Palmetto) Chris Cortez Mum Is The Word (Blue Bamboo) (Palmetto) +21 Marcus Miller Silver Rain (Koch Records) +98 Marian McPartland Piano Jazz w/ Steely Dan (Concord) Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple (Savant) +19 Scott Hamilton/Bill Charlap Trio Back In New York Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 (Koch) Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today (Concord Jazz) +90 Kevin Stout & Brian Booth Tales Of The Tetons (Jazzed 5 Records) Keely Smith Vegas ’58 - Today (Concord) (Concord Jazz) +18 Connie Evingson Gypsy In My Soul Anat Cohen Place & Time (Anzic Records) Carolyn Leonhart New 8th Day (Sunnyside) +18 (Minnehaha Music) +79 Kate McGarry Mercy Streets (Palmetto) Gary Burton Next Generation (Concord Jazz) +14 Gary Burton Next Generation (Concord Jazz) +68 Carolyn Leonhart New 8th Day (Sunnyside) Kermit Ruffins Throwback (Basin Street) jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 20 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.

March 1, 2005 Kate McGarry – Mercy Streets (Palmetto) Dale Fielder Quartet – Baritone Sunride (Clarion) April 11, 2005 March 6, 2005 Dave’s True Story – Nature (BeBop Records) Belinda Underwood – Underwood Uncurling (Cosmik Muse Rekords) Keeley Smith – (Concord Records) Connie Evingson – Gypsy In My Soul (Minnehaha Music) Roz Corral with the Bruce Barth Sextet – Telling Tales (Blujazz) March 7, 2005 Curtis Fuller – Keep It Simple (Savant) Beatlejazz – With A Little Help From My Friends (Lightyear) Diane Schuur And The Caribbean Jazz Project – Schuur Fire (Concord Records) March 8, 2005 Jim Payne – Energie (Savant) Amanda Carr – Tender Trap (Original Music) Nguyen Le Quartet – Walking On The Tiger’s Tail (The Act Company) Dan Nadel – Brooklyn Prayer (Nadel Music) Roderick Harper – The Essence of ... (RHM) April 12, 2005 Carolyn Leonhart – New 8th Day (Sunnyside) March 14, 2005 Joe Gilman Trio – Time Again: Brubeck Revisted Vol. 2 (Sunnyside) Jacqui Naylor – East/West Birdland-Yoshi’s (Ruby Records) Marian McPartland – (Concord Records) April 18, 2005 Curtis Stigers – I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today (Concord Records) March 17, 2005 Herb Silverstein & Friends – Beach Walker (Silvertunes Music Productions) Carol Heffler – Exactly (Peeka Records) Amina Gigarova – Come Escape With Me (Munich Records) April 19, 2005 Marcus Miller – Silver Rain (KOCH) Alan Pasqua – My New Old Friend (Cryptogramophone) March 21, 2005 April 25, 2005 Babatunde Lea – Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost (Motema) Bradley Leighton – Just Doing Our Thang (Pacific Coast Jazz) Times 4 – Seductivity (Rhombus) April 26, 2005 March 22, 2005 Dena DeRose – A Walk In The Park (MAXJAZZ) Cheryl Bentyne – Let Me Off Uptown (Telarc) Peter Martin – In The P.M. (MAXJAZZ) John Pizzarelli – Knowing You (Telarc) May 2, 2005 Lea DeLaria – Double Standards (Telarc) Daniel Bnzali – Bnzali (Rio Cat) March 24, 2005 Eric Comstock – No One Knows (Harbinger Records) Kevin Stout & Brian Booth – Tales of the Tetons (Jazzed5 Records) Mark Masters Ensemble – Porgy & Bess Redefined (Capri Records) Dana Landry – Journey Home (Summit) March 28, 2005 Enrico Pieranunzi - Charlie Haden - Paul Motian – Special Encounter (CAM Bobby Darin – Live At The Desert Inn (Concord Records) Jazz) Katie Bull – Love Spook (Corn Hill Indie Records) Guillermo Klein – Una Nave (Sunnyside) Abdullah Ibrahim – A Celebration (Justin Time) Kenny Wheeler - Chris Potter - Dave Holland - John Taylor – What Now? Trudy Desmond – A Dream Come True: The Best Of Trudy Desmond (Just (CAM Jazz) A Memory) May 9, 2005 March 30, 2005 Daria – Feel The Rhythm (Jazzmup Records) Luther Hughes – Cannonball-Coltrane Project (Primerose Lane Records) Gabriel Mark Hasselbach – Swingin’ Affairs (Wind Tunnel) March 31, 2005 May 10, 2005 Marc Pompe Featuring The Joey DeFrancesco Trio – You Must Believe In Lorraine Feather – Dooji Wooji (Sanctuary) Swing (Cadence Jazz Records) Paul Grabowsky – Tales Of Time And Space (Sanctuary) April 4, 2005 May 24, 2005 Anat Cohen – Place & Time (Anzic Records) Dave Brubeck – London Flat, London Sharp (Telarc) Scott Hamilton/Bill Charlap Trio – Back In New York (Concord Records) Tony DeSare – Want You (Telarc) Ted Nash & Odeon – La Espade De La Noche (Palmetto) May 25, 2005 April 5, 2005 Tim Reis – Stones Project (Concord Records)

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jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 21 Jazz Radio Currents

Greg Abate Horace Is Here Koko Jazz Sasha Dobson w/The Chris Byars The Darkling Thrush Smalls Records Octet Ahmed Abdullah’s Dispersions of Traveling The Spaceways Planet Arts Bob Dorough Sunday At Iridium Arbors the Sprit of RA Bob Acri w/Lew Soloff/Frank Wess/Ed Blujazz Dave Douglas Mountain Passages Greenleaf Music Thigpen/George Mraz/Diane Delin Eric Alexander Dead Center HighNote Rosanne Drago Hot Sophisticated Jazz Now Self-Produced Monty Alexander Live At The Iridium Telarc Jazz E.S.T. Seven Days of Falling 215 Records Buyu Ambroise Blues In Red Justin Time Martin Eagle & Friends A Welcoming Beauty Hawksnest Carl Amundson & The Modern Guitarists Blue Line Music Eldar Sony Classical Guitar Quintet Lynne Arriale Come Together Motema The William Ash Trio The Phoenix Smalls Records John Ellis One Foot In The Swamp Hyena Records Grazyna Augucik The Light GMA Records Connie Evingson Gypsy In My Soul Minnehaha Music Babatunde Lea Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Motema Savoir Faire Running Out Of Time Delmark Ghost Eric Felton Meets The Dek-tette V.S.O.P. Jeff Baker Monologue OA2 Records Dale Fielder Baritone Sunride Clarion Jazz Bill Banfield Striking Balance Innova Amina Figarova Come Escape With Me Munich Records Denys Baptiste Let Freedom Ring Dune Records Jeni Fleming Acoustic Trio Once Around The Sun SVFM Patricia Barber Live: A Fortnight In France Blue Note Helane Fontaine My Greenbrier Season Curly Girl BeatleJazz With A Little Help From Our Friends Lightyear Bill Frisell Unspeakable Nonesuch Opie Bellas Faces Bella Blue Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple Savant Tony Bennett The Art Of Romance Columbia Onaje Allan Gumbs Remember Their Innocence Ejano Cheryl Bentyne Let Me Off Uptown Telarc Jazz Russell Gunn Ethnomusicology Vol. 4: Live In Justin Time Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird Concord Jazz Atlanta Jeff Berlin Lumpy Jazz M.A.J. Records Rigmor Gustafsson & The Jacky Close To you HighNote(ACT) Terrason Trio Salvatore Bonafede Journey To Donnafugata CAM Tord Gustavsen Trio The Ground ECM Debby Boone Reflections Of Rosemary Concord Michael Hackett Circles Summit Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia Charlie Haden Land Of The Sun Verve Music Group Ron Brendle Trio Photograph Lo Note Dan Haerle Trio Standard Procedure Blujazz Zach Brock & The Coffee Achievers Chemistry Secret Fort Scott Hamilton/Bill Charlap Trio Back In New York Concord Jazz Maurice Brown Hip To Bop Brown Records Roderick Harper The Essence Of... RHM Jimmy Bruno Solo Mel Bay Donald Harrison Free Style Nagel Heyer Katie Bull Love Spook Corn Hill Indie John Hart Indivisible Hep Jazz Jane Bunnett Red Dragonfly (Aka Tombo) Narada Jazz Carol Heffler Exactly Peeka Records Gary Burton Next Generation Concord Jazz Bruce A. Henry Connections BAHLOVE Productions Don Byron ivey-divey Blue Note Fred Hersch Ensemble Leaves Of Grass Palmetto Michel Camilo Solo Telarc Jazz Hiroshima Obon Heads Up Caribbean Jazz Project Here and Now: Live In Concert Concord Picante Dave Holland Big Band Overtime Dare2/Sunnyside Amanda Carr Tender Trap Original Music Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Thought Trains Sons of Sound Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord Orchestra The Hot Club of San Francisco Postcards From Gypsyland Lost Wax Music Corey Christiansen Awakening Mel Bay Luther Hughes Cannonball-Coltrane Primrose Lane Jim Cifelli Groove Station Short Notice Music Abdullah Ibrahim A Celebratiom Enja/Justin Time Chiara Civello Last Quarter Moon Verve/Forecast Christian Jacob Styne and Mine WilderJazz Jeff Coffin Bloom Compass Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music Group Anat Cohen Place & Time Anzic Records Randy Johnston Is It You? HighNote Avishai Cohen Trio & Ensemble At Home Razdaz Katahdin’s Edge Step Away Incline Records Tom Collier Mallet Jazz Origin Records Roger Kellaway I Was There - Roger Kellaway Plays IPO Recordings Collier & Dean Duets Origin Records From The Bobby Darin Songbook Alice Coltrane Translinear Light Impulse Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Records Ravi Coltrane In Flux Savoy Jazz Kneebody Kneebody Koch Eric Comstock No One Knows Harbinger Records Cliff Korman and the Brazilian Tinge Migrations Planet Arts Bill Connors Return Tone Center Reed Kotler Tomo Torii Records Roz Corral Telling Tales Blujazz Ladysmith Black Mambazo No Boundaries Heads Up Chris Cortez Mum Is The Word Blue Bamboo Bireli Lagrene & Gipsy Project Move Dreyfus Jazz Lars Danielsson Libera Me HighNote(ACT) Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest Bobby Darin Live At The Desert Inn Concord Records Nguyen Le Quartet Walking On The Tiger’s Tail ACT Dave’s True Story Nature Be Pop Records Bradley Leighton Just Doin’ Our Thang Pacific Coast Jazz Orbert Davis Blue Notes 3 Sixteen Carolyn Leonhart New 8th Day Sunnyside Joey DeFrancesco w/Jimmy Smith Legacy Concord Jazz Jay Leonhart Cool Sons of Sound Lea DeLaria Double Standards Telarc Ron Levy’s Wild Kingdom Voodoo Boogaloo Levtronic Bettina Devin Dangerous Type Self-Produced Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme Palmetto Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood Blue Note jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 22 Jazz Radio Currents

Charles Lloyd Jumping The Creek ECM Kurt Rosenwinkel Deep Song Verve Music Group Mike Longo and the New York State Oasis CAP Gonzalo Rubalcaba Paseo Blue Note of the Art Jazz Ensemble Los Hombres Calientes Vol 5: Carnival Basin Street Kermit Ruffins Throwback Basin Street Sylvain Luc Ambre Dreyfus Jazz Sakesho We Want You To Say Heads Up Kevin Mahogany Big Band Zebra Records/Ma- David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group hogany Jazz Rebecca Sayre This Is Always Becca Thomas Marriott Individuation Origin Maria Schneider Orchestra Concert In The Garden Artist Share Wynton Marsalis Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise Blue Note Diane Schuur w/ Caribbean Jazz Schuur Fire Concord Records and Fall of Jack Johnson Project Branford Marsalis Quartet Eternal Marsalis Music/ Marilyn Scott Nightcap Prana Entertainment Rounder Records Will Martin Morning Saguaro Beach The Jim Seeley/Arturo O’Farrill Zoho Music Mark Masters Ensemble Porgy & Bess Redefined! Capri Quintet Irvin Mayfield & The Orleans Jazz Strange Fruit Basin Street Orchestra Shapes The Big Picture Burnin’ Down The Kate McGarry Mercy Streets Palmetto House Productions Avery Sharpe Trio Dragonfly JKNM Tim McNamara Quartet Earth Sign Blujazz Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron Left Alone Revisited: Tribute To Billie Synergy Music Marian McPartland Piano Jazz w/ Steely Dan Concord Holiday Charles McPherson w/ Strings A Tribute To Charlie Parker Clarion Jazz Mark Sherman The Motive Series CAP Medeski Martin & Wood End of The World Party Blue Note Ben Sidran Quartet Bumpin’ At The Sunside! Nardis Pat Metheny Group The Way Up Nonesuch David Sills Eastern View Origin Records Jason Miles Miles To Miles Narada Jazz Herb Silverstein & Friends Beach Walker Silvertunes Music Productions Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Records Norman Simmons In Private Savant Tony Monaco Firey Blues Summit Charles Small Small Talk Blue Lady Grachan Moncur III Exploration Capri Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot Palmetto Jane Monheit Taking A Chance On Love Sony Classical Keely Smith Vegas ‘58 - Today Concord Monk’s Music Trio Think Of One CMB Records Jim Snidero Close Up Milestone Jason Moran Same Mother Blue Note The Stamm/Soph Project Live At Birdland NYC Jazzed Media Dan Nadel Brooklyn Prayer Nadel Music Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz Ted Nash & Odeon La Espade de la Noche Palmetto Kevin Stout & Brian Booth Tales Of The Tetons Jazzed 5 Records Jacqui Naylor East/West Birdland - Yoshi’s Ruby Records Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 Ed Neumeister Quartet New Standards Meistero Bill Tapia Duke Of Uke Moon Room Records David “Fathead” Newman I Remember Brother Ray HighNote Times 4 Seductivity GTM Russ Nolan Two Colors Rhinoceruss Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan & George The Classic Concert Live Concord Jazz John O’Gallagher A Line Of Sight Fresh Sound New Shearing Talent Steve Turre The Spirits Up Above HighNote Octobop After Dark Mystic Lane Produc- Two Siberians Out of Nowhere Heads Up tions Darek Oles Like A Dream Cryptogramophone Belinda Underwood Underwood Uncurling Cosmik Muse Rekords One More Music of Thad Jones IPO Recordings Manuel Valera Forma Nueva MAVO Records Paradigm Shift Shifting Times Nagel Heyer Martijn van Iterson Quartet The Whole Bunch Munich Records Jim Payne Energie Savant The Chris Walden Big Band Home Of My Heart Origin Records Jim Pearce Washington Square Park Oak Avenue Ken Walker Sextet Terra Firma Synergy Music Publishing Ken Peplowski Easy To Remember Nagel Heyer Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz & Trio ECM Miskiewicz Houston Person To Etta With Love HighNote Harry Watters Out Of A Dream: Love Songs Summit Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Rounder Judy Wexler Easy On The Heart Rhombus Enrico Pieranunzi Fellini Jazz CAM Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor Where Do We Go From Here? CAM Enrico Pieranunzi Doorways CAM Wesla Whitfield In My Life HighNote Leslie Pintchik So Glad To Be Here Ambient Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra The Minute Game Summit John Pizzarelli Knowing You Telarc Jazz Joe Williams Havin’ A Good Time! Hyena Records Marc Pompe You Must Believe In Swing Cadence Jazz Abram Wilson Jazz Warrior Dune Records Michel Portal & Richard Galliano Concerts Dreyfus Jazz Nancy Wilson R.S.V.P. MCG Jazz Devere Pride Trio ... As In A Morning Sunrise The Davis Group Dave Wilson Quartet Through The Time Dreamscape Records Dafnis Prieto About The Monks Zoho Music Chris Winters Impressions Blujazz Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers The Hideout Milestone Ben Wolfe My Kinda Wonderful Planet Arts Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch Michael Wolff Dangerous Vision Artimas Paul Renz & Friends Hubbub Gabwalk Records Phil Woods Groovin’ To Marty Paich Jazzed Media Roditi / Ignatzek / Rassinfosse Light In The Dark Nagel Heyer Victor Wooten Soul Circus Vanguard Wallace Roney Prototype HighNote Savina Yannatou & Primavera En Sumiglia ECM Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group Solonico Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up Roomful Of Blues Standing Room Only Alligator Ted Rosenthal/Bob Brookmeyer One Night In Vermont Planet Arts jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 23 Smooth Jazz Radio

Kenny G Tops Albums, Boney James Singles

Most Added: Paul Taylor Album, Hiroshima Single

enny G remains in the No. 1 spot on the Smooth Jazz Album Chart with At Last ... KThe Duets Album (Arista). Staying at the No. 1 spot on this week’s JazzWeek Smooth Sin- gles Chart is “Stone Groove” featuring Joe Sam- ple, from Boney James (Warner Bros.) Remaining in the No. 2 spot on the Smooth Jazz Album Chart is Dave Koz’s Saxophonic (Cap- itol) and Kenny G and David Sanborn moved up into the No. 2 position on the Smooth Singles Chart with “Pick Up The Pieces”.

Kenny G’s At Last ... (Arista) stays atop the album Paul Taylor’s Nightlife (Peak) is the Most Add- chart on the strength of several singles. ed on the Smooth Album Chart. Hiroshima’s “Atomic Cafe” is the Most Added and No. 1 in Chartbound on the Smooth Singles Chart.

Smooth Album Chart p. 25 Smooth Singles Chart p. 26 Smooth Current CDs p. 27 Smooth Radio Panel p. 28 “Stone Groove” from Boney James’ Pure (Warner Bros.) featuring Joe Sample is the No. 1 single. jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 24 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Album Chart April 20, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista 974 67 19 34 0 2 2 2 1 Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol 889 909 -20 24 34 0 3 3 3 2 Boney James Pure Warner Bros. 852 895 -43 24 35 0 4 4 4 3 Paul Brown Up Front GRP 627 644 -17 19 33 0 5 5 6 5 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 626 604 22 24 34 0 6 6 8 6 Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous 534 572 -38 24 33 0 7 8 5 4 Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 532 540 -8 16 33 0 8 7 7 4 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 479 542 -63 24 34 0 9 10 11 1 Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 461 455 6 24 35 0 10 11 9 1 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP 452 449 3 19 33 0 11 9 10 9 Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note 451 481 -30 16 33 0 12 13 15 12 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 408 417 -9 13 32 1 13 12 13 12 Marc Antoine The Very Best Of Marc Antoine VMG 399 428 -29 24 32 0 14 14 12 12 Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia 396 412 -16 19 33 0 15 19 29 15 Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz 371 307 64 5 29 1 16 16 19 16 David Sanborn Closer Verve 349 325 24 14 30 0 17 28 30 17 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 313 267 46 6 31 4 18 21 25 16 Fourplay Journey BMG 300 294 6 24 25 0 19 17 14 14 Nick Colionne Just Come On In Will Keys 291 324 -33 24 31 0 20 22 27 20 3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave 290 289 1 12 27 1 21 15 16 6 Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up 289 354 -65 24 31 0 22 24 20 3 Paul Jackson, Jr. Still Small Voice Blue Note 288 287 1 24 32 0 23 18 18 2 Norman Brown Up ‘N’ at ‘Em [Single] Warner Bros. 287 321 -34 24 29 0 24 26 24 21 Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got To Play Narada Jazz / Virgin 286 275 11 19 29 0 25 30 41 25 Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie 275 263 12 10 26 0 26 23 22 22 Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz 268 288 -20 12 24 0 27 20 28 9 Peter White Confidential Columbia 244 295 -51 19 29 0 28 27 17 14 Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord 242 273 -31 17 26 0 29 29 23 1 Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP / VMG / UMG 240 265 -25 24 34 0 30 25 21 5 Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia 237 284 -47 24 32 0 31 31 26 1 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous 231 260 -29 24 32 0 32 36 37 22 Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out Peak / Concord 218 209 9 19 32 0 33 32 32 5 George Benson Irreplaceable GRP / VMG / UMG 212 233 -21 24 34 0 34 34 36 18 Najee Classic Masters Capitol / EMI 212 223 -11 24 32 0 35 39 38 18 Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up 201 197 4 24 19 0 36 35 31 29 Daryl Hall & John Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch 194 216 -22 16 19 0 37 37 40 30 Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge, Vol.1 Rendezvous 194 203 -9 24 24 0 38 38 39 33 Pamela Williams Sweet Saxations Shanachie 191 200 -9 12 18 0 39 40 35 14 Marc Antoine Mediterraneo Rendezvous 188 196 -8 24 21 0 40 47 48 18 Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous 185 154 31 24 35 0 41 41 43 41 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch 177 195 -18 4 16 0 42 42 33 22 Seal Best: 1991-2004 Warner Bros. 176 191 -15 16 20 0 43 44 46 41 Michael McDonald Motown Motown 171 167 4 14 30 0 44 45 45 44 Alexander Zonjic Seldom Blues Heads Up 170 164 6 19 13 0 45 43 42 20 Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language 168 168 0 24 23 0 46 46 50 46 Matt Bianco Matt’s Mood UMG 157 155 2 10 21 1 47 33 34 11 Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album AM / UMG 146 228 -82 19 23 0 48 51 47 31 Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. 142 141 1 19 27 0 49 48 44 16 Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie 140 153 -13 19 22 0 50 49 49 26 Richard Smith Soulidified A440 135 145 -10 19 27 0

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Paul Taylor Nightlife (Peak) +4 Kenny G At Last ... The Duets Album (Arista) +67 Hiroshima Obon (Heads Up) Sandro Albert The Color Of Things (215) +3 Steve Cole Spin (Narada Jazz) +64 Chaka Khan Classikhan (Sanctuary) George Duke T-Jam [Single] (BPM / Navarre) Steve Cole Spin (Narada Jazz) +1 Hiroshima Obon (Heads Up) +62 Sergio Caputo Jazzy Girl [Single] (Idiosyncrasy) 3rd Force Driving Force (Higher Octave) +1 Paul Taylor Nightlife (Peak) +46 Doc Powell Cool Like That (Heads Up) Patches Stewart Blow (Koch) +1 Praful One Day Deep (Rendezvous) +31 Andy Summers The X Tracks (Fuel 2000) Chieli Minucci Jewels (JVC) Patches Stewart Blow (Koch) Ronny Jordan After 8 (N-Coded)

jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 25 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Singles Chart April 20, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 2 1 Boney James Stone Groove (w/ Joe Sample) Warner Bros. 690 737 -47 23 34 0 2 3 3 2 Kenny G & David Sanborn Pick Up The Pieces Arista 641 605 36 19 33 0 3 2 1 1 Dave Koz Let It Free Capitol 634 693 -59 24 31 0 4 4 4 1 Tim Bowman Summer Groove Liquid 8 532 540 -8 16 33 0 5 7 7 5 Euge Groove XXL EMI 529 496 33 24 31 0 6 5 5 5 Paul Brown Moment By Moment GRP 510 528 -18 19 33 0 7 8 8 1 Soul Ballet Cream 215 461 455 6 24 35 0 8 6 6 3 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 447 516 -69 24 34 0 9 9 9 9 Michael Lington Two Of A Kind (w/ Chuck Loeb) Rendezvous 429 434 -5 24 31 0 10 10 11 10 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 408 417 -9 13 32 1 11 13 14 11 Kenny G & Earth Wind, & Fire The Way You Move Arista 382 346 36 15 30 1 12 16 20 12 Steve Cole Thursday Narada Jazz 371 307 64 5 29 1 13 12 10 10 Chris Botti No Ordinary Love Columbia 345 351 -6 19 33 0 14 11 12 11 Anita Baker How Does It Feel Blue Note 336 368 -32 16 27 0 15 20 23 15 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 313 267 46 6 31 4 16 18 18 16 3rd Force Believe In Me Higher Octave 290 289 1 12 27 1 17 15 15 2 Norman Brown Up ‘N’ At ‘Em Warner Bros. 287 321 -34 24 29 0 18 17 17 16 David Sanborn Tin Tin Deo Verve 286 292 -6 14 27 0 19 21 37 19 Chuck Loeb Tropical Shanachie 275 263 12 10 26 0 20 19 16 16 Jeff Lorber Ooh La La Narada Jazz 268 288 -20 12 24 0 21 14 13 5 Marion Meadows Sweet Grapes Heads Up 262 325 -63 24 31 0 22 23 25 19 Fourplay Fields Of Gold BMG 258 248 10 24 23 1 23 22 19 1 Wayman Tisdale Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now Rendezvous 212 255 -43 24 31 0 24 24 22 1 Richard Elliot Your Secret Love GRP 208 227 -19 19 29 0 25 25 24 1 Gerald Albright To The Max GRP / VMG / UMG 199 222 -23 24 33 0 26 30 30 26 Pamela Williams Fly Away With Me Shanachie 187 191 -4 12 16 0 27 27 27 24 Daryl Hall & John Oates I’ll Be Around U-Watch 187 210 -23 16 18 0 28 34 31 28 Joyce Cooling Camelback Narada Jazz / Virgin 184 183 1 19 20 1 29 28 21 13 Ray Charles You Don’t Know Me (w/ Diana Krall) Concord 181 205 -24 17 24 0 30 36 36 30 Paul Jackson, Jr. Never Too Much GRP 180 178 2 9 19 1 31 26 28 5 Chris Botti Back Into My Heart Columbia 180 212 -32 24 30 0 32 31 26 13 Seal Walk On By Warner Bros. 176 191 -15 16 20 0 33 32 29 16 Pieces Of A Dream It’s Go Time Heads Up 176 190 -14 24 18 0 34 29 39 29 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch 174 194 -20 4 16 0 35 42 41 23 Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out Peak / Concord 171 153 18 19 32 0 36 38 42 36 Alexander Zonjic Leave It With Me Heads Up 170 164 6 19 13 0 37 33 32 3 George Benson Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise GRP / VMG / UMG 168 189 -21 24 32 0 38 40 40 15 Dan Siegel In Your Eyes Native Language 159 156 3 24 22 0 39 41 43 39 Matt Bianco Ordinary Day (w/ Basia) UMG 157 155 2 10 21 1 40 39 38 5 Paul Jackson, Jr. Walkin’ Blue Note 151 164 -13 24 26 0 41 50 48 14 Dave Koz All I See Is You Capitol 150 119 31 24 33 0 42 37 33 11 Nick Colionne It’s Been Too Long Will Keys 146 173 -27 24 22 0 43 43 34 31 Nick Colionne High Flyin’ Will Keys 142 148 -6 19 28 0 44 55 53 19 Praful Sigh Rendezvous 137 109 28 24 34 0 45 49 47 21 Paul Jackson, Jr. It’s A Shame Blue Note 137 122 15 24 29 0 46 46 56 46 Ken Navarro You Are Everything Positive Music 126 132 -6 10 10 0 47 45 44 12 Kim Waters In Deep Shanachie 125 135 -10 19 20 0 48 47 46 28 Rick Braun Daddy-O Warner Bros. 125 131 -6 19 26 0 49 54 59 29 Paul Brown 24/7 GRP 117 111 6 19 27 0 50 56 49 2 Boney James Here She Comes Warner Bros. 109 108 1 24 25 0

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Hiroshima “Atomic Cafe” (Heads Up) +11 Steve Cole “Thursday” (Narada Jazz) +64 Hiroshima “Swiss Ming” (Heads Up) Walter Beasley “She’s All That” (Heads Up) +7 Paul Taylor “Nightlife” (Peak) +46 George Duke “T-Jam” (BPM / Navarre) Boney James “It’s On” (Warner Bros.) Paul Taylor “Nightlife” (Peak) +4 Hiroshima “Swiss Ming” (Heads Up) +40 Mindi Abair “Every Time” (GRP) (13 more at +1) Kenny G & Earth Wind, & Fire “The Way You Move” Sergio Caputo “Jazzy Girl” (Idiosyncrasy) (Arista) +36 Doc Powell “Let It Be” (Heads Up) Michael McDonald “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing” (Motown) Kenny G & David Sanborn “Pick Up The Pieces” Ray Charles “Here We Go Again” (w/ Norah Jones) (Concord) (Arista) +36 David Lanz “Big Sur” (Decca) Andy Summers “’Round Midnight” (w/ Sting) (Fuel 2000) jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 26 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Albums

3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol Mindy Abair Come As You Are GRP Pattie LaBelle Timeless Journey Island /Def Jam Greg Adams Firefly 215 Records David Lanz The Good Life Decca Sandro Albert The Color Of Things 215 Records Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP Ronnie Laws Everlasting Holland Group Marc Antoine Mediteraneo Rendevous Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendevous Marc Antoine The Very Best of Marc Antoine Verve Music Group Liquid Soul Evolution Shanachie Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note Chuck Loeb eBop Shanachie Bob Baldwin Brazil Chill A440 Music Group Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz Walter Beasley Go With The Flow N-Coded Music Torcuato Mariano Diary 215 Records Pete Belasco Deeper Compendia Eric Marienthal Sweet Talk Peak Regina Belle Lazy Peak Keiko Matsui Wildflower Narada David Benoit / Russ Freeman Benoit Freeman Project 2 Peak Michael McDonald Motown Motown George Benson Irreplaceable GRP Michael McDonald Motown Two Motown Theo Bishop Newport Nights Native Language Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up Debby Boone Reflections Of Rosemary Concord Jason Miles Miles To Miles Narada Jazz Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Records Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia Chieli Minucci Night Grooves Shanachie Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 Najee Embrace N-Coded Music Jeff Bradshaw Bone Deep Hidden Beach Najee Classic Masters Capitol Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. Ken Navarro All The Way Shanachie Toni Braxton Ultimate Toni Braxton LaFace Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music Braxton Brothers Rollin Peak Grady Nichols Sophistication Compendia Bridge To Havana (f. Gladys Knight) Bridge To Havana Pyramid Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja/TSA Records Brian Bromberg Choices A440 Music Group O’2L Doyle’s Brunch Peak Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. Andrew Oh Silk Ark Music Paul Brown Up Front GRP Steve Oliver 3-D Koch Records Alex Bugnon Southern Living Narada Jazz Renee Olstead Renee Olstead 143 Records/Reprise Cabo Frio Island Dance Kezia Records Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up Jonathan Cain Bare Bones Reality/AAO Music Doc Powell 97th & Columbus Heads Up Bobby Caldwell Perfect Island Nights Sin-Drome Doc Powell Cool Like That Heads Up Sergio Caputo That Kind of Thing Idiosyncrasy Music Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous/N-Coded Larry Carlton Sapphire Blue Bluebird Nelson Rangell Look Again A440 Music Group Craig Chaquico Midnight Moon Higher Octave Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord The Rippingtons Let It Ripp Peak Club 1600 Ridin, High N-Coded Music Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group Steve Cole NY LA Warner Bros. David Sanborn Time Again Verve Music Group Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group Nick Colionne Just Come On In Three Keys Music Marilyn Scott Nightcap Prana Entertainment Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got to Play Narada Jazz Seal IV Warner Bros. Couch Potato Allstars Jazz For Couch Potatoes Shanachie Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language Brian Culbertson Come On Up Warner Bros. Simply Red Home Simply Red Eric Darius Night On The Town Higher Octave Richard Smith Soulidfied A440 Music Group Will Downing Emotions GRP Jimmy Sommers Love Life Higher Octave Carol Duboc All Of You Gold Note Special EFX Party Shanachie George Duke T-Jam [Single] BPM / Navarre Spyro Gyra The Deep End Heads Up Richard Elliot Ricochet GRP Stanley B. All For Love Tommy Emmanuel Endless Road Favored Nations Wonder Stevie The Definitive Collection Motown Fattburger Work To Do Shanachie Patches Stewart Blow Koch Helane Fontaine My Greenbrier Season Curly Girl Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz Fourplay Journey RCA / Victor Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 A. Ray Fuller The Weeper A Ray Artists Music Paul Taylor Steppin Out Peak/Concord Garry Goin Goin’ Places Compendia Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak Jeff Golub Soul Sessions GRP J. Thompson Romantic Night AMH Records Al Green The Absolute Best EMI Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendevous Euge Groove Living Large Narada Nester Torres Sin Palabras Heads Up Onaje Allan Gumbs Remember Their Innocence Ejano Two Siberians Out of Nowhere Heads Up Hall & Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch Urban Knights Urban Knights V Narada Paul Hardcastle The Jazzmasters 4 Trippin’ N’ Rhythm Luther Vandross Dance With My father J Records Records Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP Everette Harp All For You A440 Music Group Various Artists Wedding Songs: A Body & Soul Time Life Gabriel Mark Hasselbach Gabriel... First Name Basis Wind Tunnel Collection Hil St. Soul Copasetik & Cool Shanachie Various Artists Princess Diaries 2 : Royal Engage- Walt Disney Hiroshima The Bridge Heads Up ment [Original Soundtrack] Hiroshima Obon Heads Up Vlad Vladosphere Unis Incognito Who Needs Love Narada Jazz Andre Ward Steppin Up Orpheus Paul Jackson Jr. Still Small Voice Blue Note Kim Waters Someone To Love You Shanachie Boney James Pure Warner Bros. Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music Group Kirk Whalum Into My Soul Warner Bros. Jazz Crusanders Soul Axess True Life Peter White Confidential Columbia Marcus Johnson Urban Groove Marimelj Entertain- Bernie Williams The Journey Within GRP ment Pamela Williams Sweet Saxations Shanachie Ronny Jordan At Last N-Coded Music Jim Wilson River Hillsboro Jeff Kashiwa Peace Of Mind Native Language Nancy Wilson R.S.V.P. MCG Jazz Kem Kemistry Motown Victor Wooten Soul Circus Vanguard Alicia Keys The Diary Of Alicia Keys J Records Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Records jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 27 Jazz Station Panel Smooth Station Panel Call letters Frequency Market Rank Call letters Frequency Market Rank CJRT-FM* 91.1 Toronto, ON N/A KAJZ-FM 101.7 Albuquerque, NM 71 KANU-FM 91.5 Topeka, KS 195 KBZN-FM 97.9 Salt Lake City - Ogden - Provo, UT 31 KBEM-FM 88.5 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 KEZL-FM 96.7 Fresno, CA 68 KCCK-FM* 88.3 Cedar Rapids, IA 204 KCLU-FM 88.3 Los Angeles, CA 2 KHJZ-FM 95.7 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 KCSM-FM 91.1 San Francisco, CA 4 KIFM-FM 98.1 San Diego, CA 17 KEWU-FM 89.5 Spokane, WA 93 KJCD-FM 104.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 KFSR-FM 90.7 Fresno, CA 68 KJZI-FM 100.3 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 KIOS-FM 91.5 Omaha, NE - Council Bluffs, IA 73 KJZY-FM 93.7 San Francisco, CA 4 KIPO-FM* 89.3 Honolulu 62 KKSF-FM 103.7 San Francisco, CA 4 KJZZ-FM 91.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 KKSJ/KTSJ-FM 105.9 Lafayette, LA 102 KKJZ-FM 88.1 Los Angeles, CA 2 KLCC-FM 89.7 Eugene-Springfield, OR 171 KLJT-FM 102.3 Tyler-Longview, TX 148 KMHD-FM 89.1 Portland, OR 24 KMGQ-FM 97.5 Santa Barbara, CA 204 KMUW-FM 89.1 Wichita, KS 95 KOAI-FM 107.5 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 KNTU-FM 88.1 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 KOAS-FM 105.7 Las Vegas, NV 38 KPLU-FM 88.5 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 KRVR-FM 105.5 Stockton, CA 82 KRTU-FM 91.7 San Antonio, TX 30 KSKX-FM 105.5 Colorado Springs, CO 97 KSDS-FM 88.3 San Diego, CA 17 KSJS-FM 90.5 San Jose, CA 33 KSMJ-FM 97.7 Bakersfield, CA 83 KSMF-FM* 89.1 Ashland, OR 207 KSSJ-FM 94.7 Sacramento, CA 26 KSUT-FM* 91.3 Ignacio, CO N/A KTWV-FM 94.7 Los Angeles, CA 2 KTSU-FM 90.9 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 KWJZ-FM 98.9 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 KUAZ-FM 89.1 Tucson, AZ 63 KYOT-FM 95.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 KUNR-FM* 88.7 Reno, NV 231 WBRH-FM 90.3 Baton Rouge, LA 84 KUNV-FM 91.5 Las Vegas, NV 38 WEIB-FM 106.3 Hartford - New Britain - Middletown, CT 50 KUT-FM 90.5 Austin, TX 7 KUVO-FM 89.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 WFJZ-FM 106.7 Ft. Wayne, IN 105 KXJZ-FM 88.9 Sacramento, CA 26 WFSK-FM 88.1 Nashville, TN 44 WAER-FM* 88.3 Syracuse, NY 79 WGPR-FM 107.5 Detroit, MI 10 WBEZ-FM 91.5 Chicago, IL 3 WJAB-FM 90.9 Huntsville, AL 116 WBFO-FM 88.7 Buffalo - Niagara Falls, NY 52 WJJZ-FM 106.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 WBGO-FM 88.3 New York, NY 1 WJSJ/WSJF-FM 105.5 Jacksonville, FL 49 WCFJ/WSBC* 1470 AM Chicago, IL 3 WCLK-FM 91.9 Atlanta, GA 11 WJZA/WJZK-FM 103.5 Columbus, OH 35 WCMU/WUCX-FM 89.5/90.1 Mount Pleasant – Saginaw/Bay City/Midland, MI 131 WJZI-FM 93.3 Milwaukee - Racine, WI 32 WCPN-FM 90.3 Cleveland, OH 25 WJZL/WJZO-FM 93.1 Louisville, KY 55 WDCB-FM* 90.9 Chicago, IL 3 WJZR-FM 105.9 Rochester, NY 54 WDET-FM 101.9 Detroit, MI 10 WJZW-FM 105.9 Baltimore, MD 20 WDNA-FM 88.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 WJZZ-FM 107.5 Atlanta, GA 11 WDUQ-FM 90.5 Pittsburgh, PA 23 WLOQ-FM 103.1 Orlando, FL 39 WEAA-FM 88.9 Baltimore, MD 20 WEMU-FM* 89.1 Ypsilanti, MI 10 WLVE-FM 93.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 WFNX-FM 101.7 Boston, MA 133 WNUA-FM 95.5 Chicago, IL 3 WFSS-FM 91.9 Fayetteville, NC 128 WNWV-FM 107.3 Cleveland, OH 25 WGBH-FM 89.7 Boston, MA 8 WPMJ-FM 94.3 Peoria, IL 149 WGLT-FM 89.1 Peoria, IL 149 WQCD-FM 101.9 New York, NY 1 WGMC-FM 90.1 Rochester, NY 54 WSJT-FM 94.1 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 WGVU-FM 88.5 Grand Rapids, MI 67 WHRV-FM 89.5 Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Newport News, VA 40 WSJW-FM 92.7 Harrisburg - Lebanon - Carlisle, PA 80 WICN-FM* 90.5 Worcester,MA 8 WSMJ-FM 104.3 Baltimore, MD 20 WJSU-FM 88.5 Jackson, MS 123 WVAS-FM 90.7 Montgomery, AL 152 WMOT-FM 89.5 Nashville, TN 44 WVMV-FM 98.7 Detroit, MI 10 WNCU-FM 90.7 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 WXJZ-FM 100.9 Gainesville - Ocala, FL 87 WRTI-FM 90.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 WYJZ-FM 100.9 Indianapolis, IN 41 WSHA-FM 88.9 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 Music Choice National N/A WSIE-FM 88.7 St. Louis, MO 19 WTEB-FM 89.3 Greenville,NC 87 Note: WSSM, St. Louis, has changed formats and is dropped from the panel. WUAL-FM 91.5 Tuscaloosa, AL 133 WUCF-FM 89.9 Orlando, FL 39 Airplay of all stations, except as noted, is monitored by Mediaguide. WUMR-FM 91.7 Memphis, TN 48 WUSF-FM 89.7 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 To apply to become a member of a station panel, contact Tony WVPR/WVPS-FM 94.3 Burlington, VT-Plattsburgh, NY 220 WWOZ-FM 90.7 New Orleans, LA 46 Gasparre at (585) 235-4685, or email [email protected]. WWSP-FM* 89.9 Wausau-Stevens Point, WI 198 WXUT/WXTS-FM 88.3 Toledo, OH 85 Music Choice National Distribution N/A Sirius* National Distribution N/A *Denotes station not monitored by Mediaguide. Station submits a weekly airplay report. jazzweek.com • April 20, 2005 JazzWeek 28 �������� ������������������ ���������� �������������������� �����

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