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9.4.7 KTWY 947 KTWV I've also been told your dad was a, "crooner."

LV Now, he was marvelous! Yes. They tell me that that's where

I got my general tonality from. They said that, in the neighbor-

hood, people used to just listen to him sing: Like, on the stoop or

something, just singing. He had a...what do you call it, where

someone just gravitates towards you, a magnetic...

13 Charisma?

LV: Charisma, yeah he had a charisma that people loved and

that's probably where I got that, a lot of that, from.

Are there any recordings of the senior Mr. Vandross?

LV: No. No, this was actually pre-recording. This was before

On the day Luther Vandross stopped by The Wave mind: I want something dramatic. I want something that the dog even barked into that thing on RCA. This was way reminds you of a book that you've read, that starts out quiet- to talk with our morning host, Paul Crosswhite, back when. There's no account, there's none of that there.

ly. I need a murder scene in the middle and I need to subside his new album was just about to hit the streets. and I need for them to walk off into the sunset." So we start "I Know" is Luther's first release since signing to aWhat went through your mind when you were asked with chords that are dark, and we start with chords that are to sing the national anthem at Superbowl 31? his new label, Virgin Records. From the minute he menacing and then it clears out and the bridge is, I mean just LV: You wanna know the first thing that went through my stepped out of the limousine, to his narrow escape in terms of images, is just the house and Dorothy and Toto mind? The dreaded "and the rockets red glare "...because from adoring Wave staffers, Luther was as radiant as flying and "I'm gonna get you Dorothy!" - and that whole that's fine at home in the shower and all, you can "and the thing...and then we settle down and we start there and just a proud father. Luther new candidly talked with Paul rockets red glare" yourself into oblivion at home, but when continue until we've gotten what it is we want. about everything from, working on David Bowie's you're nervous, that's a big, hard, difficult note to negotiate.

"Young Americans" album, to his fond memory of But I just said, please, I have to have the challenge. I couldn't Es Right. Do you know it when you've got it?

wait. I said yes immediately. the first time he worked with Aretha Franklin. Here myself towards the Shirelles, towards LaVern LV: Oh yes, yes! I know when I got it, and one of the rea- gravitating is some of Paul: Patti The Bluebelles and Dionne that conversation with sons I'm a good producer for myself is because I can recog- Baker and Labelle and CiNow, you mentioned the word "nervous," and who nize when I have it or that it's going to take more effort. Warwick and even Diana Ross. I was a Motown child, but - wouldn't be singing to a billion people. Is that something racked up an unprecedented string of platinum Some people have to sweat and foam -at- the -mouth before my favorite Motown acts, other than the Temptations, were caYou've that you've had occasion to wrestle with as a individual, as and double -platinum albums in the last 17 years or so. How they can actually feel that there's a performance on tape wor- always the female acts...The male singers that, even to this an artist facing the challenges of presenting yourself to the do you explain such dead -on musical instincts? thy of being played. For me, it's very different. I'll sweat and day, The male singers I like are the ones who are distinctly world on the stage? go through all of those paces if necessary, but if the first thing different from me. LV: You know, I sort of resist trying to explain it, or trying to LV: Oh, always. I sing, or play, or a musician plays, is the definitive thing, I'm be self analytical because I suspect I will trip myself up... For instance? Because once you think you've defined it, then you sort of very good at saying "That's it." We don't have to search for ca Tell me about that. 18 years so that we all feel tired when we leave. 121 compete with it, you improve, you embellish it, and you can LV: Oh, James Ingram, Gerald Levert. I like gruff, I like to

LV: To tell you the truth, I've never not been nervous. I beat potentially mess it up. I'm lust having the best time in the hear Dennis Edwards from the Temptations. I like those gruff Was there any particular inspiration to your wonderful myself up a lot for my weight and it's hard to get out on world. I had a contract with Sony, for the 18 years that I was ta voices. But female singers tell the story better; because they song, "So Amazing ?" stage for me. I never thought of myself as hot stuff or "Mr. there, where I had full artistic control over what I did. I think allow themselves more. They allow themselves to be vulnera- It" or any of those things, and when people say that to me, it that's a large part of why I stayed around. Whatever quirky LV: Oh yes. Did you know that song was written for Dionne ble in the beginning and then, you know, can I say bitchy in always surprises me and takes me aback a bit. I spend a lot angle, or whatever quirky bridge I viewed music from, it was Warwick? She recorded it first. No one knows that. What hap- the bridge ?, and then back down and strong at the end - of my time trying to negotiate with myself: "Leave yourself certainly the fact of the matter that - I was not the new Otis pened is that Arista was moving their business. Remember or subtle and hurt: I love that. I mean, I'd die for that! alone, you're fine. Most hatchet murderers are thin..." Just Redding, I wasn't the new Sam Cooke, I wasn't the new when they kind of merged with RCA for some reason? It was it as huge an honor as it might seem when you anything I can think to say to not beat up on myself so much. Donny Hathaway - I was Luther. So, whatever else happened right during that, and that album sort of got lost in the shuf- EriWas got a chance to do some producing for Aretha Franklin on So to answer your question, yes, I stay in a state of nervous- or didn't happen, you knew who was singing to you when fle. It had a lot of good things on it, but "So Amazing" was a her To in 1982? ness about that. you heard was always of the mind that I would rather "Jump It" project me...1 song that I wrote for Dionne and since it hadn't gotten heard, have nine albums that each said platinum [one million copies I said I didn't want it to just sit and not be heard. And you LV: It remains one of the biggest things ever to happen to The last question here is for those who are curious about sold], than to have one album that sold nine -million copies - know, female artists were always my biggest influences, so me. I so vividly remember everything about that evening and your personal life... and then you're in the "whatever happened to" column three there was nothing unlikely or difficult to understand about about that day. I remember arriving there about an hour

years later. I a personally in order to have this me singing it as well. before she did. I remember her coming in. She had on a leop- LV: have given up lot

ard print jumpsuit and she had on a big fur coat over it and career. I feel that if anybody ever asks me, "what did you giHow do you put together a typical Luther Vandross song? RITell me about that as we get to your early years.You she had on sneakers...and it was her birthday...1 told the sacrifice for this career ?," that would be the first thing out of Is there any part that comes first...is it the emotion...is it any mouth. I sacrificed a personal life in order to have it right, were very much influenced by the likes of Dionne Warwick engineer, I said Michael, I want you to record everything. I

a lyric that comes to mind...is it a melodic hook...? in to have it like I wanted to. So you know, that's a and Aretha Franklin. How is it that female artists formed your want you to record the door slamming. I want to hear her order

first icons musically? regret that I have but it's something that's not too late to LV: It's usually a mood. We start with conversation. We don't pocketbook as she sets it on top the piano. I want to hear her footsteps walking across to the mike everything. So the remedy...Indeed. even start at the piano or anything like that. We start with LV: it's something that just happened that way. It can't be - Louise Barron conversation. I'll say to Marcus Miller or Nat Adderley, Jr., my accounted for any more readily then why you could tell me music started, and as soon as she said "My baby loves Editorial assistance by in main two writing partners, I'll say: "Hey you all, I'm tired of your favorite color is lavender, or any number of other whim- me...," All the oxygen the room was out, and, and it my own keyboard playing, OK? And, since you know more sical things that you allow to influence you. They influenced just snatched was the most amazing moment in about the keyboards, and more about embellishing chords me, but they influenced me on a subconscious level when I

I and 13ths and raised 5ths I do, I need my life because of how regarded augmented than for was young, even more than on a conscious one. I just found

you to help me in writing this song. Here's what I have in this woman all the years prior to the start of my own career.

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Stewart, wits asked to write an article about the current slate of

Smonlh .lazz radio for

.11LLIL magazine's 15 year anniversary issue.

.1.1LLIL has deftly managed, over the years, to embrace the What exactly is New Age? That as one of their selling points. They did, expect the smooth -jazz stations to play pop," is competing against such straight-

was my first thought as I was reading on the other hand, have actors playing them, just as I entire spectrum of the wouldn't expect the sta- forward franchise names as "country" news more than a decade ago. The gist little vignettes on the air: (Hey, it was tions to play Coltrane or other more and "rock" in the same arena. (Imagine jazz. It is one of the of the story was pretty typical for a L.A.) All that hocus -pocus smacked of traditional stuff. It is another form of jazz, the team jerseys.) At one time, there

radio trade magazine. Another station a short -lived fad. While some in the and I accept that, but don't call Mariah was resistance within the format even lew places where had bit the dust. Ratings dropped, man- industry scoffed, others were scurrying Carey a jazz singer." to use the word "jazz" in marketing. hol h traditional and agement changed formats and cleaned to duplicate it. Sure enòugh, this high - As Steve Williams, station man- Programmers feared traditional -jazz house. In this case, the station was one stakes experiment would evolve into ager for KSSJ -FM in Sacramento puts it aficionados, who might even like the contemporary jazz. of the more notable facilities, It was dis- an enduring and bona fide player on "It can't be taken that literally. Smooth music, would take issue with the usage. co-exist in harmony concerting at the time to think that the the radio dial. jazz is meant to define the general pic- "Smooth" kept coming back from the Mighty Met, KNIET in Los Angeles could The Wave's debut in 1987 ture, not every element within it. The listeners as being the most distinguishing and without prejudice. get whacked just like that. Apparently, marked the flash point for the format we point could even be argued that, yes, characteristic of the jazz they were The lollowing was reaching legendary status no longer now call smooth jazz. It was not the first vocalists like Ella, Sarah, and Sinatra were hearing. In combination, the two words counted for much in the '80s. It further commercial radio station to take a go ja77 singers, but they were also consid- seemed the most effective route to excerpted from that reinforced what I already knew about at mixing contemporary jazz with other ered pop artists of their time, They were describe the overall texture of these stations. story: working in radio: It is a ruthless gig. genres of music, It was, however, the the Mariahs and Whitneys of their day. Cliff Gorov runs a record promo- Trying to get my head around what this most scrutinized and conspicuous. The Louis Armstrong, besides his undeniable tion and marketing company called All new format might sound like was more no disc -jockeys" part lasted about contributions to jazz, was a huge pop That Jazz. He attests to the difference a perplexing. The article said the station a year and a half. While points were singer. 'Hello Dolly, "What a Wonderful name made. "I think the format hit a real now played new age music. That was the scored for creative marketing, playing World' - those were hits! Whatever you turning point when smooth jazz came part of the story that seemed to grab all that new music with no one to call it, we are talking about the most into play as a widely accepted name. the most attention, not only for myself, identify it turned out to be a question- creative programming on the radio. This It gave listeners an identifiable handle." but for critics seeking an angle. able programming move. The vignette is a very hip thing. You don't find this Lee Ritenour is One of the artists whose The article also said this new actors moved on to other roles. kind of depth and variety of music on musical vision led to The Wave. He hybrid radio station played contempo- The music is called smooth ja77, other formats. And don't discount the says "smooth ja77" is the latest in a rary jazz and soft-rock vocals. The first yet as trumpeter Rick Braun puts it, added effect that we are actually helping series of attempts to distinguish what two songs ever played on 94.7 The Some of it's not smooth and some of to keep people calm and relaxed in he does musically. "There was fusion, Wave were Sting's "If You Love Some- it's not jazz." Carl Griffin, vice president some otherwise crazy cities." contemporary jam, rock jazz... As one body Set Them Free;' followed by Bob of A &R and staff producer for N2K The Smooth -jazz moniker is a of the veterans who helped define the RALPH STEWART James and David Sanborn's "Maputo.' Encoded Music, loves the music but has marketing vehicle, an umbrella under sound, it was kind of strange when I first The former out of respect for the ghost some problems with the definition of which this type of radio can be branded. heard the smooth -jazz moniker thrown

of KMET, and the latter because it terms. "The one thing that makes me Smooth jazz is the essence of the sound, back, but I think it works pretty well. In

typified the sound of the new format at crazy," he says, "is when I hear a pop just as steak is the essence of a steak a sense, it is a little broader and less KTWV, The Wave. Claims of revolution- vocalist like, say, Phil Collins, and the house - that also happens to serve side limiting than other definitions. Artists ary new formats are common in the announcer comes on and says, 'Now dishes. There is some irony in the idea like, David Sanborn, Joe Sample, myself

radio business. This one was at least that's smooth 077...' I just want to shoot that a format so much about the music and producers like Tommy LiPuma were interesting. They were spinning music myselfl It may be quality music, but it's has, for years, had such a difficult time all trying to create a more sophisticated that was not already getting airplay not 077, and it is an insult to the audi- describing itself This eclectic mix of style of music with an audiophile -quality

everywhere else, a novel wrinkle in pro- ence to call it that. Sarah Vaughan or Bil- "mostly instrumentals that are mostly sound. I think smooth jazz speaks to

gramming. They touted no disc jockeys" lie Holiday are jazz singers, and I don't jazz, and some vocals that are mostly that high degree of quality." Some critics feel that the format's sensus is never absolute, and interpreta- San Francisco, assesses that nearly a third the ratio of vocals to instrumentals perimeters have become too well - tion of research is done by degree. Every of his on -air library consists of specially has not changed for many stations, the defined, that the focus is too narrow. A city has a different musical history, and edited songs. Cliff Gorov claims, "It is texture of the vocals is decidedly more nebulous thing called research receives musical trends are a moving target, any- harder now, more than ever, to get a R&B now. The format has also given

a lot of blame for that Music research is way. There is one self evident, constant record added on a smooth -ja77 station, birth to a number of careers. nothing new in the radio business. It is truth though among dominant music - but the trade -off is the impact felt at Brian Culbertson was fourteen not even new to the format Before The radio stations of any ilk: They have short retail when a retord is added. Sweet when The Wave made its broadcast Wave went on the air, the waters were playlists. Titles may swap in and out, but Thing by Boney James looks like it is debut. He now has four albums under tested through perceptual research, a the stations on top never try to play going to hit gold [500,000 copies sold] his belt. Peter White cites hearing process in which stations try to gauge the them all at once. They commit to the this year. That is a direct result of Acoustic Alchemy on the air as goading acceptance of the music they increased spins. The bar is him toward his first solo project. Rick play. After all, commercial "It can't be taken that literally. Smooth jazz raised, but this format is still Braun says that without the existence of breaking new artists left and the format, he would not have radio is much less a product is meant to define the general picture, not ventured than it is a service. The cus- right. What sets smooth jazz out as a solo artist at all. His take on tomer is king. The tricky bit is every element within it. The point could apart from other formats is smooth jazz draws a fond comparison that the consumer is a collec- even be argued that, yes, vocalists like the programmers are still to the past. "It is reminiscent of the early tive sum of individuals, Pleas- excited about the music." days of FM radio," he says, "where you ing one may irritate another: Ella, Sarah, and Sinatra were jazz singers, It all began as a radical could hear vastly divergent musical influ- It is democracy in action. but they were also considered pop artists "build it, and they will come" ences played side -by -side and it would Since radio is a free service premise: Some great music was all work together" The analogy comes to the customer, tracking of their time. They were the Mariahs and falling through the cracks of as a sobering reminder when you their tastes is made even Whitneys of their day. Louis Armstrong, mainstream radio, yet an audi- consider the fate of KMET, one of the more difficult If customers ence was looking for this most prominent FM pioneers. This is like something they hear, besides his undeniable contributions to music. That universe of music no time for laurel -resting. they need not lay down any jazz, was a huge pop singer." was a pretty mixed bag, but What is New Age? After I I

money to cast their vote of a few wild programmers years, the best I can do is to say that it's acceptance. If they don't like something music they do select by spinning it with believed that adults could spot quality a catch -all description for music that they hear, they simply tune out The pro- enough frequency to get it exposed and music when they heard it When you didn't have one. Perhaps smooth jazz

grammer is charged with the task of figur- to establish familiarity. That math causes consider how much the world has depicts a sound and texture more con- ing out which songs provide which results real frustration for those trying to get changed in the past decade, the format's cisely than New Age did. As it pertains

en masse...Music is researched in blind their record added to a smooth -jazz spirit has remained remarkably consis- to characterizing a type of radio station, taste-test fashion. Brutal, scientific and station's playlist in today's climate. tent. At the core of the sound today are smooth jazz does cover some territory

heartless as it sounds, the goal is to find . These days, smooth -jazz records many of the same artists who were outside of jan. But what you call the out if the music is striking an emotional are being released as singles. Record there in the beginning: Sanborn, Sade, radio station is not all that relevant. cord with the audience, instead of just the labels jockey for the "most added" posi- Jarreau, James, Ritenour, Benson and G At the end of the day, the thing worth programmer. tions on the radio charts just as they do are as germane to smooth -jazz radio noting is that jazz and instrumental To the disappointment of station with pop. It is not uncommon for a label now as they were when we didn't know music is, once again, part of the popular owners seeking a format-in -a -box, there to release several versions of a song in what to call the thing. Only the edges radio spectrum. It may not be your Excerpted from 1AIDi magazine,

September 1998 issue. is no magic formula Radio is too frag- hopes one will make the cut. Blake have shifted over time. Acid jazz is pick- father's jazz, but that was never really mented and competitive for that. Con- Lawrence, music director of KKSF -FM in ing up where New Age left off. Though the intent.

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