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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • December 4, 2006 Volume 3, Number 3 • $7.95 CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY RELEASES 2006 page 9 On The Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Diana Krall #1 Smooth Album – Boney James #1 College Jazz – Madeleine Peyroux #1 Smooth Single – George Benson #1 World Music – Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger have no idea how those of you who live in warmer climes MUSIC EDITOR Tad Hendrickson get into the Christmas spirit. It’s late afternoon on Nov. 28 I as I write this and it’s close to 60 degrees – and that makes CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ it seem like it’s too early to be thinking about reviewing holi- PHOTOGRAPHER Tom Mallison day CDs. I wonder how Mel Tormé ever wrote “The Christ- PHOTOGRAPHY mas Song” in July. 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Berwyn, PA 19312 – Ed Trefzger JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) is published weekly by ������������� 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone/fax: (866) 453-6401 [email protected] Copyright ©2006 Trefzger Media LLC jazzweek.com • December 4, 2006 JazzWeek 2 Contents December 4, 2006 News . 4 Anita O’Day, 1919-2006 . 4 Bassist Walter Booker Passes, 1933-2006. 5 Music and Industry News In Brief . 6 Jazz Birthdays . 8 Feature 9 Holiday Releases 2006 . 9 Jazz Radio . 12 Jazz Album Chart . 13 College Jazz Chart . 14 Jazz Reviews . 15 David Binney. 15 Michael Blanco. 15 J.A. Granelli And Mr. Lucky . 16 12 Jazz Add Dates . 17 Jazz Current CDs . 18 Jazz Radio Panel . 21 Smooth Jazz Radio . 22 Smooth Album Chart . 23 Smooth Singles Chart. 24 Smooth Currents. 25 Smooth Radio Panel . 26 22 World Music Radio . 27 World Music Album Chart . 28 Closing Number Selected Anita O’Day Albums . 30 27 JazzWeek Volume 3 Number 3 jazzweek.com • December 4, 2006 JazzWeek 3 News Anita O’Day, 1919-2006 LOS ANGELES – Jazz vocalist Ani- and new at the time.” Lat- ta O’Day died in her sleep Nov. 23, er, O’Day joined Stan Ken- 2006 at 6:17 a.m. in West Los Angeles ton’s band with whom she at a convalescent hosptial. The cause of cut an album that featured death was cardiac arrest according to the hit tune “And Her Tears her manager Robbie Cavalina. Flowed Like Wine.” Born Anita Belle Colton in Chi- In the late ’40s, O’Day cago, Illinois on Oct. 18, 1919, O’Day struck out on her own, got her start as a teen. She eventually teaming up with drummer changed her name to O’Day – pig lat- John Poole, with whom she in for “dough” – and in the late 1930’s played for the next 32 years. began singing in a jazz club called the “If the drummer is no good, Off-Beat, a popular hangout for musi- I can’t make it,” O’Day told cians. NPR’s Jazz Profiles. “That’s In 1941 she joined Gene Krupa’s why I like John Poole. He’s band, and a few weeks later Krupa my favorite drummer.” hired trumpeter Roy Eldridge. O’Day Drug problems began and Eldridge had great chemistry on to surface in 1947, when she stage and their duet “Let Me Off Up- was arrested for marijuana anitaoday.com Anita O’Day publicity photo from the Gene Krupa era. town” became a million-dollar-seller, possession. O’Day recorded boosting the popularity of the Krupa for small labels as a solo art- band. Also that year, Down Beat mag- ist during the rest of that de- tinued to tour and record despite being azine named O’Day “New Star of the cade. O’Day was arrested in 1952 for addicted to heroin; in 1969 she near- Year” and, in 1942, she was selected marijuana and in 1953 for heroin pos- ly died from an overdose. O’Day even- as one of the top five big band singers. session. tually beat her addiction and returned O’Day recorded 34 sides with Krupa. Her album Anita, which she re- to work. In 1981 she published her au- After Krupa’s 1943 marijuana ar- corded on producer Norman Granz’s tobiography High Times, Hard Time rest broke up his band, O’Day had a new Verve label, elevated her career which, among other things, talked tour with Woody Herman and then to new heights. She began perform- candidly about her drug addiction. was persuaded to join the Stan Kenton ing in festivals and concerts with mu- Her final recording was Indestruc- band. After 11 months and 21 sides, sicians such as Louis Armstrong, Di- tible! which featured Eddie Locke, she left Kenton and returned to Kru- nah Washington, George Shearing Chip Jackson, Roswell Rudd, Lafay- pa. and Thelonious Monk. O’Day also ette Harris, Tommy Morimoto and Joe Singer Jackie Cain remembered appeared in the documentary filmed Wider. A documentary, Anita O’Day – the first time she saw O’Day with the at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 The Life Of A Jazz Singer, will be re- JW Krupa band. “I was really impressed,” called Jazz on a Summer Day, which leased in 2007. she recalled. “She (O’Day) sang with brought her international notoriety. a jazz feel, and that was kind of fresh Throughout the 1960s Anita con- Compiled from various sources jazzweek.com • December 4, 2006 JazzWeek 4 Bassist Walter Booker Passes, 1933-2006 assist Walter Booker died Nov. alternated between Getz’s group and New York scene. 24, 2006. He was born in Prairie that of Sonny Rollins. Between 1967 After leaving Sarah Vaughan, BView, Texas in 1933 and moved and ’69 Booker recorded and toured Booker went to California with the with his family to Washington, D.C. with Ray Bryant, Art Farmer, Harold John Hicks Trio to record an album, in the mid 1940s. Vick, Betty Carter and, most notably, a trip which resulted in a West Coast It wasn’t until 1959, at the age of with Thelonious Monk’s last group. tour with the trio accompanying sax- 26, that Booker began playing the bass In 1969 Booker was invited to join ophonist Pharaoh Sanders. The tour while in the army (serving side-by-side the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, an culminated in the recording of an un- in the same unit with Elvis Presley). association which lasted until Can- forgettable live video/concert. Shortly Shortly after leaving the service, he nonball’s untimely death in 1975. Also thereafter, Nat Adderley asked Booker became a member of Andrew White’s during that time he designed, built, to join his new quintet. Booker played JFK Quintet, a group of young D.C. and ran the Boogie Woogie Studio, a with the quintet until Nat’s demise last musicians accomplished enough to at- mecca for musicians from all over the year. tract the attention of Cannonball Ad- world. For the last five years Booker, to- derley, who produced a recording for From 1975 to 1981 Booker was gether with Jimmy Cobb, has been them. Booker’s next gig was to tour Sarah Vaughan’s bassist and continued actively touring as part of the Bertha the United States with the Shirley to produce recordings at his studio. He Hope Trio. In addition to the Wal- Horn Trio, along with Billy Hart on and the studio helped shape a number ter Booker Quintet, Booker has also drums. of up-and-coming young groups, in- formed Elmollenium, based on the In 1964 Booker moved to New cluding Natural Essence. And he be- same core group as the Quintet (plus York City. Almost immediately he came deeply involved with Brazilian wife Bertha Hope) and dedicated to JW was hired by trumpeter Donald Byrd. music, ultimately forming Love Car- playing the music of Elmo Hope. From there he went on to join Stan nival and Dreams, one of the more Getz, and throughout 1965 and ’66, successful Brazilian jazz groups on the (courtesy Bertha Hope) Home-grown, independent and artist-run, look for these exciting projects from Elefant Dreams Records… Chris McNulty WHISPERS THE HEART featuring: • Frank Wess • Ingrid Jensen • Paul Bollenback • Ed Howard • Dave Pietro • Gary Versace • Matt Wilson • Tineke Postma • Rogerio Boccato • Montez Coleman “Long a major jazz singer who has in recent times finally started to gain recognition for her talents…McNulty's most rewarding recording thus far, filled with subtle sur- prises, variety and her inventive jazz singing.