JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 Volume 1, Number 9 • $7.95 In This Issue: Gordon Named J@LC Prez . . 4 QUEEN LATIFAH Eldar to Debut SELECTED on Sony TO HOST 47th Classical . . . . 7 Bramlett Signs GRAMMYS p5 With Zoho . . . 8

Zonjic to Host Canadian PUTUMAYO Smooth Jazz FINDS RELIGION Awards . . . . . 8 IN THE BIG Reviews and EASY p7 Picks...... 14 Jazz Radio . 16 Smooth Jazz INDUSTRY Q&A Radio...... 21 WITH GROOV Radio Panels. . . . 25 MARKETING p10 More News . . 4

Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Steve Turre #1 Smooth Album – Various: For Luther #1 Smooth Single – Richard Elliot JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger ow that we’ve had a few weeks of Mediaguide-generated jazz album CONTRIBUTING EDITORS charts, we’re seeing a few trends. None of them is unexpected, and, ex- Keith Zimmerman Ncept for the number of spins, they reflect patterns that promoters and Kent Zimmerman labels have wanted to see radio follow. Tad Hendrickson First, records that are going to impact are impacting quickly. This week, CONTRIBUTING WRITER David Sanborn’s Closer debuts at No. 12, and recent No. 1 records like Lon- Tom Mallison nie Smith, Steve Turre, and Eric Alexander have debuted quickly at high po- PHOTOGRAPHY sitions. This represents a change from the bell curve pattern that CDs took Barry Solof when airplay reports were submitted; CDs would slowly rise to the top and slowly fall, rather than leaping to the top as many suspected they should. PUBLISHER Secondly, CDs are sticking around longer. Stations are staying with al- Tony Gasparre bums over a longer period of time, which gives them time to register with lis- ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre teners. When we were generating charts from airplay reports, it was the rare (585) 235-4685 x3 or CD that stayed on the chart for 15 weeks. This week, 13 CDs have been on email: [email protected] the chart for at least 15 weeks, and Al Jarreau’s Accentuate The Positive is now SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: in its 24th week on the chart. Charter Rate: $199.00 per year, As far as spins, we’re now seeing a peak at around 330 spins for a num- JazzWeek w/ Industry Access – Charter ber one disc; that’s down from around 500 or so for our last couple of charts Rate: $249.00 per year before Mediaguide. A little over half of that differential comes from a con- To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ traction in the size of the radio panel (which we are slowly expanding as Me- AMEX/PayPal go to: http://www.jazzweek.com/account/ diaguide markets become available) and the other half from exaggerated re- subscribe.html ports. We’re already seeing that number increase, although the top four CDs this week have probably peaked and are seeing their spins decrease. But a bunch of new releases are working their way up the chart – 32 are bulletted AIRPLAY MONITORING BY this week – and four new CDs have over 20 adds. So I expect to see that peak continue to rise. • Elsewhere in this issue, Tad Hendrickson has a Q&A with Josh Ellman and Mark Rini at Groov Marketing, and we’ve got reviews and picks of a Mediaguide bunch of new releases, plus industry and record news. 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. • Even though she hasn’t been in the “jazz business” long, Queen Latifah’s Suite 150 choice as host of the Grammys is a big plus; I’m perpetually optimistic about Berwyn, PA 19312 attracting a new audience to jazz, and she is certainly a high-profile person- ality. Published weekly by • One personal note – after a rather sudden departure from jazz radio last August, the new management at WGMC has welcomed me back on the air, and it was a blast to get behind the mic again last week. I hope it becomes a more frequent and more regular occurrence. – Ed Trefzger, Editor 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone: (585) 235-4685 fax: (585) 235-4685 [email protected] Copyright ©2005 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents January 19, 2005

News ...... 4 Gordon Named President and C.E.O. at J@LC ...... 4 Queen Latifah Named Host of 47th Grammys...... 5 Benson Named President of Jefferson Pilot’s Radio Division...... 6 Putumayo Finds Religion In The Big Easy ...... 7 Eldar to Debut on Sony Classical March 8 ...... 7 4 Bonnie Bramlett Signs With Zoho Music ...... 8 Zonjic Will Host Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards...... 8 Passings ...... 8 Birthdays ...... 9 Features Industry Q&A: Groov Marketing ...... 10 Reviews and Picks ...... 14 Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron ...... 14 10 David Sanborn ...... 14 Grachan Moncur III ...... 14 Editors’ Picks ...... 15 Jazz Charts ...... 16 Jazz Album Chart ...... 17 Jazz Add Dates ...... 18 Jazz Current CDs ...... 19 Jazz Radio Panel ...... 25 16 Smooth Jazz Charts ...... 21 Smooth Album Chart ...... 22 Smooth Singles Chart...... 23 Smooth Current CDs ...... 24 Smooth Radio Panel ...... 25

21 JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 9 jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Gordon Named President and C.E.O. at J@LC

NEW YORK – Jazz at Lincoln Cen- are extremely fortunate to have some- ter has appointed Derek E. Gordon as one with his experience and dedication president and CEO of the world’s larg- to lead us even deeper into our mission: est organization devoted to jazz, effec- to elevate through the art of swing.” tive immediately. Gordon said, “I appreciate the con- Gordon will oversee the day-to- fidence of the board and its appoint- day administration of the organiza- ment of me to the position of Presi- tion, which in October 2004 opened dent and CEO. I’m proud to be part of the doors to its new home, Frederick this organization and I am committed P. Rose Hall, the first performing arts to furthering the national and interna- facility designed specifically for jazz. tional mission of Jazz at Lincoln Cen- Previously Executive Director of the ter.” He continued, “During the past organization, Gordon will focus on year, we have done what once seemed the planning and execution of educa- impossible by opening Frederick P. tional and performance programming Rose Hall. As Jazz at Lincoln Center during the upcoming 2005-06 season develops its plans for the 2005-06 sea- and beyond. As president he will also son and beyond, we will continue to lead the organization’s effort to expand broaden the public’s awareness and ap- Daryl N. Long the reach and impact of that program- preciation of this unique American art Derek E. Gordon, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s ming nationally and internationally. form.” new Persident and CEO He brings to the role over 25 years of Gordon has devoted his career to experience in a career at not-for-profit the performing arts. A trained bari- nior Vice President of the John F. Ken- arts management. tone vocalist, he hails from Louisiana, nedy Center for the Performing Arts, “From his many years with vari- the birthplace of jazz. It was his love of where he was responsible for the over- ous arts organizations, Derek has es- jazz vocalists that led him to a profes- all planning, management and super- tablished himself as a real leader in the sional career in the arts. He holds both vision of programs and operations in performance community,” said Chair- a B.A. and an M.A. in Music from the areas of jazz, education and out- man of the Board Lisa Schiff. “This in- Louisiana State University. He joined reach. Prior to that, he worked as exec- valuable experience combined with his Jazz at Lincoln Center, the not-for- utive director of Pennsylvania Council thorough understanding and love for profit arts institution devoted to jazz, of the Arts and Louisiana Division of jazz has been, and will continue to be, as Executive Director in July of 2004 the Arts. a great asset to Jazz at Lincoln Center at a defining moment in the organiza- Gordon has served on numer- and our first complete year in our new tion’s history. He was integral to the ous boards, commissions and pan- home at Columbus Circle.” grand opening of Frederick P. Rose els for such organizations as the Na- “We are delighted to announce Hall – the 100,000 square foot inte- tional Endowment for the Arts, The Derek E. Gordon as the new Jazz at grated performing arts facility specifi- Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and Lincoln Center president and CEO,” cally designed for the acoustics of jazz the U.S. Department of State. He has said Artistic Director Wynton Marsa- - and the inaugural season’s program- also served as representative on inter- lis. “He shares our commitment to en- ming. national delegations to several coun- tertain and educate people around the Before joining Jazz at Lincoln tries including Spain, Sweden, France, JW world with first-class jazz music. We Center, Gordon served 12 years as Se- Cuba, and Denmark. jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News Queen Latifah Named Host of 47th Grammys Best Jazz Vocal Album Nominee Will Also Perform Live

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Gram- standard for female rappers, and paved my-winning recording artist Queen the way for future women in hip-hop Latifah has been named host of the to make their way onto the charts. On 47th Annual Grammy Awards. In ad- her first vocal album, The Dana Owens dition to acting as host for the world’s Album, Queen Latifah demonstrates premier music event, Latifah – who that her vocal talent is equally impres- also is a current nominee – will per- sive. A collection of timeless classics form on the show. The 47th Annual that includes soul, blues and pop songs Grammys will be broadcast live on the from every decade between 1920 and CBS Television Network on Feb. 13 at 1970, the album has earned critical ac- 8 p.m. (ET/PT). claim as well as a current Best Jazz Vo- “Queen Latifah is an extraordi- cal Album Grammy nomination. nary Renaissance artist with unpar- An accomplished television and alleled style and substance, and her film actress, Queen Latifah’s stand- passion, talent and personality make out performance in the recent film her an excellent choice as host for our adaptation of Chicago earned her an show,” said Neil Portnow, president Oscar nomination for Best Support- Best Jazz Vocal Nominee Queen Latifah of The Recording Academy. “We are ing Actress, a Golden Globe nomina- will host and perform at the 47th Annual delighted to have Queen Latifah as tion, and a SAG Award nomination. Grammy Awards. the host of the 47th Annual Grammy Following Chicago, Latifah starred in Awards.” Disney’s box office hit Bringing Down A seminal hip-hop artist, Queen The House, on which she also acted as will produce), and is currently filming Latifah also is one of music’s most re- executive producer. Latifah will con- the romantic comedy Last Holiday in spected rappers. Her groundbreaking tinue to appear on the big screen with Prague with famed director Wayne JW 1989 debut All Hail The Queen set the starring roles in Beauty Shop (which she Wang.

jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 5 News Benson Named President of Jefferson Pilot’s Radio Division

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Jefferson- cluding smooth jazz stations KIFM, came one of the nation’s major ratings Pilot Corporation has named Don San Diego, and KJCD, Denver, and and billing successes. Benson also has Benson president of the Radio Divi- other stations in those markets, as well served as Vice President of Operations sion of its broadcasting subsidiary, Jef- as in Atlanta, at KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and as ferson-Pilot Communications Compa- Miami, and Corporate Vice President of program- ny. Benson succeeds Clarke R. Brown Ch a rlot t e , ming for Western Cities Broadcast- Jr., who will assist in the transition un- N.C. He ing’s seven-station group. He was Ex- til his previously scheduled retirement will report to ecutive Vice President of Operations in June 2005. Terry Stone, for Burkhart/Douglas & Associates, Benson has more than 30 years of President of an Atlanta-based consulting firm, pri- radio industry experience, including Jefferson-Pi- or to rejoining Jefferson Pilot in 1994. more than 20 years with Jefferson Pilot lot Commu- “Don is an accomplished radio ex- and seven years as a programming con- nications. ecutive with broad experience in pro- sultant. He has served as Senior Vice Benson gramming, operations and marketing. BENSON President of Operations/Program- began his ca- He is highly regarded within our orga- ming for Jefferson Pilot’s Radio Divi- reer with Jef- nization and throughout the industry,” sion for the past 10 years. In his new ferson Pilot in 1974 at WQXI AM/ Stone said. role, Benson assumes overall responsi- FM in Atlanta, eventually becoming Benson is a graduate of Vanderbilt bility for�������������������������������������� the day-to-day operations of Operations Manager. Over the course University. He and his wife, Martha, JW Jefferson Pilot’s 18 radio stations, in- of his 11 years at the station, it be- reside in Atlanta.

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jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 6 Record News Putumayo Finds Religion In The Big Easy

The world music label Putumayo triple books himself nightly in brass music selling markets, the discs were is releasing a collection of New Orleans bands, big bands, swing bands and great musical tours of the four corners trumpeter Kermit Ruffins and a gen- smaller groups. This vocal-heavy col- of the earth. eral collection simply called New Or- lection features classics and originals With label founder Dan Storper leans. These are the first in an ongoing from his seven solo efforts (Ruffins now semi-permanently located in the series of New Orleans themed albums, also founded the Rebirth Brass Band). New Orleans, it would seem that city’s and since the Crescent City is a place Over the last 11 years Putumayo music scene has a strong new advo- where jazz is written into the very fiber has released folk music from artists cate. of its around the world. Always packaged – Tad Hendrickson identi- in the colorful and folkloric paintings ty, the of Nicola Heindl, the collections come Kermit Ruffins begins a five- label is with titles like Music From The Choco- city tour in the northeast beginning now of- latelands, World Reggae and Dublin To Jan. 23. More information is at pu- f ic ia l- Dakar. Marketed outside of traditional tumayo.com. – Ed. ly step- p i n g into the Eldar to Debut on Sony Classical March 8 jazz id- A boyish 17-year-old émigré from Kyrgyzstan in the former Soviet Union might seem an iom. unlikely candidate for greatness as a jazz pianist, but Eldar Djangirov may be headed The that way with a forthcoming self-titled debut recording for Sony Classical. The new New Orleans collection will feature CD features original tunes, and his own arrangements of such jazz classics as “Round 11 tracks by the likes of Doc Cheath- Midnight”, “Nature Boy”, “Sweet Georgia Brown”, and “Fly Me To the Moon.” Eldar will am and Nicholas Payton, Dr. Michael be released on March 8. White, Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Eldar, who turns 18 shortly before the release of his new album, has already been Duke Dejan, Louis Armstrong and Dr. featured on the 42nd annual Grammy Awards broadcast, and he took the top prizes John. A fine summation of the city’s in the 2001 Lionel Hampton Jazz music scene, the tracks range from Festival and the 2002 Peter Nero straight Piano Competition. The legendary Marian McPartland has had him jazz to as her guest (the youngest ever) blues to on her acclaimed radio series s w i n g Piano Jazz. with a For his Sony Classical debut r e q u i- recording, Eldar (on piano and site ver- electric piano/synthesizer) is sions of backed by drummer Todd Strait “Basin and John Patitucci on bass and S t r e e t electric bass, with tenor sax Blues” virtuoso Michael Brecker as guest 17-year-old jazz sensation Eldar Djangirov, with pia- ( L o u - artist. no legends Dr. Billy Taylor and Marian McPartland, is Prima) and “When The Saints Go Today, Eldar lives in San Diego, celebrating Eldar, his debut release due March 8 on Marching In” (Gregg Stafford and Dr. after settling in Kansas City with Sony Classical. Dr. Taylor and Ms. McPartland were Michael White). his parents Emil and Tatiana early supporters of the young pianist, featuring him Trumpeter Kermit Ruffins is as Djangirov in 1998 when they on CBS “Sunday Morning” and Marian McPartland’s good a place as any to document what’s left Kyrgyzstan with the help of “Piano Jazz” on NPR. going on now in the Big Easy – Ruf- the late jazz aficionado Charles fins is a tireless player that double and McWhorter. jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 7 Record News Bonnie Bramlett Signs With Zoho Music Zonjic Will Host Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards egendary singer Bonnie Bramlett to benefit UNICEF, a European tour, has been signed to Zoho Music. and on Clapton’s first solo album. FLUTIST ALEXANDER ZONJIC has been L Her CD project for Zoho is After the group’s break-up in nominated for three awards and will titled Pennies from Heaven, and will 1972, Bonnie released two albums host the first-ever Canadian Smooth showcase Bonnie in a selection of jazz on the Capricorn label, converted to Jazz Awards to be held April 10 at standards out of the Great American born-again Christianity, toured with the Oakville Centre for the Perform- Songbook, in swinging small group Stephen Stills and Little Feat, record- ing Arts near Toronto. Zonjic’s diverse arrangements featuring Bonnie’s cur- ed with the Allman Brothers Band nominations are for Album of the Year rent Nashville-based backing band, and Delbert McClinton, composed for for Seldom Blues, for Best Wind In- Mr Groove. Hank Williams, Jr., and starred on the strumentalist and for Broadcaster of “In the early days of my career television sitcom, Roseanne. the Year. when I was 18 years old, I did a gig in Recording of Bonnie’s new Zoho Zonjic was raised in and still lives Milwaukee with the Cannonball Ad- release has started in Nashville. The re- in Windsor, Ontario. He is also host of derley Quintet, and his brother Nat,” lease will be produced by Tim Smith, a popular daily morning show on De- said Bramlett. “At the time, Joe Zawi- and will feature Mr Groove – a group troit’s WVMV. nul was with the band. He saw great of experienced Nashville session mu- “Canadian smooth jazz musicians potential in me as a jazz singer, and sicians. Founded in the early 1990s in finally have an awards program to rec- immediately wrote some charts for me, Nashville by brothers Tim and Roddy ognize their artistry,” said Zonjic. including ‘Lady is a Tramp’ in a 6/8 Smith, the individual group members1 Top nominees for the inaugural tempo.” have had sideman stints with Bill Ev- ceremony include Diana Krall, Eddie Prior to her return to jazz with ans, Joe Sample, Ronnie Laws and Bullen, Brian Hughes, Marc Jordan her new release, Bonnie Bramlett lived Boots Randolph. Joining Tim Smith and Alexander Zonjic all with three. what must easily qualify as one of the on bass and Roddy Smith on guitar Confirmed to perform are guitarist most exciting and colorful careers in will be Tim Gordon on saxes, Donnie Brian Hughes, vocalist Carol Wels- popular music in the last decades. Fol- Marshall on drums, and Steve Wil- man, who is a double nominee, and lowing her early associations with blues lets on piano. Long time collaborator Warren Hill who is up for Saxophon- stars Little Milton, Albert King and Mark Stallings will be playing Ham- ist Of The Year. Tina Turner (she was the first white mond organ on the project, and several The first Canadian Smooth Jazz singer/member of the “Ikettes” ever), featured guests are being scheduled to Awards will also pay tribute to one of Bonnie founded “Delaney and Bon- make an appearance. the biggest trailblazers in the genre – nie” with her husband Delaney Bram- Studio work on Bonnie’s new George Benson. The guitar legend will lett, in 1968. Zoho release is expected to be com- be honored with a Lifetime Achieve- The group recorded a string of six pleted by Feb. 1, 2005, and the pro- ment prize appropriately titled “The groundbreaking albums, all propelled jected street date with Zoho’s distrib- Benson Award”. by Bonnie’s uniquely powerful sing- utor Allegro Corporation, Portland, ing. These releases mixed blues, coun- Ore., is July 5, 2005. Passings try, rock and soul music influences into “Given Bonnie’s unique musical Dudley Hill, guitarist and founding a unique and greatly influential South- and personal history, we are expecting member of the group Pearl Django, ern Rock style which became highly significant consumer, retailer, media passed away on Saturday, January 15, popular in the 1970’s. An incredible and radio interest in this release: the after a long battle with cancer. Dudley, of variety of musicians guested in their tastes of many of Bonnie’s fans from Tacoma, Wash., was a founding member band, including Eric Clapton, George the 1970’s have migrated from Rock of Pearl Django, helped shape the sound Harrison, Duane Allman, Dave Ma- to Jazz, as have Bonnie’s,” said Zoho of the band, and contributed a number son, Rita Coolidge and Leon Russell. owner Joachim Becker. “Her incredi- of fine compositions to the Pearl Django repertoire. Dudley retired from Pearl The Bramletts also participated in John ble voice is more expressive than ever, Django in 2004. Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band adventures her jazz singing is unforgettable.”

jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 8 News

Birthdays January 19 January 27 February 4 J. R. Monterose (1927) Hot Lips Page (1908) Tony Fruscella (1927) Horace Parlan (1931) Allen Eager (1927) John Stubblefield (1945) January 20 Bobby Hutcherson (1941) February 7 Jimmy Cobb (1929) Bob Mintzer (1953) Eubie Blake (1883) Lew Soloff (1944) January 28 February 8 Jeff “Tain” Watts (1960) Bob Moses (1948) Lonnie Johnson (1889) January 22 January 29 February 9 Juan Tizol (1900) Acker Bilk (1929) Walter Page (1900) J. J. Johnson (1924) Derek Bailey (1932) Barbara Donald (1942) Eberhard Weber (1940) Jeanne Lee (1939) Bill Evans (sax) (1958) Michael Urbaniak (1943) January 30 February 10 January 23 Roy Eldridge (1911) Chick Webb (1909) Django Reinhardt (1910) Bobby Hackett (1915) Larry Adler (1914) Marty Paich (1925) Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927) Sir Roland Hanna (1932) Curtis Counce (1926) Tubby Hayes (1935) Rufus Reid (1944) Gary Burton (1943) February 1 Lawrence “Butch” Morris (1947) January 24 Sadao Watanabe (1933) February 12 Benny Waters (1902) Joe Sample (1939) Paul Bascomb (1912) Jimmy Forrest (1920) February 2 Mel Powell (1923) Joe Albany (1924) Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (1922) Bill Laswell (1955) January 25 Sonny Stitt (1924) February 13 Wellman Braud (1891) Stan Getz (1927) Wingy Manone (1900) Antonio Carlo Jobim (1927) James “Blood” Ulmer (1942) Wardell Gray (1921) Benny Golson (1929) February 3 February 14 January 26 Lil Armstrong (1898) Rob McConnell (1935) Stephane Grappelli (1908) Snooky Young (1919) Bob Stewart (1945)

jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 9 Groov Marketing

Industry Q&A with Josh Ellman and Mark Rini

by Tad Hendrickson

osh Ellman and Mark Rini have become familiar figures be- hind the scenes of the jazz radio. Coming up under the tute- Jlage of Neil Gorov, Ellman and Rini have carried the Groov name into the 21st century by promoting stuff from Blue Note and Columbia, smaller indie labels as well as artist-owned labels to jazz and college jazz radio. JazzWeek caught up with guys, looking for an IAJE debriefing, a bit of insight into the Groov team and to also take the temperature of where they think jazz radio is going in the upcoming year.

JazzWeek: So what were some highlights from IAJE for you?

Josh Ellman: I have to say the first panel we sat down for moderated by Scott Hanley of WDUQ was an inspiring way to start this past conference. Often times you come to these events and walk away re- freshed after meeting with colleagues you haven’t seen in a while, seeing great music and being motivated by panel discussion, but this session discussing HD technology & satellite radio and other topics gave me great insight as well as hope for our format. I also Josh Ellman (left) and Mark Rini accept the Independent Radio Promoter very much enjoyed watching the Christian Jacob Trio of the Year award at the 2004 JazzWeek Summit. w/Tierney Sutton. Man … what a band!

Mark Rini: I agree with Josh. Scott answered a ton of questions, and his was probably the most informative of all the panels this year. Other memorable moments for me were hanging with old friends, meeting new ones and seeing the Bad Plus rip it up. If nothing else, IAJE recharges my batteries and gets me excited all over about working with in the industry.

Josh Ellman: Of course it wouldn’t be a great convention w/out the “Hang.” The Mack Avenue cocktail reception co-sponsored by Groov Marketing was a tremendous success. Seeing a crowded room with living legends Gerald Wil- son and Terry Gibbs rubbing elbows with the other incredible young musicians continued ... jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 10 Groov Marketing Q&A (continued)

on Mack Ave, Ron Blake and Sean Jones, made the weekend. Of course hang- ing at the Dr. Jazz/Summit records suite w/you JazzWeek loons wasn’t bad ei- ther!

Just as the music changes with the times, so does the business of music. What do you guys think is going to happen in upcoming year both in jazz business world, but also in radio?

JE: The emergence of Mediaguide is the most important thing that has hap- pened to non-commercial radio in years. Now that we have a tool that gives us real, empirical evidence as to exactly what is being played at jazz radio there is no more “guess work” involved. I know a lot of folks were freaking out about this development, but let’s face it: change is difficult, especially when all of us were complacent with an out-dated system of report- ing spins to the trades. I was. But then again a lot of folks were concerned when we went from reporting light/medium/heavy to spins. And how vague was that? Change is good, and I think this will ultimately re-motivate all of us to bring this genre to the level it can be.

MR: Exactly, this tool is going to enable us to pin- Mark’s dog, Otis, rendering all Groov contracts null and void. point our efforts and to stop wasting time on markets that aren’t legitimately supporting our records. Tour support dollars are tight enough as it is.

JE: Also, with High Definition technology on the horizon, terrestrial radio now has a chance to double their programming hours. This said, those spins we saw cut in half on the JazzWeek Jazz Chart may, in a few years or less, be right back were they where!

Is it getting harder to make a buck, or are things looking up?

MR: I’d like to be an optimist and say yes, things are looking up, but the truth is we haven’t raised our rates in almost 10 years. We find ourselves working out more generous deals with labels and artists simply because there isn’t always a budget. We have a closet – I mean office – in Hollywood with a full-time staff of three and it does make for quite a bit of overhead. Luckily, this job provides many perks that quench our thirst for music, and that right there is a huge compensation.

JE: Aww, the scary question. After 9/11 … it was REALLY hard. It seemed that fewer titles were being released and competition for those titles was fierce. continued ... jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 11 Groov Marketing Q&A (continued)

But things have bounced back. Now there seems to be plenty of music, but some labels are skeptical with what’s going on with changes at radio. This will pass. As I mentioned previously, change is good, and will be from label to ra- dio to retail.

MR: Yeah, I guess that’s the looking up part. Artistically, this format seems to be as strong as it ever has been.

It’s still early in the New Year. Do you have any memories of 2004 that stick out as a triumph or as something you are proud of?

JE: I’m proud of our community. It seems every year we get closer, and the JazzWeek Summits in Rochester help by bringing about an intimate atmo- sphere to talk about the subjects that matter to us. I am also proud of our com- pany Groov Marketing. After acquiring the business from Neil Gorov over 4 years ago, I think we’ve proven ourselves to our peers, and winning Best Inde- pendent Radio Promotion Team last year, I know, was a real personal triumph Tad Hendrickson for both Mark and myself. Mark Rini and Josh Ellman from Groov Marketing enjoying a late night hang at How or why do you guys keep on keeping on? IAJE 2005.

MR: For me it’s a combination of loving what I do, as well as loving the people I do it with. Josh is truly a great business partner, not to mention a righteous friend. Thad Paulson, our College Director, has become an integral part of this company. That, coupled with getting to speak to people like Bobby Jackson, Arturo Gómez, Chuy Varela and Brad Stone about MUSIC makes me some- times wonder if I should be the one doing the paying. I am truly blessed.

JE: Great question, and obviously it’s because we have fun. The day I walk into the office and am not enjoying what I do is the day I’m done. Hell … I can do that anywhere.

MR: I think that’s a huge part of us keeping our sanity, is the having fun part. This was pretty much instilled in us by Neil Gorov. I’d go in to detail about some of the antics that have gone on in the GROOV office, but from my un- derstanding JazzWeek is a family publication. The reason we enjoy “keeping on” is great music and the relationships we hold at radio. Yes, it’s business, but I am proud to say I’m friends with many of the programmers and artists we’ve worked with throughout the years. Without that you have nothing.

JE: Also, working in a partnership can sometimes be difficult. But what makes ours so great is that we’ve got each other’s back. We’ve been doing radio pro- motion together now for well over 10 years. We still learn something new ev-

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ery day, but deal and just get better as a result. Where I lack in skill or knowl- edge, Mark picks up the slack and visa-versa. It’s all about teamwork, and the environment we create keeps us motivated as well as excited.

What is in your CD player right now?

JE: Jimmy Smith “Retrospective” (Blue Note) Various Artists “Reggae Rarities 1967-1969” (Trojan) Nellie McKay “Get Away from Me” (Columbia) The Killers “Hot Fuss” (Island) Fareed Haque “Déjà vu” (Blue Note)

MR: The new Happy Apple, which is ridiculously good. Mike Watt and The Secondmen The Secondman’s Middle Stand and Steven Bernstein’s Hollywood Diaspora, which Garrett [Shelton of Sunnyside] turned me on to. I’m also lov- ing the new Jason Moran, Avishai Cohen and a Wipers Box set that I picked up. JW ������������

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jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 13 Reviews and Picks

Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron for everyone. Those look- ing for some finger-pop- Left Alone Revisited … A Tribute To Billie ping grooves can dig into Holiday (Synergy Music) “Tin Tin Deo” or Hor- ace Silver’s “Senor Blues”. THOSE LOOKING FOR a Those looking for some- heartfelt tribute to Billie thing a little smoother will Holiday need look no fur- dig his version of James ther. Pianist Waldron was Taylor’s “Don’t Be Lonely Holiday’s accompanist for Tonight” (featuring sing- the last two years of her er Lizz Wright). Sanborn life, and his probing lines shows some sly wit on his version of Charlie Chaplain’s and dancing accompani- “Smile” – kudos also to Gil Goldstein’s nicely understat- ment has always been top ed string arrangement here as well. All in all, Closer is a drawer. One of jazz’s most thoughtful and well executed album from this pro. controversial firebrands in the ‘60s, saxophon- – Tad Hendrickson ist Shepp has mellowed with age, adopting a breathy tone Contact: Jane Dashow that exudes the same kind of mournful blues as the sing- JazzzDog Promotions er. The two play well together accentuating the duo setting Phone: (212) 679-1445 Email: [email protected] by letting these ballads really breathe – both leave spaces Add Date: Out now between each note, slowly wringing every bit of emotion out the melody. Highlights among the 10 songs include the yearning “Everything Happens To Me,” a light and airy Grachan Moncur III “Easy Living” and a slow-as-molasses version of “Porgy.” Many of these tunes were made famous by Holiday, but Exploration (Capri) here the songs are done anew, which is likely how the great RECORDING HIS LAST album 30 years ago, it’s safe to say that jazz singer would have wanted it. Grachan Moncur III is making a comeback on Exploration. – Tad Hendrickson Here the Newark, N.J., native is joined by such luminar- Contact: Mitchell Feldman ies as Tim Hagans, Andrew Phone: (888) 355-9387 Cyrille, Gary Bartz, Billy Email: [email protected] Harper and Ray Drum- Release Date: Jan. 11 mond for an octet record- Add Date: Jan. 17 ing that draws upon ma- terial recorded during his David Sanborn classic Blue Note sessions as well as some of the more Closer (Verve) out playing he did after. The distinctive horn heavy- DAVID SANBORN HAS long been one of the most recogniz- arrangements on this set able saxophonists in jazz, smooth jazz and the pop realm. are tight but airy; the so- Here he teams up with jazzmen Christian McBride, Rus- loing is tasteful and balanced between all the horn players. sell Malone, Mike Mainieri and Larry Goldings as well as Particularly strong are the galloping “Monk In Wonder- studio ace Steve Gadd (all of whom also appear on 2003’s Time Again) for a collection that offers a little something continued ... jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 14 Reviews and Picks Editors’ Picks Ben Wolfe My Kinda Beautiful (Planet Arts) Grachan Moncur (continued) This recording features original music performed by a 16 piece ensemble. Pulling from classical and jazz roots, Ben has put together an original sound that is reminiscent of the Mingus land” and the tender ballad “Love And Hate,” which fea- recording Black Saint and The Sinner Lady. Key Tracks: “The Doctor In December”, “F Minor (The Drive)”, and “Tune For T”. tures a particularly soulful solo from Moncur. Those look- ing for something a bit more out need look go no further Nils Pacific Coast Highway (Baja/TSR Records) than “Excursion.” This is indeed welcome return for one of Nils is known as a session guitarist for a wide variety of acts. jazz’s great trombonists. George Benson has covered his song “Keep Rollin’”, which won Nils a national songwriters’ award for Best Instrumental Song. – Tad Hendrickson Pacific Coast Highway captures the lifestyle on the coast with Contact: Tom Burns solid playing and hooks galore. The title track has been edited to Phone: (303) 816-1349 impact Smooth Jazz radio. Go beyond the single and check out Email: [email protected] “Coming Home” and “Crusin”. Release Date: Jan. 25 Ahmed Abdullah’s Dispersions of the Spirit of Ra Traveling The Spaceways (Planet Arts) A dedication to Sun Ra that features lesser know and unrecorded compositions. This album includes the talents of Billy Bang, violin; Craig Harris, trombone; and Miles Griffin on vocals. Strong performances will make this a programmers’ dream for night parting. However, let it fly if you are programming a station that believes that anytime is a good time for Sun Ra. Key Tracks: “Dancing Shadows”, “Enlightenment”, and 21st Century part 3. Jason Moran Same Mother (Blue Note) The use of acoustic and electric bass and guitar on Same Mother provides a whole different feel to Jason’s work. Some tracks go a little bit left of center but are pulled together by the blues – blues serious enough that you should ask for an extra copy so the Blues Director will not walk off with it. This album will transition well before and after any blues programming. Key Tracks: “I’ll Play The Blues For You”, “Jump Up” , and “Aubase”. Andre Bush Start From Silence (Odd Culture Productions) It’s tough to determine which side of the jazz aisle Start From Silence comes from. Andre has a lot of experience in the rock and pop world but he also credits his creative approach from modern jazz heroes such as Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny. On the other hand he credits his high-energy grooves from innovate guitarists such as John McLaughlin, Scott Henderson and Nguyen Le. Key Tracks: “We Have Never Seen the Absolute End ... yet”, “Degree of Difficulty”, and “Start From Silence, part two”. Reuters/Yusuf Ahmad, courtesy www.alertnet.org Jim Adkins License To Play (Clear Image Records)

You can help those affected by the earthquake and tsunami License To Play is full of fresh guitar hooks and melodies. This emergency in Southern Asia and Eastern Africa with a financial gift to the American Red Cross is Jim’s fourth solo recording using a wide array of acoustic International Response Fund. Your gift allows the Red Cross to provide immediate relief supplies, and electric guitars. On selected tracks, Jim provides the food and safe water, health care and other support to those in need. Visit Redcross.org or programming for drum, percussion, and bass. “Ocean Breeze” is call 1-800-HELP NOW to make your donation to the American Red Cross International just starting to make its impact on smooth jazz radio. Other Key Response Fund today. Tracks: “Where Will You Go” and “Candlelight Dance”. – compiled by Tony Gasparre

jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 15 Jazz Radio

Steve Turre Stays at No. 1

Jay Leonhart’s Cool is Most Added

teve Turre’s The Spirits Up Above (HighNote) hangs onto the top spot on this week’s Jazz SAlbum Chart, on 54 stations in its tenth week. Cool, the latest album from Jay Leonhart (Sons of Sound), is the most added CD this week with 29 adds, and debuts on the chart at No. 28. Pick- ing up the most spins is David Sanborn’s Closer (Verve), with 121. Topping the chart in longevity at 24 weeks is Al Jarreau’s Accentuate The Positive (Verve).

Steve Turre’s The Spirits Up Above (HighNote) holds onto the top spot on the Jazz Album Chart.

Jazz Album Chart p. 17 Jazz Add Dates p. 18 Jazz Current CDs p. 19 Jay Leonhart Trio’s Cool (Sons of Sound) is the Jazz Radio Panel p. 25 week’s Most Added CD, picking up 29 stations. jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 16 airplay data JazzWeek Jazz Album Chart Jan. 19, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 2 1 Steve Turre The Spirits Up Above HighNote 290 327 -37 10 54 3 2 2 3 1 Eric Alexander Dead Center HighNote 264 297 -33 11 52 0 3 3 1 1 Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot Palmetto 261 288 -27 10 56 2 4 4 4 2 Houston Person To Etta With Love HighNote 226 268 -42 11 43 0 5 5 5 5 Jim Snidero Close Up Milestone 211 209 2 12 42 0 6 7 6 5 Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest 193 162 31 11 33 2 7 8 14 7 Orbert Davis Blue Notes 3 Sixteen 174 158 16 5 39 4 8 14 8 8 Paradigm Shift Shifting Times Nagel Heyer 159 143 16 10 44 0 8 11 11 7 Ken Peplowski Easy To Remember Nagel Heyer 159 149 10 11 37 1 10 20 40 10 Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird Concord Jazz 156 103 53 3 36 16 11 16 13 11 Martijn van Iterson Quartet The Whole Bunch Munich Records 142 141 1 11 34 0 12 NR NR 12 David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group 139 18 121 1 30 24 13 9 11 8 Wallace Roney Prototype HighNote 136 157 -21 9 42 0 14 18 21 5 Clark Terry Porgy & Bess Americana Music/A440 134 116 18 18 27 1 Music Group 15 14 17 12 Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers The Hideout Milestone 133 143 -10 9 31 0 16 6 18 6 New Stories Hope Is the Air: Music of Elmo Hope Origin 128 180 -52 12 27 1 17 9 7 7 Deep Blue Organ Trio Deep Blue Bruise Delmark 127 157 -30 12 30 1 18 19 15 5 Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Rounder 126 109 17 17 31 1 19 13 16 13 Tony Monaco Firey Blues Summit 124 144 -20 12 31 1 20 24 28 7 Mike Longo and the New York State of the Oasis CAP 113 93 20 14 28 1 Art Jazz Ensemble 20 23 19 19 Manuel Valera Forma Nueva MAVO Records 113 100 13 12 30 0 22 NR NR 22 Christian Jacob Styne and Mine WilderJazz 106 11 95 1 36 26 23 21 20 13 Joe Sample Soul Shadows Verve Music Group 104 101 3 13 26 1 24 26 24 23 Elvin Jones Jazz Machine The Truth Half Note Records 103 91 12 12 27 2 25 17 21 17 Michael Wolff Dangerous Vision Artimas 99 122 -23 9 32 0 26 24 10 6 Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord 98 93 5 23 24 0 27 30 29 20 Maurice Brown Hip To Bop Brown Records 97 88 9 13 27 1 28 NR NR 28 Jay Leonhart Cool Sons of Sound 96 NR 96 1 35 29 29 35 47 29 Caribbean Jazz Project Here and Now: Live In Concert Concord Picante 95 77 18 3 29 13 30 34 38 30 Leslie Pintchik So Glad To Be Here Ambient 94 79 15 5 25 2 31 33 25 9 The Great Jazz Trio Someday My Prince Will Come Eighty-Eights/Columbia 89 81 8 17 32 5 31 43 41 5 Royce Campbell Six By Six Moon Cycle Records 89 69 20 17 33 2 33 12 9 2 Phil Woods This Is How I Feel About Quincy Jazzed Media 88 148 -60 15 27 0 34 29 34 29 Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Records 86 89 -3 9 25 1 35 49 46 9 Patricia Barber Live: A Fortnight In France Blue Note 82 61 21 18 23 1 36 NR NR 36 Sasha Dobson w/The Chris Byars Octet The Darkling Thrush Smalls Records 81 56 25 1 33 6 37 35 34 2 Nancy Wilson R.S.V.P. MCG Jazz 80 77 3 20 24 1 38 39 33 29 Bob Dorough Sunday At Iridium Arbors 78 71 7 9 29 2 39 28 29 28 George Kahn Compared To What? Playing Records 75 90 -15 6 27 0 40 NR NR 40 Roditi / Ignatzek / Rassinfosse Light In The Dark Nagel Heyer 74 39 35 1 22 10 41 NR NR 21 Anthony Wonsey Blues For Hiroshi Sharp Nine 72 54 18 12 21 1 42 21 27 21 Denise Perrier Live At Yoshi’s Chez Perrier Records 71 101 -30 8 25 2 42 39 34 14 Norman Simmons In Private Savant 71 71 0 15 19 1 42 32 23 3 Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music Group 71 83 -12 24 19 0 42 26 32 26 Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group 71 91 -20 5 25 0 42 39 37 13 Peter Cincotti On The Moon Concord 71 71 0 20 13 0 47 NR 47 47 Randy Halberstadt Parallel Tracks Origin Records 66 60 6 3 20 1 47 37 31 21 Alice Coltrane Translinear Light Impulse 66 72 -6 15 19 0 49 NR NR 7 Peter Leitch Autobiography Reservoir 65 53 12 16 24 0 49 37 NR 28 Ian Hendrickson-Smith Still Smokin’ Sharp Nine 65 72 -7 12 21 1

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Jay Leonhart Cool (Sons of Sound) +29 David Sanborn Closer (Verve Music Group) +121 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme (Palmetto) Ken Walker Terra Firma (Synergy Music) Christian Jacob Styne and Mine (WilderJazz) +26 Jay Leonhart Cool (Sons of Sound) +96 Roomful Of Blues Standing Room Only (Alligator) David Sanborn Closer (Verve Music Group) +24 Christian Jacob Styne and Mine (WilderJazz) +95 Donald Harrison Free Style (Nagel Heyer) Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird (Concord Jazz) +53 Tony Bennett The Art Of Romance (Columbia) Pete Zimmer Common Man (Tippin’ Records) (Palmetto) +23 Roditi/Ignatzek/Rassinfosse Light In The Dark Octobop After Dark (Mystic Lane Productions) Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird (Concord Jazz) +16 (Nagel Heyer) +35 Jim Pearce Washington Square Park (Oak Avenue Publishing) Tom Collier Mallet Jazz (Origin Records) Darek Oles Like A Dream (Cryptogramophone)

jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 17 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. January 10, 2005 February 7, 2005 David Sanborn – Closer (Verve Records) Bireli Lagrene – Move (Dreyfus Jazz) Claudio Roditi & Klaus Ignatzek – Light In The Dark (Nagel Heyer) Joey DeFrancesco/Jimmy Smith – Legacy (Concord Records) January 11, 2005 Mulligan, Shearing, Tormé – Terrible Trio (Concord Records) Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra W/ Wynton Marsalis – A Love Supreme February 8, 2005 (Palmetto) Soul Rebels Brass Band (Barn Burner) January 13, 2005 February 10, 2005 Jim Seeley/Arturo O’Farrill Quintet – Jim Seeley/Arturo O’Farrill Quintet Jason Moran – Same Mother (Blue Note) (Zoho Music) February 17, 2005 Shelly Berg Trio – Blackbird (Concord Records) Dafnis Prieto – About The Monks (Zoho Music) January 15, 2005 February 21, 2005 Donald Harrison – Free Style (Nagel Heyer) Kurt Rosenwinkel – Deep Song (Verve Records) January 17, 2005 February 22, 2005 Abram Wilson – Jazz Warrior (Dune Records) Avishai Cohen Trio & Ensemble – At Home (RazDaz) Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron – Left Alone Revisited – A Tribute To Billie Fred Hersch Ensemble-leaves Of Grass – Leaves Of Grass (Palmetto) Holiday (Synergy Music) Monty Alexander – Live At Iridium (Telarc) Denys Baptiste – Let Freedom Ring! (Dune Records) Zach Brock & The Coffee Achievers – Chemistry (Secret Fort Records) Ken Walker Sextet – Terra Firma (Synergy Music) March 1, 2005 Opie Bellas – Faces (Bella Blue) Dale Fielder Quartet – Baritone Sunride (Clarion) January 18, 2005 March 15, 2005 Wynton Marsalis – Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise & Fall Of Jack Dena DeRose – TBA (Vocal/Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ) Johnson (Blue Note) Peter Martin – TBA (Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ) January 19, 2005 Ted Nash & Odeon – La Espade De La Noche (Palmetto) Dave Wilson – Through The Time (Dreamscape Records) March 22, 2005 Will Martin – Morning (Saguaro Beach Records) Cheryl Bentyne – Let Me Off Uptown (Telarc) January 20, 2005 John Pizzarelli – Knowing You (Telarc) Caribbean Jazz Project – Here And Now Live (Concord Records) Lea DeLaria – Double Standards (Telarc) Christian Jacob – Styne And Mine (Wilderjazz) March 28, 2005 Monk’s Music Trio – Think Of One (CMB Records) Katie Bull – Love Spook (Corn Hill Indie Records) Roger Kellaway – I Was There: From The Bobby Darin Songbook (IPO Recordings) April 5, 2005 Kate McGarry – Mercy Streets (Palmetto) January 24, 2005 Lorraine Feather – Dooji Wooji (Sanctuary) Ed Neumeister – New Standards (Vienna/2 Day Records) Mulgrew Miller – TBA (Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ) Jeni Fleming Acoustic Trio – Once Around The Sun (SVFM Records) Paul Grabowsky – Tales Of Time And Space (Sanctuary) The Corey Christiansen Quartet – Awakening (Mel Bay Records) April 11, 2005 January 25, 2005 Dave’s True Story – Nature (BeBop Records) Michel Camilo – Solo (Telarc) Stefano Di Battista – Parker’s Mood (Blue Note) April 26, 2005 Jessica Williams – TBA (Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ) January 31, 2005 Jeff Berlin – Lumpy Jazz (M.A.J. Records) May 10, 2005 Pat Metheny Group – The Way Up (Nonesuch Music) Denny Zeitlin – TBA (Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ) Sylvain Luc – Ambre (Dreyfus Jazz) May 24, 2005 February 1, 2005 Dave Brubeck – London Flat, London Sharp (Telarc) Avery Sharpe Trio – Dragonfly (JKNM) Tony DeSare – Want You (Telarc) Charles McPherson w/ Strings – A Tribute To Charlie Parker (Clarion Jazz) June 28, 2005 Onaje Allan Gumbs – Remember Their Innocence (Ejano) Jeremy Pelt – TBA (Horn Series) (MAXJAZZ) February 5, 2005 John O’Gallagher – A Line Of Sight (Fresh Sound)

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jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 18 Jazz Radio Currents

Bob Acri w/Lew Soloff/Frank Wess/Ed Blujazz Benny Golson Terminal 1 Concord Thigpen/George Mraz/Diane Delin Jerry Gonzalez Y Los Piratas Del Flamenco Sunnyside Eric Alexander Dead Center HighNote The Great Jazz Trio Someday My Prince Will Come Eighty-Eights/Co- Geri Allen The Life Of A Song Telarc Jazz lumbia Buyu Ambroise Blues In Red Justin Time Dave Grusin Now Playing GRP Carl Amundson & The Modern Guitarists Blue Line Music Don Grusin The Hang Sovereign Records Guitar Quintet Russell Gunn Ethnomusicology Vol. 4: Live In Justin Time Gabriela Anders Last Tango In Rio Narada Jazz Atlanta Lynne Arriale Come Together Motema Charlie Haden Land Of The Sun Verve Music Group The William Ash Trio The Phoenix Smalls Records Angela Hagenbach Poetry Of Love Amazon Records The Bad Plus Give Columbia Randy Halberstadt Parallel Tracks Origin Records The Sheryl Bailey 3 Bull’s Eye Pure Music Records Jeff Hamilton The Best Things Happen Azica Records Jeff Baker Monologue OA2 Records Steve Hancoff The Single Petal Of A Rose Out Of Time Records Patricia Barber Live: A Fortnight In France Blue Note Donald Harrison Free Style Nagel Heyer Count Basie Good Time Blues Pablo Joel Harrison So Long 2nd Street Act 3 Music Group Bebo & Cigala Lai Grimas Negras Bluebird John Hart Indivisible Hep Jazz Opie Bellas Faces Bella Blue Richie Hart Blues In The Alley Zoho Music Tony Bennett The Art Of Romance Columbia Jeff Hedberg The Summer Knows Blujazz Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird Concord Jazz Alex Heitlinger Sextet Green Light Synergy Music David Berger and the Sultans of Marlowe Such Sweet Thunder Ian Hendrickson-Smith Still Smokin’ Sharp Nine Swing Records Bruce A. Henry Connections BAHLOVE Productions Joe Bonner New Beginnings Evidence Hermann / Fontana The Jazz Trombone Sea Breeze Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia Gary Hobbs Of My Times Origin Records Maurice Brown Hip To Bop Brown Records Stevie Holland Restless Willow 150 Music Betty Bryant Weathervane Bry-Mar Music Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Thought Trains Sons of Sound Jane Bunnett Red Dragonfly (Aka Tombo) Narada Jazz Orchestra Vicki Burns Siren Song Merrymaid Produc- Charlie Hunter Freinds Seen And Unseen Ropeadope/Atlantic tions Weber Iago Children of the World Adventure Music Don Byron ivey-divey Blue Note Frank Jackson New York After Dark Kasis Ann Hampton Callaway Slow Shanachie Christian Jacob Styne and Mine WilderJazz Michel Camilo Solo Telarc Jazz Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music Group Royce Campbell Six By Six Moon Cycle Records Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack The Out of Towners ECM Caribbean Jazz Project Here and Now: Live In Concert Concord Picante DeJohnette Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord Jazz Jamaica All Stars Massive Dune Records Rondi Charleston Love Is The Thing LML Music Dr. John N‚ÄôAwlinz: Dis, Dat or D‚Äôudda Blue Note Larry Chernicoff October Windy Planet Music Jeff Johnson Near Earth Origin Peter Cincotti On The Moon Concord Liz Johnson Playground Lily Records Tom Collier Mallet Jazz Origin Records Norah Jones Feels Like Home Blue Note Alice Coltrane Translinear Light Impulse Elvin Jones Jazz Machine The Truth Half Note Records Harry Connick Jr Harry For The Holidays Columbia Anders Jormin In Wind, In Light ECM Jamie Cullum Twentysomething Verve Music Group Vic Juris Blue Horizon Zoho Music Orbert Davis Blue Notes 3 Sixteen George Kahn Compared To What? Playing Records Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Mean Ameen Delmark Katahdin’s Edge Step Away Incline Records Deep Blue Organ Trio Deep Blue Bruise Delmark Roger Kellaway I Was There - Roger Kellaway Plays IPO Recordings Papa John DeFrancesco Walking Uptown Savant From The Bobby Darin Songbook Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary The Dynamic Les DeMerle Band Hittin’ the Blue Notes - Vol. Two Origin Records Records Tom Dempsey / Tim Ferguson Perspectives Imaginary Records Soweto Kinch Conversations With The Unseen Dune Records Quartet Paul Kogut Know It? I Wrote It! Blujazz Sasha Dobson w/The Chris Byars The Darkling Thrush Smalls Records Octet Lee Konitz w/ Alan Broadbent More Live-Lee Milestone Bob Dorough Sunday At Iridium Arbors Diana Krall The Girl In The Other Room Verve Music Group Dave Douglas/Sclavis/Lee/van der Bow River Falls Premonition Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest Schyff Chad Lawson Unforeseen Summit Rosanne Drago Hot Sophisticated Jazz Now Self-Produced The Nguyen Le Trio Bakida Act 3 Music Group Christiana Drapkin Songs About You IANA Records Mike Ledonne Smokin’ Out Loud Savant E.S.T. Seven Days of Falling 215 Records Peter Leitch Autobiography Reservoir Mark Elf Glad To Be Back Jen Bay Records Jay Leonhart Cool Sons of Sound The Frank And Joe Show 33 1/3 Hyena Records Ramsey Lewis Trio Time Flies Narada Eric Frazier Find Yourself (Then Find Me) Eric Frazier Music Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme Palmetto Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Walking With Giants Hyena Records Lorie Line Young At Heart Lori Line Music Bill Frisell Unspeakable Nonesuch Mike Longo and the New York State Oasis CAP The Mike Frost Project Nothing Smooth About It Blujazz of the Art Jazz Ensemble William Galison w/ Madeleine I Got You On My Mind Waking Up Music Micarelli Lucia Music From A Farther Room Reprise Peyroux Luna Rendezvous Jetset Jan Garbarek In Praise of Dreams ECM Matthias Lupri Transition Sonic Summit Giacomo Gates Centerpiece Origin Records Frank Macchia Animals Cacophony Records George Gee Big Band Settin’ The Pace GJazz Records Bruce MacLeod Parade Parhelion Records Sai Ghose Trio E-Motion Summit Gui Mallon Live at Montreux Adventure Music Terry Gibbs 52nd & Broadway: Songs of the Mack Avenue Bebop Era Manhattan Transfer Vibrate Telarc Herb Gibson Blue Vibes Silverado Records Herbie Mann / Phil Woods Beyond Brooklyn MCG Jazz Global Village Orchestra Globalistics Random Chance Ray Mantilla Man-Ti-Ya Savant jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 19 Jazz Radio Currents

Lou Marini Lou’s Blues Chase Music Group Joe Sample Soul Shadows Verve Music Group Wynton Marsalis Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise Blue Note David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group and Fall of Jack Johnson David Sanchez Coral Columbia Branford Marsalis Quartet Eternal Marsalis Music/ Rounder Records Rob Schneiderman Back In Town Reservoir Wynton Marsalis Quartet The Magic Hour Blue Note Dave Schnitter Sketch Sunnyside Rebecca Martin People Behave Like Ballads MAXJAZZ Anton Schwartz Holiday Time Anton Jazz Mat Marucci / Markus Burger Genesis Cadence Jazz Jill Scott Beautifully Human: Words And Hidden Beach Ensemble Sounds Sounds Vol. 2 Tim May Trio Mayzing Records Marilyn Scott Nightcap Prana Entertainment Chris Mc Nulty I Remember You Mop Top Records Seattle Woman’s Jazz Orchestra Dreamcatcher OA2 Records Paul McCandless / Art Lande Shapeshifter Synergy Music The Jim Seeley/Arturo O’Farrill Zoho Music Larry McDonough Tuscarora: Short Stories for Jazz Self-Produced Quintet Piano Cybill Shepherd At Home With Cybill River Siren Ladd McIntosh Big Band Ride The Night Beast L.E.M. Productions Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron Left Alone Revisited: Tribute To Billy Synergy Music Tim McNamara Quartet Earth Sign Blujazz Holiday Mark Sherman The Motive Series CAP Medeski Martin & Wood End of The World Party Blue Note David Sills Eastern View Origin Records Brad Mehldau Live In Tokyo Nonesuch Judi Silvano Let Yourself Go Zoho Music Carol Mennie I’m Not A Sometime Thing CDM Ricardo Silveria Live: Plays the Music of Milton Adventure Music Milla Dream A Little Avid Diva Nascimento Mulgrew Miller Live @ Yoshi’s Volume One MAXJAZZ Norman Simmons In Private Savant Pete Mills Art And Architecture Summit Alex Skolnick Trio Transformation Magatude Records Dom Minasi Quick Response CDM Charles Small Small Talk Blue Lady Tony Monaco Firey Blues Summit Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot Palmetto Grachan Moncur III Exploration Capri Steve Smith and Vital Information Come On In OmniTone Jane Monheit Taking A Chance On Love Sony Classical Jim Snidero Close Up Milestone Typhanie Monique / Neal Alger Intrinsic Blujazz Omar Sosa Mulatos OTA Monk’s Music Trio Think Of One CMB Records Johnny Souza Meet me In The City 1620 Jazz Records Monk’s Music Trio Think Of One CMB Records George Stone Performs The Music Of Stewart Sea Breeze Frank Morgan City Nights: Live at the Jazz HighNote “Dirk” Fisher Standard Rick Stone Samba de Novembro Jazzand Maria Muldaur Love Wants To Dance Telarc Blues Steve Swallow /Ohad Talmor The Bum’s Tale Palmetto Mark Murphy Bop For Miles HighNote Jonas Tauber Storm Walking Singing Origin Youssou N’Dour Egypt Nonesuch Ximo Tebar Champs Sunnyside Negroni’s Trio Piano/Drums/Bass Universal Music Clark Terry Porgy & Bess Americana Latino Music/A440 Music New Stories Hope Is the Air: Music of Elmo Hope Origin Group David “Fathead” Newman I Remember Brother Ray HighNote Trio Mundo Rides Again Zoho Music Adam Niewood Introducing Adam Niewood Native Language Michael James Turre Compositions Illusory Gerry Niewood Facets Native Language Steve Turre The Spirits Up Above HighNote Russ Nolan Two Colors Rhinoceruss McCoy Tyner Illuminations Telarc Jazz Bill O’Connell Latin Jazz Fantasy Random Chance Manuel Valera Forma Nueva MAVO Records Octobop After Dark Mystic Lane Produc- Martijn van Iterson Quartet The Whole Bunch Munich Records tions Various Artists Syncopated Energy - Jazz From The Synergy Music Darek Oles Like A Dream Cryptogramophone Synergy Music Catalog Renee Olstead Renee Olstead 143 Records/Reprise Various Artists Verve Remixed 2 Verve Music Group Paradigm Shift Shifting Times Nagel Heyer Various Artists Blue Note Revisited Blue Note Rob Parton’s Jazztech Big Band Two Different days Sea Breeze Fay Victor Lazy Old Sun - Live/Life in the Green Avenue Music Lowlands Rosa Passos Amorosa Sony Classical Claudia Villela & Kenny Werner Dreamtales Adventure Music Jim Pearce Washington Square Park Oak Avenue Ken Walker Terra Firma Synergy Music Publishing Ken Peplowski Easy To Remember Nagel Heyer Rich Walker Sextet Bar Hop Altru Music Denise Perrier Live At Yoshi’s Chez Perrier Records Bobby Watson & Horizon Horizon Reassembled Palmetto Houston Person To Etta With Love HighNote Jeff Watts Detained At The Blue Note Half Note Records Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Rounder Mort Weiss The Three of Us SMS Jazz Enrico Pieranunzi Fellini Jazz CAM The Jim Widner Big Band Flying High Chase Music Group Jean-Michel Pilc Follow Me Dreyfus Jazz Buster Williams Griot Liberte HighNote Leslie Pintchik So Glad To Be Here Ambient Jessica Williams Live At Yoshi’s Volume One MAXJAZZ Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers The Hideout Milestone Abram Wilson Jazz Warrior Dune Records Hugh Ragin Revelation Justin Time Nancy Wilson R.S.V.P. MCG Jazz Phil Ranelin Inspiration Wide Hive Records Gerald Wilson Orchestra New York, New Sound Mack Avenue Paul Renz & Friends Hubbub Gabwalk Records Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts Wake Up! (to what’s happening) Palmetto Buddy Rich No Funny Hats Lightyear Entertain- Michael Wolff Dangerous Vision Artimas ment/Lobitios Creek Anthony Wonsey Blues For Hiroshi Sharp Nine Ranch Phil Woods This Is How I Feel About Quincy Jazzed Media Kim Richmond / Clay Jenkins Crossweave Origin Josh Workman Jumpin’ At The Border Tetrachord Roditi / Ignatzek / Rassinfosse Light In The Dark Nagel Heyer Yellowjackets Peace Round Heads Up Wallace Roney Prototype HighNote Jacob Young Evening Falls ECM Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group Kahil El Zabar & David Murray We Is Live At The Bop Shop Delmark Roomful Of Blues Standing Room Only Alligator Pete Zimmer Common Man Tippin’ Records Gonzalo Rubalcaba Paseo Blue Note The Sala Bros Out Of The Blue Blujazz jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 20 Smooth Jazz Radio

Forever, For Always, For Luther Sticks at #1

David Sanborn Has Most Added Album, Kenny G Has Top Two Most Added Single orever, For Always, For Luther holds onto the No. 1 spot on this week’s JazzWeek Smooth Jazz Album Fand Smooth Singles Chart. In second place is Dave Koz’s Saxophonic (Capitol). Closer, the latest CD from David Sanborn (Verve), is the most added CD with 22, while Kenny G (Arista) has two singles added on 27 stations, “At Last” with Artu- ro Sandoval, and “Careless Whisper” with Brian McK- night. Seeing the biggest jump on the Singles Chart was David Sanborn’s “Tin Tin Deo” (Verve), adding 116 spins, while his album Closer added 169 spins on the Al- bum chart.

Topping the charts, powered by Richard Elliot’s “Your Secret Love”, is Forever, For Always, For Luther (GRP)

Smooth Album Chart p. 22 Smooth Singles Chart p. 23 Smooth Current CDs p. 24 Smooth Radio Panel p. 25 At Last ... has the week’s top two most added singles: “At Last” and “Careless Whisper”. jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 21 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Album Chart Jan. 19, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP 770 765 5 6 37 0 2 2 2 1 Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol 716 725 -9 11 37 0 3 4 3 2 Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 672 651 21 11 36 0 4 3 4 2 Norman Brown Up ‘N’ at ‘Em [Single] Warner Bros. 668 664 4 11 35 0 5 7 11 2 Boney James Pure Warner Bros. 592 552 40 11 36 0 6 6 6 5 Paul Brown Up Front GRP 587 556 31 6 38 0 7 5 5 5 Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia 583 576 7 11 37 0 8 11 10 8 Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up 532 531 1 11 32 0 9 13 14 9 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 526 508 18 11 38 0 10 12 13 7 Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous 526 518 8 11 37 0 11 14 12 11 Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Universal Music Group / AM 525 505 20 6 37 0 12 15 15 12 Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 519 485 34 3 32 0 13 10 9 9 Peter White Confidential Columbia 516 532 -16 6 37 0 14 21 32 14 Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista 494 407 87 6 37 0 15 9 7 3 Paul Jackson, Jr. Still Small Voice Blue Note 490 541 -51 11 36 0 16 8 8 1 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous 473 545 -72 11 34 0 17 16 16 14 Nick Colionne Just Come On In Will Keys 471 468 3 11 35 0 18 17 17 1 Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up Universal Music Group / GRP 452 441 11 11 37 0 / VMG 19 18 18 18 Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note 448 424 24 3 37 0 20 20 21 13 Marc Antoine The Very Best Of Marc Antoine VMG 420 412 8 11 36 0 21 19 19 11 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 397 415 -18 11 36 0 22 23 20 20 Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord 373 361 12 4 30 0 23 22 27 22 Seal Best: 1991-2004 Warner Bros. 354 375 -21 3 27 0 24 24 22 5 George Benson Irreplaceable Universal Music Group / GRP 354 360 -6 11 37 0 / VMG 25 25 23 14 Marc Antoine Mediterraneo Rendezvous 343 354 -11 11 34 0 26 27 24 18 Michael McDonald Motown Two Motown 330 333 -3 6 28 0 27 26 25 16 Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie 328 353 -25 6 31 0 28 28 26 21 Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got To Play Narada Jazz / Virgin 325 328 -3 6 29 0 29 29 35 14 Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia 299 312 -13 6 27 0 30 30 28 16 Fourplay Journey BMG 289 264 25 11 29 1 31 32 31 22 Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out Peak / Concord 270 259 11 6 36 0 32 35 34 18 Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous 253 218 35 11 33 0 33 31 29 18 Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up 245 264 -19 11 27 0 34 34 33 26 Richard Smith Soulidified A440 230 241 -11 6 29 0 35 33 30 25 Mindi Abair It Just Happens That Way GRP 227 249 -22 6 33 0 36 37 39 18 Najee Classic Masters Capitol / EMI 223 211 12 11 32 0 37 38 36 36 Daryl Hall & John Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch 219 210 9 3 16 0 38 40 41 20 Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language 187 188 -1 11 23 0 39 42 43 39 Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge, Vol.1 Rendezvous 187 179 8 11 16 0 40 36 38 31 Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. 184 213 -29 6 34 0 41 39 40 33 Richard Elliot Ricochet VMG 182 191 -9 6 30 0 42 48 48 25 The Jazzmasters The Jazzmasters 4 Trippin ’N’ Rhythm 173 158 15 11 31 0 43 41 42 23 Greg Adams Firefly 215 170 179 -9 6 25 0 44 NR NR 45 David Sanborn Closer Verve 169 0 169 1 22 22 45 43 37 37 Seal Seal IV Warner Bros. 169 176 -7 3 32 0 46 44 44 37 Steve Cole NY LA Warner Bros. 166 166 0 6 30 0 47 47 45 20 Michael McDonald Motown Motown 161 158 3 13 34 0 48 54 57 26 Ronny Jordan At Last N-Coded 132 112 20 11 31 0 49 45 45 21 Brian Culbertson Come On Up Warner Bros. 128 153 -25 11 31 0 50 52 49 20 Steve Oliver 3-D Koch 127 117 10 11 22 0

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound David Sanborn Closer (Verve) +22 David Sanborn Closer (Verve) +169 Craig Chaquico Midnight Noon (Higher Octave) Aya Strange Flower (Naked) +2 Kenny G At Last ... The Duets Album (Arista) +87 Alexander Zonjic Seldom Blues (Heads Up) Craig Chaquico Midnight Noon (Higher Octave) +57 Candy Dulfer Right In My Soul (Eagle) Boney James Pure (Warner Bros.) +40 Doc Powell Cool Like That (Heads Up) Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love (Rounder) Praful One Day Deep (Rendezvous) +35 Paradigm Shift Shifting Times (Nagel Heyer) Garry Goin Goin’ Places (Compendia)

jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 22 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Singles Chart Jan. 19, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Richard Elliot Your Secret Love GRP 721 715 6 13 35 0 2 3 2 2 Soul Ballet Cream 215 672 651 21 12 36 0 3 2 3 2 Norman Brown Up ‘N’ At ‘Em Warner Bros. 668 664 4 13 35 0 4 6 7 4 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 526 508 18 13 38 0 5 8 8 5 Tim Bowman Summer Groove Liquid 518 485 33 12 31 0 6 5 5 5 Marion Meadows Sweet Grapes Heads Up 516 518 -2 13 31 0 7 9 9 7 Queen Latifah California Dreamin‘ Universal Music Group / AM 475 459 16 12 35 0 8 4 4 1 Wayman Tisdale Ain‘t No Stoppin‘ Us Now Rendezvous 469 542 -73 11 33 0 9 7 6 5 Chris Botti Back Into My Heart Columbia 464 486 -22 13 35 0 10 11 11 1 Gerald Albright To The Max Universal Music Group / GRP 417 408 9 13 37 0 / VMG 11 12 12 11 Dave Koz Let It Free Capitol 400 379 21 13 31 0 12 14 14 12 Paul Brown Moment By Moment GRP 390 369 21 13 35 0 13 17 13 5 Anita Baker You‘re My Everything Blue Note 362 346 16 13 37 0 14 10 10 6 Paul Jackson, Jr. Walkin‘ Blue Note 359 411 -52 13 34 0 15 13 20 13 Seal Walk On By Warner Bros. 354 375 -21 9 27 0 16 16 15 1 George Benson Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise Universal Music Group / GRP 343 351 -8 13 37 0 / VMG 17 15 16 15 Peter White How Does It Feel Columbia 325 360 -35 13 28 0 18 18 17 14 Michael McDonald Tracks Of My Tears Motown 311 317 -6 12 27 0 19 23 27 19 Kenny G & David Sanborn Pick Up The Pieces Arista 310 277 33 6 28 0 20 22 26 20 Michael Lington Two Of A Kind (w/ Chuck Loeb) Rendezvous 307 282 25 11 32 2 21 21 23 21 Ray Charles You Don‘t Know Me (w/ Diana Krall) Concord 296 290 6 13 28 0 22 19 19 13 Kim Waters In Deep Shanachie 292 316 -24 13 25 0 23 30 36 23 Boney James Stone Groove (w/ Joe Sample) Warner Bros. 286 223 63 8 26 3 24 20 18 1 Boney James Here She Comes Warner Bros. 276 307 -31 13 34 0 25 24 28 24 Euge Groove XXL EMI 263 275 -12 13 30 1 26 25 21 12 Nick Colionne It‘s Been Too Long Will Keys 256 271 -15 13 29 0 27 31 32 27 Chris Botti No Ordinary Love Columbia 244 222 22 11 25 0 28 26 22 22 Pieces Of A Dream It‘s Go Time Heads Up 244 262 -18 13 27 0 29 27 24 1 Marc Antoine Mediterraneo Rendezvous 221 259 -38 13 33 0 30 28 25 2 Michael Lington Show Me Rendezvous 219 233 -14 13 34 0 31 33 35 17 Nick Colionne High Flyin‘ Will Keys 212 193 19 13 35 0 32 38 31 3 Paul Taylor Steppin‘ Out Peak / Concord 201 178 23 13 33 0 33 29 30 1 Dave Koz All I See Is You Capitol 197 225 -28 13 34 0 34 34 29 2 Paul Brown 24/7 GRP 194 184 10 13 36 0 35 37 40 35 Fourplay Fields Of Gold BMG 190 178 12 13 20 1 36 41 43 36 Daryl Hall & John Oates I‘ll Be Around U-Watch 170 157 13 13 13 2 37 36 37 26 Greg Adams Firefly 215 169 179 -10 13 25 0 38 42 33 3 Peter White Talkin‘ Bout Love Columbia 165 151 14 13 33 0 39 35 34 8 Joyce Cooling Expression Narada Jazz / Virgin 162 182 -20 13 28 0 40 32 41 11 Rick Braun Daddy-O Warner Bros. 159 195 -36 13 26 0 41 39 39 18 Dan Siegel In Your Eyes Native Language 157 161 -4 13 22 0 42 40 38 11 Richard Smith Sing A Song A440 157 160 -3 13 25 0 43 44 47 43 Joyce Cooling Camelback Narada Jazz / Virgin 155 139 16 11 16 1 44 45 42 10 Seal Love‘s Divine Warner Bros. 142 139 3 13 31 0 45 43 44 18 Praful Sigh Rendezvous 138 144 -6 13 32 0 46 56 58 27 Ronny Jordan At Last N-Coded 132 112 20 13 31 0 47 47 48 24 Paul Jackson, Jr. It‘s A Shame Blue Note 131 130 1 13 32 0 48 48 50 27 The Jazzmasters Puerto Banus Trippin ‚N‘ Rhythm 129 128 1 13 30 1 49 49 49 16 Steve Cole Everyday Warner Bros. 128 123 5 13 28 0 50 46 45 2 Euge Groove Livin‘ Large EMI 118 130 -12 13 29 0

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Kenny G & Arturo Sandoval “At Last” (Arista) +27 David Sanborn “Tin Tin Deo” (Verve) +116 David Sanborn “Tin Tin Deo” (Verve) Kenny G & Brian McKnight “Careless Whisper” Boney James “Stone Groove” (Warner Bros.) +63 Craig Chaquico “Her Boyfriend’s Wedding” (Higher Octave) David Blamires Group “Deep As The Midnight Sea” (Navarre) (Arista) +27 Craig Chaquico “Her Boyfriend’s Wedding” (Higher Octave) +57 Adani & Wolf “Daylight” (Rendezvous) David Sanborn “Tin Tin Deo” (Verve) +22 Kenny G & Earth Wind & Fire “The Way You Move” Kenny G & Earth Wind & Fire “The Way You Move” (Arista) David Sanborn “Senor Blues” (Verve) +11 (Arista) +34 Alexander Zonjic “Leave It With Me” (Heads Up) David Sanborn “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight” Kenny G & David Sanborn “Pick Up The Pieces” (Arista) +33 David Benoit “Watermelon Man” (Universal) (Verve) +10 Tim Bowman “Summer Groove” (Liquid) +33 Marc Antoine “Cubanova” (Rendezvous) David Sanborn “Capetown Fringe” (Verve) +10 jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 23 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Albums

Mindi Abair It Just Happens That Way GRP Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol Mindy Abair Come As You Are GRP Diana Krall The Girl In The Other Room Verve Music Group Acoustic Alchemy Radio Contact Higher Octave Pattie LaBelle Timeless Journey Island /Def Jam Greg Adams Firefly 215 Records David Lanz The Good Life Decca Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest Gabriela Anders Last Tango In Rio Narada Jazz Ronnie Laws Everlasting Holland Group Marc Antoine Mediteraneo Rendevous Ramsey Lewis Trio Time Flies Narada Marc Antoine The Very Best of Marc Antoine Verve Music Group Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendevous Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note Liquid Soul Evolution Shanachie Bob Baldwin Brazil Chill A440 Music Group Chuck Loeb eBop Shanachie Walter Beasley Go With The Flow N-Coded Music Jeff Lorber Uncle Darrow Narada Pete Belasco Deeper Compendia Luna Rendezvous Jetset Regina Belle Lazy Peak Torcuato Mariano Diary 215 Records David Benoit / Russ Freeman Benoit Freeman Project 2 Peak Eric Marienthal Sweet Talk Peak George Benson Irreplaceable GRP Keiko Matsui Wildflower Narada Theo Bishop Newport Nights Native Language Michael McDonald Motown Motown Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia Michael McDonald Motown Two Motown Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 Chieli Minucci Night Grooves Shanachie Jeff Bradshaw Bone Deep Hidden Beach Youssou N’Dour Egypt Nonesuch Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. Najee Embrace N-Coded Music Toni Braxton Ultimate Toni Braxton LaFace Najee Classic Masters Capitol Braxton Brothers Rollin Peak Ken Navarro All The Way Shanachie Bridge To Havana (f. Gladys Knight) Bridge To Havana Pyramid Grady Nichols Sophistication Compendia Brian Bromberg Choices A440 Music Group Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja/TSA Records 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 Joan Osborne How Sweet It Is Compendia Jonathan Cain Bare Bones Reality/AAO Music Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up Sergio Caputo That Kind of Thing Idiosyncrasy Music Doc Powell 97th & Columbus Heads Up Larry Carlton Sapphire Blue Bluebird Doc Powell Cool Like That Heads Up Craig Chaquico Midnight Moon Higher Octave Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous/N-Coded Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord Nelson Rangell Look Again A440 Music Group Club 1600 Ridin, High N-Coded Music The Rippingtons Let It Ripp Peak Steve Cole NY LA Warner Bros. Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group Nick Colionne Just Come On In Three Keys Music Joe Sample Soul Shadows Verve Music Group Harry Connick Jr Harry For The Holidays Columbia David Sanborn Time Again Verve Music Group Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got to Play Narada Jazz David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group Couch Potato Allstars Jazz For Couch Potatoes Shanachie Jill Scott Beautifully Human: Words And Hidden Beach Brian Culbertson Come On Up Warner Bros. Sounds Vol. 2 Jamie Cullum Twentysomething Verve Music Group Marilyn Scott Nightcap Prana Entertainment Eric Darius Night On The Town Higher Octave Seal IV Warner Bros. Will Downing Emotions GRP Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language Richard Elliot Ricochet GRP Simply Red Home Simply Red Fattburger Work To Do Shanachie Richard Smith Soulidfied A440 Music Group Fourplay Journey RCA / Victor Jimmy Sommers Love Life Higher Octave A. Ray Fuller The Weeper A Ray Artists Music Special EFX Party Shanachie Garry Goin Goin’ Places Compendia Spyro Gyra The Deep End Heads Up Jeff Golub Soul Sessions GRP Stanley B. All For Love Al Green The Absolute Best EMI Wonder Stevie The Definitive Collection Motown Rayford Griffin Rebirth Of The Cool Razor Edge Paul Taylor Steppin Out Peak/Concord Euge Groove Living Large Narada J. Thompson Romantic Night AMH Records Dave Grusin Now Playing GRP Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendevous Don Grusin The Hang Sovereign Records Nester Torres Sin Palabras Heads Up Daryl Hall Can’t Stop Dreaming Rhythm & Groove Urban Knights Urban Knights V Narada Hall & Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch Luther Vandross Dance With My father J Records Paul Hardcastle The Jazzmasters 4 Trippin’ N’ Rhythm Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP Records Various Artists Wedding Songs: A Body & Soul Time Life Everette Harp All For You A440 Music Group Collection Hil St. Soul Copasetik & Cool Shanachie Various Artists Princess Diaries 2 : Royal Engage- Walt Disney Hiroshima The Bridge Heads Up ment [Original Soundtrack] Andre Ward Steppin Up Orpheus Incognito Who Needs Love Narada Jazz Kim Waters Someone To Love You Shanachie Paul Jackson Jr. Still Small Voice Blue Note Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie Boney James Pure Warner Bros. Kirk Whalum Into My Soul Warner Bros. Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music Group Peter White Confidential Columbia Jazz Crusanders Soul Axess True Life Bernie Williams The Journey Within GRP Marcus Johnson Urban Groove Marimelj Entertain- ment Pamela Williams The Perfect Love Shanachie Norah Jones Feels Like Home Blue Note Jim Wilson River Hillsboro Ronny Jordan At Last N-Coded Music Nancy Wilson R.S.V.P. MCG Jazz Jeff Kashiwa Peace Of Mind Native Language Steve Winwood About Time Sci Fidelity Kem Kemistry Motown Chuck Yamek Feels So Right Mopay Alicia Keys The Diary Of Alicia Keys J Records Yellowjackets Peace Round Heads Up Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Records jazzweek.com • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 24 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 KHJZ-FM 95.7 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 KCLU-FM 88.3 Los Angeles, CA 2 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 KLJT-FM 102.3 Tyler-Longview, TX 148 KLCC-FM 89.7 Eugene-Springfield, OR 171 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 KSMJ-FM 97.7 Bakersfield, CA 83 KSJS-FM 90.5 San Jose, CA 109 KSSJ-FM 94.7 Sacramento, CA 26 KSMF-FM* 89.1 Ashland, OR 207 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 WFJZ-FM 106.7 Ft. Wayne, IN 105 KUVO-FM 89.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 WFSK-FM 88.1 Nashville, TN 44 KXJZ-FM 88.9 Sacramento, CA 26 WGPR-FM 107.5 Detroit, MI 10 WAER-FM* 88.3 Syracuse, NY 79 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 WJZA/WJZK-FM 103.5 Columbus, OH 35 WCLK-FM 91.9 Atlanta, GA 11 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 WDNA-FM 88.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 WJZW-FM 105.9 Baltimore, MD 20 WDUQ-FM 90.5 Pittsburgh, PA 23 WJZZ-FM 107.5 Atlanta, GA 11 WEAA-FM* 88.9 Baltimore, MD 20 WLOQ-FM 103.1 Orlando, FL 39 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 WGMC-FM 90.1 Rochester, NY 54 WQCD-FM 101.9 New York, NY 1 WGVU-FM 88.5 Grand Rapids, MI 67 WSJT-FM 94.1 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 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 WSSM-FM 106.5 St. Louis, MO 19 WMOT-FM 89.5 Nashville, TN 44 WVAS-FM 90.7 Montgomery, AL 152 WNCU-FM 90.7 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 WVMV-FM 98.7 Detroit, MI 10 WRTI-FM 90.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 WSHA-FM 88.9 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 WXJZ-FM 100.9 Gainesville - Ocala, FL 87 WSIE-FM 88.7 St. Louis, MO 19 WYJZ-FM 100.9 Indianapolis, IN 41 WTEB-FM 89.3 Greenville,NC 87 Music Choice National N/A WUAL-FM 91.5 Tuscaloosa, AL 133 Note: As of 1/7/05, WZMR (Albany – Schenectady – Troy) has dropped its Smooth Jazz Format WUCF-FM 89.9 Orlando, FL 39 and is now dropped from the panel. WUMR-FM 91.7 Memphis, TN 48 WUSF-FM 89.7 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 Airplay of all stations, except as noted, is monitored by Mediaguide. WVPR-FM* 94.3 Burlington, VT-Plattsburgh, NY 220 WWOZ-FM 90.7 New Orleans, LA 46 To apply to become a member of a station panel, contact Tony WWSP-FM* 89.9 Wausau-Stevens Point, WI 198 WXUT/WXTS-FM 88.3 Toledo, OH 85 Gasparre at (585) 235-4685, or email [email protected]. 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 • January 19, 2005 JazzWeek 25 It’s a long way from the Apollo the trumpet was as a guest in a Theatre to the Apollo program. correctional home for wayward And while his playing may have boys. 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