JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • Aug. 10, 2005 Volume 1, Number 37 • $7.95 In This Issue: 2005 Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame Class. 4 JJA Active at Summer Festivals . 7 Verve Opens Vault on Sirius Pure Jazz . 8 Match for M. Brecker Sought at Newport . 11 Reviews and Picks . 17 Jazz Radio . 20 Smooth Jazz Radio. 27 Industry Q&A: Radio Panels. 32 BRAD STONE News. 4 page 13 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Mulgrew Miller #1 Smooth Album – Richard Elliot #1 Smooth Single – Richard Elliot JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger MUSIC EDITOR his issue features a Q&A with one of the nicest guys Tad Hendrickson CONTRIBUTING EDITORS in jazz radio, KSJS’s Brad Stone. His station has Keith Zimmerman Ttwice won medium market station of the year in the Kent Zimmerman CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ three years we’ve had JazzWeek Awards, and his philoso- PHOTOGRAPHER phy and understanding of his market and his willingness Tom Mallison and desire to share his knowoledge shows why. 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The article should have read “JJA Events Producer of the Year Award.” We apologize for the error. 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 • Aug. 10, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents Aug. 10, 2005 News . 4 2005 Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame Class Announced . 4 JJA Active at Summer Festivals . 7 Verve Vault Presented Daily on Sirius Pure Jazz . 8 Subic Named U.S. Radio Rep at Justin Time . 8 Passings . 9 Match For Brecker Sought at JVC-Newport . 11 4 Birthdays . 12 Features Industry Q&A: Brad Stone . 13 Reviews and Picks . 17 Bucky Pizzarelli & Frank Vignola . 17 Bill Frisell . 18 Bill Mays Trio . 18 13 Jazz Charts . 20 Jazz Album Chart . 21 College Jazz Chart Beta . 22 Jazz Add Dates . 23 Jazz Current CDs . 24 Jazz Radio Panel . 32 Smooth Jazz Charts . 27 Smooth Album Chart . 28 20 Smooth Singles Chart. 29 Smooth Current CDs . 30 Smooth Radio Panel . 32 Classifieds . 19 Cover photo: Brad Stone in the KSJS Studio (courtesy KSJS) 27 JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 37 jazzweek.com • Aug. 10, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News 2005 Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame Class Announced NEW YORK – Jazz at Lincoln Cen- ter has announced the names of the jazz masters being inducted into the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame in 2005: Count Basie, Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines, Johnny Hodges, Jo Jones, Charles Mingus, King Oliver, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins and Fats Waller. Inductees, family members of induct- ees, friends and fellow artists will be on hand to receive honors at the sec- ond annual private induction cere- mony on Sept. 8 at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Performers and participants will be announced prior to the event. A 58-person international vot- ing panel, which includes musicians, scholars and educators from 17 coun- tries, was charged with nominating and selecting these definitive jazz art- Feinknopf Photography A look insdie the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame. ists. Each year, criteria for nomination into the hall include excellence and the significance of the artists’ contri- zy” Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Bil- performance in the 20th century. Their butions to the development and per- lie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Jelly work stands as a testament to the cre- petuation of jazz. The Nesuhi Erteg- Roll Morton, Art Tatum, and Lester ative power of jazz and their impact on un Jazz Hall of Fame was named by Young. The multi-media exhibit, in- musicians and audiences across time is Jazz at Lincoln Center Board member cluding the 2005 inductees, will be etched into the prominent history of Ahmet Ertegun and his wife, Mica, in unveiled at the Sept. 8 ceremony and jazz,” said Jazz at Lincoln Center ar- honor of his late brother and Atlantic open to the public beginning Sept. 9. tistic director Wynton Marsalis. Records partner, Nesuhi Ertegun. The hall is free and open to the public “Jazz at Lincoln Center enters its Currently, the hall’s installation between the hours of 10 a.m.-4 p.m., second season at Fredrick P. Rose Hall features its 2004 inaugural class of Tuesday through Sunday. The space is and proudly celebrates the newest in- inductees: Louis Armstrong, Sidney also open to ticket-holders in the eve- ductees into the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, John Col- ning. Hall of Fame,” said Ahmet Ertegun. trane, Miles Davis, Edward Kennedy “These great jazz musicians set new “It is an honor to recognize another “Duke” Ellington, John Birks “Diz- standards for instrumental and vocal continued ... jazzweek.com • Aug. 10, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News 2005 Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame Inductees (continued) group of outstanding jazz artists who have contributed their lives to making jazz as timeless as it is today. This cen- ter has provided a space where people of all ages can come to learn about the art of jazz and these legendary artists who thrived in it.” 2005 Inductees William “Count” Basie (1904- 1984) At the piano, Count Basie could con- jure a groove from a single note. As an orchestra-leader, he could make four- teen men breathe – and play – as one. In his hands, nothing seemed to be too fast or too slow to swing with style, and when his band came roaring out of Kansas City, Missouri in the midst of the Great Depression it showed the whole country how to stomp away the blues. Roy Eldridge (1911-1989) Roy Eldridge was the quintessential brass player – powerful, fearless, and tirelessly competitive. A gladiator with a horn, he combined the emotional William Gottlieb/courtesy Jazz at Lincoln Center intensity of Louis Armstrong with a Ella Fitzgerald is caught in performance as an admiring Dizzy Gillespie looks on in this peerless command of the upper regis- famous William Gottlieb photogrpah. ter to humble trumpeters of every age in every city. “All my life, I’ve loved to battle,” Eldridge said. “And, if they great American songbook. Ira Ger- (Benjamin David) Benny wouldn’t invite me up onto the band- shwin said he’d never known how Goodman (1909-1986) stand, I’d get my trumpet out from good his songs were till he heard her A rare combination of popular star and the side of the stand and blow at them sing them. But she could also take musical virtuoso, Benny Goodman from there.” off on daring flights of scatting fan- cy that challenged the most inventive was seen as the King of Swing by mil- lions of people around the world. His Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) horn-players to keep up with her. Her rhythmic sense was so sure that Lester playing and popularity helped make Sweet, clear and unmistakable, Ella Young named her “Lady Time.” The the clarinet a major solo instrument in Fitzgerald’s voice was her instrument. rest of the world knew her as the “First She was a master interpreter of the Lady of Song.” continued ... jazzweek.com • Aug. 10, 2005 JazzWeek 5 News 2005 Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame Inductees (continued) jazz. He was the first well-known jazz er, he brought a great dancer’s wit and Max(well) Roach (born 1924) musician to win success performing subtlety, elegance and understatement Percussionist and composer Max the classical repertory. And his insis- to his playing. He moved the basic Roach helped redefine the rhythms of tence on finding and playing with the pulse from the bass drum to the hi- jazz. He brought new polyrhythmic finest musicians of his time led him hat cymbal. The result was light, re- textures and a richer palette of tonal to integrate his bandstand long before laxed, fluid and shimmering – the per- colors to the world of bebop, co-led Jackie Robinson broke the color line in fect underpinning for the Count Basie a classic quintet with the short-lived baseball. orchestra. Generations of admiring trumpeter Clifford Brown, helped pro- drummers revered him as “Papa Jo.” pel the soundtrack of the Civil Rights He called them all his “kiddies.” Earl Kenneth “Fatha” Hines movement, and throughout his career (1903-1983) continued to search for new artistic Charles Mingus (1922-1979) Earl “Fatha” Hines was celebrated as worlds to conquer.