JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • January 26, 2005 Volume 1, Number 10 • $7.95 In This Issue: Sirius Adds A POWERFUL Lundvall and JAZZ Burton. 4 TRIBUTE: KBEM’s $25K from Clear MILES, Channel. 7 WYNTON, Ken Borgers AND JACK Named MD at JOHNSON KCLU . 8 by Keith and Kent Verve Zimmerman Relaunches p12 Forecast . 9 Reviews and Picks. 16 Jazz Radio . 19 Smooth Jazz Radio. 24 Radio Panels. 28 More News . 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Steve Turre #1 Smooth Album – Soul Ballet #1 Smooth Single – Soul Ballet JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger adly, we heard the news of Mort Fega’s passing a couple of days ago. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Mort was talked about at the Legends of Radio panel that Steve Keith Zimmerman SSchwartz hosted at IAJE, a panel Mort would have been on had he Kent Zimmerman been able to. Mort meant a lot to so many listeners, broadcasters, and musi- Tad Hendrickson cians, and was a friend and mentor to many. We’ll pay tribute to him in an CONTRIBUTING WRITER upcoming issue, and we’d like those of you who knew him best to share your Tom Mallison recollections and tributes. Drop me a note at
[email protected] with your PHOTOGRAPHY thoughts; we’ll collect them and share them with everyone. Barry Solof The loss of two jazz radio legends in the past year – Mort and Chuck Niles – makes me wonder from where the next generation of legends is going PUBLISHER to come. I could suggest a few names, but I’m afraid I’d leave somebody out, Tony Gasparre so I won’t, but I wonder if conditions are too infertile.