$5.50 (U.S.), $6.50 (CAN.), £4.50 (U.K.) IN MUSIC NEWS IBXNCCVR ******** 3 -DIGIT 908 1GEE4E11740M0990744 002 0738 000 BI MAR 2396 1 03 MONTY GREENLY 3740 ELM AVE APT A LONG BEACH, CA 90807 -3402 Slash /Reprise's BoDeans Rise In Airplay Via TV SEE PAGE 9 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT MARCH 2, 1996 ADVERTISEMENTS Metro Blue's Lara: Alive JOHN SEBASTIAN Early Music Comes RCA Victor Hopes Worldly Pop Beat AND THE J -BAND Under Hand Of Jordi Savall Fans Want MTT BY MELINDA NEWMAN I WANT MY ROOTS BY HEIDI WALESON NEW YORK on the music V] JOHN -Drawing Astrée Performer: Olympic Art Exhibition CI "' T IAN of the world to flavor his pop creations, The newest American orchestra/ 0 axn 41Z= Savior Of The Viol Attuned To Savall's Music rxe j\4&ND BY BRADLEY BAMBARGER BY BRADLEY BAMBARGER ` J Since the remarkable success of the At the upcoming Olympic Arts Fes- d 1161 . soundtrack to the 1992 film "Tous Les tival in Atlanta, thousands of people metro blue Matins Du Monde" -which will hear the work of early- has sold more than 600,000 music virtuoso Jordi Savall THE J BAND: ALSO FEATURING: copies worldwide, accord- who may never have had JOHN SEBASTIAN YANK RACHELL LARA ing to distributor Auvidis- the opportunity otherwise. TILSON THOMAS JIMMY VIVINO RICHARD CROOKS Jordi Savall, the album's Two Astrée recordings by FRITZ RICHMOND JOHN SIMON Nil Lara conjures up infectious musical director, has be- Savall are to be featured in conductor dream team makes its PAUL RISHELL JAMES melodies on his self-titled Metro Blue/ come one of the early -music an ambitious multimedia recording debut Tuesday (27), ANNIE RAINES WORMWORTH leading lights. art exhibition titled "Rings: when RCA Victor Red Seal releas- RORY BLOCK Capitol Records album. world's 76) IN STORES The release, due in stores March 19, But while "Tous Les Five Passions In World (Continued on page MARCH 12TH combines traditional Western pop and Matins Du Monde" was a SAV ALL Art." Savall is the only mu- rock with Latin and crossover catalyst, the al- sical artist honored by hav- pwrIrwA ANNIVERSARY sensibilities African seasonings, resulting in a total- bum is merely one of a host of achieve- ing more than one inclusion. Distributed in the Oasis Tops Brits; USA & Canada MuSICMASTERS ly accessible sound that has more spice ments in Savall's career as scholar, Curated by J. Carter Brown, direc- by BMG Music (Continued on page 16) conductor, and master of all manner of tor emeritus of the National Gallery of archaic bowed instruments, particular- Art, the "Rings" exhibition aims to il- Jackson Upstaged ly the viola da gamba. He continues his lustrate five fundamental human emo- HE'S NOT YOUR AVERAGE ELECTRIC MCT Gets Bold! (Continued on page 77) (Continued on page 77) BY JEFF CLARK -MEADS GUITAR -WIELDING, DELTA -BLUES PLAYING, AX -MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE. With Expansion LONDON -The Brits 1996 produced BUT THEN, HE'S NOT YOUR AVERAGE more than the usual selection of 18-YEAR-OLP EITHER. BY LARRY FLICK Justice Dept Investigating award -show winners and losers. The NEW YORK -After nearly five years of building its reputation as one of the Music -Video Fee Collusion top artist management firms in dance music, MCT Management is broaden- BY BILL HOLLAND Time Warner Inc., Sony Corp. of ing its scope to include its own indie la- America, EMI Music, Bertelsmann WASHINGTON, D.C. -The Jus- Inc., and PolyGram Holding Inc. are tice Department has listed as respondents in asked U.S. District the motion for the ex- OASIS Court here for an expe- pedited hearing. dited hearing to deter- Robert P. Faukner, agement mine whether a civil trial attorney for the lawsuit against five Justice Department's major record compa- Antitrust Division Civil KENNY nies is warranted. The Task Force, warns in WAY N E SHEPHERD bel and marketing division. Justice Department the recent motion that The New York -based company is says it has evidence unless the court quick- LENNOX MORISSETTE LEDBETTER HEIGHTS also aiming to redefine the parameters that the companies ly grants a hearing, not The debut album featuring the of artist management by taking on may have colluded to only will U.S. con- big winners were the honored and tracks "Deja Voodoo," "Born With fix of license fees for mu- sumers be adversely affected, but feted artists (including Oasis, Alanis A Broken Heart," and "Aberdeen." such U.K. and European indie labels as the prices Available on Giant Compact Discs and Cassettes. the up- and -coming Perfecto Records sic videos and shared high -level in- "further passage of time raises the Morissette, Annie Lennox, and David 01996 Giant Records as clients for stateside development. formation about licensing fees. (Continued on page 86) Bowie) and the standing of the British (Continued on page 84) (Continued on page 78) rtirlirlir-etotelistof' "MAYBE IT WAS MEMPHIS," "MI VIDA LOCA Morton Gould, Composer D PERFUME" comes another career record... And Conductor, Dead At 82 T SEE PAGE 3 r, 0 9> The River And The Highway The week we added 'The River And The Highway' we started receiving calls. This -Neck Pain is #3 on our Top Nine at Nine." -Jennifer Page, KYGO, Denver o 09 28 02 552 s AGEMENr MIN[. ROBERTSON MANAGEMENT. NASHVILLE, IN 'r' 1 996 ARISTA RECORDS. INC.. A ONO OF aMG ENiE-71,104ENT ADVERTISEMENT www.americanradiohistory.com THE MOTOWN FAMILY CONGRATULATES OUR LEGENDARY ARTISTS marvin aye ON THEIR MUCH -DESERVED GRAMMY "LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS" www.americanradiohistory.com No. I IN BILLBOARD : VOLUME 108 NO. 9 Composer/Conductor Morton Gould Dies THE BILLBOARD 200 ß2 * ALL EYEZ ON ME 2PAC DEATH ROW / INTERS(.OPE Varied Career Included Presidency Of ASCAP BLUES BY HEIDI * GREATEST HITS 33 WALESON chestsa. conducted orches trail Lu'l angenlents ut popular STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE EPIC At the time of his death, Gould was at work songs and other light music on his regular ra- NEW YORK -Morton Gould, the American on a second piano concerto and "There Are dio shows and created his own arrangements CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN 37 composer, conductor, and musical statesman, (No) Children Here," a choral work with lyrics and original works. * JESUS FREAK DC TALK FOREFRONT died suddenly Feb. 21 at a hotel in Orlando, by popular songwriter Phil Galdston, which His radio career brought him into the Fla. He was 82 and lived in Great Neck, N.Y. will be performed by the Children's Aid Soci- recording world, and he cut more than 100 T COUNTRY 29 Q * THE WOMAN IN ME SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY NASHVILLE Gould was visiting the Disney Institute as ety Chorus this spring in New York. discs for RCA, Columbia, and Decca. In April, artist-in- residence. The night before his death, Born Dec. 10, 1913, in Richmond Hill, N.Y., RCA will reissue five "Living Stereo" discs of P GOSPEL he attended an all-Gould concert performed by Gould was a piano prodigy who published his Gould conducting the Morton Gould Orchestra * BIBLE STORIES 36 DONALD LAWRENCE & THE TRI -CITY SINGERS CRYSTAL ROSE the U.S. Military Academy Band and received first piece, "Just Six," at that age. His precoci- in such "lounge music" classics as "Jungle a standing ovation. He had ty won him a scholarship at age 8 to the Insti- Drums" and "Blues In The Night" HEATSEEKERS L 18 planned to conduct the tute of the Musical Arts in Manhattan, which Gould also flourished as a conductor of B TERRI CLARK TERRI CLARK MERCURY NASHVILLE * concert, but was advised later became the Juilliard School. But Gould more serious music and became a regular not to, as he was feeling ill. found the Institute's rigid curriculum stifling guest conductor at major orchestras. His U THE BILLBOARD LATIN 50 35 Cause of death had not and withdrew. RCA recording of Charles Ives' Symphony 1N1 * DREAMING OF YOU SELENA EMI LATIN been determined at press At 17, he auditioned for Fritz Reiner to No. 1 with the Chicago Symphony, the first S time. study conducting at the Curtis Institute, but recording of the work, won the 1966 Gram- POP CATALOG 51 * LICENSED TO ILL BEASTIE BOYS DEI JAM Witty and approachable the illness of his father and the onset of the De- my Award. Gould had 12 other nominations and a famous raconteur, pression forced him to abandon his studies and over the course of his career. R &B 20 Gould was a constant and GOULD work to support his family. At the same time, he was writing sym- * ALL EYEZ ON ME 2PAC DEATH ROW / INTERSCOPE vigorous presence on the He turned to popular music, playing the pi- phonies and other large -scale works that musical scene as a musician, an advocate for ano for vaudeville, and was the house pianist at were being performed by major orchestras. REGGAE 33 music and composers, and president of ASCAP the 1932 opening of Radio City Music Hall. His often- played and -recorded "Spirituals * BOOMBASTIC SHAGGY VIRGIN from 1986 to 1994. Radio brought Gould fame as a conductor, For Orchestra" was premiered in 1941 by the As a composer, he covered the spectrum of arranger, and composer. Beginning in 1934, he (Continued on page 85) WORLD MUSIC 33 * BEST OF GIPSY KINGS NONESUCH 20th -century music, writing and performing in the popular and serious classical idioms and THE HOT merging the two long before crossover was 100 80 * ONE SWEET DAY MARIAH CAREY & BOYZ II MEN COLUMBIA fashionable.