Artists & Music Billboard FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 16, 1995 Top Jazz Albums.. Y ZOw COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORES AND RACK 3 ? I- SALES REPORTS COLLECTED, COMPILED, AND PROVIDED BY SoundScan `) !ñ W¢ ARTIST ""'11 TITLE H n nFFI K NI IRIPFR4'I °TRPI'TINC ARP * * * No. 1 * ** 1 TONY BENNETT 6 weeks at No. 1 6 O HERE'S TO THE LADIES TONY BENNETT 2 2 75 MTV UNPLUGGED WYNTON MARSALIS & ELLIS MARSALIS COLUMBIA 66880 3 3 33 JOE COOL'S BLUES DAVID SANBORN ELEKTRA 61759 /EEG 4 4 36 PEARLS bang were also forums to announce recent signings. Sub- OSCAR PETERSON TELARC 83372 by Jim Macnie O5 6 3 lime hard bopper Tom Harrell now calls RCA home, and CHRISTMAS KEITH JARRETT ECM 21577 6 5 8 TALK TALK: The JazzTimes Convention blew into New a Knitting Factory gig had many talking about how lithe AT THE BLUE NOTE: SATURDAY, JUNE 4TH 1994 1ST SET York, corralled many of those interested in our music, and yet urgent the trumpeter currently sounds. A disc is SOUNDTRACK MALPASO 45949/WARNER BROS. 7 8 27 prompted them to converse, confab, and consider. Numero scheduled for mid -'96. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY SOUNDTRACK PANGAEA 36071/I.R.S. 8 10 4 uno on the recurring topic list was the burgeoning power At an Impulse!- hosted all -star jam session at the Vil- LEAVING LAS VEGAS of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and all things cyber. lage Vanguard, it was announced that Stanley Turren- GERALD ALBRIGHT ATLANTIC JAll 82829/AG 9 7 13 Interest was manifold, be it in forwarding global dis- tine had found a new place to hang his hat. Good thing for GIVING MYSELF TO YOU VARIOUS ARTISTS COLUMBIA 67414 course, bolstering advertisement space, or littering the the label. The elder statesman had more meat in his solos 10 NEW SWING INTO CHRISTMAS phone lines with rhetoric. (Everyone should know that this than anyone else on the Vanguard stage, a list that ETTA JAMES PRIVATE 82128 column's E-mail address is hapboyM@ aol.com; don't be stretched from McCoy Tyner to Pat Metheny to Wallace 11 9 30 TIME AFTER TIME MILES DAVIS LEGACY 67377 /COLUMBIA shy with commentary and info.) to A 3 Roney DeJohnette. Turrentine record for the newly 12 13 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PLUGGED NICKEL is Those who converse online had a scoop that the Jazz revamped label due next summer, along with one from HARRY CONNICK, JR. COLUMBIA 53172 Timers and conventional press releases couldn't have Impulse!'s other new roster member, Horace Silver, ten- 13 15 129 25 known about. During a Bop RACHELLE FERRELL BLUE NOTE 27820/CAPITOL® cyberchat with Herbie Hancock tatively titled "Hard Grand Pop." 14 12 35 FIRST INSTRUMENT at the Blue Note club, the pianist explained the particu- 15 SOUNDTRACK HOLLYWOOD 61357 lars of his upcoming record. No, it's not "Dis Is Da Drum KEEP YOUR DATE BOOK OPEN: Cassandra Wilson's 11 113 SWING KIDS MEL TORME CONCORD 4667 II," but a straight-ahead jazz disc made with pals Dave follow -up to the sassy and sublime "Blue Light 'Til Dawn" 16 17 9 VELVET & BRASS arrives March 5. Titled Moon Holland, Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, Michael "New Daughter," it contin- TONY BENNETT COLUMBIA 57424 Brecker, and Don Alias. ues the singer's relationship with producer Craig Street 11 18 106 STEPPIN' OUT ELLA FITZGERALD VERVE There's a twist, of course. "We restructured the pop and extends the broad view of jazz that made "Blue Light" 14 103 519084 18 THE BEST OF THE SONGBOOKS tunes in such a way made them sound like they were Wilson's breakthrough disc. This cov- that time out the singer DAVE BRUBECK WITH SPECIAL GUESTS TELARC 19 22 8 83349 originally written as jazz tunes," Hancock said. Stevie ers Neil Young, Billie Holiday, and Hank Williams; YOUNG LIONS & OLD TIGERS Wonder, Don Henley, Sade, Paul McCartney, Babyface, beware of "Last Train To Clarksville" as well. CHARLIE HADEN /HANK JONES VERVE 527249 10 RE -ENTRY STEAL AWAY and Paul Simon tunes have all been addressed. Other "New Moon Daughter" is a Blue Note release, and the JOSHUA REDMAN QUARTET WARNER BROS. 45923 21 19 14 treats? His piano influences include George Shearing, label has another reason to be excited about the future, SPIRIT OF THE MOMENT -LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD Oscar Peterson, and Dave Brubeck. having recently signed living legend Max Roach. The MARK WHITFIELD VERVE 529223 22 16 8 By the way, bassist Holland and drummer Gene Lake drummer's first disc is scheduled for mid '96. 7TH AVE. STROLL DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER VERVE 527470 drove the pianist to some aggressive improvising during 23 20 10 LOVE AND PEACE: A TRIBUTE TO HORACE SILVER the weeklong club stint. Holland himself has one of his IT'S ALWAYS GREAT to see labels jump into the jazz 24 NEW BOBBY SHORT TELARC 83346 most gorgeous records ever pending. "Ones All" is a solo realm, and reissuemeisters Razor & Tie's first stab at the SONGS OF NEW YORK-LIVE AT THE CAFE CARLYLE recital that manages to display the virtuosity music is high quality. "Pure Delight: The Essence Of Quin- MARK (SHAM COLUMBIA 67227 bassist's CI RE -ENTRY without falling into a mere display of chops. Everything cy Jones And His Orchestra (1953- 1964)" helps explain BLUE SUN he does is musical. It's due Jan. 30 on the Intuition label. who Q was for a crucial decade of his musical life. So do The live gigs around town during the JazzTimes she- the liner notes by Will Friedwald. TOP CONTEMPORARY JAll ALBUMS ...No. 1*** KENNY G 0 1 15; INTERSCOPE RAISES DEBUT FROM LIFTER VARIOUS ARTISTS BLUE ,CIL.3- iAFIF 6 ,All TO THE WORLD (( 'fed from page 18) b'2 4 WILL DOWNING MERCURY 528755 3 3 MOODS Sebelia joined in early 1992 that now ?' I think that I can come up interesting and extremely deep SOUNDTRACK ANTILLES529310NERVE 4 4 7 Lifter was born. Three indie -label with enough negative thoughts record," says Berman. "That gives GET SHORTY FOURPLAY WARNER BROS. 45922 in a 5 5 15 singles released the interim - about something to continue, us lot of flexibility and it gives ELIXIR beginning with the smoky "402," though." me confidence that we'll be work- RANDY CRAWFORD BLUEMOON 92662/AG 6 6 4 reprised on "Melinda " -helped On most of the dozen tracks on ing it as strongly -if not more NAKED AND TRUE NAJEE EMI 35704 establish the band's reputation for "Melinda," that negativity takes strongly -a year from now as we 7 7 4 NAJEE PLAYS SONGS FROM THE KEY OF LIFE- A TRIBUTE TO STEVIE WONDER explosive, hyper -emotional guitar the form of a hopeless rage that's are now." 8 BONEY JAMES WARNER BROS. 45913 121 rock. That's furthered by the pierc- shored up by Coulter's Neil Young- 8 8 SEDUCTION ing lyrics, the genesis of which Coul- style playing and the stark pro- 9 9 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS GRP 9827 ter can readily pinpoint. duction by Sean Slade and Paul DADAWA A GRP ARTISTS' CELEBRATION OF THE SONGS OF THE BEATLES THE JAZZMASTERS JVC 2049 (Conti,i lr d from page 13) 10 10 22 ® "The songs are all very cathartic Kolderie. THE JAllMASTERS II because they were all written when It's hardly one -dimensional, the project, it's not an obstacle. RUSS FREEMAN GRP9826 11 16 2 I was getting over the heartbreak though: Songs like "Beach" and the "It's the furthest thing from a pop HOLIDAY JAZZ AT THE MOVIES BAND DISCOVERY 77027 & a it were a 11 18 2 over the love of my life," says Coul- yearning "Big Tall" provide record," says Stein. "If pop IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, SAX AT THE MOVIES it would have no signif- ter. "I wrote most of them to deal psychic purgative that grows record, probably JOHN TESH PROJECT GTS 528753 13 14 45 with that, so I have wondered, stronger with each listen. icance outside the Pacific Rim area. I do SAX ON THE BEACH DAVID SANBORN WARNER BROS. 46002 am I is an see it as having mass appeal, however: I 11 3 `What gonna write about "I'd say this extremely 14 LOVE SONGS think the people who have bought Enya JOHN TESH PROJECT GTS 528751 15 17 83 records, Sacred Spirit, things of that SAX BY THE FIRE nature, will certainly be interested in MICHAEL FRANKS WARNER BROS. 45998 16 12 10 ABANDONED GARDEN DIRT MERCHANTS Dadawa." ALEX BUGNON RCA 66665 (Continued from page 13) In order to reach that audience, Elek- 11 21 10 TALES FROM THE BRIGHT SIDE tra will be concentrating on the use of BOBBY CALDWELL SIN-DROME 8910 18 13 6 SOUL SURVIVOR tour slots opening for Letters To Cleo Dirt Merchants audience should be nontraditional channels. In conjunction INCOGNITO FORECAST 528000NERVE 19 15 26 and Fig Dish. "We were basically say- developed slowly. "You work from the with New Age Journal, the label will do 100 DEGREES & RISING VARIOUS ARTISTS WNUA 5995 ing that this was a Northeast regional ground up," Raywood says. "You tour a targeted mailing of CDs, bios, and, dis- 10 NEW THE WNUA SMOOTH band," Raywood says. "We wanted to through markets on a consistent basis, play materials to more than 2,000 new JAZZ SAMPLER VOL.8 DAVID SANBORN WARNER BROS. 45768 concentrate on that rather than mak- and people begin to recognize the age retailers.