JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • June 22, 2005 Volume 1, Number 31 • $7.95 In This Issue: Ninth JJA Awards Reviewed . 4 JazzWeek Summit Agenda . 9 Diet Coke Sponsors Women in Jazz . 10 JazzWeek Luncheon Now JJA Awards 2005 Breakfast . 10 Awards Ceremony Review: page 4 Reviews and Complete Listing of Winners: page 6 Picks. 17 Jazz Radio . 20 Festival Season Smooth Jazz Radio. 25 Vision Festival: page 12 Radio Rochester International Panels. 29 Jazz Festival: page 16 News. 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – John Scofield #1 Smooth Album – Michael Lington #1 Smooth Single – Nils JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger CONTRIBUTING EDITORS any of you are probably reading this on the way to the Tad Hendrickson Keith Zimmerman JazzWeek Summit in Syracuse. As soon as this issue is Kent Zimmerman Mput to bed, I’ll be packing to head out myself. CONTRIBUTING WRITER As I mentioned last week, this summer we’ll be attending a Tom Mallison few festivals and bringing highlights to you in these pages. Tad PHOTOGRAPHY Hendrickson writes about the tenth Vision Festival, exposing the Barry Solof more adventurous site of jazz, while I’m just recovering from nine PUBLISHER days at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, which in a very Tony Gasparre short amount of time has become one of the tops in the country. ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre Tad also reports on the Jazz Journalists Association Awards, (585) 235-4685 x3 or the ninth of which took place last week. Our congratulations to email: [email protected] WBGO’s Rhonda Hamilton for winning the Excellence in Jazz SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: Broadcasting/Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award. 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Suite 150 Berwyn, PA 19312 – Ed Trefzger, Editor JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) is published weekly by 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 • June 22, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents June 22, 2005 News . 4 Jazz Journalists Association Awards Marks its Ninth Year With A Yawn . 4 NYC Street Corner To Be Named For Chico O’Farrill . 6 2005 Jazz Journalists Association Award Winners . 7 Conference Agenda . 8 Diet Coke Sponsors Women in Jazz Festival at JALC. 10 JazzWeek Summit Awards Luncheon Becomes Awards Breakfast . 10 4 Birthdays . 11 Features Vision Festival Turns 10 . 12 4th Rochester Int’l Jazz Fest Shows Why It’s Called One of Nation’s Best. 13 Reviews and Picks . 17 Bill Charlap . 17 Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra With Arturo O’Farrill . 17 13 Ernest Ranglin . 18 Editors’ Picks . 18 Jazz Charts . 20 Jazz Album Chart . 21 Jazz Add Dates . 22 Jazz Current CDs . 23 Jazz Radio Panel . 29 Smooth Jazz Charts . 25 20 Smooth Album Chart . 26 Smooth Singles Chart. 27 Smooth Current CDs . 28 Smooth Radio Panel . 29 Classifieds . 19 Cover photos: Clark Terry accepts the JJA Trumpeter of the Year Award from Dr. Billy Taylor (photo by Tom Mallison) and 25 Sonny Rollins at Rochester International Jazz Festival (photo by Ed Trefzger) JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 31 jazzweek.com • June 22, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Review: Jazz Journalists Association Awards Marks its Ninth Year With A Yawn by Tad Hendrickson NEW YORK – The Jazz community has its fair share of get-togethers and more than its fair share of festivals. But when the Jazz Journalists Associ- ation began giving awards nine years ago, it was an idea that was long over- due. The first such event was a colorful evening where author/raconteur Stan- ley Crouch editorialized on the en- trants of his category (slamming both Dave Douglas and Matthew Shipp in the process), and the after party at the then new Knitting Factory was punc- tuated by a scuffle between Shipp and Crouch that was broken up by Ravi Coltrane. This year was not nearly as wild and wooly, which was really shame. While fistfights are not entertainment, that night had a certain sparkle to it. Tom Mallison First and foremost, the words of Don Clark Terry accepts the JJA Trumpeter of the Year award from Dr. Billy Taylor. Byron come to mind when he accepted the award for “Clarinetist of the Year”: When it really comes down to it, jazz is won for Best Writing in a Newspaper, “Wow, I never would have guessed about hanging out, and this event was Periodical or Online, was almost com- that this would be so cool.” All in all it no hang. The awards were trotted out ical as he said “Thank you, thank you, was a cool event, even if it was held at one after another but the 41 categories thank you,” before leaving the stage – Lincoln Center. seemed to take up endless amounts of public speaking is definitely a different The ninth annual event was held time even though few people said any- animal than writing for Ben. June 14 at B.B. King’s Blues Club just thing more than a quick thank you. One oratorical exception was Ce- New York Times writer Ben Ratiff, who off of Time Square in Manhattan. continued on page 6 ... jazzweek.com • June 22, 2005 JazzWeek 4 new album Moutin something like now Reunion Quartet Moutin something like now Reunion Quartet coming in August from Lightyear Entertainment , distributed in the U.S. by June 16th June 24th July 18th - 19th Rochester, NY (U.S.) New York, 55 Bar (U.S.) Londres, Pizza Express (Great Britain) June 17th June 25th July 21st - 22nd - 23rd Cleveland, OH (U.S.) Toronto International Festival (Canada) Pori Jazz Festival (Finland) June 18th June 26th August 12th Ann Arbor, MI (U.S.) Ottawa Jazz Festival (Canada) Festival de Jazz de la Petite Pierre (France) June 19th July 1st - 2nd August 17th Chicago, IL (U.S.) Passau Jazz Festival (Germany) Jazz à Ramatuelle (France) June 20th July 8th September 30th Madison, WI (U.S.) Jazz à Vienne (France) Oeiras Jazz Festival (Portugal) concerts June 23rd July 13th October 4th Syracuse, NY (U.S.) Festival de Jazz de Vitoria (Spain) New York, Jazz Standard (U.S.) JazzWeek Summit Attendees please join us on the fi rst night of the Summit, Thursday, June 23 for the Moutin Reunion Quartet’s JazzWeek showcase concert at the Everson Museum. for all management contacts: Dan Doyle 301/738-8767, [email protected] during JazzWeek Summit: Room 1505 of the Marx Hotel for booking inquiries: Joel Chriss & Co. Eric Addeo, agent 212/353-0855, [email protected] photos Ursula K. – graphic design Renaud Barès please visit our website: www.moutin.com MRQ_JazzWeek8,5x11.indd 1 13/06/05 18:00:58 News NYC Street Corner To Be Ninth JJA Awards (continued from page 4) Named For Chico O’Farrill cil Taylor, who accepted the Lifetime time. Attendees were hustled to their NEW YORK – On Wed., June 29, the Achievement award for Hank Jones, seats, and drinks could only be ordered street corner of 88th St. and West End who was unable to make it because a from the tables. If people’s voices got Ave. in New York will be renamed limo driver refused to load his suitcase above a whisper they were shushed. It “Arturo ‘Chico’ O’Farrill Place” in into the car for him. (That guy should was frustrating to sit in a room full of honor of the famed composer, arranger be fired.) Taylor, who won the award colleagues, acquaintances, friends and and bandleader. To celebrate the street last year, spoke admiringly about Jones, musicians and not able to get in more corner naming, The Chico O’Farrill and of his love for Elvin and the two’s than a few whispered words in pass- Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra, directed kinship when they played together as ing. It would seem that cocktail hour by Arturo “Chico” O’Farrill’s son, Ar- a duo. He also spoke of the emotion- before the ceremony or a post ceremo- turo O’Farrill, will perform a free con- al support Thad Jones had given him ny hang should be instituted. Appar- cert. After the concert, the new “Ar- over the years. Unlike the first year, ently Marian McPartland agreed: she turo Chico’ O’Farrill Place” sign will here was an all-too-rare display of love was heard saying to someone, “Tell be unveiled. and unity within jazz for players from Howard [Mandel, JJA President] that “Chico O’Farrill is the intellect different schools who aren’t normally it needs to be fun.” I couldn’t agree behind Afro Latin jazz,” said Arturo associated with each other. more, Marian. JW O’Farril, son of Chico and music di- While the ceremony did seem to go rector of the Afro-Latin Jazz Orches- on and on, the most frustrating thing A complete list of winners is found on tra and the Chico O’Farrill Afro Cu- about the event was the lack of hang page 7.