JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • January 29, 2007 Volume 3, Number 10 • $7.95 Artist Q&A: CHARLES TOLLIVER page 9 On The Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Jimmy Heath Big Band #1 World Music – Lynch/Palmieri #1 College Jazz – Medeski Scofield Martin & #1 Smooth Album – For Luther II Wood #1 Smooth Single – Kirk Whalum JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger he performance of the Charles Tolliver Big Band on the MUSIC EDITOR Tad Hendrickson closing night of IAJE 2007 was nothing short of stun- Tning. Tad Hendrickson caught up with Tolliver a few CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ days after IAJE, and finds out just where he’s been all these PHOTOGRAPHER Tom Mallison years. PHOTOGRAPHY Barry Solof Registration for the 2007 JazzWeek Summit, its sixth (!) Contributing Editors annual incarnation, will open on Feb. 1. Current paid sub- Keith Zimmerman scribers will get an email notice about discounted registration. 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The event will Jazz Perspectives. be held in the Irene Diamond Educa- Panelists in- tion Center at Frederick P. Rose Hall, clude legend- home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. ary poet, author Professor and pianist Dr. Lewis and jazz crit- Porter will serve as moderator. Porter ic Amiri Bara- is Professor of Music at Rutgers Uni- ka, professor and versity in Newark, where he founded saxophonist Dr. and directs the Master’s Program in Salim Washing- Rutgers University Jazz History and Research. He is the ton, and profes- Dr. Lewis Porter author or co-author of six books, in- sors Dr. Guthrie cluding the acclaimed study John Col- Ramsey and Dr. trane: His Life and Music, as well as nu- Ingrid Monson, who will share per- into the general state of jazz education merous articles and liner notes. He is sonal experiences, and provide insights today. JW Recording great music and helping musicians more effectively market their own jazzweek.com • January 29, 2007 JazzWeek 4 News Seen at IAJE 2007 vid, or should we say rabid, photographer ADr. Jazz of Dr. Jazz Operations had the cam- era gear in constant use at IAJE 2007 in New York. We’ll share a few snapshots from him over the next few weeks. This week, some folks caught in the Hilton Hotel lobby. He’ll have a complete gallery at drjazz. com. Dr. jazz/drjazz.com WCPN’s Bobby Jackson (left) and WWOZ’s Dwayne Breashears. Dr. jazz/drjazz.com WGBH’s Steve Schwartz (left), MC Promotions’ Mike Carlson and Koch recording artist Chris Brubeck. jazzweek.com • January 29, 2007 JazzWeek 5 News Music and Industry News In Brief MONTREAL, Canada – Justin Time of six jazz on film presentations hosted Records has signed singer/pianist Carol by Dr. Malcolm Lynn Baker, director of Welsman to its roster. Welsman, a Toronto Jazz Studies at Lamont School of Music native based in Los Angeles, is currently and KUVO’s Music Director Arturo Gómez in pre-production with producer Jimmy on Saturday, Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. The series Haslip, with the album recording taking begins with Ken Burns’ Gumbo, Beginning place later this month in Toronto. The as to 1917. There will be an after-film yet untitled recording is scheduled for discussion with additional music samples, release this summer. “I’ve wanted to sign live music and a complementary cup of Carol for quite a long time,” said Justin authentic New Orleans gumbo. The series Time president and founder Jim West. “In continues on Saturday, Feb. 10 at 2 p.m. addition to being great to work with, she’s with John Holland’s A Night in Havana: an artist who has it all: talent, charisma, Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba with an after-film energy, you name it.” Jean-Pierre Leduc, discussion featuring additional music who, with West, A&Rs most of the label’s samples, live music and a courtesy cup of releases in addition to overseeing its Havanese-style black beans and rice. The international distributors, added, “Carol library will insert jazz89KUVO bookmarks speaks several languages fluently, lending in the jazz and music books that will be on her singing an authenticity lacking in the display in the main lobby and in the events recordings of other singers. Other singers room. The remainder of the series’ dates, may record in another langauge, but when branch libraries locations and film order will the time comes to promote the record, be announced shortly, including Lady Day: Ted Nash for example, in Italy, a translator is hired. the Many Faces of Billie Holiday, Benny This is not the case with Carol, who’s also Goodman Adventures in the Kingdom As part of the performance, audience extremely comfortable with the French of Swing, The Harlem Renaissance and members will hear the new piece while and Italian languages.” Celebrating BIRD, the Triumph of Charlie gazing upon selected projections of works Parker. from the MoMA collection, displayed on CLEVELAND – Jazz fusion pioneer Joe stage. Guest violinist Mark O’Connor will Zawinul joins Heads Up International NEW YORK – The Jazz at Lincoln Center perform on the premiere composition, as with the Feb. 27 release of Brown Street, Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will well as Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, a two-disc recording that captures the premiere saxophonist Ted Nash’s musical Bill Schimmel on accordion and vocalist Austrian-born keyboardist/composer, a few composition Portrait in Seven Shades in Yola Nash. of his longtime friends and collaborators, a concert entitled Jazz and Art on Feb. and the 15-piece WDR Big Band in a 22-24 at Rose Theater in Frederick P. DETROIT – The new “Jazz Cafe Discovery live performance. Recorded in October Rose Hall in New York City, depicting the Series” made its debut last week at the 2005 at Zawinul’s own Birdland Club in influence of one art form on another. Jazz Music Hall Center for the Performing Vienna, Brown Street showcases Zawinul, and Art will feature the world renowned Arts in downtown Detroit. Hosted and co- drummer Nathaniel Townsley, bassist Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra produced by veteran jazz broadcaster Judy Victor Bailey and drummer/percussionist performing Portrait in Seven Shades, Adams and the Music Hall’s Ted Nagy, Alex Acuña in expanded, orchestral inspired by works from the permanent the series is an educational component renditions of some of the finest Zawinul collection at The Museum of Modern Art, of the Music Hall and will audition new compositions from the highly influential as well as other music from the history of and emerging Jazz talent from artists Weather Report oeuvre. For the first jazz inspired by great works of art including throughout metro-Detroit and will be held time since Weather Report, Zawinul and Duke Ellington’s Degas Suite, Coleman each Tuesday and Wednesday evening company fire off orchestrated renditions Hawkins’ Picasso, Charles Mingus’ Self from 7-11 p.m. in the newly restored, of such classics as “Black Market,” “Night Portrait in Three Colors, Jim McNeeley’s art-deco Jazz Cafe at the Music Hall in Passage,” “A Remark You Made” and Cockiness and Maria Schneiders’ Some downtown Detroit. Performance highlights others. Circles. Nash’s Portrait in Seven Shades is of The Jazz Cafe Discovery Series will in seven movements, inspired by modern be turned into a new weekly radio show DENVER – KUVO in conjunction with artists Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Henri produced and hosted by Judy Adams and Denver Library’s Fresh City Life and The Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, aired Sunday nights at 11 p.m.