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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • December 10, 2004 Volume 1, Number 5 • $7.95 In This Issue: Lundvall Feted TURRE’S TRIBUTE TO by MIDEM . 7 Botti Tours with RAHSAAN Groban . 7 Interview: Steve Turre’s Cole Estate The Spirits Up Above Saves the p10 Music . 8 Brown Inaugurated At Berklee . 9 Reviews and Picks. 14 Soweto Kinch Live . 14 Jazz Radio . 17 47th GRAMMY Smooth Jazz Radio. 22 NOMINATIONS Radio Jazz,Contemporary Jazz, Panels. 26 Latin Jazz,Arranging, Q&A with Sunnyside’s More News . 4 Vocals and more ... p4 Garrett Shelton p12 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Dr. Lonnie Smith #1 Smooth Album – Richard Elliot #1 Smooth Single – Richard Elliot JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger It’s almost the end of the year, and we’re getting ready to look back on CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 2004. We’d like all our subscribers to put together a Top 10 list from this Keith Zimmerman year. Details about it are on page 15. Tad Hendrickson will be compil- Kent Zimmerman ing the infomation for our year-end double issue, which comes out Dec. 31. Tad Hendrickson (There will be no issue on Dec. 24; that Dec. 31 issue will have charts for CONTRIBUTING WRITER both weeks.) We’ll also have our Top 100’s for 2004 in that issue. Tom Mallison PHOTOGRAPHY I don’t know how I’m going to pare down my list – my Top 10 has at Barry Solof least 25 CDs on it – but one that’s in contention is the new Steve Turre al- bum on HighNote, The Sprits Up Above. Tad talks with Steve about the PUBLISHER disc, and its inspiration, Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Tony Gasparre Also chatting it up with Tad is Sunnyside Records’ Garrett Shelton. ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre Never one to pull punches, Garrett has some frank things to say about jazz (585) 235-4685 x3 or radio and the industry. In just a few short years, Garrett has become a sea- email: [email protected] soned, and wizened, veteran. 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Reach me at [email protected]. – Ed Trefzger, Editor 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone: (585) 235-4685 fax: (585) 235-4685 [email protected] Copyright ©2004 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. jazzweek.com • December 10, 2004 JazzWeek 2 Contents December 10, 2004 News . 4 Nominations for 47th Annual Grammy Awards Announced . 4 2004 Grammy Nominations in Selected Categories . 4 Lundvall Feted by MIDEM . 7 Chris Botti Joins Josh Groban Tour . 7 Passings . 7 10 Cole Estate Raises Money for VH1 Save The Music Foundation. 8 Berklee Inaugurates Brown . 9 Birthdays . 9 Features Steve Turre’s The Spirits Up Above Artist Q&A . 10 Industry Q&A: Garrett Shelton of Sunnyside Records . 12 Reviews and Picks . 14 Live Review: Soweto Kinch at Jazz Gallery in New York City . 14 12 Count Basie and His Orchestra Good Time Blues . 15 Tell Us Your Top Ten for 2004. 15 Editors’ Picks . 16 Jazz Charts . 17 Jazz Album Chart . 18 Jazz Add Dates . 19 Jazz Current CDs . 20 Jazz Radio Panel . 26 17 Smooth Jazz Charts . 22 Smooth Album Chart . 23 Smooth Singles Chart. 24 Smooth Current CDs . 25 Smooth Radio Panel . 26 22 Cover Photo of Steve Turre: Gary Firstenberg JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 5 jazzweek.com • December 10, 2004 JazzWeek 3 News Nominations for 47th Annual Grammy Awards Announced SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Nominations for the 47th Annual Grammy 2004 Grammy Nominations Awards were announced Tuesday. The awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 13, in Selected Categories 2005 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in High GENERAL FIELD Category 1 – Record Of The Year Definition TV and 5.1 Surround Sound on CBS from 8:00 – 11:30 p.m. Here We Go Again Ray Charles & Norah Jones Genius Loves Company, the final recording from Ray Charles, was nominat- John Burk, producer; Terry Howard & Al Schmitt, engineers/ mixers ed for 10 awards. Track from: Genius Loves Company [Concord Records/Hear Music] Nominees for Best Con- temporary Jazz Album were: Category 2 – Album Of The Year Genius Loves Company Journey, Fourplay (Bluebird); Ray Charles & Various Artists John Burk, Terry Howard, Don Mizell, Phil Ramone & Herbert Unspeakable, Bill Frisell, Waltl, producers; Robert Fernandez, John Harris, Terry (Nonesuch Records); In Howard, Pete Karam, Joel Moss, Al Schmitt & Ed Thacker, engineers/mixers; Robert Hadley & Doug Sax, mastering Praise Of Dreams, Jan Gar- engineers barek (ECM); The Hang, Don [Concord Records/Hear Music] The Diary Of Alicia Keys Grusin (Sovereign Artists); Alicia Keys Kerry “Krucial” Brothers, Vidal Davis, Easy Mo Bee, Andre and Strength, Roy Hargrove Harris, Alicia Keys, Kumasi, Timbaland, Kanye West & Dwayne (The RH Factor) (Verve). “D. Wigg” Wiggins, producers; Tony Black, Kerry “Krucial” Brothers, Vincent Dilorenzo, Russ Elevado, Manny Marroquin, Walter Millsap III, Ann Mincieli & Pat Viala, For Best Jazz Vocal Al- engineers/mixers; Herb Powers, Jr., mastering engineer bum: American Song, Andy [J Records] Bey (Savoy Jazz); Twentysome- Category 3 – Song Of The Year thing, Jamie Cullum (Verve/ Ray Charles’ Genius Loves Company was nomi- If I Ain’t Got You Alicia Keys, songwriter (Alicia Keys) Universal); Accentuate The Pos- nated for 10 Grammys. More than 350,000 cop- Track from: The Diary Of Alicia Keys [J Records; Publishers: Lellow Productions/EMI Music itive, Al Jarreau (Verve Re- ies of the multi-platinum Concord/Hear Music Publishing.] CD have been sold at Starbucks locations. cords); The Dana Owens Al- Category 5 – Best Female Pop Vocal Performance bum, Queen Latifah (Vector Sunrise Records); R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal), Nancy Wilson (MCG Jazz). Norah Jones Track from: Feels Like Home For Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Somewhere, Bill [Blue Note Records] FIELD 1 – POP Charlap Trio (Blue Note); Fountain Of Youth, Roy Haynes (Dreyfus Jazz); The Category 8 – Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals Out–Of –Towners, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette Trio (ECM); Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Eternal, Branford Marsalis Quartet (Marsalis Music/Rounder); Illuminations, Ray Charles & Elton John Track from: Genius Loves Company McCoy Tyner With Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride & [Concord Records] Lewis Nash (Telarc Jazz). Here We Go Again Ray Charles & Norah Jones For Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Get Well Soon, Bob Brookmeyer New Track from: Genius Loves Company [Concord Records] Art Orchestra (Challenge Records); On The Wild Side, John La Barbera Big Moon River Band (Jazz Compass); Coral, David Sánchez (Columbia); Concert In The Garden, Stevie Wonder & Take 6 Track from: Ultimate Mancini Maria Schneider Orchestra (ArtistShare); The Way: Music Of Slide Hampton, [Concord Records] The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Planet Arts Recordings). A listing of nominees in selected categories accompanies this article. continued jazzweek.com • December 10, 2004 JazzWeek 4 News Category 9 – Best Pop Instrumental Performance New Day Track from: With All My Heart (Harvey Mason) Patti LaBelle [Bluebird] Chasing Shadows Track from: Timeless Journey Herb Alpert, Russ Freeman, James Genus, Gene Lake And [Def Soul Classics] Bulerìa, Soleá y Rumba Jason Miles Donny McCaslin, soloist Track from: Maximum Grooves: Coast To Coast (Various Category 29 – Best R&B Album Track from: Concert In The Garden (Maria Schneider Artists) (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL Orchestra) [Telarc] tracks.) [ArtistShare] Take You Out My Everything Wee George Benson Anita Baker John Scofield, soloist Track from: Irreplaceable [Blue Note Records] Track from: EnRoute [GRP] [Verve] The Diary Of Alicia Keys Category 10 – Best Pop Instrumental Album Alicia Keys Category 48 – Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of [J Records] or Group INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds Vol. 2 INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Pure Jill Scott Boney James [Hidden Beach Recordings] Somewhere [Warner Bros.] Bill Charlap Trio FIELD 10 – JAZZ [Blue Note] Saxophonic Category 45