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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 Volume 1, Number 23 • $7.95 In This Issue: Stan Levey, NHØP, Arnie Lawrence Passings . . 4,5

Sacramento’s KXJZ Goes HD . . . . 8

2004 Detroit Jazz Fest Best Available for Broadcast . . . 9 Reviews and Picks...... 17 Jazz Radio . 19

Smooth Jazz Radio...... 24

Radio JAZZ AFTER HOURS Panels. . . . . 28 Q&A with PRI’s Jim Wilke . . . page 12 News...... 4

Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Gary Burton #1 Smooth Album – Kenny G #1 Smooth Single – Boney James JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger nother talented radio colleague is featured in a Q&A with CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Tad Hendrickson this week: Jim Wilke of PRI and KPLU. Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman AJim is a master of jazz radio in much the same way Red Bar- Tad Hendrickson ber and Mel Allen were as baseball broadcasters – not only does CONTRIBUTING WRITER he understand and love the subject matter, he has an inestimable Tom Mallison ability as a communicator. PHOTOGRAPHY I was particularly intrigued by Jim’s reference to NBC’s Moni- Barry Solof tor, an outstanding weekend network radio program which ran PUBLISHER from mid 1950s until the mid-seventies. That program, which Tony Gasparre you’d have to be over 40 to remember well, was some of the most ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre compelling radio ever broadcast, and was a precursor to talk radio (585) 235-4685 x3 or and certainly a midwife to NPR. While what we do in jazz radio email: [email protected] certainly is different than what Monitor did, the program’s ability SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: to keep listeners glued to it is something we can learn from. Jim Charter Rate: $199.00 per year, mentions a web site in tribute to Monitor at monitorbeacon.com. JazzWeek w/ Industry Access – Charter Rate: $249.00 per year Check out the “Monitor Beacon” sound sample; if you ever heard To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ the program, its sound will be instantly familiar. AMEX/PayPal go to: http://www.jazzweek.com/account/ By the way, check out the cool two-word phrase Jim used to subscribe.html describe a johnny-come-lately flash-in-the-pan. I had to look the words up, but his usage is spot on. Next week, we’ll have the complete listing of workshops for AIRPLAY MONITORING BY this year’s JazzWeek Summit. As we announced last week, our Thursday night showcase includes the legendary Mike Longo, and Mack Avenue recording artists Ilona Knopfler and Ron Blake. It Mediaguide should be a fun evening. The Summit registration fee goes up af- 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. ter May 31, so please register soon if you can. Don’t forget, all Suite 150 Berwyn, PA 19312 registrants receive VIP seating at the festival, and all subscribers receive a $50 discount on registration. To register, visit jazzweek. JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) com/summit/, or you may use the registration form on page 6 of is published weekly by this issue.

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News ...... 4 Bebop Pioneer Stan Levey Dies at 79...... 4 Saxophonist Arnie Lawrence Passes ...... 4 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Dead at 58 ...... 5 Pittsburgh Jazz Society/Mellon Jazz Scholarship Announced ...... 7 Baker, Carter, Eubanks to Receive Honorary Doctorates at Berklee ...... 7 4 Sacramento’s KXJZ Adds HD Radio Signal...... 8 Best of 2004 Detroit Jazz Fest Available for Broadcast ...... 9 LCJO Announces Summer Tour ...... 10 Birthdays ...... 11 Features Q&A: Jim Wilke, Host of PRI’s Jazz After Hours ...... 12 Reviews and Picks ...... 17 Guillermo Klein ...... 17 12 Eric Comstock ...... 17 Michelle Latimer ...... 17 Editors’ Picks ...... 18 Jazz Charts ...... 19 Jazz Album Chart ...... 20 Jazz Add Dates ...... 21 Jazz Current CDs ...... 22 Jazz Radio Panel ...... 28 19 Smooth Jazz Charts ...... 24 Smooth Album Chart ...... 25 Smooth Singles Chart...... 26 Smooth Current CDs ...... 27 Smooth Radio Panel ...... 28

24 Cover photo: courtesy Jim Wilke/PRI JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 23 jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Bebop Pioneer Stan Levey Dies at 79

rummer Stan Levey, who per- bra Streisand, The Andre Previn, Neil formed with legends such as Supremes, Vic Hefti, and many DDizzy Gillespie, Charlie Park- Damone, Nan- others, and for er, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, and cy Wilson, Nat more than 3000 countless others, died last Friday at the King Cole, Sar- television shows. age of 79, two months after undergo- ah Vaughn, Bil- A featured ing cancer surgery. lie Holiday, Bobby storyteller in Ken Self-taught on the drums, Levey Darin, June Chris- Burns’ Jazz doc- moved to New York after sitting in ty, Mel Torme, umentary, Levey with Gillespie in Levey’s home town and more. told fascinating of Philadelphia. In New York, Levey Levey’s big tales of his days became part of the group of musi- band resume in- with the famed cians who gave bebop its start, includ- cludes Benny Parker/Gillespie ing Dexter Gordon and Miles Davis, Goodman, Stan group on 52ⁿd as well as Gillespie and Parker, whose Kenton, Woody Street in New quintet he joined in the mid 1940’s. Herman, Quin- York and his being Levey also played in big bands with cy Jones,Nelson the driving force Woody Herman and Benny Goodman Riddle,and Skitch of the Stan Ken- before drumming for the Stan Kenton Henderson and A DVD documentary on Stan Levey is ton Orchestra and orchestra for two years. “The Tonight available at stanlevey.com. Howard Rumsey’s In 1954, Levey moved to Los An- Show Band”. Lighthouse All- geles, where he joined Howard Rum- He also peformed for more than Stars in a recent DVD documentary sey and the Lighthouse All-Stars, and 300 motion pictures under Lalo Schi- Stan Levey, “The Original Original”. became an inﬂuence on what became frin, Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle, JW known as West Coast or cool jazz. Levey retired from the music business in 1973 to devote himself full- Saxophonist Arnie Lawrence Passes time to his photography career. axophonist Arnie Lawrence, His son Erik wrote about his fa- Levey appeared on more than founder the New School for Jazz ther in an email announcing his pass- 2,000 recordings during his career. Sand Contemporary Music in ing. “I remember Pops telling me that Peformances with instrumentalists in- New York City, has died. Lawrence, Ben Webster advised ‘You’re only as clude: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Park- who set aside his own recording career good as your rhythm section’ when he er, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, to start the program in 1986, moved was 16 years old. I can’t tell you how Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Errol to Jerusalem, Israel, in 1997, where many rhythm section players have told Garner, Miles Davis, George Shear- he brought Jews and Arabs together me they never played as well as they ing, Lester Young, Roy Eldrige, Zoot through music education by founding played with him.” Sims, Al Cohn, Stan Getz, John Lew- the International Center for Creative Lawrence’s students at New School is, Ray Brown and many more. Music. included Roy Hargrove, Brad Mehl- Levey performed with singers such Lawrence’s career included a de- dau, Larry Goldings, John Popper, Pe- as Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Frank cade and a half with the Tonight Show ter Bernstein and Jay Rodriguez. Sinatra, Gary Crosby, Pat Boone, Bar- band. JW jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Dead at 58

anish jazz star Niels-Henning trio in 1973. Pedersen was an occa- Danish folk poetry and songs. Ørsted Pedersen died unexpect- sional member of the trio throughout He is survived by his wife, Solveig Dedly of heart failure at his home the 1970’s. Pedersen, and three children. in Ishoef, Denmark on Tuesday, April Manager Marianne Jul said, “This 19. He was 58. comes as a great shock to us, particu- The “great Dane with the never- larly since he was not ill and had just ending name” was born in Osted on ﬁnished touring Denmark with his the Danish island of Zealand. trio.” Known to many fans as NHØP, Pedersen started his musical train- the bass player performed with many ing as a pianist, but switched to the big names in jazz during his 35-year bass at the age of 14. His career as a career, including Count Basie, Diz- bass player got rolling when he was zy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Dexter 16, playing as the house bassist in Co- Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell, penhagen’s Montmartre jazz club, Bill Evans, Larry Coryell, Stephane where Basie – whom he turned down Grappelli, Joe Pass and Albert Ayler. a chance to join – Gordon and Powell In the 1970’s, Pedersen worked in a each performed. Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen’s discogra- duo and recorded with Kenny Drew. From 1964 to 1982, Pedersen was phy includes his 1997 Verve CD Those Who His international breakthrough a member of the Danish Radio Or- Were. came when he joined Oscar Peterson’s chestra. He was also an interpreter of ��

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�� News Pittsburgh Jazz Society/Mellon Jazz Scholarship Announced PITTSBURGH – Mellon Financial Corporation and the Pittsburgh Jazz Society have announced that applications are being accepted for the inaugural Pittsburgh Jazz Soci- ety/Mellon Jazz Scholarship. The winner of this one-year, $5,000 award will be announced in June, and the scholarship will be presented on Friday, August 19, prior to the Mellon Jazz at South Park concert being staged as part of the Al- legheny County Summer Concert series. The recipient of this year’s first-ever scholarship will be selected by a panel of nationally recognized jazz musicians and educators on the basis of musical interest and ability as demonstrated by an application and audition tape that includes samplings of various musical styles. Any new or continuing undergraduate student enrolled full-time at any four- year college or university in the United States during the fall 2005 semester is eligible to apply. “Jazz scholarships have always been an important part of our mission, and with Mellon Jazz Sundays being such an important part of our year-round jazz concert series, award- ing the Pittsburgh Jazz Society/Mellon Jazz Scholarship will be a great way to reinforce the connection between jazz scholarship and on-stage jazz artistry,” said Tony Mowod, founder and president of the Pittsburgh Jazz Society, and a jazz host on Pittsburgh’s WDUQ. Applications for the Pittsburgh Jazz Society/Mellon Jazz scholarship must be submitted by Wednesday, June 1, 2005. For more information or to obtain an application, call the Pittsburgh Jazz Society at (412) 343-9555 or visit the Jazz Society’s Web site at http://www.pittsburghjazz.org/. JW Baker, Carter, Eubanks to Receive Honorary Doctorates at Berklee BOSTON – Grammy-winning R&B vocalist Anita Bak- er, legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter, and Kevin Eubanks, music director of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show Band, will receive Honorary Doctor of Music degrees at Berklee College of Music’s Commencement on Saturday, May 7, 10:00 a.m. at Northeastern University’s Matthews Arena. Commence- ment speaker Ron Carter will address approximately 700 graduates and their invited guests at the 5,000-seat venue. This year’s Honorary Doctorate recipients are being hon- ored for their achievements in the world of music, and for their enduring contributions to American culture. On commencement eve, as is Berklee’s tradition, students will pay tribute by performing music associated with Baker, Carter, and Eubanks, at Matthews Arena. JW jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 7 News �� Sacramento’s KXJZ �� Adds HD Radio Signal �� SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Fans of ident and general manager of Capi- �� jazz and public radio news will be the tal Public Radio, which operates six �� first in the Sacramento area to enjoy other noncommercial radio stations the features of digital radio. KXJZ, in Northern California, being first in �� the jazz and news station licensed to the market will give KXJZ a chance to California State University Sacra- learn about the technology while con- mento and operated by Capital Pub- sumer demand grows. “By converting lic Radio, is the first radio station in only one station to digital radio, we the Sacramento area, and the latest get a knowledge base before convert- jazz station nationwide, to convert to ing our other stations,” Lazar says. the new technology, which was autho- Then there are the bragging rights. rized by the Federal Communications “We’re continuing a tradition of tech- Commission in late 2002. nical leadership,” says Lazar. In 1985, Known popularly as HD Radio, KXPR, Capitol Public Radio’s classi- digital radio technology lets listeners cal station, was the first station in the with HD radio receivers hear broad- area to broadcast music recorded on casts free from static, hiss and pops. In compact disc. �� HD, digital FM broadcasts have the Converting to digital radio costs clarity of compact discs, while AM between $100,000 and $200,000, broadcasts have the sound quality of far less than the millions that televi- today’s FM broadcasts. sion stations must spend to upgrade to �� Because a digital audio signal digital. Capital Public Radio convert- carries much more data than a con- ed KXJZ to HD radio with help from �� ventional analog signal, stations like a matching grant from the Corpora- �� KXJZ can broadcast more than one tion for Public Broadcasting. Today, �� programming stream through a second 52 public radio stations throughout the audio channel, as well as data such as United States are on the air with HD song titles and artist names displayed Radio and another 312 public stations as text on HD radio receivers. This en- are planning to convert. Capital Pub- ables stations to do more with the fre- lic Radio plans to convert its remain- quency they already have. ing six stations to digital by the end of Most KXJZ listeners won’t notice this year. these features right away. The first dig- Sacramento State holds the license ital radio only hit the U.S. market ear- for six of Capital Public Radio’s seven ly last year, at a steep price. And with stations, including KXJZ and KXPR only one local station currently broad- in Sacramento. A seventh Capital casting in the format, few listeners are Public Radio station, KUOP, which

rushing to upgrade their equipment. broadcasts in Stockton, is licensed to �� Analog radio equipment can receive a the University of the Paciﬁc. digital signal, although without HD KXJZ is a Mediaguide-monitored Radio’s improved sound quality. member of the JazzWeek jazz album � JW �� According to Michael Lazar, pres- chart panel. jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 8 News Best of 2004 Detroit Jazz Fest Available for Broadcast

he ﬁnal production of the “Best Brubeck Brothers Quartet riage agreement will be sent in the Of The 2004 Detroit Internation- Lenny White Trio next few weeks. Stations interested in Tal Jazz Festival” two-hour special Ramsey Lewis Trio carrying the program should contact is currently being wrapped up. Oscar-Castro Neves Dr. Jazz Operations at (800) 955-4375 Artists from last year’s event, held Chico Hamilton or at [email protected]. September 4-6, 2004, who are sched- Jon Faddis Quartet The Detroit International Jazz Fes- uled to appear include: tival began in 1980 and has been held Due to overwhelming demand, each year since. Last month, Detroit- Louis Smith Quartet this year’s “best of” show will be avail- based Mack Avenue signed on as the Cindy Blackman Quartet able for programming by mid June, title sponsor for the 2005 and 2006 Houston Person Quartet about two months earlier than last seasons, replacing Ford Motor Com- Toph-E & The Pussycats featuring Will year. Many jazz stations carrying last pany, which withdrew from sponsor- Lee year’s broadcast expressed an interest ship earlier this year. Larry Coryell Trio in to scheduling the the program dur- The 2005 festival will be held Sep- Jon Hendricks ing this year’s July 4 weekend. tember 3-5. Acts for this year’s festival James Carter Quintet Further information and the car- have not been announced. JW ��

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jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 9 News LCJO Announces Summer Tour

NEW YORK – The Lincoln Center salis will perform his work All Rise Westray, André Hayward, Vincent Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsa- with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orches- Gardner; Reeds: Wess “Warmdad- lis announced tour dates that will take tra, Kurt Masur and the London Phil- dy” Anderson, Walter Blanding, Vic- the world-renowned big band around harmonic Orchestra. tor Goines, Ted Nash, Joe Temperley; the globe during the summer and fall The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Piano: Aaron Goldberg; Bass: Carlos of 2005, culminating in performanc- is composed of 15 of jazz music’s lead- Henriquez; Drums: Herlin Riley. es of Marsalis’s All Rise throughout the ing soloists, drawing from an extensive Over the last few years, the LCJO United Kingdom. repertoire that includes original com- has performed collaborations with The Lincoln Center Jazz Orches- positions by Marsalis, Ted Nash, Ron many of the world’s leading symphony tra will kick oﬀ the worldwide tour in Westray and other members of the or- orchestras. The members of the LCJO Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 14, chestra, as well as the masterworks frequently conduct educational events, performing an array of selections by of Ellington, Mingus, Coltrane, and including lectures, master classes, and the jazz masters and during the Ar- other great jazz composers. Jazz for Young People concerts while gentina dates only, Edvard Grieg’s LCJO personnel includes: Music on tour, and serve as mentors in the “Peer Gynt Suite” with the Philhar- Director & Trumpet: Wynton Mar- annual Essentially Ellington High monic Orchestra of Buenos Aires. Be- salis; Trumpets: Sean Jones, Ryan Ki- School Jazz Band Competition & Fes- �� JW ginning September 30, Wynton Mar- sor, Marcus Printup; Trombones: Ron tival.

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jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 10 News Birthdays May 4 May 14 Maynard Ferguson (1928) Sidney Bechet (1897) April 27 Lars Gullin (1928) May 15 Freddie Watts (1943) Richard Williams (1931) Edmond Hall (1901) April 28 Don Friedman (1935) Ellis Larkins (1923) Mario Bauza (1911) Ron Carter (1937) Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936) Blossom Dearie (1926) May 5 May 16 John Tchicai (1936) Paul Barbarin (1899) Eddie Bert (1922) Steve Khan (1947) Fred Astaire (1899) Betty Carter (1930) Willie Colon (1950) Bix Beiderbecke (1903) Michael Moore (1945) April 29 Stanley Cowell (1941) Billy Cobham (1946) Jack Walrath (1946) Duke Ellington (1899) May 17 Jean “Toots” Thielemans (1922) May 6 Paul Quinichette (1916) Big Jay McNeely (1928) David Friesen (1942) Dewey Redman (1931) Ray Barretto (1929) May 8 Jackie McLean (1932) George Adams (1940) Mary Lou Williams (1910) May 18 Steve Gadd (1945) Keith Jarrett (1945) Big Joe Turner (1911) April 30 May 10 Kai Winding (1922) Percy Heath (1923) Mel Lewis (1929) May 19 Abdul Wadud (1947) Ahmed Abdullah (1947) George Auld (1919) May 1 May 11 Cecil McBee (1935) Ira Sullivan (1931) King Oliver (1885) Sonny Fortune (1939) Shirley Horn (1934) Irving Berlin (1888) Tom Scott (1948) Carlos Ward (1940) J C Higginbotham (1906) May 20 James Newton (1953) Carla Bley (1938) Jimmy Blythe (1901) May 2 May 12 Bob Florence (1932) Bing Crosby (1904) Gerald Wiggins (1922) Charles Davis (1933) Richard “Groove” Holmes (1931) Gary Peacock (1935) Rufus Harley (1936) May 3 May 13 Ralph Peterson (1962) Yank Lawson (1911) Maxine Sullivan (1911) May 21 John Lewis (1920) Gil Evans (1912) Fats Waller (1904) Jimmy Cleveland (1926) Woody Herman (1913) Lawrence Marable (1929) Jimmy Merritt (1926) Red Garland (1923) Christian McBride (1972)

jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 11 Radio Q&A: Jim Wilke, Host of PRI’s Jazz After Hours

by Tad Hendrickson

Name: Jim Wilke Position: Host of Jazz After Hours and Jazz Northwest

im Wilke has hosted the syndicated Jazz After Hours for more than 20 years on Public Radio International (PRI), ﬁlling the JU.S.’s late-night airwaves with broad variety of jazz as well as his own warm personality and a few surprises. In the internet era, the Seattle-based Wilke has spread his net even further a ﬁeld, now grabbing listeners from around the globe. Regardless of how far away the listener is, Wilke manages to reach them by creating local (or, in his words, resident) ambiance of a guy hipping you to what’s going on in your neck of the woods. It’s a far cry from most national programming, but happily epitomizes what makes the jazz com- continued ... jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 12 Q&A: Jim Wilke (continued)

munity both global and tight-knit. We caught up with the master in cyberspace late night (when else would it be?).

Congrats on the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award nomination. How does it feel? Recognition by one’s peers is one of the best honors, and to be nominated for an award named for one of my all-time heroes (Willis Conover), and the first winner (Marian McPartland) is reward enough. I’ve been nominated for the award several times (have lost count), but if I won I wouldn’t enjoy the thrill of being nominated again, would I? (It’s a one-time honor.) How did you end up in the wildly exciting world of jazz radio? I grew up in the radio age – if one can imagine a world without TV. I loved “I don’t play network radio – comedy, drama, live music from far away places, breathless news reports, and especially Monitor Radio weekends from NBC. If you don’t ‘music to sleep know about that last one see www.monitorbeacon.com. I also loved the romance of late night radio - like Moonglow with Martin (Dick Martin from by’ – I assume WWL New Orleans, Jay Andres’ Music Til Dawn and Dave Garroway from most people Chicago, Johnny Holiday from Little Rock. My first regular on-air experience was at WSUI & KSUI, Iowa City, where I was a student, then staff announc- tuned in er. Great old studios with RCA 44 ribbon mics hanging from booms, pianos in 3 studios which averaged about 20 x 20, and engineers behind the double glass are really operating the controls – you cued them with hand signals! listening. ...” Most DJs talk about tailoring their shows for a local audience; you go the opposite direction. Can you talk about the unique intricacies of making syndicated show? Multiple time zones is perhaps the most challenging concept for a network show. I start at 9 pm on the West Coast, but it’s already Midnight on the East Coast, and I think about that time differential. All stations carry the show live off the satellite and that’s part of my concept of the show - we’re all hearing this at the same time. There are no repeats; it’s all new every week. Most of my stations are in Eastern and Central Time zones, but with streaming, I’m on mid-morning Saturday and Sunday in the U.K. and Europe, and late af- ternoon in Australia, Hong Kong and Japan. More than a dozen stations are streaming the show and I hear from quite a few overseas listeners. I don’t play “music to sleep by” – I assume most people tuned in are really listening and I try to engage them by making associations between tunes. I think each piece in a set should have a reason for being in that particular position, not just a random order based on percentages. I’m not always successful in doing that, but I try. I do make local references though – particularly to musicians and venues where the show is heard, tours and festivals as well as major

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music destinations like New York, Chicago, L.A. and increasingly here in Se- attle where there’s a surprisingly active jazz scene. It gives me a lot of ideas for programming that are more interesting for me than birthdays. Was your Jazz Northwest show a reaction to these constraints? Not really. I’ve been an active promoter of the resident (a term I prefer to “local”) jazz artists and activities much longer than I’ve been doing either show. And in both Jazz Northwest and Jazz After Hours I try to illustrate that jazz is a living art you can enjoy tonight or next week; it’s not something that happened 40 or 50 years ago. When I started Jazz Northwest on KPLU it was hard to fill the time without repeating a lot of material so I started recording groups on location for the show. Now there are a lot of CDs by artists from Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and Vic- toria, taking about 24 feet of shelf space in my studio. But I still do a lot of location recording at clubs, concerts, festivals and devote alternate weeks to these unique recordings, most of which I only use once. This helps preserve the unique “live” quality and timeliness. They’re usually aired within a few days or weeks of recording. I enjoy meeting listeners and developing new audienc- es who want to hear again what they’ve just wit- nessed. It’s also helped develop a sideline location recording business. What specific things do you do (if any) to ac- commodate your listeners? Jim Wilke keeps listeners of Jazz After Hours up to date with playlists and regional jazz calendars at the program’s web site, jazzafterhours.org. I maintain www.jazzafterhours.org which includes complete playlists for each week’s shows going back several months. Also included are regional jazz calendars for East, Central and Western zones - extensive and updated each month, news about the show, photos of guests, links to other sites, listener comments and more. I acknowledge and answer my email and telephone calls. The email address is published and encouraged, the phone number is not – it takes a persistent listener to find my phone number. I’m not trying to maintain a distance here, just preserve my concentration a bit. Promoters say that spins from you really make a difference. Does this add pressure to the programming process? No, I enjoy talking to the promoters and some have strongly encouraged me to play certain artists I just can’t get behind, but if the artist doesn’t fit the fla- vor of the show the promoter has to understand and respect that. And most of continued ... jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 14 Q&A: Jim Wilke (continued)

them do, because they know I will be a strong supporter of other artists they represent. I’ve not been a reporter before but with electronic monitoring, one spin from me shows up on multiple stations which is as it should be. There are some heavily promoted CDs that I won’t play, and some excellent CDs I am playing that I think should be promoted. Do you program from the head or from the heart? That is to say, are you pragmatic or do you go wholly on your own tastes and instincts? “If I hear a buzz I think one should do some of each, and I do. Perhaps it’s an old-fashioned concept, but the great, celebrated and memorable jazz DJs didn’t depend on about a new artist someone else’s market research or focus groups to make their selection. They listened; they hung out; they checked out new artists and paid attention to es- I’ll check him or her tablished ones who still moved a crowd. I think market research and focus out, but if she/he’s groups have their place, but we’re talking about something more than tooth- paste here. If I hear a buzz about a new artist I’ll check him or her out, but if nothing more than she/he’s nothing more than a nugatory epigone [nice phrase! – ed.], I’ll pass. a nugatory epigone, Who is/was your favorite interview and why? Branford Marsalis. I wasn’t really looking forward to the first interview I did I’ll pass.” with him but he surprised me, caught me totally off guard with his candor and expansive answers which took the interview in directions I hadn’t expected. Now I look forward to his visits and he’s always welcome on the show. Ray Brown and Max Roach were great guests on several occasions and I trea- sure an appearance by Sweets Edison who told me about the summer of ’39 when the Basie Band played at the Famous Door on 52ⁿd Street...and the live broadcasts from the club when the audience had to go outside so the band could really open up! Earlier interviews that I’d call memorable included the colorful Joe Venuti (an amazing character) and a young Herbie Hancock when he had just finished Maiden Voyage. How is the music scene in the Northwest? Great for listeners, though the money’s not what it should be for musicians (but where is it great for jazz musicians?) One older musician told me there’s more places to play than 40 years ago, “but the pay’s about the same!” We have major jazz festivals in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria, plus Jazz Port Townsend and an active club scene in each city. Jazz Alley in Seattle is one of the top clubs in the country for touring artists, The Triple Door has some major jazz acts, too. And Tula’s in Seattle, The Cellar in Vancouver and Jimmy Mak’s in Portland all feature great resident talent. We have several jazz la- bels in each city, each producing outstanding CDs of regional talent. Especial- ly notable among them is Origin Records in Seattle which produces CDs that are on a par musically and aesthetically with any label anywhere. Jazz radio is strong with both large, powerful stations like KPLU which covers virtually all of Western Washington, and interesting programming from smaller commu- continued ... jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 15 Q&A: Jim Wilke (continued)

nity stations like KMHD, KBCS and CFRO, and of course there’s the CBC, an organization I have a lot of respect for. Based on the awards and recognition you’ve received, you have a certain profile. Do you make an effort to do community outreach and get involved? Quite a bit. I’ve long been a booster of jazz education, particularly in high schools around Seattle. I taught at Cornish College for many years and still sub there on occasion. I do a lot of emcee appearances for benefits as well as festivals, concerts and club dates. I also accept a number of speaking engagements each year and have made a few guest appearances in various locations around the country. Anything you’re listening to right now that has really caught your attention? I love BIG sounds, new music and rich orchestrations. Bob Brookmeyer & the New Art Orchestra, Maria Sch- neider, Lars Danielsson and the Danish Radio Orches- tra, The New Talent Orchestra on the Sound of New York Jazz Underground. Speaking of new talent – Anat Cohen, Eldar, Amina Figarova, as well as people who’ve been around longer who are just beginning to be noticed like Babatunde Lea and Judy Wexler. And change of fla- vors like Ted Nash and Odeon and the Fred Hersch set- tings of Leaves of Grass with Kurt Elling! There’s so much that’s rich and rewarding right now. Who has time for anything less? Jim Wilke’s live recording projects include SRJO Live from the Word is that part of your misspent youth was in a West- Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra (Origin Records). ern Swing band. Any stories you can tell in front of the kids? When I was a card carrying alto player I had a jazz quartet with guitar, bass and drums, but when times got lean and I got the call, I’d “put on the neck- erchief” and play dance music with a Western swing band. This was in Iowa and Western Swing was almost like jazz for regular folks. They played the pop tunes of the day, “Tennessee Waltz,” cowboy songs, even polkas and square dances when requested. They knew and played them all. There were no -ar rangements, you played the head and took turns improvising on it, no more than one chorus, sometimes only half a chorus. Instrumentation could be most any combination but always a guitar, bass and drums plus a fiddle, piano or ac- cordion, maybe a trumpet or even me on alto. It was fun and most of them were great players who knew a million tunes, but you hardly ever saw anybody pull out a piece of sheet music or a fake book. I guess you’d consider them cov- JW er bands, but they sure covered a lot of territory! jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 16 Reviews and Picks

Guillermo Klein Eric Comstock

Una Nave (Sunnyside) No One Knows (Harbinger) TO CALL GUILLERMO KLEIN a maverick would be an un- ALTHOUGH THE LINE between jazz and cabaret can be a bit derstatement – the Argentine pianist refuses to do press blurry at times, singer/pianist Eric Comstock bounces back and doesn’t even like talking about his music. Yet listen- and forth between the two styles often enough to erase the ing to the stunning line. In typical caba- Una Nave (his third ret fashion, his man- for Sunnyside) is to nered singing style hear an artist whol- renders each word ly engaged in his and syllable crystal work. Recorded in clear no matter the Buenos Aires over pace; yet when the the course of sever- band gets cookin’ al sessions, this 16- – the singer is well track album features backed throughout a long list of players with an impressive Klein played with sextet of New York during his weekly gig at a bar, and all seem wholly under players – his inner the spell of the mad professor. The music swells with infu- sense of swing keeps him firmly in the pocket. Here he of- sions of tight horn arrangements; the rhythm section has a fers up a mix of classics “Don’t Get Around Much Any- muscular feel that adds a sense of urgency; and the melo- more” and lesser known tunes like Oscar Brown, Jr.’s “Ha- dies are broadly declarative but with an obvious complex- zel’s Eyes.” Perhaps most notably, Comstock also includes ity that has long made him a favorite of other musicians. the debut recording of Billy Strayhorn’s “No One Knows.” Eschewing the verse-chorus-bridge paradigm, Klein builds Undoubtedly one for fans of singers, there are enough sur- his tunes with in a more linear fashion: one part natural- prises and good music here to impress those who typically ly leads to the next, seldom doubling back to points earlier don’t lean this direction. – Tad Hendrickson in the song – this creates tension in the slower songs and Contact: Jane Dashow momentum in those with a head of steam – ending with a Phone: (212) 679-1445 Email: [email protected] payoff crescendo or simply just fade out. As such, the CD Add Date: May 2 hangs together a full-fledged album rather than a collection Release Date: of tunes. There is no telling if this was the pianist’s objec- tive, but there is no doubt that album sucks you in. Radio programming might be tricky with those working within a Michelle Latimer stricter format, but “Miminashi Yama,” “Venga” or “Niza (milonga)” would probably not give listeners whiplash. “Ar- Michelle Latimer Sings & Plays (Cool Note) gentina” would work particularly well next to the likes of THE LIST OF woman trumpeters is a short one; the list of the Bad Plus, Happy Apple or E.S.T. – Tad Hendrickson woman trumpeters who sing (or singers who trumpet) is even shorter. Yet here we have the Bay Area’s Michelle Latimer Contact: Garrett Shelton Phone: (646) 519-3560 doing both on her debut CD. Her trumpet playing recalls Email: [email protected] the romantic lyricism and West Coast cool of Chet Baker Release Date: May 2 as she moves through a set of standards and originals that Add Date: May 2 range from a surprisingly supple version of Jobim’s “Corcor- continued ... jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 17 Reviews and Picks

Michelle Latimer (continued) Editors’ Picks Tia Fuller Pillar of Strength (Tiafuller.com) vado” to swinging You and your listeners are going to love this record. Tia has version of “Days Of been studying music since she was three years old, which Wine And Roses.” led to studying with Javon Jackson, Jesse Davis, and Wessell Her playing is nice- Anderson. That led to performing with Ed Thigpen, Joe Lovano, ly highlighted on in- Stefon Harris, the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, the Gerald strumental opener Wilson Big Band, and many others. You may recognize her saxophone and flute playing on Sean Jones’s last recording, “Blue Daniel” and Eternal Journey. I think it is safe to say we will be hearing from the original ballad Tia as a performer, a composer, or as an educator for many “Vierge.” A deﬁnite years ahead. Key Tracks: “In Her Honor,” “Bookie - Head,” and highlight: Her play- “New Life.” ing on an instru- Steve Hobbs Spring Cycle (Random Chance) mental version of the Steve has put out another solid recording displaying his own Beatles’ “Fool On style on the vibraphone. Most of the compositions on this The Hill” elevates the cover into the realm of a surprisingly album are original works coming from Hobbs and pianist Bill good idea. Her backing band of locals is a little too polite O’Connell. Also performing on this record is Tom Harrell, Bob for my liking, yet they don’t distract from the leader’s agen- Malach, Dave Valentin, Peter Washington, John Riley, and Steve Berrios. Key Tracks: “Blued Swings,” “Jean,” and “Rough da. – Tad Hendrickson and Ready.” Contact: Groov Marketing Phone: (877) GROOV 32 Sandro Albert The Color Of Things (215 Records) Email: [email protected] The Color Of Things is guitarist Sandro’s second release, with Add Date: May 2 stimulating arrangements and performances. This recording is going to be compared to the last two Pat Metheny Group records. (I would guess being compared to Pat Metheny is really not a bad thing.) Jimmy Haslip is associate producer Reach radio and Russell Ferrante is on keyboards. Special guests include Robben Ford on guitar and the late Mark Ledford on vocals and programmers trumpet. Key Tracks: “Message Across The Sea,” “They Walk Among Us,” and “Minas To Rio.” Mike Tomaro & The Three Rivers Jazz Orchestra Night Owl Suite (Sea Breeze) This group is comprised of some leading big band folks from Pittsburgh. Half of the disc is standards and the other half consists of an original three-movement suite. This portion clocks in over twenty-three minutes; however with the right set up a big band fan is going to love it. Shorter Key Tracks: “Little Sunflower,” “Dancing On The Ceiling,” and “Rivers.” The Earl MacDonald 6 Echoes In The Night (Sea Breeze) This pianist served as musical director for Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band for over two years. After listening to Advertise in this disc, it is evident that it was time well spent in preparation for this recording. Earl has surrounded himself with a stellar JazzWeek band that includes alto saxophonist Dick Oatts, trumpeter Joe Magarelli, and trombonist Steve Davis. This is a strong Call Tony Gasparre at straight-ahead release with a style of its own. Key Tracks: “The (585) 235-4685, ext. 3 Owe To Joe,” “Bad Dream,” and “Firm Grip.” or email [email protected] – compiled by Tony Gasparre jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 18 Jazz Radio

Gary Burton Next Generation Is Number One

Postcards From Gypsyland from The Hot Club of San Francisco is Most Added

ary Burton’s Next Generation (Con- cord) moved up to the No. 1 spot on Gthis week’s Jazz Album Chart and had the Most Increased Airplay with 97 ad- ditional spins on 58 stations. Sony Classical’s self-titled release from Eldar moves up into the No. 2 position with airplay on 51 stations. Most Added was The Hot Club of San Francisco’s Postcards From Gypsyland (Lost Wax Music) with 25 stations. Ted Nash & Gary Burton’s Next Generation (Concord) leaps to Odeon’s La Espade de la Noche (Palmetto) is this week’s No. 1 spot on 58 stations after just the highest debut at No. 26. three weeks on the chart.

Jazz Album Chart p. 20 Jazz Add Dates p. 21 Jazz Current CDs p. 22 Jazz Radio Panel p. 28 The Hot Club of San Francisco has the week’s most added CD with Postcards From Gypsyland (Lost Wax Music). jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 19 airplay data JazzWeek Jazz Album Chart April 27, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 9 19 1 Gary Burton Next Generation Concord Jazz 308 211 97 3 58 7 2 4 7 2 Eldar Sony Classical 293 233 60 3 51 4 3 1 2 1 Monty Alexander Live At The Iridium Telarc Jazz 286 304 -18 9 53 1 4 3 4 3 One More Music of Thad Jones IPO Recordings 271 235 36 6 54 1 5 2 1 1 Joey DeFrancesco w/Jimmy Smith Legacy Concord Jazz 267 258 9 12 50 0 6 5 21 5 Scott Hamilton/Bill Charlap Trio Back In New York Concord Jazz 245 229 16 3 53 7 7 13 12 7 Amina Figarova Come Escape With Me Munich Records 197 170 27 7 48 3 8 7 6 6 BeatleJazz With A Little Help From Our Friends Lightyear 192 213 -21 7 44 3 9 6 3 1 David “Fathead” Newman I Remember Brother Ray HighNote 188 227 -39 13 44 0 10 25 NR 10 Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple Savant 185 131 54 2 34 11 10 11 23 10 Babatunde Lea Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost Motema 185 182 3 4 44 3 12 20 19 12 Kurt Rosenwinkel Deep Song Verve Music Group 175 149 26 8 46 1 13 17 15 12 Phil Woods Groovin’ To Marty Paich Jazzed Media 174 164 10 7 41 2 14 10 8 6 Avishai Cohen Trio & Ensemble At Home Razdaz 168 205 -37 10 38 0 15 16 16 1 Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird Concord Jazz 167 165 2 17 34 0 16 22 14 13 Dave Holland Big Band Overtime Dare2/Sunnyside 164 145 19 9 50 5 17 8 22 8 Connie Evingson Gypsy In My Soul Minnehaha Music 162 212 -50 6 36 2 18 14 13 13 John Pizzarelli Knowing You Telarc Jazz 154 169 -15 4 40 2 19 15 5 3 Randy Johnston Is It You? HighNote 150 168 -18 12 34 0 20 28 17 16 Los Hombres Calientes Vol 5: Carnival Basin Street 143 123 20 7 35 1 21 11 17 11 The Chris Walden Big Band Home Of My Heart Origin Records 141 182 -41 10 35 0 21 19 11 11 Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up 141 156 -15 7 39 1 23 25 10 3 Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood Blue Note 120 131 -11 14 36 0 24 28 24 3 David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group 118 123 -5 15 28 0 25 21 25 10 Bireli Lagrene & Gipsy Project Move Dreyfus Jazz 115 146 -31 12 27 0 26 NR NR 26 Ted Nash & Odeon La Espade de la Noche Palmetto 114 75 39 1 45 11 27 24 29 9 Reed Kotler Tomo Torii Records 113 140 -27 12 21 1 27 33 NR 27 Lea DeLaria Double Standards Telarc 113 104 9 2 33 2 29 37 NR 29 Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz 110 95 15 2 32 5 30 23 9 3 Kevin Mahogany Big Band Zebra Records/Mahogany 108 142 -34 12 32 0 Jazz 31 NR NR 31 Cheryl Bentyne Let Me Off Uptown Telarc Jazz 106 33 73 1 30 19 32 18 NR 18 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Records 102 157 -55 4 28 3 33 36 30 28 John Ellis One Foot In The Swamp Hyena Records 99 97 2 4 29 0 34 28 27 13 Ken Walker Sextet Terra Firma Synergy Music 98 123 -25 14 22 0 35 31 38 6 Jay Leonhart Cool Sons of Sound 97 109 -12 15 19 0 35 34 41 10 Caribbean Jazz Project Here and Now: Live In Concert Concord Picante 97 102 -5 17 22 0 37 46 NR 37 Diane Schuur w/ Caribbean Jazz Project Schuur Fire Concord Records 94 84 10 2 28 5 38 32 33 3 Christian Jacob Styne and Mine WilderJazz 85 105 -20 15 23 0 38 44 27 27 Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra The Minute Game Summit 85 87 -2 7 28 0 38 40 33 31 Dale Fielder Baritone Sunride Clarion Jazz 85 92 -7 5 25 0 38 25 31 25 Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan & George The Classic Concert Live Concord Jazz 85 131 -46 9 27 0 Shearing 42 38 32 32 Joe Williams Havin’ A Good Time! Hyena Records 84 94 -10 4 26 1 42 44 42 38 Rigmor Gustafsson & The Jacky Terrason Close To you HighNote(ACT) 84 87 -3 6 28 0 Trio 44 NR NR 44 Kate McGarry Mercy Streets Palmetto 83 52 31 1 32 11 45 NR NR 45 Marian McPartland & Friends 85 Candles-Live In New York Concord Jazz 79 NR 79 1 25 22 46 NR 46 46 Judy Wexler Easy On The Heart Rhombus 78 64 14 3 30 1 46 NR NR 46 Kermit Ruffins Throwback Basin Street 78 46 32 1 25 10 48 NR NR 48 Carolyn Leonhart New 8th Day Sunnyside 77 48 29 1 20 3 49 34 36 8 Fred Hersch Ensemble Leaves Of Grass Palmetto 74 102 -28 8 23 0 50 NR NR 50 Anat Cohen Place & Time Anzic Records 73 54 19 1 24 4

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound The Hot Club of San Francisco Postcards From Gary Burton Next Generation (Concord Jazz) +97 Kevin Stout & Brian Booth Tales Of The Tetons (Jazzed 5 Records) Marian McPartland Piano Jazz w/ Steely Dan (Concord) Gypsyland (Lost Wax Music) +25 Marian McPartland & Friends 85 Candles-Live In New Alan Pasqua My New Old Friend (Cryptogramophone) Marian McPartland & Friends 85 Candles-Live In New York (Concord Jazz) +79 Harry Watters Out Of A Dream: Love Songs (Summit) York (Concord Jazz) +22 Cheryl Bentyne Let Me Off Uptown (Telarc Jazz) +73 Jacqui Naylor East/West Birdland - Yoshi’s (Ruby Records) Charles Lloyd Jumping The Creek (ECM) Alan Pasqua My New Old Friend Eldar (Sony Classical) +60 Mike Holober & Gotham Jazz Orchestra Thought Trains (Sons of Sound) (Cryptogramophone) +22 Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple (Savant) +54 Lars Danielsson Libera Me (HighNote/ACT) Cheryl Bentyne Let Me Off Uptown (Telarc Jazz) +19 The Hot Club of San Francisco Postcards From Gypsyland (Lost Wax) Jim Payne Energie (Savant) Vic Juris A Second Look (Mel Bay) +17

jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 20 Jazz Radio Adds Here are upcoming add dates for new releases, and add dates that have passed during the last few weeks. This listing was current as of press time.

March 14, 2005 April 18, 2005 Jacqui Naylor – East/West Birdland-Yoshi’s (Ruby Records) Curtis Stigers – I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today (Concord Records) Marian McPartland – (Concord Records) Herb Silverstein & Friends – Beach Walker (Silvertunes Music Productions) March 17, 2005 April 19, 2005 Carol Heffler – Exactly (Peeka Records) Alan Pasqua – My New Old Friend (Cryptogramophone) Amina Gigarova – Come Escape With Me (Munich Records) April 25, 2005 Marcus Miller – Silver Rain (KOCH) Bradley Leighton – Just Doing Our Thang (Pacific Coast Jazz) March 21, 2005 April 26, 2005 Babatunde Lea – Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost (Motema) Dena DeRose – A Walk In The Park (MAXJAZZ) Times 4 – Seductivity (Rhombus) Peter Martin – In The P.M. (MAXJAZZ) March 22, 2005 April 27, 2005 Cheryl Bentyne – Let Me Off Uptown (Telarc) Catherine Dupuis – The Rules of the Road (Bearheart Records) John Pizzarelli – Knowing You (Telarc) May 2, 2005 Lea DeLaria – Double Standards (Telarc) Daniel Bnzali – Bnzali (Rio Cat) March 24, 2005 Eric Comstock – No One Knows (Harbinger Records) Kevin Stout & Brian Booth – Tales of the Tetons (Jazzed5 Records) Gordon Johnson – Trios Version 3.0 (Tonalities) March 28, 2005 Mark Masters Ensemble – Porgy & Bess Redefined (Capri Records) Bobby Darin – Live At The Desert Inn (Concord Records) Dana Landry – Journey Home (Summit) Katie Bull – Love Spook (Corn Hill Indie Records) Enrico Pieranunzi - Charlie Haden - Paul Motian – Special Encounter (CAM Abdullah Ibrahim – A Celebration (Justin Time) Jazz) Trudy Desmond – A Dream Come True: The Best Of Trudy Desmond (Just Guillermo Klein – Una Nave (Sunnyside) A Memory) Kenny Wheeler - Chris Potter - Dave Holland - John Taylor – What Now? March 30, 2005 (CAM Jazz) Luther Hughes – Cannonball-Coltrane Project (Primerose Lane Records) May 4, 2005 March 31, 2005 Jack DeJohnette & Foday Musa Suso – Music From The Hearts Of The Marc Pompe Featuring The Joey DeFrancesco Trio – You Must Believe In Masters (Kindred Rhythm / Golden Beams) Swing (Cadence Jazz Records) May 9, 2005 April 4, 2005 Daria – Feel The Rhythm (Jazzmup Records) Anat Cohen – Place & Time (Anzic Records) Gabriel Mark Hasselbach – Swingin’ Affairs (Wind Tunnel) Scott Hamilton/Bill Charlap Trio – Back In New York (Concord Records) May 10, 2005 Ted Nash & Odeon – La Espade De La Noche (Palmetto) Lorraine Feather – Dooji Wooji (Sanctuary) April 5, 2005 Paul Grabowsky – Tales Of Time And Space (Sanctuary) Kate McGarry – Mercy Streets (Palmetto) May 15, 2005 April 11, 2005 Bill Cunliffe – Imaginacion (Torii) Dave’s True Story – Nature (BeBop Records) May 24, 2005 Keeley Smith – (Concord Records) Dave Brubeck – London Flat, London Sharp (Telarc) Roz Corral with the Bruce Barth Sextet – Telling Tales (Blujazz) Tony DeSare – Want You (Telarc) Curtis Fuller – Keep It Simple (Savant) May 25, 2005 Diane Schuur And The Caribbean Jazz Project – Schuur Fire (Concord Tim Reis – Stones Project (Concord Records) Records) Jim Payne – Energie (Savant) Nguyen Le Quartet – Walking On The Tiger’s Tail (The Act Company) April 12, 2005 Carolyn Leonhart – New 8th Day (Sunnyside) Joe Gilman Trio – Time Again: Brubeck Revisted Vol. 2 (Sunnyside)

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jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 21 Jazz Radio Currents

Greg Abate Horace Is Here Koko Jazz Bettina Devin Dangerous Type Self-Produced Ahmed Abdullah’s Dispersions of Traveling The Spaceways Planet Arts Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood Blue Note the Sprit of RA Bob Acri w/Lew Soloff/Frank Wess/Ed Blujazz Sasha Dobson w/The Chris Byars The Darkling Thrush Smalls Records Thigpen/George Mraz/Diane Delin Octet Eric Alexander Dead Center HighNote Bob Dorough Sunday At Iridium Arbors Monty Alexander Live At The Iridium Telarc Jazz Dave Douglas Mountain Passages Greenleaf Music Buyu Ambroise Blues In Red Justin Time Rosanne Drago Hot Sophisticated Jazz Now Self-Produced Carl Amundson & The Modern Guitarists Blue Line Music E.S.T. Seven Days of Falling 215 Records Guitar Quintet Martin Eagle & Friends A Welcoming Beauty Hawksnest The William Ash Trio The Phoenix Smalls Records Eldar Sony Classical Grazyna Augucik The Light GMA Records John Ellis One Foot In The Swamp Hyena Records Babatunde Lea Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Motema Ghost Connie Evingson Gypsy In My Soul Minnehaha Music The Bad Plus Blunt Object: Live In Tokyo Sony Savoir Faire Running Out Of Time Delmark Jeff Baker Monologue OA2 Records Dale Fielder Baritone Sunride Clarion Jazz Bill Banfield Striking Balance Innova Amina Figarova Come Escape With Me Munich Records Denys Baptiste Let Freedom Ring Dune Records Jeni Fleming Acoustic Trio Once Around The Sun SVFM Patricia Barber Live: A Fortnight In France Blue Note Helane Fontaine My Greenbrier Season Curly Girl BeatleJazz With A Little Help From Our Friends Lightyear Bill Frisell Unspeakable Nonesuch Opie Bellas Faces Bella Blue Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple Savant Tony Bennett The Art Of Romance Columbia Onaje Allan Gumbs Remember Their Innocence Ejano Cheryl Bentyne Let Me Off Uptown Telarc Jazz Russell Gunn Ethnomusicology Vol. 4: Live In Justin Time Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird Concord Jazz Atlanta Rigmor Gustafsson & The Jacky Close To you HighNote(ACT) Jeff Berlin Lumpy Jazz M.A.J. Records Terrason Trio Jane Ira Bloom Like Silver, Like Song Artist Share Tord Gustavsen Trio The Ground ECM Salvatore Bonafede Journey To Donnafugata CAM Michael Hackett Circles Summit Debby Boone Reflections Of Rosemary Concord Charlie Haden Land Of The Sun Verve Music Group Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia Dan Haerle Trio Standard Procedure Blujazz Ron Brendle Trio Photograph Lo Note Scott Hamilton/Bill Charlap Trio Back In New York Concord Jazz Zach Brock & The Coffee Achievers Chemistry Secret Fort Happy Apple The Peace Between Our Companies Sunnyside Maurice Brown Hip To Bop Brown Records Roderick Harper The Essence Of... RHM Jimmy Bruno Solo Mel Bay Donald Harrison Free Style Nagel Heyer Katie Bull Love Spook Corn Hill Indie John Hart Indivisible Hep Jazz Jane Bunnett Red Dragonfly (Aka Tombo) Narada Jazz Carol Heffler Exactly Peeka Records Gary Burton Next Generation Concord Jazz Fred Hersch Ensemble Leaves Of Grass Palmetto Don Byron ivey-divey Blue Note Hiroshima Obon Heads Up Michel Camilo Solo Telarc Jazz Dave Holland Big Band Overtime Dare2/Sunnyside Caribbean Jazz Project Here and Now: Live In Concert Concord Picante Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Thought Trains Sons of Sound Orchestra Amanda Carr Tender Trap Original Music The Hot Club of San Francisco Postcards From Gypsyland Lost Wax Music Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord Luther Hughes Cannonball-Coltrane Primrose Lane Corey Christiansen Awakening Mel Bay Abdullah Ibrahim A Celebratiom Enja/Justin Time Jim Cifelli Groove Station Short Notice Music Christian Jacob Styne and Mine WilderJazz Chiara Civello Last Quarter Moon Verve/Forecast Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music Group Jeff Coffin Bloom Compass Randy Johnston Is It You? HighNote Anat Cohen Place & Time Anzic Records Vic Juris A Second Look Mel Bay Avishai Cohen Trio & Ensemble At Home Razdaz Katahdin’s Edge Step Away Incline Records Tom Collier Mallet Jazz Origin Records Roger Kellaway I Was There - Roger Kellaway Plays IPO Recordings From The Bobby Darin Songbook Collier & Dean Duets Origin Records Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Alice Coltrane Translinear Light Impulse Records Kneebody Kneebody Koch Ravi Coltrane In Flux Savoy Jazz Cliff Korman and the Brazilian Tinge Migrations Planet Arts Eric Comstock No One Knows Harbinger Records Reed Kotler Tomo Torii Records Bill Connors Return Tone Center Ladysmith Black Mambazo No Boundaries Heads Up Roz Corral Telling Tales Blujazz Bireli Lagrene & Gipsy Project Move Dreyfus Jazz Chris Cortez Mum Is The Word Blue Bamboo Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest Lars Danielsson Libera Me HighNote(ACT) Nguyen Le Quartet Walking On The Tiger’s Tail ACT Bobby Darin Live At The Desert Inn Concord Records Bradley Leighton Just Doin’ Our Thang Pacific Coast Jazz Dave’s True Story Nature Be Pop Records Carolyn Leonhart New 8th Day Sunnyside Orbert Davis Blue Notes 3 Sixteen Jay Leonhart Cool Sons of Sound Joey DeFrancesco w/Jimmy Smith Legacy Concord Jazz Ron Levy’s Wild Kingdom Voodoo Boogaloo Levtronic Lea DeLaria Double Standards Telarc Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme Palmetto jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 22 Jazz Radio Currents

Charles Lloyd Jumping The Creek ECM Kurt Rosenwinkel Deep Song Verve Music Group Mike Longo and the New York State Oasis CAP Gonzalo Rubalcaba Paseo Blue Note of the Art Jazz Ensemble Los Hombres Calientes Vol 5: Carnival Basin Street Kermit Ruffins Throwback Basin Street Sylvain Luc Ambre Dreyfus Jazz Sakesho We Want You To Say Heads Up Kevin Mahogany Big Band Zebra Records/Ma- David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group hogany Jazz Rebecca Sayre This Is Always Becca Thomas Marriott Individuation Origin Maria Schneider Orchestra Concert In The Garden Artist Share Wynton Marsalis Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise Blue Note and Fall of Jack Johnson Diane Schuur w/ Caribbean Jazz Schuur Fire Concord Records Branford Marsalis Quartet Eternal Marsalis Music/ Project Rounder Records Marilyn Scott Nightcap Prana Entertainment Will Martin Morning Saguaro Beach The Jim Seeley/Arturo O’Farrill Zoho Music Mark Masters Ensemble Porgy & Bess Redefined! Capri Quintet Shapes The Big Picture Burnin’ Down The Irvin Mayfield & The Orleans Jazz Strange Fruit Basin Street House Productions Orchestra Avery Sharpe Trio Dragonfly JKNM Kate McGarry Mercy Streets Palmetto Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron Left Alone Revisited: Tribute To Billie Synergy Music Tim McNamara Quartet Earth Sign Blujazz Holiday Marian McPartland Piano Jazz w/ Steely Dan Concord Mark Sherman The Motive Series CAP Marian McPartland & Friends 85 Candles-Live In New York Concord Jazz Ben Sidran Quartet Bumpin’ At The Sunside! Nardis Charles McPherson w/ Strings A Tribute To Charlie Parker Clarion Jazz David Sills Eastern View Origin Records Medeski Martin & Wood End of The World Party Blue Note Herb Silverstein & Friends Beach Walker Silvertunes Music Productions Pat Metheny Group The Way Up Nonesuch Norman Simmons In Private Savant Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Records Charles Small Small Talk Blue Lady Tony Monaco Firey Blues Summit Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot Palmetto Grachan Moncur III Exploration Capri Keely Smith Vegas ‘58 - Today Concord Jane Monheit Taking A Chance On Love Sony Classical Jim Snidero Close Up Milestone Monk’s Music Trio Think Of One CMB Records The Stamm/Soph Project Live At Birdland NYC Jazzed Media Jason Moran Same Mother Blue Note Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz Dan Nadel Brooklyn Prayer Nadel Music Kevin Stout & Brian Booth Tales Of The Tetons Jazzed 5 Records Ted Nash & Odeon La Espade de la Noche Palmetto Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 Jacqui Naylor East/West Birdland - Yoshi’s Ruby Records Bill Tapia Duke Of Uke Moon Room Records Ed Neumeister Quartet New Standards Meistero Times 4 Seductivity GTM David “Fathead” Newman I Remember Brother Ray HighNote Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan & George The Classic Concert Live Concord Jazz Shearing Russ Nolan Two Colors Rhinoceruss Steve Turre The Spirits Up Above HighNote Octobop After Dark Mystic Lane Produc- Two Siberians Out of Nowhere Heads Up tions Darek Oles Like A Dream Cryptogramophone Belinda Underwood Underwood Uncurling Cosmik Muse Rekords One More Music of Thad Jones IPO Recordings Manuel Valera Forma Nueva MAVO Records Paradigm Shift Shifting Times Nagel Heyer Martijn van Iterson Quartet The Whole Bunch Munich Records Alan Pasqua My New Old Friend Cryptogramophone Steve Venz Scoop Daal Jazz Jim Payne Energie Savant The Chris Walden Big Band Home Of My Heart Origin Records Jim Pearce Washington Square Park Oak Avenue Ken Walker Sextet Terra Firma Synergy Music Publishing Ken Peplowski Easy To Remember Nagel Heyer Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz & Trio ECM Miskiewicz Houston Person To Etta With Love HighNote Harry Watters Out Of A Dream: Love Songs Summit Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Rounder Judy Wexler Easy On The Heart Rhombus Enrico Pieranunzi Fellini Jazz CAM Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor Where Do We Go From Here? CAM Enrico Pieranunzi Doorways CAM Wesla Whitfield In My Life HighNote Leslie Pintchik So Glad To Be Here Ambient Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra The Minute Game Summit John Pizzarelli Knowing You Telarc Jazz Joe Williams Havin’ A Good Time! Hyena Records Marc Pompe You Must Believe In Swing Cadence Jazz Abram Wilson Jazz Warrior Dune Records Michel Portal & Richard Galliano Concerts Dreyfus Jazz Nancy Wilson R.S.V.P. MCG Jazz The Devere Pride Trio ... As In A Morning Sunrise The Davis Group Dave Wilson Quartet Through The Time Dreamscape Records Dafnis Prieto About The Monks Zoho Music Chris Winters Impressions Blujazz Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers The Hideout Milestone Ben Wolfe My Kinda Wonderful Planet Arts Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch Michael Wolff Dangerous Vision Artimas Paul Renz & Friends Hubbub Gabwalk Records Phil Woods Groovin’ To Marty Paich Jazzed Media Roditi / Ignatzek / Rassinfosse Light In The Dark Nagel Heyer Victor Wooten Soul Circus Vanguard Wallace Roney Prototype HighNote Savina Yannatou & Primavera En Sumiglia ECM Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group Solonico Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up Roomful Of Blues Standing Room Only Alligator Ted Rosenthal/Bob Brookmeyer One Night In Vermont Planet Arts jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 23 Smooth Jazz Radio

Kenny G Again Tops Albums, Boney James Singles

Hiroshima Has Top 3 Most Added Singles

enny G remains in the No. 1 spot on the Smooth Jazz Album Chart with At Last ... KThe Duets Album (Arista). Staying at the No. 1 spot on this week’s JazzWeek Smooth Sin- gles Chart is “Stone Groove” featuring Joe Sam- ple, from Boney James (Warner Bros.) Moving into the No. 2 spot on the Smooth Jazz Album Chart is Boney James’ Pure (Warner Bros.) Hiroshima’s “Mr. Robben”, “China Latina”, and “Kototsu-Han (San Kyoku)” from the Heads

Kenny G’s At Last ... (Arista) is once again atop the Up CD Obon are the top three Most Added sin- album chart on the strength of several singles. gles this week.

Smooth Album Chart p. 25 Smooth Singles Chart p. 26 Smooth Current CDs p. 27 Smooth Radio Panel p. 28 “Stone Groove” from Boney James’ Pure (Warner Bros.) featuring Joe Sample is still the No. 1 single. jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 24 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Album Chart April 27, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista -40 20 34 0 2 3 3 2 Boney James Pure Warner Bros. 884 852 32 25 35 0 3 2 2 1 Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol 884 889 -5 25 34 0 4 5 5 4 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 652 626 26 25 34 0 5 4 4 3 Paul Brown Up Front GRP 597 627 -30 20 33 0 6 6 6 6 Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous 552 534 18 25 34 0 7 7 8 4 Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 477 532 -55 17 31 0 8 10 11 1 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP 441 452 -11 20 33 0 9 11 9 9 Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note 438 451 -13 17 35 0 10 12 13 10 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 437 408 29 14 33 0 11 8 7 4 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 429 479 -50 25 32 0 12 15 19 12 Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz 401 371 30 6 29 0 13 14 14 12 Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia 400 396 4 20 31 0 14 9 10 1 Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 391 461 -70 25 35 0 15 13 12 12 Marc Antoine The Very Best Of Marc Antoine VMG 384 399 -15 25 33 0 16 18 21 16 Fourplay Journey BMG 336 300 36 25 27 0 17 17 28 17 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 308 313 -5 7 28 0 18 16 16 16 David Sanborn Closer Verve 308 349 -41 15 27 0 19 20 22 19 3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave 303 290 13 13 28 1 20 25 30 20 Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie 302 275 27 11 27 0 21 19 17 14 Nick Colionne Just Come On In Will Keys 297 291 6 25 31 0 22 26 23 22 Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz 293 268 25 13 25 0 23 23 18 2 Norman Brown Up ‘N’ at ‘Em [Single] Warner Bros. 284 287 -3 25 34 0 24 22 24 3 Paul Jackson, Jr. Still Small Voice Blue Note 282 288 -6 25 32 0 25 24 26 21 Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got To Play Narada Jazz / Virgin 278 286 -8 20 30 0 26 21 15 6 Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up 274 289 -15 25 31 0 27 31 31 1 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous 272 231 41 25 31 0 28 30 25 5 Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia 264 237 27 25 33 0 29 29 29 1 Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP / VMG / UMG 258 240 18 25 33 0 30 27 20 9 Peter White Confidential Columbia 242 244 -2 20 26 0 31 33 32 5 George Benson Irreplaceable GRP / VMG / UMG 215 212 3 25 32 0 32 34 34 18 Najee Classic Masters Capitol / EMI 211 212 -1 25 32 0 33 39 40 14 Marc Antoine Mediterraneo Rendezvous 207 188 19 25 33 0 34 35 39 18 Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up 207 201 6 25 19 0 35 32 36 22 Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out Peak / Concord 198 218 -20 20 31 0 36 28 27 14 Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord 196 242 -46 18 21 0 37 37 37 30 Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge, Vol.1 Rendezvous 187 194 -7 25 23 0 38 41 41 38 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch 176 177 -1 5 17 1 39 38 38 33 Pamela Williams Sweet Saxations Shanachie 176 191 -15 13 15 0 40 43 44 40 Michael McDonald Motown Motown 176 171 5 15 30 0 41 44 45 41 Alexander Zonjic Seldom Blues Heads Up 167 170 -3 20 13 0 42 36 35 29 Daryl Hall & John Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch 166 194 -28 17 19 0 43 45 43 20 Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language 163 168 -5 25 22 0 44 50 49 26 Richard Smith Soulidified A440 149 135 14 20 28 0 45 42 42 22 Seal Best: 1991-2004 Warner Bros. 148 176 -28 17 19 0 46 48 51 31 Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. 130 142 -12 20 25 0 47 49 48 16 Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie 128 140 -12 20 23 0 48 40 47 18 Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous 128 185 -57 25 30 0 49 47 33 11 Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album AM / UMG 127 146 -19 20 20 0 50 52 53 50 Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music 125 128 -3 11 12 0

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Lost Treasures Wayman Tisdale Hang Time (Rendezvous) +41 Hiroshima Obon (Heads Up) (Shout Factory) +2 Fourplay Journey (BMG) +36 George Duke T-Jam [Single] (Bpm / Navarre) Chaka Khan Classikhan (Sanctuary) (9 Albums at +1) Boney James Pure (Warner Bros.) +32 Bobby Caldwell Perfect Island Nights (Sin-Drome) Steve Cole Spin (Narada Jazz) +30 Craig Chaquico Midnight Noon (Higher Octave) Nils Pacific Coast Highway (Baja) +29 Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 (Koch) Pat Metheny Group The Way Up (Nonesuch) Jeff Kashiwa Peace Of Mind (Native Language) Maysa Smooth Sailing (Encoded) Carol Duboc All Of You (Gold Note) jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 25 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Singles Chart April 27, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Boney James Stone Groove (w/ Joe Sample) Warner Bros. 718 690 28 24 33 0 2 3 2 1 Dave Koz Let It Free Capitol 629 634 -5 25 32 0 3 2 3 2 Kenny G & David Sanborn Pick Up The Pieces Arista 597 641 -44 20 33 0 4 5 7 4 Euge Groove XXL EMI 557 529 28 25 31 0 5 6 5 5 Paul Brown Moment By Moment GRP 479 510 -31 20 33 0 6 4 4 1 Tim Bowman Summer Groove Liquid 8 477 532 -55 17 31 0 7 9 9 7 Michael Lington Two Of A Kind (w/ Chuck Loeb) Rendezvous 455 429 26 25 31 0 8 10 10 8 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 437 408 29 14 33 0 9 12 16 9 Steve Cole Thursday Narada Jazz 401 371 30 6 29 0 10 8 6 3 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 400 447 -47 25 32 0 11 7 8 1 Soul Ballet Cream 215 391 461 -70 25 35 0 12 11 13 11 Kenny G & Earth Wind, & Fire The Way You Move Arista 381 382 -1 16 29 0 13 13 12 10 Chris Botti No Ordinary Love Columbia 339 345 -6 20 30 0 14 14 11 11 Anita Baker How Does It Feel Blue Note 337 336 1 17 32 5 15 15 20 15 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 308 313 -5 7 28 0 16 16 18 16 3rd Force Believe In Me Higher Octave 303 290 13 13 28 1 17 19 21 17 Chuck Loeb Tropical Shanachie 302 275 27 11 27 0 18 20 19 16 Jeff Lorber Ooh La La Narada Jazz 293 268 25 13 25 0 19 22 23 19 Fourplay Fields Of Gold BMG 289 258 31 25 25 0 20 17 15 2 Norman Brown Up ‘N’ At ‘Em Warner Bros. 284 287 -3 25 34 0 21 18 17 16 David Sanborn Tin Tin Deo Verve 240 286 -46 15 27 0 22 21 14 5 Marion Meadows Sweet Grapes Heads Up 239 262 -23 25 30 0 23 25 25 1 Gerald Albright To The Max GRP / VMG / UMG 220 199 21 25 33 0 24 31 26 5 Chris Botti Back Into My Heart Columbia 213 180 33 25 33 0 25 23 22 1 Wayman Tisdale Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now Rendezvous 207 212 -5 25 29 0 26 24 24 1 Richard Elliot Your Secret Love GRP 198 208 -10 20 29 1 27 30 36 27 Paul Jackson, Jr. Never Too Much GRP 185 180 5 10 18 1 28 26 30 26 Pamela Williams Fly Away With Me Shanachie 176 187 -11 13 15 0 29 28 34 28 Joyce Cooling Camelback Narada Jazz / Virgin 174 184 -10 20 19 0 30 37 33 3 George Benson Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise GRP / VMG / UMG 173 168 5 25 32 0 31 34 29 29 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch 171 174 -3 5 15 0 32 36 38 32 Alexander Zonjic Leave It With Me Heads Up 167 170 -3 20 13 0 33 27 27 24 Daryl Hall & John Oates I’ll Be Around U-Watch 163 187 -24 17 18 0 34 33 32 16 Pieces Of A Dream It’s Go Time Heads Up 163 176 -13 25 17 0 35 40 39 5 Paul Jackson, Jr. Walkin’ Blue Note 152 151 1 25 28 0 36 38 40 15 Dan Siegel In Your Eyes Native Language 151 159 -8 25 21 0 37 32 31 13 Seal Walk On By Warner Bros. 148 176 -28 17 19 0 38 43 43 31 Nick Colionne High Flyin’ Will Keys 148 142 6 20 27 0 39 42 37 11 Nick Colionne It’s Been Too Long Will Keys 147 146 1 25 24 0 40 35 42 23 Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out Peak / Concord 146 171 -25 20 28 0 41 29 28 13 Ray Charles You Don’t Know Me (w/ Diana Krall) Concord 138 181 -43 18 21 0 42 41 50 14 Dave Koz All I See Is You Capitol 138 150 -12 25 25 0 43 50 56 2 Boney James Here She Comes Warner Bros. 130 109 21 25 31 0 44 45 49 21 Paul Jackson, Jr. It’s A Shame Blue Note 128 137 -9 25 28 0 45 60 62 12 Marc Antoine Mediterraneo Rendezvous 125 94 31 25 33 0 46 46 46 46 Ken Navarro You Are Everything Positive Music 123 126 -3 11 12 0 47 39 41 39 Matt Bianco Ordinary Day (w/ Basia) UMG 123 157 -34 11 14 1 48 48 47 28 Rick Braun Daddy-O Warner Bros. 119 125 -6 20 23 0 49 47 45 12 Kim Waters In Deep Shanachie 117 125 -8 20 21 0 50 49 54 29 Paul Brown 24/7 GRP 116 117 -1 20 27 0

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Hiroshima “Mr. Robben” (Heads Up) +9 Wayman Tisdale “Ready To Hang” (Rendezvous) +48 George Duke “T-Jam” (BPM / Navarre) Hiroshima “China Latina” (Heads Up) +5 Chris Botti “Back Into My Heart” (Columbia) +33 Bobby Caldwell “Can’t Get Over You” (Sin-Drome) David Sanborn “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight” (Verve) Hiroshima “Kototsu-Han (San Kyoku)” (Heads Up) +5 Marc Antoine “Mediterraneo” (Rendezvous) +31 Craig Chaquico “Dream Date” (Higher Octave) David Sanborn “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight” Fourplay “Fields Of Gold” (BMG) +31 Peter White “Coast Road Drive” (Columbia) (Verve) +2 Steve Cole “Thursday” (Narada Jazz) +30 Pete Belasco “Hurry Hurry” (Compendia) George Benson “Arizona Sunrise” (GRP / VMG / UMG) (12 Singles at +1) Nelson Rangell “That’s The Way Of The World” (Koch) Ken Navarro “In The Sky Today” (Shanachie) Aya “Uptown” (Naked) jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 26 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Albums

3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Mindy Abair Come As You Are GRP Records Greg Adams Firefly 215 Records Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol Sandro Albert The Color Of Things 215 Records Pattie LaBelle Timeless Journey Island /Def Jam Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP David Lanz The Good Life Decca Marc Antoine Mediteraneo Rendevous Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest Marc Antoine The Very Best of Marc Antoine Verve Music Group Ronnie Laws Everlasting Holland Group Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendevous Bob Baldwin Brazil Chill A440 Music Group Liquid Soul Evolution Shanachie Walter Beasley Go With The Flow N-Coded Music Chuck Loeb eBop Shanachie Pete Belasco Deeper Compendia Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz Regina Belle Lazy Peak Torcuato Mariano Diary 215 Records David Benoit / Russ Freeman Benoit Freeman Project 2 Peak Eric Marienthal Sweet Talk Peak George Benson Irreplaceable GRP Keiko Matsui Wildflower Narada Theo Bishop Newport Nights Native Language Michael McDonald Motown Motown Debby Boone Reflections Of Rosemary Concord Michael McDonald Motown Two Motown Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia Jason Miles Miles To Miles Narada Jazz Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 Marcus Miller Silver Rain Koch Records Jeff Bradshaw Bone Deep Hidden Beach Chieli Minucci Night Grooves Shanachie Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. Najee Embrace N-Coded Music Toni Braxton Ultimate Toni Braxton LaFace Najee Classic Masters Capitol Braxton Brothers Rollin Peak Ken Navarro All The Way Shanachie Bridge To Havana (f. Gladys Knight) Bridge To Havana Pyramid Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music Brian Bromberg Choices A440 Music Group Grady Nichols Sophistication Compendia Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja/TSA Records Paul Brown Up Front GRP O’2L Doyle’s Brunch Peak Alex Bugnon Southern Living Narada Jazz Andrew Oh Silk Ark Music Cabo Frio Island Dance Kezia Records Steve Oliver 3-D Koch Records Jonathan Cain Bare Bones Reality/AAO Music Renee Olstead Renee Olstead 143 Records/Reprise Bobby Caldwell Perfect Island Nights Sin-Drome Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up Sergio Caputo That Kind of Thing Idiosyncrasy Music Doc Powell 97th & Columbus Heads Up Larry Carlton Sapphire Blue Bluebird Doc Powell Cool Like That Heads Up Craig Chaquico Midnight Moon Higher Octave Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous/N-Coded Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord Nelson Rangell Look Again A440 Music Group Club 1600 Ridin, High N-Coded Music Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch Steve Cole NY LA Warner Bros. The Rippingtons Let It Ripp Peak Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group Nick Colionne Just Come On In Three Keys Music David Sanborn Time Again Verve Music Group Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got to Play Narada Jazz David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group Couch Potato Allstars Jazz For Couch Potatoes Shanachie Marilyn Scott Nightcap Prana Entertainment Brian Culbertson Come On Up Warner Bros. Seal IV Warner Bros. Eric Darius Night On The Town Higher Octave Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language Will Downing Emotions GRP Simply Red Home Simply Red Carol Duboc All Of You Gold Note Richard Smith Soulidfied A440 Music Group George Duke T-Jam [Single] BPM / Navarre Jimmy Sommers Love Life Higher Octave Richard Elliot Ricochet GRP Special EFX Party Shanachie Tommy Emmanuel Endless Road Favored Nations Spyro Gyra The Deep End Heads Up Fattburger Work To Do Shanachie Stanley B. All For Love Helane Fontaine My Greenbrier Season Curly Girl Wonder Stevie The Definitive Collection Motown Fourplay Journey RCA / Victor Patches Stewart Blow Koch A. Ray Fuller The Weeper A Ray Artists Music Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz Garry Goin Goin’ Places Compendia Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 Jeff Golub Soul Sessions GRP Paul Taylor Steppin Out Peak/Concord Al Green The Absolute Best EMI Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak Euge Groove Living Large Narada J. Thompson Romantic Night AMH Records Onaje Allan Gumbs Remember Their Innocence Ejano Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendevous Hall & Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch Nester Torres Sin Palabras Heads Up Paul Hardcastle The Jazzmasters 4 Trippin’ N’ Rhythm Two Siberians Out of Nowhere Heads Up Records Urban Knights Urban Knights V Narada Everette Harp All For You A440 Music Group Luther Vandross Dance With My father J Records Gabriel Mark Hasselbach Gabriel... First Name Basis Wind Tunnel Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP Hil St. Soul Copasetik & Cool Shanachie Various Artists Wedding Songs: A Body & Soul Time Life Hiroshima The Bridge Heads Up Collection Hiroshima Obon Heads Up Various Artists Princess Diaries 2 : Royal Engage- Walt Disney ment [Original Soundtrack] Incognito Who Needs Love Narada Jazz Vlad Vladosphere Unis Paul Jackson Jr. Still Small Voice Blue Note Andre Ward Steppin Up Orpheus Boney James Pure Warner Bros. Kim Waters Someone To Love You Shanachie Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music Group Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie Jazz Crusanders Soul Axess True Life Kirk Whalum Into My Soul Warner Bros. Marcus Johnson Urban Groove Marimelj Entertain- Peter White Confidential Columbia ment Bernie Williams The Journey Within GRP Ronny Jordan At Last N-Coded Music Pamela Williams Sweet Saxations Shanachie Jeff Kashiwa Peace Of Mind Native Language Jim Wilson River Hillsboro Kem Kemistry Motown Nancy Wilson R.S.V.P. MCG Jazz Alicia Keys The Diary Of Alicia Keys J Records Victor Wooten Soul Circus Vanguard Yellowjackets Altered State Heads Up jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 27 Jazz Station Panel Smooth Station Panel Call letters Frequency Market Rank Call letters Frequency Market Rank CJRT-FM* 91.1 Toronto, ON N/A KAJZ-FM 101.7 Albuquerque, NM 71 KANU-FM 91.5 Topeka, KS 195 KBZN-FM 97.9 Salt Lake City - Ogden - Provo, UT 31 KBEM-FM 88.5 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 KEZL-FM 96.7 Fresno, CA 68 KCCK-FM* 88.3 Cedar Rapids, IA 204 KCLU-FM 88.3 Los Angeles, CA 2 KHJZ-FM 95.7 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 KCSM-FM 91.1 San Francisco, CA 4 KIFM-FM 98.1 San Diego, CA 17 KEWU-FM 89.5 Spokane, WA 93 KJCD-FM 104.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 KFSR-FM 90.7 Fresno, CA 68 KJZI-FM 100.3 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 KIOS-FM 91.5 Omaha, NE - Council Bluffs, IA 73 KJZY-FM 93.7 San Francisco, CA 4 KIPO-FM* 89.3 Honolulu 62 KKSF-FM 103.7 San Francisco, CA 4 KJZZ-FM 91.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 KKSJ/KTSJ-FM 105.9 Lafayette, LA 102 KKJZ-FM 88.1 Los Angeles, CA 2 KLCC-FM 89.7 Eugene-Springfield, OR 171 KLJT-FM 102.3 Tyler-Longview, TX 148 KMHD-FM 89.1 Portland, OR 24 KMGQ-FM 97.5 Santa Barbara, CA 204 KMUW-FM 89.1 Wichita, KS 95 KOAI-FM 107.5 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 KNTU-FM 88.1 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 KOAS-FM 105.7 Las Vegas, NV 38 KPLU-FM 88.5 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 KRVR-FM 105.5 Stockton, CA 82 KRTU-FM 91.7 San Antonio, TX 30 KSKX-FM 105.5 Colorado Springs, CO 97 KSDS-FM 88.3 San Diego, CA 17 KSJS-FM 90.5 San Jose, CA 33 KSMJ-FM 97.7 Bakersfield, CA 83 KSMF-FM* 89.1 Ashland, OR 207 KSSJ-FM 94.7 Sacramento, CA 26 KSUT-FM* 91.3 Ignacio, CO N/A KTWV-FM 94.7 Los Angeles, CA 2 KTSU-FM 90.9 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 KWJZ-FM 98.9 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 KUAZ-FM 89.1 Tucson, AZ 63 KYOT-FM 95.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 KUNR-FM* 88.7 Reno, NV 231 WBRH-FM 90.3 Baton Rouge, LA 84 KUNV-FM 91.5 Las Vegas, NV 38 WEIB-FM 106.3 Hartford - New Britain - Middletown, CT 50 KUT-FM 90.5 Austin, TX 7 KUVO-FM 89.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 WFJZ-FM 106.7 Ft. Wayne, IN 105 KXJZ-FM 88.9 Sacramento, CA 26 WFSK-FM 88.1 Nashville, TN 44 WAER-FM* 88.3 Syracuse, NY 79 WGPR-FM 107.5 Detroit, MI 10 WBEZ-FM 91.5 Chicago, IL 3 WJAB-FM 90.9 Huntsville, AL 116 WBFO-FM 88.7 Buffalo - Niagara Falls, NY 52 WJJZ-FM 106.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 WBGO-FM 88.3 New York, NY 1 WJSJ/WSJF-FM 105.5 Jacksonville, FL 49 WCFJ/WSBC* 1470 AM Chicago, IL 3 WCLK-FM 91.9 Atlanta, GA 11 WJZA/WJZK-FM 103.5 Columbus, OH 35 WCMU/WUCX-FM 89.5/90.1 Mount Pleasant – Saginaw/Bay City/Midland, MI 131 WJZI-FM 93.3 Milwaukee - Racine, WI 32 WCPN-FM 90.3 Cleveland, OH 25 WJZL/WJZO-FM 93.1 Louisville, KY 55 WDCB-FM* 90.9 Chicago, IL 3 WJZR-FM 105.9 Rochester, NY 54 WDET-FM 101.9 Detroit, MI 10 WJZW-FM 105.9 Baltimore, MD 20 WDNA-FM 88.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 WJZZ-FM 107.5 Atlanta, GA 11 WDUQ-FM 90.5 Pittsburgh, PA 23 WLOQ-FM 103.1 Orlando, FL 39 WEAA-FM 88.9 Baltimore, MD 20 WEMU-FM* 89.1 Ypsilanti, MI 10 WLVE-FM 93.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 WFNX-FM 101.7 Boston, MA 133 WNUA-FM 95.5 Chicago, IL 3 WFSS-FM 91.9 Fayetteville, NC 128 WNWV-FM 107.3 Cleveland, OH 25 WGBH-FM 89.7 Boston, MA 8 WPMJ-FM 94.3 Peoria, IL 149 WGLT-FM 89.1 Peoria, IL 149 WQCD-FM 101.9 New York, NY 1 WGMC-FM 90.1 Rochester, NY 54 WSJT-FM 94.1 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 WGVU-FM 88.5 Grand Rapids, MI 67 WHRV-FM 89.5 Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Newport News, VA 40 WSJW-FM 92.7 Harrisburg - Lebanon - Carlisle, PA 80 WICN-FM* 90.5 Worcester,MA 8 WSMJ-FM 104.3 Baltimore, MD 20 WJSU-FM 88.5 Jackson, MS 123 WVAS-FM 90.7 Montgomery, AL 152 WMOT-FM 89.5 Nashville, TN 44 WVMV-FM 98.7 Detroit, MI 10 WNCU-FM 90.7 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 WXJZ-FM 100.9 Gainesville - Ocala, FL 87 WRTI-FM 90.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 WYJZ-FM 100.9 Indianapolis, IN 41 WSHA-FM 88.9 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 Music Choice National N/A WSIE-FM 88.7 St. Louis, MO 19 WTEB-FM 89.3 Greenville,NC 87 Note: WSSM, St. Louis, has changed formats and is dropped from the panel. WUAL-FM 91.5 Tuscaloosa, AL 133 WUCF-FM 89.9 Orlando, FL 39 Airplay of all stations, except as noted, is monitored by Mediaguide. WUMR-FM 91.7 Memphis, TN 48 WUSF-FM 89.7 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 To apply to become a member of a station panel, contact Tony WVPR/WVPS-FM 94.3 Burlington, VT-Plattsburgh, NY 220 WWOZ-FM 90.7 New Orleans, LA 46 Gasparre at (585) 235-4685, or email [email protected]. WWSP-FM* 89.9 Wausau-Stevens Point, WI 198 WXUT/WXTS-FM 88.3 Toledo, OH 85 Music Choice National Distribution N/A Sirius* National Distribution N/A *Denotes station not monitored by Mediaguide. Station submits a weekly airplay report. jazzweek.com • April 27, 2005 JazzWeek 28 ��

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