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Jazz Radio Panel P. 21 Jazzweek.Com • January 22, 2007 Jazzweek 12 Airplay Data Jazzweek Jazz Album Chart Jan JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • January 22, 2007 Volume 3, Number 9 • $7.95 Industry Q&A: IAJE’s BILL McFARLIN page 9 Remembering ... MICHAEL BRECKER and ALICE COLTRANE page 4 On The Charts: #1 Jazz Album – MB3 #1 Smooth Album – For Luther II #1 College Jazz – Madeleine Peyroux #1 Smooth Single – George Benson #1 World Music – Lynch/Palmieri JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger he passing of Michael Brecker and Alice Coltrane last MUSIC EDITOR Tad Hendrickson week was certainly a sad moment for all of us in the jazz Tcommunity. But how touching and special it was for that CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ community to be together to mourn that passing. PHOTOGRAPHER Tom Mallison There was hardly a dry eye in the house on the last night PHOTOGRAPHY of IAJE as Charlie Haden took the stage with the Liberation Barry Solof Music Orchestra and spoke a few words. Having performed Contributing Editors with both and having been close with Michael since Brecker’s Keith Zimmerman days as a student, Haden was deeply saddened and overcome. Kent Zimmerman The music of the LMO and of Haden is always very moving Founding Publisher: Tony Gasparre to me, and with the selection of tunes and the solemnity of ADVERTISING: Devon Murphy the moment, it was a touching and fitting tribute – a wake for Call (866) 453-6401 ext. 3 or the departed, and a very spiritual moment. email: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS: On a personal note, I have watched Michael’s situation Free to qualified applicants Premium subscription: $149.00 per year, with keen interest. My father was diagnosed with MDS, my- w/ Industry Access: $249.00 per year elodysplastic syndrome, in February, 2002, although we sus- To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ AMEX/PayPal go to: pect its advance had preceeded that by some months. 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JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) is published weekly by – Ed Trefzger, Editor ������������� 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone/fax: (866) 453-6401 [email protected] Copyright ©2006 Trefzger Media LLC jazzweek.com • January 22, 2007 JazzWeek 2 Contents January 22, 2007 News . 4 Jazz World Loses Michael Brecker, Alice Coltrane . 4 Michael Brecker, 57 . 4 Alice Coltrane, 69 . 6 Music and Industry News In Brief . 7 Jazz Birthdays . 8 9 Features Industry Q&A: Bill McFarlin, IAJE Executive Director . 9 Jazz Radio . 12 Jazz Album Chart . 13 College Jazz Chart . 14 Reviews . 15 Dominique Eade + Jed Wilson . 15 12 Conrad Herwig . 15 Ed Spargo. 15 Jazz Add Dates . 17 Jazz Current CDs . 18 Jazz Radio Panel . 21 Smooth Jazz Radio . 22 Smooth Album Chart . 23 Smooth Singles Chart. 24 22 Smooth Currents. 25 Smooth Radio Panel . 26 World Music Radio . 27 World Music Album Chart . 28 Closing Number (returns next week) 28 JazzWeek Volume 3 Number 9 jazzweek.com • January 22, 2007 JazzWeek 3 News Jazz World Loses Michael Brecker, Alice Coltrane n the final day of IAJE 2007, a stunned and sad buzz circulated Michael Brecker, 57 Oamong the attendees: both Al- ice Coltrane and Michael Brecker had NEW YORK – Saxophonist Michael passed that day. Brecker died Jan. 13 in a New York IAJE president Chuck Owen made City hospital. Brecker had been afflict- the announcement to a hushed crowd ed with MDS, myelodysplastic syn- at the Hilton just before the scheduled drome, a bone marrow disorder, which peformance of Charlie Haden’s Liber- had progressed to leukemia. ation Music Orchestra. Brecker was an eleven-time Gram- Haden, visibly emotional when my-winner, and the only person to win taking the podium, noted his long- both the “Best Jazz Instrumental Per- time relationships with both musicians formance” and “Best Jazz Instrumen- and led the LMO through several tal Solo” awards two years in a row. tunes, including the very appropri- Although he was very sick, Breck- ate “Going Home,” “Amazing Grace,” er completed a final album just two and “We Shall Overcome.” Many in weeks ago, which will be released on the crowd wiped away tears at Haden’s Heads Up International in the spring words and the band’s music. of 2007. The as-yet-untitled recording Haden also recognized Dewey includes pianists Herbie Hancock and Redman, whose memorial he had par- Brad Mehldau, guitarist Pat Metheny, ticipated in on the previous Sunday. drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Closing the festival, bassist Av- John Patitucci. Michael Brecker: 1949-2007 ishai Cohen also dedicated his set to Darryl Pitt, Brecker’s longtime Brecker, Coltrane and Haden. friend and manager, said the saxophon- Brecker in Horace Silver’s quintet. At IAJE 2006, a booth was set ist was very enthusiastic about the final The siblings then formed the Brecker up to screen bone marrow donors for work. According to Pitt, “In addition Brothers, one of the most innovative possible donation to Brecker and oth- to the love of his family and friends, jazz-funk fusion bands of the decade. er victims of blood disorders. As IAJE his work on this project helped keep Brecker was then the co-leader of the director Bill McFarlin noted in his him alive and will be another jewel in all-star quartet Steps Ahead. Q&A in this issue, “[I]t’s just wild his legacy.” Brecker recorded and performed that we lost him on the last day of the Born in Philadelphia in 1949, Mi- with a virtual Who’s Who of jazz and conference, where we could all be to- chael co-founded the pioneering jazz- pop giants in the 70s and 80s, includ- gether.” rock group Dreams in 1970. He lat- ing McCoy Tyner, Bruce Springs- – Ed Trefzger er joined his brother, trumpeter Randy teen, Herbie Hancock, Steely ➤ jazzweek.com • January 22, 2007 JazzWeek 4 News Michael Brecker, 1949-2007 (continued) Dan, Chick Corea, Charles Mingus, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Char- Brecker was recently nominated for Joni Mitchell, Chet Baker, Parlia- lie Haden and Jack DeJohnette. Pro- a Grammy Award in the category of ment Funkadelic, Jaco Pastorius, Paul duced by Metheny with James Taylor Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for Some Simon, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, singing on two tracks, The Grammy- Skunk Funk with his brother Randy Aretha Franklin, and Pat Metheny. winning Nearness of You was named Brecker and the WDR Big Band, re- Michael cut his first record as a leader “Record of the Year,” and Brecker was leased on Telarc in June 2006. in 1987. named “Artist of the Year” in both the There is no known single cause of The solo debut, Michael Brecker, Critics’ and Readers’ Polls of Japan’s MDS and the only curative therapy is was voted “Jazz Album of the Year” in Swing Journal—the largest circulation a blood stem cell (bone marrow) trans- both Down Beat and Jazziz magazines. of any jazz magazine in the world. plant. In an attempt to help Brecker, Its follow-up, Don’t Try This At Home, In June 2002, Brecker, Hancock a massive donor drive was organized, garnered Brecker his first Grammy. and Roy Hargrove released Directions and thousands of people were encour- After being a featured soloist for a year in Music, a live concert at Toronto’s aged to enter the National Marrow and a half with Paul Simon, Michael Massey Hall. The Grammy winning Donor Program Registry [www.mar- reunited with Randy for the Return of Directions project performed for hun- row.org or 800-MARROW-2]. Each the Brecker Brothers. The Breckers’ Out dreds of thousands of concertgoers, year, approximately 9,000 people die of the Loop (1994) and Michael’s Tales making it among the highest profile in the U.S. while waiting for a bone From the Hudson (1997) put additional jazz events in recent years. marrow donor. Grammys on the saxophonist’s shelf. Brecker began 2003 with Wide Brecker is survived by his wife, Su- At about the same time, Michael ap- Angles. Featuring the 15-piece Mi- san; his children, Jessica and Sam; his peared on Herbie Hancock’s The New chael Brecker Quindectet, Wide Angles brother, Randy; and his sister, Emily Standard (Verve) and McCoy Tyner’s was on dozens of “Best Jazz Records Brecker Greenberg. Infinity (Impulse!), followed by exten- of the Year” lists and was also a dou- Obituary compiled from various sive touring with each piano titan. ble Grammy winner. Brecker took the sources. Brecker’s seventh solo album, Near- quindectet on sold-out Japanese and ness of You: The Ballad Book, featured European tours. Recording great music and helping musicians more effectively market their own jazzweek.com • January 22, 2007 JazzWeek 5 News Alice Coltrane, 69 WEST HILLS, Calif. – Pianist Al- of 2006, including at a concert in San ice Coltrane died of respiratory failure Francisco with her son Ravi, drum- Oct. 12 at West Hills Hospital and mer Roy Haynes, and bassist Charlie Medical Center in West Hills, Ca- Haden. lif. She was 69 and had been in frail At the time of her death, Coltrane health for some time.
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