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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 Volume 1, Number 43 • $7.95 In This Issue: Higher Ground Concert SPECIAL ISSUE Raises Money, Awareness . . 4 KUVO Celebrates 20 Years . . . . 5 Oscar Brown, Jr. Bio Film Debuts . . . . . 6 Concord Licenses Catalog for Phones, IM . . 8

Reviews and Picks . . . . . 24 NEW ORLEANS IN LIMBO Jazz Radio . 27 Smooth Jazz Interviews with Mark Samuels of Basin Street Radio...... 32 Records, WWOZ’s Dwayne Breashears, Radio Terence Blanchard, and Wendy Oxenhorn of Panels. . . . . 37 Jazz Foundation of America ...... page 10 News...... 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Bill Charlap #1 Smooth Album – Paul Hardcastle #1 Smooth Single – Paul Hardcastle JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger MUSIC EDITOR othing has made me happier since the Katrina disaster Tad Hendrickson than to read the uplifting enthusiasm and can-do at- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Ntitude expressed by each of the people Tad Hendrick- Keith Zimmerman son interviewed this week for our special issue. In the after- Kent Zimmerman math of the storm and the flood, there were premature calls CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ PHOTOGRAPHER by some to abandon the city. But it’s clear now that there’s a Tom Mallison great future ahead for New Orleans. PHOTOGRAPHY Barry Solof I’m excited to see the enthusiasm that Mark Samuels and Founding Publisher: Tony Gasparre Dwayne Breashears have to seeing that Basin Street Records ADVERTISING: Call (585) 328-3104 or and WWOZ – and the people of New Orleans – get back on email: [email protected] their feet. I was touched by the efforts of Wendy Oxenhorn SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: and the Jazz Foundation of America’s efforts to help the mu- Charter Rate: $199.00 per year, sicians of the area. JazzWeek w/ Industry Access – Charter Rate: $249.00 per year To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ But what really hit home were comments by Terence AMEX/PayPal go to: http://www.jazzweek.com/account/ Blanchard about what Katrina really revealed: the extreme subscribe.html poverty of much of New Orleans which most of us had never seen. This may be the biggest lesson of the disaster. No mat- AIRPLAY MONITORING BY ter which direction your political views may lie – left, right, or center – it’s pretty clear that whatever this country has been attempting to do with a goal to eradicate poverty – and I mean Mediaguide both liberal and conservative policies – hasn’t ended it. Let’s 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. hope the efforts to rebuild the region also provide the means Suite 150 Berwyn, PA 19312 for people to lift themselves out of the hopeless cycle of poverty as they help rebuild a stronger, more vital New Orleans. JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) is published weekly by – Ed Trefzger, Editor

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News ...... 4 Higher Ground Concert Raises Money, Awareness...... 4 Elling, Hobgood Help KUVO Celebrate 20th Anniversary ...... 5 Documentary Bio of Oscar Brown, Jr. Debuts ...... 6 Dutch Jazz Musicians Raise Money for Katrina Relief ...... 6 Les Paul Makes Billboard Chart for First Time in 50 Years...... 6 New Charlie Brown Christmas Recording Due This Fall ...... 7 5 Concord Music Group Licenses Catalog for Mobile Phones, IM, Web...... 8 35th Pitt Jazz Seminar Lineup Announced...... 8 Birthdays ...... 9 Features New Orleans In Limbo...... 10 Q&A: Mark Samuels ...... 11 Radio Q&A: Dwayne Breashears ...... 14 10 Q&A: Terence Blanchard ...... 14 Q&A: Wendy Oxenhorn ...... 22 Reviews ...... 17 Brad Mehldau Trio ...... 24 Jonathan Kreisberg ...... 24 Kyle Eastwood ...... 25 Dee Dee Bridgewater ...... 25 Jazz Charts ...... 27 27 Jazz Album Chart ...... 28 Jazz Add Dates ...... 29 Jazz Current CDs ...... 30 Jazz Radio Panel ...... 37 Smooth Jazz Charts ...... 32 Smooth Album Chart ...... 33 Smooth Singles Chart...... 34 Smooth Current CDs ...... 35 32 Smooth Radio Panel ...... 37 Classifieds ...... 26 Cover photo: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 43

jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Higher Ground Concert Raises Money, Awareness

NEW YORK – Jazz at Lincoln Cen- the Mardi Gras” and Herbie Hancock ter’s Higher Ground, a concert to raise performing “Eye of the Hurricane.” funds for the victims of Hurricane Ka- Bette Midler joined the Lincoln trina, was broadcast live from the Rose Center Jazz Orchestra for “Is That All Theater in Frederick P. Rose Hall There Is?” She was followed by the on Saturday, Sept. 17. The program, legendary Abbey Lincoln with “For which was broadcast on WBGO, All We Know.” Saxophonist Joe Lova- Newark, and nationwide on NPR, on no performed “Blackwell’s Message,” PBS and on other networks, such as while Diana Krall left the piano du- BET Jazz, included five hours of mu- ties to Cyrus Chestnut while she sang sic, spoken word, and a smattering of “Basin Street Blues.” Marcus Roberts political commentary. ended the second hour with “New Or- Laurence Fishburne hosted the leans’ Blues.” novel Jazz, and New Orleans’ Jordan five-hour concert. NPR’s Korva Cole- The third hour began with Paul Family, with Stephanie Jordan signing man and WBGO’s Gary Walker an- Simon, who played the Zydeco-influ- “Here’s to Life.” Terence Blanchard chored the radio broadcast with guest enced “That Was Your Mother” from and his sextet delivered a sweet and commenator Nick Spitzer, a New Or- his Graceland album, accompanied by melancholy “Over There,” followed by leans resident and host of American Buckwheat Zydeco on accordian. Di- the Marsalis Family (with Ted Nash Routes. Narrating the PBS telecast was anne Reeves performed an impas- on saxophone in place of the lone miss- Performance Today host Fred Child. sioned “The House I Live In,” - fol ing musical Marsalis, Branford) with In addition to proceeds from the lowed by a moving performance by “Twelve’s It.” concert and an auction, money con- Irvin Mayfield and Ronald Markham The final hour began with Jon tinues to be collected on behalf of the of “Just a Closer Walk With Thee.” Hendricks signing two tunes with the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to pro- Mayfield noted that his father, Irvin, LCJO, “This Love of Mine,” and “Tell vide the victims of Hurricane Katrina Sr., was still unaccounted for in New Me the Truth.” Peter Cincotti de- with food, water, clothing, housing Orleans. Norah Jones continued hour buted a new song, “Bring Back New and medical support. These funds will three with Randy Newman’s, “I Think Orleans.” Paquito D’Rivera joined the also lend special assistance to New Or- It’s Gonna Rain Today,” followed by Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Or- leans musicians. Those wishing to do- McCoy Tyner with “Trane-Like.” El- chestra to perform Chico O’Farrill’s nate may still do so at jalc.org. vis Costello, accompanied by Allen “Havana Blues” with “Salt Peanuts” The concert’s first hour began with Toussaint, sang a powerful version of added in at the end, as D’Rivera prod- the Wynton Marsalis Septet taking the Toussaint’s “Freedom for the Stallion” ded the audience on to respond with stage with “Ain’ No”, followed by op- to end hour three. the spoken part. Wrapping up the era singer Renee Fleming with Mark Buckwheat Zydeco returned to television broadcast were Cassandra O’Connor and Eric Reid performing start hour four with “I’m Gonna Love Wilson with the Lincoln Center Jazz “Amazing Grace.” Gospel singer Shir- You Anyway,” and the Wynton Mar- Orchestra and Mark O’Connor with ley Caesar kept the sacred music flow- salis Septet performed “Dippermouth Duke Ellington’s “Come Sunday.” In ing with “You’re Next for a Miracle,” Blues.” Also in the fourth hour were the theater, the program closed with “He’s Working It Out for You,” and singer/songrwiter James Taylor with music from Ellington’s “New Orleans “This Joy.” Rounding out the opening “Never Die Young,” Toni Morrison Suite” by the Lincoln Center Jazz Or- hour were Aaron Neville with “Go to reading various passages from her chestra. JW jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News Elling, Hobgood Help KUVO Celebrate 20th Anniversary

Susan Gatschet-Reese Susan Gatschet-Reese Laurence Hobgood (piano) and Kurt Elling stopped by Denver’s KUVO to help the station Kurt Elling prepares to cut the anniversary celebrate its 20th anniversary with a live radio performance on Sept. 1. cake. ��

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jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 5 News Documentary Bio of Oscar Les Paul Makes Billboard Chart Brown, Jr. Debuts for First Time in DENVER – Weeks before the death Denver Pan African Film Festival in 50 Years, Becomes of legendary artist Oscar Brown, Jr., 2004. Baraka leapt to his feet and said, a documentary film on his life was “bravo!” and with tears in his eyes, Oldest to Chart screened at the Maryland Film Fes- Brown said, “you captured me.” HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Capitol/ tival in Baltimore. Music is My Life, The film examines Brown’s life EMI’s August 30 release of Les Paul & Politics My Mistress: The Story of Oscar from his professional debut at age 15 Friends: American Made World Played Brown, Jr., released by No Credits Pro- to his last performance with daughter marks guitar legend Les Paul’s return ductions, is a rich and intimate look at Maggie Brown at the prestigious Pan to Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart the Renaissance man – musician, writ- African Film Festival in Los Ange- for the first time in 50 years. The CD’s les where they performed “People of #152 debut also sets a new record, Soul” from Brown’s play, Great Nit- making Paul, who recently celebrated ty Gritty. The film features Brown’s his 90th birthday, the oldest artist ever music, (“Hazel Hips”) poetry, (“Forty to enjoy an album debut on Billboard’s Acres and a Mule”) his work with the chart. Beyond the borders, Les Paul first radio broadcast for Black Amer- & Friends has been released to great ica, (The Negro News Front) and his international success, as well, with political musings, (“Why are we called chart debuts in Austria (#28), Canada African-Americans?”). Others fea- (#186) and Germany (#38). “Les Paul tured in the film are wife Jean Pace, & Friends” is Paul’s first new album Nichelle Nichols, Al Jarreau, Abbey since his 1978 Grammy-winning col- Lincoln, Amiri Baraka, the late Ver- laboration with Chet Atkins, “Chester non Jarrett, Charles Weldon, Lu Va- & Lester.” son, and Studs Terkel. Les Paul, the world-renowned Oscar Brown, Jr. Film clips can be viewed at www. electric guitar innovator and perform- musicismylife.info and www.nocred- er, celebrated his 90th birthday on June JW its.com. 9. JW er, poet, playwright, and civil rights activist. The Chicago native is credit- Dutch Jazz Musicians Raise ed with writing more than a thousand songs, a dozen musical plays and en- Money for Katrina Relief gaged in a rare brand of social activism. “Social activism was an integral AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – which raised over €200,000 or about part of his character,” said filmmaker A recording of a concert in Amster- $250,000. Donnie L. Betts, who produced and dam for New Orleans jazz musicians is Through a partnership with the directed the film. “OBJ always said to be distributed worldwide by Radio American Federation of Musicians, ‘an artist has a social responsibility to Netherlands, that nation’s foreign ra- the money raised will be used to help the community to educate as well as dio service. musicians from the areas affected by entertain – it’s about the people, and A host of Dutch musicians and Hurricane Katrina in finding housing not about money.’ That philosophy in- singers agreed to perform at the ben- and work, and in replacing damaged fluenced my artistic life and led me to efit in Amsterdam Concertgebouw instruments. create this film.” on Monday evening, Sept. 19. Some The line up for Monday’s concert Brown initially saw an early cut of 1,100 tickets at €75 each were sold included René Froger, Cor Bakker and the film with his good friends, Amiri by Monday afternoon for the event, tenor-saxophonist Hans Dulfer. JW Baraka and Melvin Van Peebles, at the jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 6 News New Charlie Brown Christmas Recording Due This Fall

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – A Char- on “Just Like Me,” a new track writ- including the 2000 recording Here’s to lie Brown Christmas, an enduring holi- ten by David Benoit, who both per- You, Charlie Brown. day tradition enjoyed by television au- formed on and produced the CD, and A Charlie Brown Christmas de- diences around the world, this year long time producer of the holiday tele- buted on network television in 1965. celebrates its 40th anniversary. To vision specials, Lee Mendelson. Written by Charles M. Schulz, with mark the landmark event, Peak Re- 40 Years – A Charlie Brown Christ- Bill Melendez directing and Mendel- cords will release 40 Years – A Charlie mas also includes two Peanuts songs son as executive producer, the show Brown Christmas, a collection of newly not featured on the perennial favor- won an Emmy for Outstanding Chil- recorded versions of holiday favorites ite, multi-platinum selling A Charlie dren’s Program, despite initial con- and Vince Guaraldi-penned Peanuts Brown Christmas from Vince Guaral- cerns about the show’s leisurely-paced classics, such as the instantly recogniz- di, “Red Baron” and “It’s the Most jazz soundtrack, religious theme, and able “Linus and Lucy.” Wonderful Time of the Year.” use of children’s voices. In Decem- The CD, which showcases the tal- 40 Years – A Charlie Brown Christ- ber 2004, A Charlie Brown Christmas ents of Gerald Albright, Toni Braxton, mas was the brainchild of ﬁve-time was named “Best Christmas Special” Norman Brown, Chaka Khan, Dave Grammy-nominated musician, com- by TV Guide and drew an audience of Koz, Brian McKnight, Eric Marien- poser, and arranger David Benoit, who over 13 million viewers, the special’s JW thal, and�� The Rippingtons, is in stores has been composing music for Peanuts best numbers ever on ABC. Oct. 4. Vanessa Williams guest-stars television specials for over ten years,

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jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 7 News Concord Music Group Licenses 35th Pitt Jazz Catalog for Mobile Phones, Instant Seminar Lineup Messaging and Web; Includes Announced PITTSBURGH – Legendary jazz Coltrane, Miles, Sonny, and Ella musicians from around the world will perform and participate in lectures LOS ANGELES – AG Interactive, able through AGI’s direct-to-consum- and demonstrations at the Universi- the new media subsidiary of American er and partner mobile, online, instant ty of Pittsburgh Nov. 1 - 5 as part of Greetings Corporation (AM), today messaging, and retail channels. the 35th-Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and announced a partnership with Con- Mobile channels will include wire- Concert, the longest-running event of cord Music Group, one of the world’s less carriers, Univision Movil, Def Jam its kind in the country. largest independent music companies, Mobile, MIDIringtones, Kiwee, and This year’s musicians include: Nich- to develop and exclusively distribute Concord-branded channels. The fol- olas Payton, trumpet; Charles Tolliver, premium content from a vast portfo- lowing web platforms will also offer trumpet; James Spaulding, alto saxo- lio of Concord’s recordings through the new content: Americangreetings. phone; James Moody, saxophone; Lar- AG Interactive and Concord- branded com, Bluemountain.com, Egreetings. ry Coryell, guitar; Renee Rosnes, pia- online, mobile and Instant Messaging com, Univision.com, Concordrecords. no; Abraham Laboriel, bass; and Idris channels. com, Yahoo (TM) Greetings, MSN Muhammad, drums. They will per- Under the umbrella of the Concord Greetings, AOL Greetings, Earth- form under the direction of Nathan Music Group’s labels – including Fan- Link, and MSN Messenger 7.0. Davis, saxophonist, head of Pitt’s Jazz tasy, Milestone, Prestige, Riverside, “Our partnership with Concord Studies Program, and founder of the Stax, Specialty, Concord Records, Music Group is incredibly exciting. annual event. Concord Picante, and Peak Records – Many of the world’s most popular re- Davis will be working with the are recordings from many names in the cording artists are included in its cat- appropriate agencies to designate the history of jazz, blues, R&B and rock. alog and we are proud to be a part of profits from the annual event toward Original content based on the Com- a major initiative to make this music Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Both pany’s classic and current catalogs will available to a much wider audience Payton and Muhammad call New Or- be available and will feature record- through new online and wireless chan- leans their home. ings from John Coltrane, Miles Davis, nels for the first time,” said Bryan Bin- “I’ve spoken with both of them Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, iak, senior vice president, AG Interac- [Payton and Muhammad] about my Peter Cincotti, Tito Puente, Vince tive and general manager, AGmobile. intent to donate the profits from the Guaraldi, Mel Torme, Sonny Rollins, “We chose AG Interactive as our concert ticket sales to the hurricane Eddie Palmieri, Chick Corea, and Art partner to leverage the company’s un- victims of that city,” said Davis, not- Blakey, among others. paralleled distribution channels, con- ing the strong connection between the AGI and Concord will produce a tent production capabilities and mar- Pitt event and the jazz mecca that was broad range of personalization, enter- keting expertise,” said Hal Gaba, largely destroyed by Hurricane Ka- tainment, information, and commu- Chairman, Concord Music Group. trina and subsequent levee breaches nication products for IP-based appli- “AG Interactive will help us take the Aug. 29 - 30. “We’ve had a lot of mu- cations and devices including mobile music of legendary artists to new au- sicians from New Orleans participate phones, PDAs, computers, console, diences through the latest mobile and in our event over the years,” he added. and home entertainment networks. online technology.” During Jazz Week Nov. 1 - 5, the Products will include ring tones and Concord Music Group was formed guest artists will conduct free on-cam- ring backs, wallpapers, videos, eGreet- by the acquisition of Fantasy Records pus seminars. As part of the Pitt Jazz ings and eVites, as well as instant mes- by Concord earlier this year, resulting outreach initiative, they also will host saging content including emoticons, in consolidation in Beverly Hills and miniclinics for students at area schools winks, and skins. some layoffs of company personnel. and give free lecture / demonstrations The new content will be avail- JW in community venues. JW jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 8 News Birthdays September 27 October 7 Bud Powell (1924) Jo Jones (1911) September 21 Red Rodney (1927) Amiri Baraka (1934) Slam Stewart (1914) Mike Nock (1940) George Young (1937) Chico Hamilton (1921) Matt Wilson (1964) Larry Young (1940) Sunny Murray (1937) September 28 October 8 September 23 Kenny Kirkland (1955) J C Heard (1917) Albert Ammons (1907) September 29 Hal Singer (1919) John Coltrane (1926) Jean-Luc Ponty (1942) Pepper Adams (1930) Frank Foster (1928) September 30 October 9 Jimmy Woode (1928) Buddy Rich (1917) Mezz Mezzrow (1899) Les McCann (1935) Oscar Pettiford (1922) Elmer Snowdon (1900) Jeremy Steig (1943) Antonio Hart (1968) Lee Wiley (1915) Yusef Lateef (1920) September 24 October 1 Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) (1934) Herb Jeffries (1916) Dave Holland (1946) Dave Samuels (1948) Fats Navarro (1923) Mark Helias (1950) John Carter (1929) Kenny Garrett (1960) Bill Connors (1949) October 2 Phil Urso (1925) October 10 Jay Hoggard (1954) Harry Edison (1915) September 25 October 3 Thelonious Monk (1917) Sam Rivers (1930) Von Freeman (1922) Julius Watkins (1921) Horacee Arnold (1937) Ronnie Laws (1950) Ed Blackwell (1927) Bill Pierce (1948) October 4 Junior Mance (1928) Barbara Dennerlein (1964) Stan Hasselgard (1922) Cecil Bridgewater (1942) September 26 Leon Thomas (1937) October 11 George Gershwin (1898) Steve Swallow (1940) Art Blakey (1919) Gary Bartz (1940) Eddie Gomez (1944) Mose Allison (1927) Nicholas Payton (1973) October 5 Curtis Amy (1929) Jimmy Blanton (1918) Billy Higgins (1936) Bill Dixon (1925) Lester Bowie (1941) October 6 Fred Hopkins (1947) Sammy Price (1908)

jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 9 New Orleans In Limbo

DigitalGlobe ow that the people of New Orleans have been rescued and at least mostly accounted for (there’s still no word on Ir- Nvin Mayﬁeld’s brother and father), it is time to check in with folks from the Big Easy. Life and death had been managed for the most part, so it was now possible move on and talk about art and culture. On a personal note, I’ve just heard from friend, mentor and former colleague James Lien. Getting that email made me feel a whole lot better and I can only imagine that is a hundred-fold when folk from the area reconnecting. What follows is one of the hard- est and most rewarding set of interviews I’ve done as journalist. They are of Basin Street Records’ Mark Samuels, WWOZ program director Dwayne Brashears, Terence Blanchard and Jazz Founda- tion Of America’s Wendy Oxenhorn, a New Yorker who was going down to help. Early on I felt like a vulture swooping in to get these folks stories and oﬀer them up for public consumption. None- theless, my phone calls were met with same welcoming hospitality that I’d found in my trip during 2000’s IAJE and one other pass through town. These people didn’t have to talk to me, but they wanted to. It was what they could do to spread the word let people know that all is not lost. – Tad Hendrickson

continued ... jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 10 New Orleans in Limbo (continued) Q&A: Mark Samuels

Mark Samuels: Founder of Basin Street Records Mark and his family have relocated to Austin, Texas. His home was next to the 17th Canal and is currently under several feet of water. JazzWeek: Is New Orleans going to come back? Mark Samuels: I think New Orleans is going to come back better and stronger than ever. Feds will have to make a decision about certain areas, too messed, too hard to I think New rebuild. Orleans is When did you get out? We left on Sunday morning about 9 a.m. I went to bed thinking that I would going to come wake up in the morning and take a hard look at the situation. My dad called at back better and 4 a.m. and said, “Mark you better take a look at this.” So over the next four or five hours that it took to get my kids, girlfriend and her dog together, we got stronger than out by nine. It was a relatively easy trip up to Memphis, which was different than the direction most were taking over to Houston – there was gridlock on ever. I-10 West. I made it to Memphis in eight hours and it’s normally a six-and-a- “ half hour drive. What’s up with the label offices? I don’t know. I haven’t gotten any good word on that. I don’t think we got eight feet, but I think we probably got one or two. Where is that? Mid City on Canal Street. So Austin worked out, you have a lot of musicians in Houston. It did turn out that way, but I didn’t know where everybody would end up. Kermit Ruffins and Dr. Michael White are in Houston. Theresa Andersson is here in Austin. Henry Butler may come to Austin. He’s got an offer for a place to stay for six months here. Through a weird grape vine I heard that Jason Marsalis was considering coming here. Then there are few other guys over in Atlanta. Nobody is too far away. We’re all in the South. Is any business able to be conducted at this point? We’ve found all of our artists and I believe we have found all of our sidemen at this point. I’m relieved that everyone is safe. I’m a little concerned about Emile Vinet who was supposed to be down in San Antonio. Kermit was supposed to bring him to Houston.

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His health has not been great in the last few years. But everyone has the ability to work. From a label standpoint, yes I lost tens of thousands of CDs from my warehouse or at least I have lost my access to them. But my distributor is Red, and there are CDs in several locations all over the country. So product will re- main available at retail. It’s also available digitally. There are 24 tracks that are being offered digitally with 100% going to hurricane relief of the New Orleans musicians. So people can get the music. I also have the entire database on my laptop. Have you been getting a lot of calls about work for the players? The offers we’ve been getting because of the tragedy are some of the greatest offers we could ever be exposed to. Kermit Ruffins is going to be playing Mad- ison Square Garden with Earth Wind and Fire, Bette Midler, Elton John, The Nevilles, Dirty Dozen, Rebirth Brass Band. Irvin Mayfield was on Larry King Live for five and a half minutes talking about his father and brother being missing. We’ve given interviews to the New York Times, New York Post, Asso- ciated Press, Rolling Stone. Offers are coming in from people who want to hire New Orleans musicians. Someone in San Francisco said they wanted to hire a New Orleans musician for a one-month residency. Offers have come from jazz clubs in Manhattan and festivals around the world. I imagine that over the next year, the Montreal Jazz Festival and the North Sea Jazz Festival are going to give an extra little look to New Orleans bands that they might not have given otherwise. That’s going to be a wonderful way to support these guys and music that is the birthplace of American music. Basin Street Records recording artist Irvin Kermit Ruffins is a New Orleans institution that plays three or four nights Mayfield participated in last Saturday’s a week in town and goes out on the road as well. He’ll have to go out on the Higher Ground concert and played “America road more if he wants to keep his family comfortable. He’ll probably bring the Beautiful” before the Saints-Giants game people with him as well. People like Bryan Lee, who is a blind guitarist, will Monday night. At press time, his father, Irvin have an offer – he’s an institution on Bourbon Street who plays five nights a Mayfield, Sr., was still unaccounted for. week on Bourban Street. Somebody in some city is going to love to have Bryan Lee play their club. It’s going to have to take looking for those offers and accepting that hospitality. But not everyone is equipped with a month of living expenses in the savings account. Very few musicians have two weeks, if they even have a savings account. But in the greater scheme of things, everyone is doing okay. Right? Looking for the positives, and looking towards the ones you love is the way you get through these things. I like to believe that if I had absolutely nothing, not a dime to my name, that with my kids around me that I’ll be okay. You need to focus on those sorts of things. It’s amazing to think about every being able to reconnect with everyone else. Cell phones and email are the reasons we’re able to know that we’re all okay. continued ... jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 12 New Orleans in Limbo (continued)

The lists that I’ve seen circulating of people (not just musicians) who are al- right that people have compiled on their own, alphabetized, is amazing. I’ve gone through about 400-500 names, checking to see if they are okay. I haven’t found anyone other than Irvin’s father that I know is missing. I know that when it comes down to it, I will have known people that have died, but at this point I don’t know anybody. How many people worked at the label? There were five of us fulltime. We’re all spread out now. I don’t know what I’m gong to be able to do with anybody. I don’t think anyone is going to have any fulltime work for a while. But with the nature of the business and with artist traveling is that even though I might have someone up in New York and if they find other work part time I might be able to keep them on in a limited capacity. Either by working at their computer or working the phones on accounts all over the country. It’s pretty early, but I know I’ve taken a significant financial hit. I’m not going to be able to spend money the way I did. And if I do spend money it’s going to have to turn a profit. The staff will probably have to be cut back and people will probably leave because I can’t give them enough work. But I think that there is something that everyone can do. Kermit Ruffins, Basin Street Records’ first artist, poses with the Rebirth Brass Band during the recording of his CD Throwback. What about your label memorbilia? I think I basically lost all the clippings of our artists, which were stored at the house. What about your music collection? Oh that’s destroyed. It’s under I don’t know how many feet of water. Hopeful- ly I didn’t lose the tens of thousands that are at the office, which is the inven- tory. There’s paintings and posters that are gone – I had a Wynton Marsalis signed publisher’s proof of a Jazzfest poster. That was from a run of 100. I can’t say that it’s priceless, but I can say that it’s irreplaceable. I’m learning that that stuff isn’t important. It’s just things. That I may have spent a lot of money on, or been given as a gift. That’s nothing compared to my kids smiles.

continued ... jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 13 New Orleans in Limbo (continued) Radio Q&A: Dwayne Breashears, WWOZ Program Director

Although many in the JazzWeek community have already reached out to Dwayne Breashears and know that he’s doing okay and currently staying in Baton Rouge, we still thought it would be good to check in.

JazzWeek: Have you gotten any word on whether your home is under water? I’m going to Dwayne Breashears: I have no idea. I think at this point that there could be expect the anywhere from a foot to a foot-and-a-half of water in my apartment. That’s based on what I’ve seen online, but I keep thinking that whenever the rest of worst and the city floods, our street is dry. We’re actually one of the few points in the city that is above sea level – we’re a foot above on my block. I’m gonna expect the hope for the worst and hope for the best. best. Is your music collection on the floor? Man, I’m going to have CDs ruined, and books ruined. All my boxed sets were on the floor because they didn’t fit on the shelves. I’m guessing I take a signifi- “ cant hit on the music. I also have a comic book collection that I started when I was 12. I was going to sell them when I turned 55 and buy a house somewhere. Who knows what we have to face when we go back? I have a hand-carved ta- ble from Indonesia that can never ever be replaced. I’d rather think that it’s all okay. There is a brand new computer sitting on the floor, and stupidly enough I did not pick it up when I got ready to leave. Things that have sentimental value to me are furniture from my grandma that she used to have at her house. It’s stupid stuff like that that I’m worried about. Everything else can be replaced. Electronics can be replaced rather cheaply. What’s up with the radio station? Right now WFMU in New Jersey has been hosting an internet broadcast. General Manager Ken Freedman and the staff have been great. We’re basically taking archive material provided by different hosts and listeners and have been basically running that over what we’re calling it WWOZ in exile. We were back up and running in less than a week. Ken and I are in Baton Rouge trying to get us back on the air and get us places to do production so that we can create more current programming from our DJs.

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How are they? Right now we’ve got a 120 of them and they are spread all across the Unit- ed States. I can think of three in California; there’s a little group in Hous- ton and Atlanta; there’s five or six here in Baton Rouge. The rest are spread from Pensacola, Florida, to Manhattan to Chicago. What I’m trying to do is locate them and put them in contact with stations in their area, so that they can do production work if they want to. They can send shows on CD or MP3 and we’ll upload everything down here in Baton Rouge. Our Webmaster is in North Carolina doing a wonderful job keeping everything together for us. It’s amazing that this can all happen – where people can get in touch with each other. I was talking to our operations person in Natchez, Mississippi, and I said, “I don’t know what we would have done if we didn’t have technology at our fingertips.” We keep in touch via cell phone and via email. Without it there would be no way to even think about putting a station back together. It’s amazing to think if it had happened 15 years ago. Exactly. We would have closed the station and walked away from it and then come back when they let us back into WWOZ program director Dwayne Breashears enjoying Mardi Gras earlier this year. the city to rebuild. At that time, who knows what would have happened? People could relocate and then settle in decide to stay. Then we’d back at square one trying to build a listenership again. I imagine the show of support has been reaffirming. We’ve gotten tremendous tremendous support from stations around the country. People are doing little one-day and two-day fundraisers for us. They are organizing benefits at clubs, offering us any equipment that we need to make things happen again. Labels have all said, “Whatever you need, just let us know.” How is the station itself? The studio is okay. I think there is just a foot and a half or two feet of water in the studio. The operation area is downstairs and the control room is upstairs,

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so it looks like all the equipment upstairs is okay. The record library is okay too. Our GM and chief engineer were able to get back in last week and take a look. There’s a hole in our roof that needed to be fixed before there is more rain between now and whenever we’re allowed to return, so that whatever we I think that have left isn’t damaged. The antenna looks like it has nominal damage and the the soul of the transmitter we’re not sure about. I think the biggest question is whether we’ll be able to stay in Armstrong Park, and if so, when can we expect to get power community is because our power lines are in a recessed area under that park, which is probably under water. Each source will cost a quarter of a million dollars to fix and going to be in we need two. The city has announced that it’s out of money at this point, and jeopardy because we’re guessing that we are not going to be high up the food chain in getting our power back. The center of the performing arts is there and the municipal so many musicians auditorium is there, so you’d think that they will get power back to the park “are out there as sooner or later. Have you heard about anyone leaving town permanently? part of the second Every musician and person I’ve talked has said that they are going back and line bands. ... If they want to make sure that what makes New Orleans special stays intact and that it doesn’t become some homogenized place where you could be anywhere. they could eek out We’re not going to allow the vision of New Orleans to be interpreted by any- a living as a New one on the outside. I lived in Manhattan when 9/11 happened and a lot of people moved away. Orleans musician Obviously we’re talking about two different kinds of disasters here, but I living somewhere wonder if people will leave because it’s too hard to go back. I talked about it extensively with everybody about this. I think the general else, why wouldn’t sentiment will be those that could afford to leave will go back. The ones that didn’t have those options, the ones that ended up at the Superdome are going they do that? to stay wherever they are. If there is somewhere like Houston where they can finally get a decent job, and if they are in a school system where they are getting books and an education, they’ll probably stay where they are. If they live paycheck to paycheck before, how will they afford to move back to a city where there is going to be a housing shortage for the foreseeable future? How do you think it will affect the music community down there? I think that the soul of the community is going to be in jeopardy because so many musicians are out there as part of the second line bands, or are part of the Mardi Gras Indian crews. That is what people go to New Orleans to see. So many of those people live paycheck to paycheck, if even. If they could eek out a living as a New Orleans musician living somewhere else, why wouldn’t they do that? There is no reason to go back unless they get some session work or someone wants to take them out the road. I was just emailing a person who is out in L.A. now and he was one of the producers for our New Orleans Jazz and Parish Festival. He says, “I got a gig continued ... jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 16 New Orleans in Limbo (continued)

as a music composer for this new ABC series.” I’m thinking, “Well, that’s one gone.” Who’d want to come back to New Orleans and make $10,000 to $12,000 when they could live out in L.A. making a nice six-figure income? I sure as hell wouldn’t come back. How about you? I’ve gotten a few offers to move somewhere else, but I’m like, “Keep that offer out there for me, but for right now I’m definitely committed to my part in maintaining the culture of the region. I can’t walk away from it now.” People will How was the evacuation? go back, clean I got a call from my sister at 4 a.m. on Sunday saying that she was leaving. I woke up my roommate and we got our stuff together and left. We caravanned everything up with some friends up to Lake Charles. It’s a three-hour drive that took 11 hours. Everyone in my family said they were going to evacuate, then my aunt and go, “Now and grandmother decided to stay. They were fine – I actually talked to them where were the day after the hurricane. Then the levee broke. That caused a little freak out. The phones were basically useless after Tuesday, and we couldn’t reach ei- we before we ther of them. By Thursday we really started to worry, and Thursday night my sister called me and said that she just saw grandmother sitting out front of “were so rudely CNN in a chair with her walker in front of her. Long story short: Her assist- interrupted?” ed living facility had been evacuated and they brought them to the conven- tion center and they wound up staying there for 12 hours. I saw her picture on the CNN website and spent hours trying to figure out where they evacuated her to. No one knew where they had taken them. So all of us, my friends and family, a network of people from California to New York, spent a week tracking them down. I found her by accident. I even had a producer at Larry King helping out. They were looking at footage of the photos she’s in trying to figure out when it was taken and where she was evacuated to. I eventually tracked her down to a shelter here in Baton Rouge and I had my friend Stephanie go over and see. The information was posted at 8 p.m. the night before, and she went to see if it was her at 8 a.m. the next morning. She was already discharged to a nursing home in Nogales, Louisiana. It’s just mind numbing. Then tracking my aunt and uncle to a shelter in San Antonio: We’d call and they kept saying, “They’re not here, they’re not here.” We kept saying, “Yes they are. Or if they aren’t, where did you bring them?” I have to say that it was one of the more frustrating events in my life. The Red Cross has been useless. I got a call last night saying that they had found my grandmother. I said, “No you didn’t. My grandmother has been in Mississippi with family for a week now.” It’s very alarming that we don’t have all aspects of search and rescue mapped out. How do you think this catastrophe will be remembered? They always say that New Orleans is a city that care forgot. I think that those continued ... jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 17 New Orleans in Limbo (continued)

of us from the arts community who go back are going to celebrate the fact that we survived. I won’t say it will be business as usual, but we will celebrate. It will be better than it ever was. People will go back, clean everything up and go, “Now where were we before we were so rudely interrupted?”

Q&A: Terence Blanchard, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, educator

While most folks were leaving the city, Terence Blanchard ﬂew in from L.A. (where he has a post at the Monk Institute) to get his family out.

JazzWeek: How you doing? Terence Blanchard: This is going to be one of those things where it’s, “Where This is going to were you when?” be one of those Were you down there when it happened? No. I was in Los Angeles teaching. I called my wife, and her not being from things where New Orleans and not experiencing a hurricane, she didn’t understand the it’s, “Where gravity of the situation and was actually at a restaurant with some friends and they were having hurricane party. That just goes to show you the spirit of the were you people of New Orleans. when?” When did you start getting worried? I didn’t have cable until Saturday and turned on the news and saw how seri- “ ous it was, because no one in L.A. was talking about how serious it was, and decided that I had to go back. I got home Sunday at 4 a.m. and closed up the shutters and packed up the house and drove to Atlanta. There were three cars of us. We didn’t take much because we didn’t expect to be gone for more than a few days. We turned on the news and our ﬁrst reaction was, “Cool,” we were still feeling pain from the people directly in the path, but we were okay. Then we started getting reports about the water and we thought, “Well, maybe it won’t be that bad.” Then I saw some pictures of places that I knew were inland and I just couldn’t believe it, because I have never seen anything like that in my life. Places where I normally walk around had water up to the rooﬂine. continued ... jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 18 New Orleans in Limbo (continued)

The pictures have been so vivid. This is an American tragedy the likes of which has never been seen before. And we still have to remember that we’re going through it in stages. To go through the shock of knowing that the city did flood. Now go through the shock of mourning the number of those who are dead. How the relief didn’t get there in time. Now draining the city and finding out what has to be done. But the really traumatic part for me is going to be when people go back and see the level of devastation that happened to their homes. We haven’t been able to walk through our homes and see what needs to be done. How does your neighborhood look? I’ve talked to some friends that have been by my home – I have broken glass and roof damage. Those things are simple to fix and not a big concern for me. My concern is for all those folks in other areas who have severe flood- ing. Where are they going to live while things are being rebuilt? There are so many questions that need to be an- swered. I’m not an engineer, but there needs to be a well thought out and systematic plan of how to rebuild the city. A lot of people are concerned that big Pamela Springsteen business is going to move in. Terence Blanchard was in Los Angeles, but flew home to get his family out of New Or- I think there is going to be a little of leans. that. We have to face some facts that our president really has to step up to the plate, and in doing so they probably are going to build something that we’ve never seen before. And in doing that, the opportunists will appear. There is going to be some trying times ahead throughout the rebuilding process. Are you concerned with all the school closings that a whole generation of jazz musicians could move away, never to return? That could happen, but I don’t think so. You have to think about where those guys are going to go to make a living the way they do in New Orleans. People love the city and they love the culture. There is an energy there that you don’t get any other place. I don’t see that changing. But it will be interesting to see what does occur. I’ve heard estimates of close to 50 percent of the city not re- turning and I don’t buy that. Everybody I’ve talked to wants to come back. I think there are those who will find better employment somewhere else, and

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good for them. But you have to know New Orleaneans. Those of us who are fortunate enough to travel to other places all talk about how much we don’t like the food. We’re always talking about how we can’t wait to get home so we can go eat at such and such a place. There are things that we are so accustomed to as part of our culture are going to be the things that will draw us back to the city. It’s our I think one of home. Look at the number of people who stayed after the flood. the positives of Is there anything to be optimistic about? this tragedy is I think one of the positives of this tragedy is that it shined a light on the abject poverty that is in New Orleans. And one of the things that I feel guilty about that it shined is that I was unaware that people didn’t know about it. I was talking to a friend of mine, Bill Nunn, who is an actor that has shot a few movies down there and a light on the he said, “Man, I didn’t know it was like that.” And I started thinking about abject poverty it: Most people who visit the city have no idea. That’s going to have to be ad- dressed. “that is in New How’s the band, some of your people are from there. Orleans. Every one is fine. Brice Winston, the tenor saxophonist, evacuated with his family to Tucson, Arizona. Vincent Bennett, my road manager, has relocated to Austin with his brother and girlfriend and some other folks. My mom is in Shreveport, she was in Jackson, but I’m going to bring her out to L.A. to where I am. My two older kids are going to go to school in Atlanta. How’s the response been to you in the last few weeks as you’ve been traveling around and playing? I gotta say that it’s been amazing. There’s been such an outpouring of love and concern for us. Much more so than from our government. It just goes to show you the type spirit people have. There has been a lot of talk about Americans’ indifference to things, and some of that stuff does exist, but at the same time I’ve experiences a tremendous outpouring of love. I bet it’s going to go on and on into festival season next year. Everyone is going to want to bring New Orleans artists to their festival or town in support. That’s the thing. People have been asking me about whether the New Orleans scene will come back. It’s going to take a while because all those bands are going to be on tour! (Laughs) You’re right. The entire country is about to get a history lesson on New Orleans culture and the city itself. And that is truly a good thing. Are you getting involved in the rebuilding process? I’ve been making calls, but it’s kind of wild because you call a 504 area code and you just have to pray that you get through. I have a friend who is putting together an organization to help reclaim neighborhoods and I’ve left a mes-

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sage telling him, “Whatever you need, just let me know.” I’ve been talking to friends on the police force about what I could do. I definitely plan to be a part of plans to rebuild the city. As a trumpeter from New Orleans you’re part of a very important tradition. Everyone has their own thoughts on New Orleans place in jazz history, what are yours? I think the history of jazz and New Orleans have been in- tertwined for years. They are inseparable in my opinion. It was the perfect breeding ground for all those cultures to come together in something that is distinct and very beautiful. Going through the modern jazz era, which really flourished in New York, it’s interesting to see it still involved the music. It’s really a testament to the culture down there. That it had that kind of lasting power to go through all those different genres of development within jazz and still be a distinctive part of it speaks volumes for the city. Kids grow up listening to the music, it’s hard-wired onto their DNA. Everyone knows how to dance. I’ll tell you a funny story. I was playing a gig in L.A. This was 10 or 15 years ago. The drummer I had at the time was Troy Davis, who is from Baton Rouge. So we started playing this tune that had a New Orleans feel to it and we started getting into this whole thing. I looked around Pamela Springsteen and this guy jumped up in the audience and started doing the second line and I could tell immediately that he was from New Orleans. So I started playing to him and the whole audience was wondering what the hell happened. We were having a good time, like we was back home. There is such a connection between musicians and audiences. It’s all part of the same thing. And it’s history. New Orleans has a very vibrant history. It’s a party town, but it also has a very significant history, and also in terms of musical history. I’ve already decided I’ll be at Jazzfest next year. Oh man it’s going to be off the chain. I’m not even booked for it yet, but I know it’s going to be off the chain. We’ve lived hurricanes before and we’ve always come back from it. Always. And while this thing has been devastating, St. Bernard Parish is completely destroyed, but I know the spirit of that town. And come Jazzfest, you may need to get there by rickshaw or by camel, but you need to be there.

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Q&A: Wendy Oxenhorn, Executive Director of Jazz Foundation Of America

JazzWeek talked to Wendy Oxenhorn on the eve of a trip down to Baton Rouge, where she was going on a fact-ﬁnding mission and to bring down instruments for displaced musicians.

Clarence JazzWeek: What’s going on? Wendy Oxenhorn: I just talked to James Andrews, a trumpeter from New Or- “Gatemouth” leans. He left all ﬁve of his horns to take his kids and wife to get the heck out. Brown made it to What’s Jazz Foundation Of America doing so far? We’ve got a musicians’ clinic in Lafayette that has about a hundred musicians safety, but I spoke put up by Cajun musicians. It’s really beautiful. They’re having a street festival to his manager Thursday night. We’re also working on getting employment for the musicians – 1000 gigs at $100 a pop. This would be for displaced musicians living in and I truly believe the shelters. Part of the money will go to the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, “that he died of which will get them gigs in schools and other places. You’re also looking at ﬁnding homes for musicians as well? a broken heart Our wish is that this will prompt the government to set aside a home for re- because he lost his tired musicians. We hope that people know that New Orleans isn’t New Or- leans without the music, so hopefully they (landlords and government) will un- home and all his derstand that and make sure that musicians have a place to live. memorabilia. Good luck with that. It’s been my experience that musicians are usually the last on the food chain. I put in a call to Harry Connick, Jr., who is now the Honorary Chair for Habi- tat For Humanity’s “Operation Home Delivery” and told him, “Don’t forget the musicians when you get all the money to rebuild.” The music business is devastating enough on a musician’s life, but to have something like this happen is too much. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown made it to safety, but I spoke to his manager and I truly believe that he died of a broken heart because he lost his home and all his memorabilia. He’d not been well and that was the last straw. Any word about the status of people in the shelters? I’ve heard of musicians refusing to leave the shelter they are staying in for fear continued ... jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 22 New Orleans in Limbo (continued)

that they won’t be reunited with family members. A lot of musicians were on the road so they don’t have don’t have families, or if they do, they could be es- tranged from their children because they weren’t around. What’s the biggest impact of this storm on musicians, besides the fact of having to leave the city? “For a musician to be without the two most important things in his life – an instrument and the next gig – is the most devastating part of this whole thing that any musician would ever have to face. It’s like telling a great artist that he’s going to lose his hands and there is no canvas or paint anywhere. You’re getting donations of instruments from manufacturers and all over the place. How’s that been going? We have 70 so far but we’ll need more – there are a hundred musicians in Lafayette alone, and a bunch more in Baton Rouge, and a ton in Texas. How many displaced musicians do you think there are? I don’t know. I do know that the New Orleans Musicians Clinic has served 800 musicians in the four The Jazz Foundation of America has been named the coordinator for the New Orleans years that they’ve been there. Figure Musicians Clinic as well as other groups in the Gulf Area who are helping the musicians in that not everyone goes in, because New Orleans. The foundation is accepting donations at its web site, jazzfoundation.org. musicians only seem to go to the doctor when they are sick, I’m guessing a quarter of the musician popula- tion goes in there, so I think we’re going to ﬁnd that an estimated 4000 musicians lived in the area. JW

jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 23 Reviews and Picks

Brad Mehldau Trio Jonathan Kreisberg

Day Is Done (Nonesuch) Unearth (Mel Bay) FOLLOWING UP HIS 2004 solo effort, Live In Tokyo, pianist GUITAR PLAYERS KNOW the reputation of Mel Bay thanks Brad Mehldau returns to his tried and true trio format. As to the company’s highly regarded instruction manuals, and with much of his recent work, the pianist mixes a few orig- now the rest of the jazz world is getting clued in thanks to inals and standards with covers of tunes by such non-jazz a steady stream of impressive guitar-based albums. While artists as Paul Si- Jonathan Kreis- mon, Radiohead. berg has released a No matter which handful of albums direction the trio as a leader (the heads off in, the most recent being music is pure Me- Criss Cross’s Nine hldau – there are Stories Wide from spiraling piano so- 2004) and gotten a los, a precise sense ton of recognition of swing and a from his peers, the willingness to un- New York-based pack an idea for guitarist now seems more than a quick poised to move to a moment – the al- new level in his career. Unearth features a excellent quin- bum’s 10 tracks add up 70 minutes of music. While drum- tet, which includes trumpeter Scott Wendholt and pianist mer Jorge Rossy was a fine accompanist for 10 years, Me- Aaron Goldberg, that ventures into subtle electric fusion at hldau and bassist Larry Grenadier are now joined by the times but for the most part provides a strong elastic group powerful Jeff Ballard, a veteran drummer whose technical sound. Kreisberg illustrates his deft compositional touch on abilities are an even match to those of the pianist. Ballard this set of eight originals, yet his playing is perhaps even is particularly strong on opener “Knives Out,” where he stonger – he’s prone to compact runs with a strong sense of maintains the original version’s backbeat and busy drum ’n’ fluidity and has a flawless sense of harmony. Some are al- bass accents and somehow still manages to swing it. Those ready familiar with this guitarist, but Unearth still counts who like Mehldau best when he stays on the inside will no as an arrival, if only on the basis of its formidable step for- doubt be drawn to evergreen ballad “Alfie,” the dramatic ward from past efforts. Nick Drake-penned title track (with a nice solo bit from – Tad Hendrickson Grenadier) or “No Moon At All.” This is forward looking bop group that seems to consider everything as it works at Contact: Gerald Miller Phone: (800) 863-5229 ext. 29 the highest of levels. Email: [email protected] – Tad Hendrickson Add Date: Sept. 26 Release Date: Sept. 20 Contact: Jane Dashow Phone: (212) 679-1445 Email: [email protected] Add Date: Sept. 26 Release Date: Sept. 27

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jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 24 Reviews and Picks from. All 11 tracks but “Girl Talk” Kyle Eastwood are French songs, but tunes known Paris Blue (Rendezvous) in English as “Au- BASSIST KYLE EASTWOOD had seemed to slip off into the tumn Leaves” and “where are they now?” category after recording his debut “If You Go Away” for Columbia in 1998. The answer would seem to be Par- are well-known. is. A session play- Performed in Dee er for years before Dee’s powerful yet that, Eastwood breezy style, this seems to be con- album is a welcom- tent to drive the me relief from the bus from the back litany of tired songs for the most part, and arrangements that typify many jazz vocal releases. urging these songs – Ed Trefzger along with thick, Contact: Chris Jonz often electric bass Phone: 310.216.7077 lines. Eastwood Email: [email protected] chooses to work Add Date: Sept. 19 Release Date: Sept. 13 with small groups throughout, yet there is a sheen that was no doubt applied in hopes of attracting the attention of smooth jazz and urban programmers, and it should work – there is nothing aggressive or atonal here. There is, however, a bit of silli- ness on the opening track “Big Noise (From Winnetka),” wherein father Clint whistles his way through the melody (they couldn’t find the man a piano?). Those looking for Eastwood’s acoustic chops should get their fill on “Le Pont Royal,” while smooth folks have such choices as “Marrake- ch” and “Muse.” – Tad Hendrickson Contact: Groov Marketing Phone: (877) GROOV 32 Email: [email protected] Add Date: Sept. 27 Release Date: Sept. 20

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Bill Charlap Plays Gershwin Tops Jazz Chart

Bebo Valdés is Most Added on 13 Stations

fter 12 weeks on the chart, some at No. 2, Bill Charlap Plays George Ger- Ashwin: The American Soul (Blue Note) takes the top spot this week. The new double CD plus DVD from band leader Bebo Valdéz, Bebo De Cuba (Calle 54) was the most added, with new airplay on 13 stations. Seeing the biggest increase in airplay was The Battle: Live at Smoke (HighNote) which pairs tenor man Eric Alexander and al- Bill Charlap Plays George Gershwin (Blue Note) is toist Vincent Herring, adding 52 spins. The No. 1 in its 12th week on the chart. week’s highest debut was One Step Closer (CAP) by vibraphonist Mark Sherman, at No. 27.

Jazz Album Chart p. 28 Jazz Add Dates p. 29 Jazz Current CDs p. 30 Jazz Radio Panel p. 37 Bebo De Cuba (Calle 54) from Bebo Valdéz was the week’s most added, picking up 13 stations.

jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 27 airplay data JazzWeek Jazz Album Chart Sept. 21, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 2 5 1 Bill Charlap Plays George Gershwin: The American Soul Blue Note 214 216 -2 12 46 0 2 1 1 1 The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra Live At MCG MCG Jazz 203 226 -23 11 45 0 3 6 41 3 Gerald Wilson Orchestra In My Time Mack Avenue 197 189 8 3 48 5 4 21 17 4 Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring The Battle: Live at Smoke HighNote 195 143 52 3 46 3 5 9 15 5 Tierney Sutton I’m with the Band Telarc 194 171 23 3 47 2 5 8 7 5 Nneena Freelon Blueprint of a Lady: The Once and Future Concord Records 194 180 14 6 45 2 Life of Billie Holiday 7 7 2 1 Eddie Palmieri Listen Here! Concord Jazz 190 181 9 15 43 0 8 4 6 4 Poncho Sanchez Do It! Concord Picante 183 192 -9 6 47 3 9 3 3 1 Mulgrew Miller Live At Yoshi’s: Vol. 2 MAXJAZZ 179 198 -19 10 49 0 10 17 NR 10 Sonny Rollins Without A Song: The 9/11 Concert Milestone 174 148 26 2 38 0 11 10 4 4 Dave Valentin World on a String HighNote 170 164 6 7 41 1 12 15 21 12 Stan Hope Put On A Happy Face Savant 167 151 16 4 45 2 13 18 14 7 Roni Ben-Hur Signature Reservoir 161 146 15 12 41 1 14 27 29 14 Sara Gazarek Yours Native Language/Stiletto 160 117 43 3 41 3 15 4 12 4 Bill Mays Trio Live at Jazz Standard Palmetto 158 192 -34 5 47 0 15 14 NR 14 Jeremy Pelt Identity MAXJAZZ 158 152 6 2 41 8 17 15 19 15 Kelley Johnson Music is the Magic Sapphire 153 151 2 4 39 0 18 11 11 9 Frank Morgan Raising The Standard: Live At The Jazz HighNote 150 160 -10 7 43 0 Standard Vol.2 19 13 16 13 Wynton Marsalis Amongst the People: Live at the House of Blue Note 146 156 -10 3 47 4 Tribes 20 11 13 7 Sherman Irby Faith BWR 139 160 -21 8 43 0 21 31 35 21 Reuben Wilson Fun House Savant 132 110 22 4 38 2 22 39 NR 22 Charlie Haden Music Liberation Orchestra Not in our Name Verve Music Group 129 92 37 2 37 4 22 37 NR 22 Jessica Williams Live At Yoshi’s Vol. 2 MAXJAZZ 129 99 30 2 39 8 24 22 9 5 Freddy Cole This Love Of Mine HighNote 119 128 -9 14 31 0 25 20 8 1 Ahmad Jamal After Fajr Dreyfus Jazz 117 144 -27 13 35 0 26 30 25 14 City Rhythm Orchestra Vibrant Tones Limehouse Records 113 111 2 14 29 0 27 NR NR 27 Mark Sherman One Step Closer CAP 112 65 47 1 26 9 28 18 18 5 Sean Jones Gemini Mack Avenue 111 146 -35 15 31 0 29 24 32 16 Brian Lynch 24/7 Nagel Heyer 107 124 -17 13 25 1 30 26 10 1 Terry Gibbs Feelin’ Good: Live In Studio Mack Avenue 105 121 -16 15 30 0 31 33 20 4 Terence Blanchard Flow Blue Note 102 106 -4 15 29 0 32 29 27 21 Sammy Figueroa & His Latin Jazz Explosion ... And Sammy Walked In Savant 101 113 -12 10 31 1 33 23 24 10 Dave Stryker Big City Mel Bay 100 125 -25 12 33 0 33 38 28 9 Javon Jackson Have You Heard Palmetto 100 98 2 14 25 0 35 48 37 35 Tim Ries The Rolling Stones Project Concord 98 81 17 5 31 2 35 32 34 32 Bucky Pizzarelli & Frank Vignola Moonglow Hyena Records 98 109 -11 4 31 1 37 28 21 11 Vince Seneri Street Talk Senful Records 96 115 -19 10 33 1 38 NR 31 31 Richie Cole & The Alto Madness Orchestra Back On Top Jazz Excursion 95 73 22 4 27 0 39 41 25 25 organissimo This Is The Place Big “O” Records 93 91 2 5 28 2 40 44 NR 40 Hendrik Meurkens Amazon River Blue Toucan Music 90 82 8 2 31 4 40 24 45 24 Ximo Tebar Goes Blue Sunnyside 90 124 -34 7 26 0 42 35 46 18 Mary Stallings Remember Love Half Note Records 85 102 -17 17 25 0 42 50 32 26 Pearl Django Chasing Shadows Modern Hot Records 85 74 11 9 28 1 42 NR 42 20 Melvin Sparks This Is It Savant 85 70 15 11 22 0 45 NR NR 45 Dan Moretti & Once Through Passing Place Whaling City Sound 84 71 13 1 23 5 45 36 43 1 John Scofield That’s What I Say: The Music of Ray Charles Verve Music Group 84 101 -17 20 24 1 47 43 36 13 Harry Connick Jr. Occasion Marsalis Music/ Rounder 83 89 -6 13 26 0 Records 48 34 30 3 Joshua Redman Elastic Band Momentum Nonesuch 82 103 -21 16 27 0 49 NR 49 49 Bill Frisell East/West Nonesuch 81 67 14 3 23 1 50 44 44 31 Dave Peck Good Road LPS Records 80 82 -2 7 29 1

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Bebo Valdés Bebo De Cuba (Calle 54) +13 Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring The Battle: Live at Smoke Moutin Reunion Quartet Something Like Now (Lightyear/Nocturne) Stryker/Slagle Band Live at the Jazz Standard (HighNote) +52 Herbie Hancock Possibilities (Vector Recordings) (Zoho Music) +12 Lalo Schifrin Kaleidoscope: Jazz Meets The Symphony #6 Mark Sherman One Step Closer (CAP) +47 (Aleph Records) Kenny Barron Live At Bradley’s II: The Perfect Set Sara Gazarek Yours (Native Language/Stiletto) +43 (Sunnyside) +12 Richard Galliano Ruby, My Dear (Dreyfus Jazz) Gerald Cannon Gerald Cannon (Woodneck Records) +10 Charlie Haden Music Liberation Orchestra Not in our Name Garage a Trois Outre Mer [Original Soundtrack] (Telarc) Billy Childs Lyric (Lunacy Music) Mark Sherman One Step Closer (CAP) +9 (Verve Music Group) +37 Jim Self InnerPlay (Bassett Hound Records) Dirty Dozen Brass Band This is the Dirty Dozen Brass Band Collection Jessica Williams Live At Yoshi’s Vol. 2 (MAXJAZZ) +30 Marc Johnson Shades of Jade (ECM) (Shout Factory) +9 Sonny Rollins Without A Song: The 9/11 Concert Lisa Hilton My Favorite Things (Ruby Slippers Productions) Dee Dee Bridgewater J’ai Deux Amours (Sovereign Artists) +9 (Milestone) +26 The Dave Weckl Band Multiplicity (Stretch/Concord) jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 28 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.

August 22, 2005 September 26, 2005 Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate – Vienna Nights (BHM Kenny Barron – The Perfect Set: Live at Bradleys II (Sunnyside) Productions) Diva – TNT: A Tribute To Tommy Newsome (Lightyear) Curt Hanrahan – To Be Again - The Music of John Harmon (Blujazz) Brad Mehldau – Day Is Done (Nonesuch) Kelley Johnson – Music Is The Magic (Saphire) Dan Cray Trio – Save Us (Blujazz) Paula Lammers – A Blanket Of Blue (Nightingale Jazz) Diane Reeves – Good Night and Good Luck Soundtrack (Concord Moutin Reunion Quartet – Something Like Now (Lightyear) Records) Nachito Herrera – Bembé En Casa (FS Music) Mark Murphy – Once To Every Heart (Verve Records) Tierney Sutton – I’m With The Band (Telarc) Tim Coffman – Crossroads (Blujazz) August 29, 2005 October 3, 2005 Clairdee – Music Moves (Deeclare Music) The Onus – Triphony (Hipnotic Records) Cintron – Back in the Day (Universal) Marty Ehrlich – News on The Rail (Palmetto) September 5, 2005 October 10, 2005 Mark Sherman – One Step Closer (CAP) Baden Powell – Live in Brussels (Sunnyside) Ezra Weiss – (Umoja) Roswell Rudd & the Mongolian Buryat Band – Blue Mongol Richard Glaser Band – That’s Okay (Richard Glaser Music) (Sunnyside/Soundscape) September 12, 2005 Bill Ransom – Generations (Bongo Time Records) Gene Bertoncini – Quiet Now (Ambient Records) Hilary Noble & Rebecca Cline – Enclave (Zoho Records) Hornheads – Fat Lip (Bone 2B Wild Music) October 17, 2005 Kevin Jones – Wonderful Sound (Motema) Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – Don’t Be Afraid ... Music Of Charles Jim Hall/Enrico Pieranunzi – Duologues (CAM Jazz/Sunnyside) Mingus (Palmetto) Marlon Jordan – You Don’t Know What Love Is (Louisiana Red Hot) October 24, 2005 Oregon – Prime (CAM Jazz/Sunnyside) Ben Monder – Oceana (Sunnyside) Trio Da Paz – Somewhere (Blue Toucan) Soulive – Breakout (Concord Records) November 7, 2005 Melodye Dewine – Nocturnal Velvet (SMS Jazz) Pieranunzi/Baron/Johnson – Play Morricone (2-CD) (CAM Jazz/ Sara Gazarek – Yours (Native Language) Sunnyside) Steve Kuhn Trio – Quiereme Mucho (Sunnyside/Venus) September 19, 2005 Gerald Cannon – Gerald Cannon (Woodneck Records) November 28, 2005 Dee Dee Bridgewater – J’ai Deux Amours (Sovereign Artists) Eddie Higgins – Christmas Songs (Sunnyside) Maceo Parker – School’s In (BHM Records) Stryker/Slagle Band – Live At The Jazz Standard (Zoho Records) Richie Hart Trio w/ Dr. Lonnie Smith – Greasy Street (ZOHO Music) Kenny Carr – Friday At Five (TAS Management LLC) Tom Ranier And Glen Cashman – Blue In Green (Primerose Lane)

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Add dates may also be submitted via email to [email protected]. jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 29 Jazz Radio Currents Greg Abate Horace Is Here Koko Jazz Denise Donatelli In The Company of Friends Jazzed Media Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra w/ Arturo Noche Inolvidable Palmetto Armen Donelian Full Moon Music: Grand Ideas, Vol. 3 Sunnyside O’Farrill Mark Dresser Time Changes Cryptogramophone Sandro Albert The Color Of Things 215 Records Catherine Dupuis The Rules of the Road Bearheart Records Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring The Battle: Live at Smoke HighNote Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio Live at the River East Art Center Delmark Scott Amendola Band Believe Cryptogramophone Eldar Eldar Sony Classical Paul Anka Rock Swings Verve Music Group Lorraine Feather Dooji Wooji Sanctuary Babatunde Lea Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Motema Fieldwork Simulated Progress PI Recordings Ghost Amina Figerova September Suite 215 Records The Bad Plus Blunt Object: Live In Tokyo Sony Sammy Figueroa & His Latin Jazz ... And Sammy Walked In Savant Noah Baerman Soul Force Lemel Music Explosion Billy Bang Vietnam: Reflections Justin Time Bob Florence Friends, Treasures, Heroes Summit Ray Barretto Time Was... Time Is O+ Celso Fonseca Rive Gauche Rio Six Degrees Kenny Barron Live At Bradley’s II: The Perfect Set Sunnyside Yves François Blues For Hawk Delmark Beaux J Poo Boo All Things Are New Summit The Frank & Joe Show 66 2/3 Hyena Records Roni Ben-Hur Signature Reservoir Nneena Freelon Blueprint of a Lady: The Once and Concord Records The Marco Benevento/Joe Russo Reason to Buy the Sun Ropeadope Future Life of Billie Holiday Duo Bill Frisell East/West Nonesuch Cheryl Bentyne Let Me Off Uptown Telarc Jazz Curtis Fuller Keep It Simple Savant Daniel Benzali Benzali Rio Kat Tia Fuller Pillar Of Strength Wambutia Big Neighborhood Neighbors Origin Gabin Mr. Freedom Astralworks Nick Bisesi Gemini Blujazz Richard Galliano Ruby, My Dear Dreyfus Jazz Ron Blake Sonic Tonic Mack Avenue Garage a Trois Outre Mer [Original Soundtrack] Telarc Terence Blanchard Flow Blue Note Sara Gazarek Yours Native Language/ Jane Ira Bloom Like Silver, Like Song Artist Share Stiletto Bob Boguslaw & The Way Gabrielle’s Hand Summit Terry Gibbs Feelin’ Good: Live In Studio Mack Avenue Debby Boone Reflections Of Rosemary Concord David Gibson The Path To Delphi Nagel Heyer Joe Bourne & The Gary Moran Trio Remembering Mr. Cole Jonaja Rosario Giuliani More Than Ever Dreyfus Jazz Joshua Breakstone Memoire: The French Sessions, Capri Richard Glaser Band That’s Okay Richard Glaser Music Vol. 2 John Goldman In Walked Pierre Blujazz Ron Brendle Trio Photograph Lo Note Paul Grabowsky Tales Of Time & Space Sanctuary Dee Dee Bridgewater J’ai Deux Amours Sovereign Artists Drew Gress 7 Black Butterflys Premonition Brian Bromberg It’s About Time Artistry Roland Guerin Groove, Swings And Harmony II Jazz Maniacs Dave Brubeck Quartet London Flat, London Sharp Telarc Jazz Tord Gustavsen Trio The Ground ECM Jimmy Bruno Solo Mel Bay Charlie Haden Music Liberation Not in our Name Verve Music Group Michael Buble It’s Time 143 Records/Reprise Orchestra Katie Bull Love Spook Corn Hill Indie Jim Hall & Enrico Pieranunzi Duologues CAM Jazz/Sunnyside Anne Burnell Blues In The Night Spectrum Music Scott Hamilton/Bill Charlap Trio Back In New York Concord Jazz Gary Burton Next Generation Concord Jazz Herbie Hancock Possibilities Vector Recordings Billy Butterfield Joins Andy Bartha Take Me to the Land of Jazz Delmark Curt Hanrahan To Be Again Blujazz Cadwallader, Asetta & Dixson Quicker Than The Eye Stanza USA Gabriel Mark Hasselbach Swingin’ Affair Wind Tunnel Will Calhoun Native Lands Half Note Records David Hazeltine Modern Standards Sharp Nine Royce Campbell Plays For Lovers Moon Cycle Records Steve Heckman Live At Yoshi’s World City Gerald Cannon Gerald Cannon Woodneck Records Carol Heffler Exactly Peeka Records James Carter Organ Trio Out Of Nowhere Half Note Records Nachito Herrera Bembe en Mi Casa SF Music Philip Catherine Meeting Colors Dreyfus Lisa Hilton My Favorite Things Ruby Slippers Bill Charlap Plays George Gershwin: The Blue Note Productions American Soul Hiroshima Obon Heads Up Buddy Charles We’re Here Jazzed Media Steve Hobbs Spring Cycle Random Chance Billy Childs Lyric Lunacy Music Holly Hoffman Minor Miracle Capri Cintron Back in the Day ARK 21 The Bill Holman Band Live Jazzed Media City Rhythm Orchestra Vibrant Tones Limehouse Records Stan Hope Put On A Happy Face Savant Clairdee Music Moves Sin-Drome JC Hopkins Biggish Band Underneath a Brooklyn Moon Tigerlily Records Ken Clark Organ Trio Mutual Respect Severn Hornheads Fat Lip Bone 2B Wild Music The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Live At MCG MCG Jazz The Hot Club of San Francisco Postcards From Gypsyland Lost Wax Music Orchestra Ted Howe Ellington Summit Tim Coffman Crossroads Blujazz Luther Hughes Cannonball-Coltrane Primrose Lane Anat Cohen Place & Time Anzic Records Abdullah Ibrahim A Celebratiom Enja/Justin Time Freddy Cole This Love Of Mine HighNote Sherman Irby Faith BWR Richie Cole & The Alto Madness Back On Top Jazz Excursion Vijay Iyer Reimagining Savoy Jazz Orchestra Javon Jackson Have You Heard Palmetto Paul Combs’ Pocket Big Band Live At Chit Chat Sea Breeze Jazz Ahmad Jamal After Fajr Dreyfus Jazz Common Ground High Voltage Delmark Khan Jamal Peace Warrior Random Chance Harry Connick Jr. Occasion Marsalis Music/ Keith Jarrett Radiance ECM Rounder Records Gordon Johnson Trios Version 3.0 Tonalities Rita Coolidge And So Is Love Concord Kelley Johnson Music is the Magic Sapphire Roz Corral Telling Tales Blujazz Marc Johnson Shades of Jade ECM Chris Cortez Mum Is The Word Blue Bamboo Marc Courtney Johnson & The Dan Marc Courtney Johnson DreamyJazz Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey & Lenny Electric Chesky Cray Trio White Bujo Kevin Jones Tenth World Motema Dan Cray Trio Save Us! Blujazz Hank Jones For My Father Justin Time Matt Criscuolo Lotus Blossom Self-Produced Sean Jones Gemini Mack Avenue Bill Cunliffe Imaginacion Torii Records Betty Joplin Visions of the Moment Preserved Moments Paquito d’Rivera The Jazz Chamber Trio Chesky Music Elaine Dame Comes Love Blujazz Marlon Jordan You Don’t Know What Love Is Louisiana Red Hot Daria Feel The Rhythm Jazz M Up Records Bobby Darin Live At The Desert Inn Concord Records Sheila Jordan Celebration: Live at the Triad HighNote Jo Ann Daugherty Range Of Motion Blujazz Vic Juris A Second Look Mel Bay Dave’s True Story Nature Be Pop Records Roger Kellaway Remembering Bobby Darin IPO Recordings Jack DeJohnette & Foday Musa Music From The Hearts Of The Golden Beam / Calvin Keys Calvinesque’ Silverado Records Suso Masters Kindred Rhythm Guillermo Klein Una Nave Sunnyside Dena DeRose A Walk In The Park MAXJAZZ Kneebody Kneebody Koch Tony DeSare Want You Telarc Ilona Knopfler Live The Life Mack Avenue Melodye Dewine Nocturnal Velvet SMS Jazz Kathy Kosins Vintage Mahogany Jazz Dirty Dozen Brass Band This is the Dirty Dozen Brass Band Shout Factory Benny Lackner Trio Not The Same Nagel Heyer Collection jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 30 Jazz Radio Currents Paula Lammers A Blanket of Blue Nightingale Jazz Bob Rodriguez Corridor CreOp Muse Dana Landry Journey Home Summit Sonny Rollins Without A Song: The 9/11 Concert Milestone Michelle Latimer Sings and Plays Cool Note Kermit Ruffins Throwback Basin Street Sara Lazarus Give Me The Simple Life Dreyfus Jazz San Francisco ChamberJazz SFCJQ Music Wizards Nguyen Le Quartet Walking On The Tiger’s Tail ACT Quartet Bradley Leighton Just Doin’ Our Thang Pacific Coast Jazz Poncho Sanchez Do It! Concord Picante Carolyn Leonhart New 8th Day Sunnyside Arturo Sandoval Live At The Blue Note Half Note Records Kevyn Lettau Bye Bye Blackbird MCG Jazz Lalo Schifrin Kaleidoscope: Jazz Meets The Aleph Records Dave Liebman Manhattan Dialogues Zoho Music Symphony #6 Charles Lloyd Jumping The Creek ECM Diane Schuur w/ Caribbean Jazz Schuur Fire Concord Records Pat Longo Extreme Heat Jazzed Media Project Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz John Scofield That’s What I Say: The Music of Ray Verve Music Group Charles Joe Lovano Joyous Encounter Blue Note Rhoda Scott Encore, Encore, Encore.. Sunnyside Brian Lynch 24/7 Nagel Heyer Jim Self InnerPlay Bassett Hound The Leslie Maclean Trio That’s Time Enough KippieJosh Jazz Records Frank Mantooth Ladies Sing for Lovers MCG Jazz Vince Seneri Street Talk Senful Records Wynton Marsalis Amongst the People: Live at the Blue Note Paul Serrato Excursions Graffiti Productions House of Tribes SFJazz Collective SFJazz Collective Nonesuch Mike Marshall Brazil Duets Adventure Music The Bud Shank Quartet with Phil Bouncing With Bud & Phil - Live At Capri Veronica Martell The Art Of Intimacy Apria Woods Yoshi’s Peter Martin In The P.M. MAXJAZZ Woody Shaw Live: Volume four HighNote Scott Martin Menudo and Gritz SCM Mark Sherman One Step Closer CAP Angelyna Martinez Labor of Love MexiScott Music Wayne Shorter Beyond The Sound Barrier Verve Music Group Hugh Masekela Revival Heads Up Jeff ‘Siege’ Siegel Magical Space Consolidated Artists Mark Masters Ensemble Porgy & Bess Redefined! Capri Herb Silverstein & Friends Beach Walker Silvertunes Music Irvin Mayfield & The Orleans Jazz Strange Fruit Basin Street Productions Orchestra Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot Palmetto Bill Mays Trio Live at Jazz Standard Palmetto Keely Smith Vegas ‘58 - Today Concord Kate McGarry Mercy Streets Palmetto Soulive Breakout Concord Chris McNulty Dance Delicioso Elefant Dreams Luciana Souza Duos II Sunnyside Marian McPartland Piano Jazz w/ Elvis Costello Concord Melvin Sparks This Is It Savant Marian McPartland & Friends 85 Candles-Live In New York Concord Jazz Mary Stallings Remember Love Half Note Records Pablo Mendendez Havana Blues Mambo Zoho Music Bobo Stenson Goodbye ECM Don Menza Menza Lines Jazzed Media Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman Song X Nonesuch Sonny Stitt Work Done HighNote Hendrik Meurkens Amazon River Blue Toucan Music Dave Stryker Big City Mel Bay Miami Saxophone Quartet Midnight Rumba Fourtitude Records Stryker/Slagle Band Live at the Jazz Standard Zoho Music Raul Midon State of Mind Manhattan Records Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 Mulgrew Miller Live At Yoshi’s: Vol. 2 MAXJAZZ Tierney Sutton I’m with the Band Telarc Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty I Am Three Sunnyside Brian Swartz Quartet Live At The Jazz Bakery Summit The Mizell Brothers Mizell Blue Note Ximo Tebar Goes Blue Sunnyside Barbara Montgomery Trinity MMB Times 4 Seductivity Rhombus Dan Moretti & Once Through Passing Place Whaling City Sound Tomasso-Rava Quartet La Dolce Vita Camjazz Frank Morgan Raising The Standard: Live At The HighNote Dwight Trible Living Water Passin’ The Vibe Jazz Standard Vol.2 Trio da Paz Somewhere Blue Toucan Music Moutin Reunion Quartet Something Like Now Lightyear/Nocturne Erik Truffaz Saloua Blue Note Mozayik Haitian Creole Jazz Zoho Music Bebo Valdés Bebo De Cuba Calle 54 Oliver Mtukudzi Nhava Heads Up Dave Valentin World on a String HighNote Myanna One Never Knows Bridge Street Records Various Artists Blue Note Perfect Takes Blue Note Najee My Point of View Heads Up Various Artists Putumayo Presents: Swing Around Putumayo Milton Nascimento Pieta Savoy Jazz the World The Marty Nau Group At The Bouquet Chorale Summit Various Artists Sprout [Soundtrack] Record Collection Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Dance Of The Infidel Shanachie Various Artists Symphonic Jobim Adventure Music Spirit Music Jamia The Mike Vax Big Band Next Stop - Live... On The Road Summit Shelley Neill entree blue Cobalt Blue Gerald Veasley At The Jazz Base! Heads Up Calvin Newborn New Born Yellow Dog Steve Venz Scoop Daal Jazz PJ Newman The Hand of Dog Origin Records Cedar Walton Underground Memoirs HighNote Nouvelle Vague Peacefrog Doug Wamble Bluestate Marsalis Music/ Hod O’Brien Live At Blues Alley: First Set Reservoir Rounder Records Arturo O’Farrill Live In Brooklyn Zoho Music The Dave Weckl Band Multiplicity Stretch/Concord Michael O’Neill The Long And Short Of It Jazzmo Mark Weinstein Algo Mas/Cuban Roots Jazz Heads The Onus Triphony Hipnotic Ezra Weiss Persephone UMOJA Oregon Prime CAM Jazz/Sunnyside The Mort Weiss Quartet The Four Of Us: Live At Steamers SMS Jazz organissimo This Is The Place Big “O” Records Westwind Brass Jazztet LMP Productions Greg Osby Channel Three Blue Note Kenny Wheeler What Now? CAM Eddie Palmieri Listen Here! Concord Jazz Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor Where Do We Go From Here? CAM Maceo Parker School’s In! BHM Music Jessica Williams Live At Yoshi’s Vol. 2 MAXJAZZ Alan Pasqua My New Old Friend Cryptogramophone Joe Williams Havin’ A Good Time! Hyena Records Jim Payne Energie Savant Reuben Wilson Fun House Savant Pearl Django Chasing Shadows Modern Hot Records Gerald Wilson Orchestra In My Time Mack Avenue Dave Peck Good Road LPS Records Allen Won Quartet The Jewel In The Lotus Self-Produced Jeremy Pelt Identity MAXJAZZ Phil Woods Groovin’ To Marty Paich Jazzed Media Enrico Pieranunzi (W/ Charlie Special Encounter CAM Victor Wooten Soul Circus Vanguard Haden, Paul Motian) Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake Verve/Forecast Bucky Pizzarelli & Frank Vignola Moonglow Hyena Records Savina Yannatou & Primavera En Sumiglia ECM Marc Pompe You Must Believe In Swing Cadence Jazz Solonico The Devere Pride Trio ... As In A Morning Sunrise The Davis Group Dave Young Mainly Mingus Justin Time Flora Purim Flora’s Song Narada Jazz Ruth Young This Is Always Nagel Heyer Joyce Randolph Just A Little Blue Myrlys Music Rachel Z Grace Chesky Enrico Rava Full of Life Camjazz Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Vienna Nights BHM Music Joshua Redman Elastic Band Momentum Nonesuch Syndicate Twana Rhodes Thru The Night Nagel Heyer Denny Zeitlin Solo Voyage MAXJAZZ Marc Ribot Spiritual Unity PI Recordings Miguel Zenon Jibaro Marsalis Music/ Tim Ries The Rolling Stones Project Concord Rounder Records jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 31 Smooth Jazz Radio

Paul Hardcastle Bumps Richard Elliot from No. 1

Kirk Whalum’s Babyface Is Most Added

fter ten weeks at the top of the album and singles charts, Richard Elliot’s Met- Aro Blue (Artizen) and its single “People Make the World Go ’Round” were bumped by Paul Hardcastle’s 4 (Trippin ’N’ Rhythm) and its single “Serene.” Kirk Whalum’s single “I’ll Make Love to You” and his album The Babyface Songbook, were the most added, picking up 12 stations each. Brian Culbertson led the way with the

Paul Hardcastle’s 4 (Trippin ’N’ Rhythm) and its single biggest increase in singles airplay, adding 76 “Serene” top this week’s Smooth Albums and Singles spins for “Hookin’ Up” while Kyle Eastwood charts. picked up 98 spins for his Candid/Rendez- vous CD Paris Blue.

Smooth Albums p. 33 Smooth Singles p. 34 Smooth Current CDs p. 35 The latest CD from Kirk Whalum, The Babyface Song- Smooth Radio Panel p. 37 book (Rendezvous), and the single “I’ll Make Love to You” were the week’s most added. jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 32 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Album Chart Sept. 21, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 2 2 1 Paul Hardcastle 4 Trippin ’N’ Rhythm 693 658 35 11 33 1 2 1 1 1 Richard Elliot Metro Blue Artizen 638 669 -31 15 34 0 3 3 NR 1 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP 598 621 -23 40 33 0 4 5 NR 1 Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista 561 547 14 40 34 0 5 10 7 5 Brian Culbertson It’s On Tonight GRP / Verve 505 429 76 11 34 0 6 7 4 4 Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. 486 489 -3 13 33 0 7 8 5 5 Euge Groove Just Feels Right Narada Jazz 475 457 18 6 34 0 8 4 3 2 Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz 470 568 -98 27 29 0 9 12 NR 6 Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up 462 412 50 45 33 0 10 6 NR 5 Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie 455 524 -69 31 32 0 11 11 NR 2 Boney James Pure Warner Bros. 425 425 0 45 34 0 12 9 6 2 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 392 436 -44 28 28 0 13 14 NR 1 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous 392 393 -1 45 30 0 14 15 NR 4 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 389 389 0 45 29 0 15 13 NR 13 Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music 386 395 -9 31 28 0 16 16 8 8 Walter Beasley For Her Heads Up 374 387 -13 18 27 0 17 17 9 9 Paul Brown The City GRP / Verve 355 360 -5 10 30 0 18 19 10 10 David Pack The Secret of Movin’ On Peak / Concord 331 316 15 9 23 0 19 18 NR 1 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 306 336 -30 34 33 0 20 22 11 11 Jeff Golub Temptation Narada Jazz 254 221 33 11 24 1 21 21 12 12 Kem Album II Universal / Motown 246 246 0 10 26 0 22 20 NR 1 Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous 244 260 -16 45 30 0 23 27 27 23 Boz Scaggs Fade Into Light Virgin 227 205 22 3 19 1 24 30 NR 5 Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia 218 189 29 45 32 0 25 24 NR 24 Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch 216 208 8 29 23 0 26 26 14 14 Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note 214 207 7 10 31 0 27 23 NR 3 Paul Brown Up Front GRP 206 209 -3 40 31 0 28 25 15 15 Warren Hill Pop Jazz Pop Jazz / Native Language 196 207 -11 9 20 0 29 29 NR 4 Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 196 204 -8 37 29 0 30 41 21 21 Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous 189 146 43 5 19 4 31 32 NR 4 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 183 175 8 45 30 0 32 37 19 19 Chieli Minucci The Juice [Single] Shanachie 178 160 18 16 17 0 33 34 NR 1 Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP / VMG / UMG 178 172 6 45 31 0 34 33 23 23 Kim Waters Steppin’ Out [Single] Shanachie 160 172 -12 6 20 4 35 47 24 24 Various Artists Def Jazz GRP 157 136 21 5 19 5 36 35 16 16 Michael Buble It’s Time 143 / Reprise 154 170 -16 10 12 0 37 40 NR 1 Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 152 148 4 45 28 0 38 42 NR 9 Peter White Confidential Columbia 148 146 2 40 29 0 39 31 13 13 Average White Band Greatest And Latest Liquid 8 147 181 -34 14 23 0 40 51 22 22 Soul Ballet She Rides [Single] 215 146 116 30 9 15 0 41 39 NR 18 Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got To Play Narada Jazz / Virgin 140 149 -9 40 25 0 42 43 20 20 Raul Midon State Of Mind Manhattan 139 141 -2 14 12 2 43 38 NR 14 Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz 139 156 -17 33 19 0 44 36 NR 5 George Benson Irreplaceable GRP / VMG / UMG 137 163 -26 45 28 0 45 50 17 15 Jonathan Butler Jonathan Rendezvous (Red) 130 121 9 16 17 0 46 53 NR 14 David Sanborn Closer Verve 126 99 27 35 32 0 47 49 NR 20 Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language 126 126 0 45 22 0 48 45 NR 25 The Ramsey Lewis Trio Time Flies Narada Jazz 120 139 -19 40 20 0 49 46 NR 16 Fourplay Journey BMG 118 137 -19 45 21 0 50 70 47 47 Rick Braun Shining Star [Single] Artizen 110 61 49 4 14 5

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Kyle Eastwood Paris Blue (Candid / Rendezvous) +98 Kyle Eastwood Paris Blue (Candid / Rendezvous) (Rendezvous) +12 Brian Culbertson It’s On Tonight (GRP / Verve) +76 Ray Charles Genius Loves Company (Concord) Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love (Rounder) Gregg Karukas Looking Up (V2) +7 Marion Meadows Player’s Club (Heads Up) +50 Herbie Hancock Possibilities (Hancock / Hear) Dalminjo Fjord Fusioneer (Kriztal) +6 Rick Braun Shining Star [Single] (Artizen) +49 Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook (Rendezvous) Various Artists Def Jazz (GRP) +5 Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Mark Hollingsworth On The Mark (Windshore) Renee Olstead Renee Olstead (143 / Reprise) Rick Braun Shining Star [Single] (Artizen) +5 (Rendezvous) +49 Bona Fide Soul Lounge (Heads Up) Herbie Hancock Possibilities (Hancock / Hear) +5 Brian Simpson It’s All Good (Rendezvous) +43 Kevin Toney Quiet Conversation [Single] (Shanachie) George Duke Duke [Sampler] (BPM)

jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 33 airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Singles Chart Sept. 21, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations 1 2 2 1 Paul Hardcastle Serene Trippin ’N’ Rhythm 693 658 35 11 33 1 2 1 1 1 Richard Elliot People Make The World Go ‘Round Artizen 638 669 -31 15 34 0 3 8 6 3 Brian Culbertson Hookin’ Up GRP / Verve 505 429 76 11 34 0 4 6 4 4 Euge Groove Get Em Goin’ Narada Jazz 475 457 18 6 34 0 5 5 NR 5 Paul Jackson, Jr. Never Too Much GRP 472 474 -2 30 28 0 6 3 3 2 Steve Cole Thursday Narada Jazz 470 568 -98 27 29 0 7 4 NR 4 Chuck Loeb Tropical Shanachie 455 524 -69 31 32 0 8 7 5 2 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 392 436 -44 28 28 0 9 9 NR 9 Ken Navarro You Are Everything Positive Music 386 394 -8 31 28 0 10 11 NR 7 Kenny G & Earth Wind, & Fire The Way You Move Arista 384 379 5 36 31 0 11 10 9 9 Walter Beasley Coolness Heads Up 366 379 -13 18 26 0 12 12 8 8 Paul Brown Cosmic Monkey GRP / Verve 355 360 -5 10 30 0 13 13 7 7 Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. 353 350 3 14 31 0 14 15 10 10 David Pack You’re The Only Woman Peak / Concord 323 313 10 9 23 0 15 14 NR 1 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 306 336 -30 34 33 0 16 16 NR 16 Marion Meadows Suede Heads Up 296 283 13 45 27 1 17 17 11 11 Mindi Abair Make A Wish GRP 277 272 5 10 25 0 18 18 12 12 Wayman Tisdale Ready To Hang Rendezvous 246 250 -4 23 25 0 19 19 16 16 Kem I Can’t Stop Loving You Universal / Motown 234 236 -2 10 26 0 20 22 30 20 Boz Scaggs Lowdown (Unplugged) Virgin 227 205 22 3 19 1 21 20 14 14 Jeff Golub Simple Pleasures Narada Jazz 214 221 -7 11 22 2 22 21 13 13 Nelson Rangell Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing Koch 213 206 7 22 22 1 23 23 17 17 Warren Hill Still In Love Pop Jazz / Native Language 192 196 -4 9 20 0 24 33 21 21 Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous 189 146 43 5 19 4 25 24 18 18 Boney James 2:01 AM Warner Bros. 189 188 1 16 19 0 26 29 20 20 Chieli Minucci The Juice Shanachie 178 160 18 16 17 0 27 27 NR 1 Tim Bowman Summer Groove Liquid 8 168 173 -5 37 28 0 28 26 NR 2 Michael Lington Two Of A Kind (w/ Chuck Loeb) Rendezvous 162 175 -13 45 27 0 29 28 25 25 Kim Waters Steppin’ Out Shanachie 160 172 -12 6 20 4 30 30 NR 2 Kenny G & David Sanborn Pick Up The Pieces Arista 160 157 3 40 30 0 31 37 26 26 Gerald Albright Hey Young World GRP 157 136 21 5 19 5 32 46 NR 5 Marion Meadows Sweet Grapes Heads Up 155 119 36 45 31 0 33 32 NR 1 Soul Ballet Cream 215 152 148 4 45 28 0 34 34 NR 1 Gerald Albright To The Max GRP / VMG / UMG 151 145 6 45 30 0 35 25 15 12 Average White Band Work To Do (Nu-Jazz Mix) Liquid 8 147 181 -34 14 23 0 36 49 23 23 Soul Ballet She Rides 215 146 116 30 9 15 0 37 35 NR 1 Wayman Tisdale Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now Rendezvous 145 142 3 45 27 0 38 31 NR 9 Jeff Lorber Ooh La La Narada Jazz 139 156 -17 33 19 0 39 39 NR 3 George Benson Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise GRP / VMG / UMG 137 134 3 45 28 0 40 44 19 9 Jonathan Butler Fire And Rain Rendezvous (Red) 130 121 9 16 17 0 41 36 NR 5 Chris Botti Back Into My Heart Columbia 128 137 -9 45 26 0 42 40 NR 1 Boney James Stone Groove (w/ Joe Sample) Warner Bros. 119 126 -7 44 25 0 43 38 NR 22 The Ramsey Lewis Trio The In Crowd Narada Jazz 118 136 -18 40 18 0 44 47 NR 15 Dan Siegel In Your Eyes Native Language 117 119 -2 45 20 0 45 41 NR 2 Norman Brown Up ’N’ At ‘Em Warner Bros. 115 124 -9 45 24 0 46 51 NR 29 Paul Brown 24/7 GRP 114 109 5 40 30 0 47 75 50 47 Rick Braun Shining Star Artizen 110 61 49 3 14 5 48 42 NR 15 Fourplay Fields Of Gold BMG 108 124 -16 45 19 0 49 54 NR 3 Euge Groove XXL EMI 108 102 6 45 22 0 50 50 NR 3 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 107 113 -6 45 23 0

Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Kirk Whalum “I’ll Make Love To You” (Rendezvous) +12 Brian Culbertson “Hookin’ Up” (GRP / Verve) +76 Kirk Whalum “I’ll Make Love To You” (Rendezvous) Kyle Eastwood “Big Noise” (Candid/Rendezvous) +9 Rick Braun “Shining Star” (Artizen) +49 Kyle Eastwood “Big Noise” (Candid/Rendezvous) Jeff Golub “Uptown Express” (Narada Jazz) Kyle Eastwood “Big Noise (From Winnetka)” Kirk Whalum “I’ll Make Love To You” (Rendezvous) +49 Kyle Eastwood “Big Noise (From Winnetka)” (Candid/Rendezvous) (Candid/Rendezvous) +9 Kyle Eastwood “Big Noise” (Candid / Rendezvous) +44 Herbie Hancock “Stitched Up (w/ John Mayer)” (Hancock/Hear) Gregg Karukas “Show Me the Way” (V2) +7 Brian Simpson “It’s All Good” (Rendezvous) +43 Mark Hollingsworth “Steppin’ Up” (Windshore) Greg Osby “Diode Emissions” (Blue Note) Kyle Eastwood “Solferino” (Candid/Rendezvous) +7 Chris Botti “Indian Summer” (Columbia) +38 Jeff Kashiwa “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)” (Native Dalminjo Fjord “Bossa Note” (Kriztal) +6 Language) Kevin Toney “Quiet Conversation” (Shanachie) jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 34 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Albums 3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave A. Ray Fuller The Weeper A Ray Artists Music Mindy Abair Come As You Are GRP Garry Goin Goin’ Places Compendia Greg Adams Firefly 215 Records Jeff Golub Soul Sessions GRP Sandro Albert The Color Of Things 215 Records Jeff Golub Temptation Narada Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP Al Green The Absolute Best EMI Marc Antoine Mediteraneo Rendevous Euge Groove Living Large Narada Marc Antoine The Very Best of Marc Antoine Verve Music Group Hall & Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch Average White Band Greatest And Latest Liquid 8 Paul Hardcastle The Jazzmasters 4 Trippin’ N’ Rhythm Records Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note Paul Hardcastle 4 Trippin’ N’ Rhythm Bob Baldwin Brazil Chill A440 Music Group Records Everette Harp All For You A440 Music Group Walter Beasley Go With The Flow N-Coded Music Gabriel Mark Hasselbach Gabriel... First Name Basis Wind Tunnel Walter Beasley For Her Heads Up Hil St. Soul Copasetik & Cool Shanachie Pete Belasco Deeper Compendia Warren Hill Popjazz Popjazz Regina Belle Lazy Peak Hiroshima The Bridge Heads Up David Benoit / Russ Freeman Benoit Freeman Project 2 Peak Hiroshima Obon Heads Up George Benson Irreplaceable GRP Incognito Who Needs Love Narada Jazz Matt Bianco Matt’s Mood Universal Music Group Paul Jackson Jr. Still Small Voice Blue Note Theo Bishop Newport Nights Native Language Boney James Pure Warner Bros. Terence Blanchard Flow Blue Note Jazz Crusanders Soul Axess True Life Debby Boone Reflections Of Rosemary Concord Marcus Johnson Urban Groove Marimelj Entertain- Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia ment Ronny Jordan At Last N-Coded Music Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 Ronny Jordan After 8 N-Coded Music Jeff Bradshaw Bone Deep Hidden Beach Gregg Karukas Looking Up V2 Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. Jeff Kashiwa Peace Of Mind Native Language Toni Braxton Ultimate Toni Braxton LaFace Kem Kemistry Motown Braxton Brothers Rollin Peak Kem Album II Motown Bridge To Havana (f. Gladys Knight) Bridge To Havana Pyramid Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista Brian Bromberg Choices A440 Music Group Alicia Keys The Diary Of Alicia Keys J Records Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol Paul Brown Up Front GRP Pattie LaBelle Timeless Journey Island /Def Jam Paul Brown The City GRP David Lanz The Good Life Decca Michael Buble It’s Time 143 Records/Reprise Ronnie Laws Everlasting Holland Group Alex Bugnon Southern Living Narada Jazz Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendevous Jonathan Butler Jonathan Rendezvous (Red) Liquid Soul Evolution Shanachie Cabo Frio Island Dance Kezia Records Chuck Loeb eBop Shanachie Jonathan Cain Bare Bones Reality/AAO Music Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie Bobby Caldwell Perfect Island Nights Sin-Drome Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz Sergio Caputo That Kind of Thing Idiosyncrasy Music Torcuato Mariano Diary 215 Records Larry Carlton Sapphire Blue Bluebird Eric Marienthal Sweet Talk Peak Craig Chaquico Midnight Moon Higher Octave Hugh Masekela Revival Heads Up Club 1600 Ridin, High N-Coded Music Keiko Matsui Wildflower Narada Steve Cole NY LA Warner Bros. Maysa Smooth Sailing Encoded Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz Michael McDonald Motown Motown Nick Colionne Just Come On In Three Keys Music Michael McDonald Motown Two Motown Rita Coolidge And So Is Love Concord Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got to Play Narada Jazz Raul Midon State of Mind Manhattan Records Couch Potato Allstars Jazz For Couch Potatoes Shanachie Chieli Minucci Night Grooves Shanachie Brian Culbertson Come On Up Warner Bros. Chieli Minucci Jewels JVC Brian Culbertson It’s On Tonight Warner Bros. Chieli Minucci Got It Goin On! Shanachie Eric Darius Night On The Town Higher Octave Najee Embrace N-Coded Music Will Downing Emotions GRP Najee Classic Masters Capitol Carol Duboc All Of You Gold Note Najee My Point of View Heads Up George Duke Duke BPM / Navarre Ken Navarro All The Way Shanachie Richard Elliot Ricochet GRP Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music Richard Elliot Metro Blue Artizen Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Dance Of The Infidel Shanachie Tommy Emmanuel Endless Road Favored Nations Spirit Music Jamia Euge Groove Just Feels Right Narada Grady Nichols Sophistication Compendia Fattburger Work To Do Shanachie Grady Nichols Sneak Compendia Fourplay Journey RCA / Victor Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja/TSA Records jazzweek.com • Sept. 21, 2005 JazzWeek 35 215296A01 Smooth Jazz Radio Current Albums

O’2L Doyle’s Brunch Peak Andrew Oh Silk Ark Music Steve Oliver 3-D Koch Records Renee Olstead Renee Olstead 143 Records/Reprise David Pack The Secret of Movin’ On Peak Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up Doc Powell 97th & Columbus Heads Up Doc Powell Cool Like That Heads Up Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous/N-Coded Nelson Rangell Look Again A440 Music Group The Rippingtons Let It Ripp Peak Smokey Robinson My World: The Definitive Collection Motown David Sanborn Time Again Verve Music Group Boz Scaggs Fade Into Light Virgin Seal IV Warner Bros. Seal Best: 1991-2004 Warner Bros. Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language Simply Red Home Simply Red Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous (Red) Richard Smith Soulidfied A440 Music Group Jimmy Sommers Love Life Higher Octave Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 Records Special EFX Party Shanachie Spyro Gyra The Deep End Heads Up Stanley B. All For Love Wonder Stevie The Definitive Collection Motown Curtis Stigers I Think It’s Going To Rain Today Concord Jazz Andy Summers The X Tracks Fuel 2000 Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out Peak/Concord Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak J. Thompson Romantic Night AMH Records Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendevous Nester Torres Sin Palabras Heads Up Urban Knights Urban Knights V Narada Luther Vandross Dance With My father J Records Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP Various Artists Wedding Songs: A Body & Soul Time Life Collection Various Artists Princess Diaries 2 : Royal Engage- Walt Disney ment [Original Soundtrack] Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge, Vol.1 Rendevous Various Artists Def Jazz GRP Gerald Veasley At The Jazz Base! Heads Up Vlad Vladosphere Unis Andre Ward Steppin Up Orpheus Kim Waters Someone To Love You Shanachie Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie Kim Waters All For Love Shanachie Kirk Whalum Into My Soul Warner Bros. Start protecting yourself from yourself. Peter White Confidential Columbia Call 1-866-399-6789 or visit us at everydaychoices.org. Bernie Williams The Journey Within GRP Pamela Williams Sweet Saxations Shanachie Jim Wilson River Hillsboro Victor Wooten Soul Circus Vanguard Alexander Zonjic Seldom Blues Heads Up

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