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JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • May 4, 2005 Volume 1, Number 24 • $7.95 In This Issue: Adventure Music Underwrites WLIU/WFMT’s The Song Is You . 4 Pasadena Fest Brings Jazz to Rose Bowl. 8 Industry Q&A: Mitchell Feldman . 13 Reviews and Picks. 17 Jazz Radio . 19 Smooth Jazz Radio. 24 Radio PERCY HEATH, 1923-2005 Panels. 28 page 4 News. 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Monty Alexander #1 Smooth Album – Kenny G #1 Smooth Single – Boney James JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ’m in the middle of reading a what is so far a terrific book from Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman Berklee Press, The Future of Music, by David Kusek and Gerd Tad Hendrickson ILeonhard, which I will be reviewing in an upcoming issue of CONTRIBUTING WRITER this magazine. Even though I’m halfway through it, I couldn’t Tom Mallison wait until I had finished it to pass along a couple of thoughts. 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Copyright ©2005 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. – Ed Trefzger, Editor jazzweek.com • May 4, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents May 4, 2005 News . 4 Jazz Great Percy Heath Passes at 81 . 4 Jimmy Woode, 78, Was Ellington Bassist . 5 Adventure Music Underwrites The Song Is You On WFMT Radio Network . 7 Adventure Music America Imprint Launches May 10 . 7 Pasadena Summer Fest Brings Jazz to Rose Bowl For First Time . 8 4 Tony Monaco Makes Washington Stop . 9 Botti Goes DualDisc . 9 Walter Beasley Will Perform at Benefit for Violence Victims . 10 Terri Lyne Carrington Will Head Berklee Summer Program . 11 Al Jarreau Will Sing for T-Rex. 11 WJJZ Sponors Free Concerts . 11 Birthdays . 12 Features 13 Industry Q&A: Mitchell Feldman. 13 Reviews and Picks . 17 Joe Lovano . 17 Vijay Iyer . 17 Lorraine Feather . 17 Editors’ Picks . 18 Jazz Charts . 19 Jazz Album Chart . 20 19 Jazz Add Dates . 21 Jazz Current CDs . 22 Jazz Radio Panel . 28 Smooth Jazz Charts . 24 Smooth Album Chart . 25 Smooth Singles Chart. 26 Smooth Current CDs . 27 24 Smooth Radio Panel . 28 Cover photo: Percy Heath at 2004 JVC Newport Jazz Festival by Tom Mallison JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 24 jazzweek.com • May 4, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Jazz Great Percy Heath Passes at 81 ercy Heath, whose bass was the Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson, Sonny Rol- foundation of the Modern Jazz lins, Fats Navarro, and Charlie Parker PQuartet, died April 28, just two during those early years in New York. days shy of his 82ⁿd birthday. Heath From 1950-52, Heath was a mem- had been suffering from bone cancer, ber of the Dizzy Gillespie sextet, and passed away near his Montauk, where he met the other musicians who Long Island, home. would form the Modern Jazz Quar- Heath, the oldest of three musical tet: pianist John Lewis, vibraphon- brothers, including saxophonist Jim- ist Milt Jackson, and drummer Kenny my and drummer Albert “Tootie”, was Clarke. Heath was a member of MJQ born in Wilmington, N.C. and grew for its entire on-and-off history, a pe- up in Philadelphia. He began his in- riod spanning five decades. The group terest in music at a young age, start- would see only one lineup change dur- ing in his school orchestra on the vio- ing its first incarnation, from 1952-74: lin. Heath took up the double bass in Clarke left the group in 1955 and was 1946 at the Granoff School of Music replaced by Connie Kay. During that in Philadelphia after his service in the period, Heath also performed and re- Army Air Corps as a member of the corded with his brother Jimmy on oc- Tom Mallison Tuskegee Airmen during World War casion. Percy Heath performs at the 2004 JVC II. After MJQ went on hiatus in 1974, Newport Jazz Festival. Heath worked with brothers Jim- my and Albert as the Heath Brothers a leader in 2004, the Daddy Jazz CD A from 1975-82 and worked with Sarah Love Song, on which he also peformed, Vaughan in 1975. as he had often, on the cello which he Heath rejoined the reformed MJQ would jokingly call the “baby bass.” in 1981, and stayed with the group un- Heath continued to perform un- til Heath decided he was ready to stop til recently, including at the 2004 JVC touring. MJQ quietly disbanded in Newport Jazz Festival. the mid-1990s. In 1994, near the end Percy Heath was named an NEA of the group’s second run, Connie Kay Jazz Master in 2002, and received an passed away and was replaced by Al- honorary doctorate in 1989 from Berk- bert Heath; Milt Jackson died in 1999 lee College of Music among may other Percy Heath’s first CD as a leader, A Love and John Lewis in 2001. During the awards, and performed at the White Song (Daddy Jazz) came in 2004. second life of MJQ , Heath also per- House for Presidents Nixon and Clin- formed with the Heath Brothers from ton. A quick study, in 1947 Heath time to time, and after the end of MJQ Heath is survived by his wife June; joined his brother Jimmy in New York reformed the Heath Brothers. three sons, Percy III, Jason and Stuart; as a member of trumpeter Howard After more than 300 recordings and his two brothers. Following Percy McGhee’s sextet and big band. In the as a member of a group or as a side- Heath’s wishes, no memorial service is cradle of bebop, Heath performed with man, Percy Heath recorded his first as planned. JW jazzweek.com • May 4, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News Jimmy Woode, 78, Heath Brothers Was Ellington Bassist Bassist Jimmy Woode, best known for his five years with the Duke Ellington or- chestra, but who was part of the European expatriate jazz scene until returning to the U.S. in 2001, died April 30 at his home in Lindenwold, N.J. He was 78. Woode, who was born in Philadelphia, was a regular performer in the mid-1950s in Boston at the famed Storyville and Hi Hat nightclubs, where he accompanied such performers as Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. Woode joined Ellington as a substitute in 1955 during that group’s lowest point, but was part of its revival after Ellington’s 1956 comeback at Newport. In Europe, he worked with pianist Bud Powell, drummer Kenny Clarke, and saxophonists Don Byas and Johnny Griffin. 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