JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • January 15, 2007 Volume 3, Number 8 • $7.95 Industry Q&A: BRICE ROSENBLOOM page 9 On The Charts: #1 Jazz Album – MB3 #1 Smooth Album – For Luther II #1 College Jazz – Madeleine Peyroux #1 Smooth Single – George Benson #1 World Music – Lynch/Palmieri JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger anuary 10-13 marks the 2007 International Association MUSIC EDITOR Tad Hendrickson fo Jazz Education Annual Conference. Since many of Jyou will read this issue before the conference, here’s an- CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ other quick plug for the events JazzWeek is sponsoring each PHOTOGRAPHER Tom Mallison day from 10:00 a.m. to noon: PHOTOGRAPHY Barry Solof Thursday Workshop: Jazz Radio In Crisis: Why That’s A Good Thing This session will focus on why some stations are disappearing or seeing big Contributing Editors drops in audience, whie other stations with more progressiveapproaches are Keith Zimmerman seeing audience increases. 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This year’s Gram- decades and continues to tour exten- Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz En- my Salute To Jazz honorees are James sively in the U.S. and Europe. The en- sembles. The President’s Merit Award Moody and Phil Woods. ergetic and prolific artist is one of the for outstanding achievement will be “In keeping with the mission of The most expressive and enduring figures presented to these jazz legends for Recording Academy and our GRAM- in modern jazz. their lasting contributions to jazz and MY Week festivities, we acknowledge Woods, an alto saxophonist, clari- the music community at large. and recognize the achievements of jazz netist, and composer, has recorded ex- The Recording Academy will also and classical legends who have made tensively both as a leader and sideman have Salute to Classical Music honor- significant contributions to their re- since the 1950s. He has worked along- ing the Romeros. spective musical genres and beyond,” side such great musicians as Charlie The 49th Annual Grammy Awards said Neil Portnow, President of The Barnet, Quincy Jones, Benny Good- will be broadcast live from Staples Recording Academy. “We are pleased man, Benny Carter, Billy Joel, Paul Si- Center in Los Angles on the CBS to honor and pay tribute to such in- mon, and Steely Dan. Television Network on Sunday, Feb. novators whose passion and skills have This special presentation will take 11, 2007, from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/ and will continue to enrich our musi- place on Feb. 6, 2007 at The Music PT). JW Recording great music and helping musicians more effectively market their own jazzweek.com • January 15, 2007 JazzWeek 4 News New Round of Prestige Rudy Van Gelder Editions Set udy Van Gelder meticulously ing a quartet comprised of pianist Red As a sideman, he had played with Jack engineered thousands of albums Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and McDuff, Jimmy Smith, Don Patterson Rin his New Jersey studio for la- drummer Arthur Taylor. and Groove Holmes, among other B-3 bels such as Prestige, Blue Note, Sa- Jackie McLean: 4, 5 and 6 organists, so it wasn’t a stretch to hear voy, Impulse!, Verve and CTI. his first disc be in the soul-jazz groove Today Van Gelder’s work contin- Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean’s in the company of B3er and fellow ues as he remasters classic sides from 4, 5 and 6, recorded in 1956, was his Philadelphian Trudy Pitts. There are the Prestige catalog, which today is third album as leader and second for galloping tunes as well as tender bal- owned by the Concord Music Group. Prestige. The LP at the time helped to lads. Initially reluctant to revisit some of the establish McLean on the jazz scene. Sonny Rollins: Plus Four albums he originally worked on, Van He was joined by trumpeter Donald Gelder was encouraged by the tech- Byrd (who shines with the altoist on One of the true monumental fig- nological advances of recording equip- Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation”) and ures of jazz who is still vibrantly re- ment and challenged by giving these tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley (also cording and performing, Sonny Rol- masterworks a renewed 24-bit lease bopping hard on the tune), in a date lins was still an upstart tenor saxman on life. He says of these artists that solidified by McLean’s rhythm sec- in 1956 when he delivered Plus Four, a he still “feels strongly that I am their tion: Mal Waldron on piano, Doug classic date with the Clifford Brown- Watkins on bass and Arthur Taylor on Max Roach Quintet (of which he was messenger.” JW In the fifth edition of the RVG Re- drums. McLean also plays ballads, in- a member). masters series, five more classic albums cluding Waldron’s sublime tune “Ab- are polished for February 6 release: straction.” Target your market! John Coltrane with the Red Garland Miles Davis Quintet: Cookin’ Trio: Traneing In; Jackie McLean: 4, 5, Cookin’ With the Miles Davis Quin- and 6; Miles Davis Quintet: Cookin’; tet is the first classic album of four total Pat Martino: El Hombre; and Sonny that emerged from two marathon and Rollins: Plus Four. fruitful sessions recorded in 1956 (the Prestige inaugurated its RVG Re- masters Series in March 2006 with other three discs released in Cookin’s - ten seminal titles, then continued in wake were Workin’, Relaxin’ and Stea min’). All the albums were recorded June, July and September with five live in the studio, as Davis sought to more discs each month. Each RVG capture, with Rudy Van Gelder’s ex- engineered album includes original Advertise in pert engineering, the sense of a club and new liner notes, and some albums show á la the Café Bohemia in New are augmented by alternate take bonus JazzWeek York, with his new quintet, featuring tracks. Reach not just jazz and college tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. John Coltrane with the Red radio, but musicians, clubs, retailers Pat Martino: El Hombre Garland Trio: Traneing In and promoters ... all people in the jazz or world music field who now Widely recognized today as one of Recorded in one day (August 23, can subscribe free to JazzWeek. For jazz’s greatest and most original guitar- rates and more information, contact 1957) at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in ists, Pat Martino was just 22 when he Hackensack, N.J.