JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • July 24, 2006 Volume 2, Number 34 • $7.95 Industry Q&A: Dreyfus/Kindred Rhythm’s TATSUYA KOEDA page 9 On The Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Mark Elf #1 Smooth Album – Peter White #1 College Jazz – Costello/Toussaint #1 Smooth Single – Peter White #1 World Music – Sean Paul JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger MUSIC EDITOR Tad Hendrickson ark Elf has achieved a pretty amazing feat this week by CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ notching his ninth consecutive jazz radio No. 1. What’s PHOTOGRAPHER Mmore, he’s also proven some naysayers wrong. Tom Mallison Mark’s previous eight No. 1 radio CDs – six at Gavin and two PHOTOGRAPHY at JazzWeek were all during the era of manual reports. Some folks Barry Solof privately suggested that there would be no way he would make it Contributing Editors to the top in this age of monitored airplay. 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As with last year’s phenom- nist Tommy Flanagan. Also featured Series. Filmed in Europe between 1957 enal discovery of the Thelonious Monk in the series are two 1966 concerts and 1978, the Jazz Icons™ DVDs fea- Quartet with John Coltrane At Carn- from Thelonious Monk filmed three ture the greatest legends of jazz cap- egie Hall concert, which went on to days apart in Norway and Denmark. tured in their prime and accompanied sell over 200,000 CDs, this series is Further concerts recently discov- by some of the most legendary side- also a major find and treasure to the ered for the Jazz Icons™ DVD series musicians of the day. Lost in the vaults world of recorded and filmed jazz mu- include a riveting hour-long Count of European television studios (in some sic. Said jazz writer and historian Ira Basie show from Sweden taped in cases for nearly 50 years!), Reelin’ In Gitler (author of The Biographical En- 1962 featuring the drumming of Son- The Years Productions and TDK Re- cyclopedia of Jazz), “These nine his- ny Payne. Dizzy Gillespie is represent- cording Media Europe S.A. are proud toric DVDs are among the most im- ed by two historic concerts: the first to announce the Sept. 26, 2006 release portant visual/aural documents to be from 1958 in Belgium with a quin- of the first nine titles of the illustri- discovered in the history of Jazz. Now, tet including saxophonist Sonny Stitt, ous series featuring 60-90 minute per- most importantly, they are available to and the second from 1970 in Denmark formances by Thelonious Monk, Ella the entire world.” fronting the legendary Kenny Clarke- Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Among the wealth of highlights in Francy Boland Big Band. Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Count Basie, the Jazz Icons™ DVD series are two The Buddy Rich DVD boasts a Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Quincy Jones concerts filmed in 1960 1978 concert taped in Holland and Buddy Rich and Chet Baker. All nine featuring an 18-piece band that Quin- featuring members of Buddy’s “Killer Jazz Icons™ DVD titles are distribut- cy later described as his “dream band,” Force,” the group he would later call ed by Naxos Of America and sold sep- which included some of the finest mu- “the best band I ever had.” Chet Baker arately. sicians in jazz – Phil Woods, Clark is represented by two concerts filmed Each of the nine Jazz Icons™ Terry, and Sahib Shihab. Another 15 years apart including a haunting DVDs features one or more concerts highlight is a one hour Art Blakey 1964 show in a Belgian TV studio filmed live in television studios and concert with what many jazz histo- and a soulful 1979 set from Norway concert halls throughout Europe dur- rians consider to be his most impor- (together they provide an overview of ing one of the most creative periods in tant ensemble, the legendary 1958 Jazz Baker’s career.) jazz history (the majority of the ma- Messengers with Lee Morgan, Ben- Rounding out the DVD series is terial being filmed between 1957 and ny Golson, Bobby Timmons and Jy- one of the only known complete Lou- 1966). None of these performances mie Merritt – a lineup that was only is Armstrong concerts from the 1950s has ever been officially released, and together for six months. to be captured on film. This 1959 con- in many cases, the material was never The Jazz Icons™ series also features cert, filmed in Belgium and backed by originally broadcast. In addition, every two concerts from Ella Fitzgerald in- his stellar band, the All-Stars, captures performance in the Jazz Icons™ DVD cluding the earliest known complete the great man in all his glory as ➤ jazzweek.com • July 24, 2006 JazzWeek 4 News Monterey Jazz Jazz Icons DVD Festival Receives Series (continued) both a jazz pioneer and an entertainer Preservation Grant without peer. Every DVD in the Jazz Icons™ se- MONTEREY, Calif. – Dizzy Gil- MY Foundation® and NHPRC,” said ries is produced with the full support lespie began a storied history when he MJF General Manager Tim Jackson. and cooperation of the artists or their opened the first night of the first Mon- “These significant grants enable us estates. In addition, each musician on terey Jazz Festival on October 3, 1958, to access our important jazz record- stage is being paid (either directly or blowing the “Star Spangled Banner” ings and provide a testament to both through the American Federation Of and introducing Louis Armstrong to the legacy of the Monterey Jazz Festi- Musicians). the stage. In the 50 years since then, val and the great artists who have per- Each DVD also includes a 16-page the same caliber of talent has graced formed here.” booklet with an extensive essay writ- the stages in Monterey, and each year’s The collection of MJF recordings ten by an established jazz writer and performances have been recorded for is an American treasure of irreplace- historian (Ira Gitler, Michael Cuscu- future use. But while the Monterey able live recordings of the greatest jazz na, Will Friedwald, Rob Bowman and Jazz Festival has retained its vibrancy musicians from the past half-century. others). In addition, each booklet in- as it approaches its golden anniversary Within the first decade alone, festival cludes previously unseen photos and in 2007, the festival’s archival record- archivists collected one hundred audio memorabilia. In many cases the art- ings have been deteriorating. Efforts recordings that include the 1960 debut ists or heirs to the estate have provided are well underway to restore these his- of Jon Hendricks’ “Evolution of the rare never-before-seen artifacts or con- toric records. Blues” and Duke Ellington’s “Suite tributed forewords. To help preserve the Monterey Jazz Thursday”; the 1962 performances of Producers of the series, David Festival’s audio recordings, several sig- Louis Armstrong and Harry James and the first appearance of Miles Da- Peck and Phil Galloway, said of Jazz nificant grantors have stepped forward vis in 1963. Appearing alongside these Icons(TM), “We’re proud to be able with support totaling over $350,000.