JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • March 30, 2005 Volume 1, Number 19 • $7.95 In This Issue: Mack Avenue to Sponsor Detroit Jazz Fest. 4 WGBH Ups Rivero to Radio/ TV GM . 5 Camilo Embarks . 6 441 Launches Test of Time . 9 Reviews and Picks. 15 Jazz Radio . 18 Smooth Jazz Radio. 23 RADIO Q&A: Radio WEMU’S Panels. 27 LINDA YOHN News. 4 page 12 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Joey DeFrancesco #1 Smooth Album – Dave Koz #1 Smooth Single – Dave Koz JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger ’m thrilled that we get to feature another of our favorite people CONTRIBUTING EDITORS in jazz radio this week, WEMU music director Linda Yohn. Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman ILinda is a nominee for the Jazz Journalists Association Excel- Tad Hendrickson lence in Jazz Broadcasting/Willis Conover-Marian McPartland CONTRIBUTING WRITER Award. 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JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) – Ed Trefzger, Editor is published weekly by 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone: (585) 235-4685 fax: (585) 235-4685 [email protected] Copyright ©2005 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. jazzweek.com • March 30, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents March 30, 2005 News . 4 Mack Avenue Replaces Ford as Detroit Jazz Fest Major Sponsor . 4 Marsalis Music Plans Releases from Doug Wamble and Miguel Zenon . 4 Boston’s WGBH Names Marita Rivero GM for Radio and TV . 5 Michel Camilo Embarks on World Tour April 5 . 6 Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Plans May Tribute to Thad Jones and Mel Lewis . 8 6 441 Launches Test of Time Imprint . 9 Birthdays . 11 Features Radio Q&A: WEMU’s Linda Yohn. 12 Reviews and Picks . 15 Kate McGarry . 15 Anat Cohen . 15 Kermit Ruffins With The Rebirth Brass Band . 15 12 Editors’ Picks . 16 Caught In The Act: Los Hombres Calientes and SFJAZZ Collective . 17 Jazz Charts . 18 Jazz Album Chart . 19 Jazz Add Dates . 20 Jazz Current CDs . 21 Jazz Radio Panel . 27 Smooth Jazz Charts . 23 18 Smooth Album Chart . 24 Smooth Singles Chart. 25 Smooth Current CDs . 26 Smooth Radio Panel . 27 23 JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 19 jazzweek.com • March 30, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Mack Avenue Replaces Ford as Detroit Jazz Fest Major Sponsor DETROIT – Mack Avenue Records, Grammy nominee Gerald Wilson, ac- Plaza, has not yet been announced by the Detroit-based independent jazz la- claimed Brazilian guitarist Oscar Cas- festival director Frank Malfitano. bel, has announced that it will be the tro-Neves, and rising stars Sean Jones In a departure from past festivals, title sponsor of this year’s Detroit In- and Ron Blake – performed through- this year’s festival will not bear the ti- ternational Jazz Festival. The label has out the weekend. The full lineup for tle sponsor’s name, but will be billed as stepped in to fill the $250,000 spon- this year’s festival, which will take the Detroit International Jazz Festival, JW sorship void left after the Ford Mo- place over Labor Day weekend at Hart Produced by Music Hall. tor Company decided not to renew its sponsorship commitment to the festi- val, which is the largest free music fes- Marsalis Music Plans Releases from tival in North America. Ford had pulled its plans to spon- Doug Wamble and Miguel Zenon sor the festival in February, expressing concerns over the festival’s business arsalis Music has May releases tive Puerto Rico. The result is Jíbaro, plan and long-term viability. on tap from a pair of innova- a collection of ten pieces which have Tom Robinson, Mack Avenue pres- Mtive young musicians. earned rave reviews as Zenón has per- ident, and Gretchen Valade, its CEO, Doug Wamble’s Bluestate is the formed them with his quartet. “When issued a joint statement which said, sophomore effort of the guitarist/vo- I started to work on my own music and “We are pleased to have the chance to calist/composer who the label in- to develop my own sounds, I looked support the Music Hall Center for the troduced on the 2003 disc Country into Puerto Rican music,” said Zenón, Performing Arts, and to support their Libations. Featuring Wamble’s long- “and after immersing myself in bomba long-standing efforts to create a cul- standing rhythm section of pianist and plena, I pushed further and start- tural event that reflects so positively Roy Dunlap, bassist Jeff Hanley and ed to address Jíbaro. At the beginning on the city of Detroit.” drummer Peter Miles, the new album I just wanted to learn about the mu- “Thanks to a strong commitment documents the quartet after months of sic, but after I learned the rules and to their hometown on the part of the tourning. “Playing night after night the forms, I heard that they allowed leadership of Mack Avenue, Music focused us more in a jazz direction,” me to apply my own ideas.” Zenón is Hall is thrilled to be able to produce said Wamble, “but, in an odd way, it joined by pianist Luis Perdomo, bass- the 26th edition of our Jazz Festival on brought out the other eclectic stuff as ist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Labor Day weekend on the banks of well. The disparate elements are com- Antonio Sánchez. Miguel Zenón is the Detroit River,” said Bob McCabe, ing together in a more cohesive way.” also a member of the all-star SFJAZZ festival founder and vice-chairman of After releasing Ceremonial at the Collective. (A live performance of that Music Hall. start of 2004, alto saxophonist/com- group is reviewed on page 17.) In 2004, Mack Avenue sponsored poser Miguel Zenón set to work on The street date for Wamble’sBlues - one of the four stages at the festival, and a set of new compositions inspired by tate is May 10, and for Zenón’s Jíbaro, many of its artists – including six-time music from the rural regions of his na- May 24. JW jazzweek.com • March 30, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News Boston’s WGBH Names Marita Rivero GM for Radio and TV BOSTON – Marita Rivero will take America. She served as executive for music performances. Rivero’s work in on the new post of General Manag- WGBH’s collaboration with Black- other media includes the development er for WGBH Radio and Television. side’s 2003 PBS series, This Far By of WGBH’s web site, wgbh.org, and Rivero has been the public broadcast- Faith. an online service, The WGBH Fo- er’s General Manager for Radio since Under Rivero’s leadership, WGBH rum Network, which brings lectures 1988. She succeeds Jonathan Abbott, Radio has developed award-winning sponsored by community partners to who now serves as Executive VP and local, national and international pro- wgbh.org for wider dissemination. Chief Operating Officer. ductions in music, news and the arts, She also has overseen the distribution In her new role, Rivero will oversee including the daily global news pro- of WGBH productions through the all the programming and operations of gram The World, produced with part- emerging technology of “podcasting.” WGBH’s two radio services, WGBH ners BBC and PRI. She expand- WGBH is a Mediaguide-moni- 89.7, and The Cape and Islands NPR ed WGBH’s Radio service to Cape tored member of JazzWeek’s Jazz Al- Stations, and its two broadcast televi- Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vine- bum Chart panel. JW sion channels, WGBH 2 and WGBH yard and championed live, in-studio 44, as well as six new television ser- vices and the broadcaster’s Web site, Future New Digs for WGBH Radio and Television wgbh.org. “With her depth of experience in both radio and television, Marita brings a perspective and insight that will help us realize the potential of all our regional broadcast activities,” said WGBH president Henry Becton, Jr.