JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • November 29, 2004 Volume 1, Number 3 • $7.95 In This Issue: KKJZ Starts Power Increase Project . 5 Radio Track Returns at IAJE 2005 . 10 CD Reviews and Editors’ Picks. 12 Jazz Radio Charts, Adds, PALMETTO Releases . 15 INKS LCJO Smooth Jazz p. 4 Radio Album Jazz in the Rockies and Singles Radio Spotlight with KUVO’s Charts, Arturo Gómez p. 7 Releases . 20 Radio IAJE Adds Radio Track Panels. 24 2005 Long Beach Conference Renews Radio Sessions p. 10 News. 4 Charts: Jazz Album – Dr. Lonnie Smith Smooth Album – Wayman Tisdale Smooth Single – Wayman Tisdale JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger One of the by-products of the decline of some major jazz labels has CONTRIBUTING EDITORS been the growth of independent labels. One of the indies that has led the Keith Zimmerman way is Palmetto Records, which announces that it has signed an agreement Kent Zimmerman with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Its first release for the label will Tad Hendrickson be A Love Supreme. I can hardly wait, and we congratulate the folks at Pal- CONTRIBUTING WRITER metto on the exciting news. Tom Mallison PHOTOGRAPHY When we heard that our friend Arturo Gómez was going to be the Barry Solof music director at KUVO in Denver after several years at WDNA in Mi- ami, we were pretty excited. Arturo, who won JazzWeek’s major market PUBLISHER programmer of the year award at our summit last June in Rochester, N.Y., is Tony Gasparre one of the jazz radio folks who really gets it. His station, one of a few that devotes most of its airtime to jazz, is a pleasure to listen to on the net, and ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre (585) 235-4685 x3 or after reading Arturo’s radio spotlight Q&A with Tad Hendrickson, you’ll email: [email protected] understand why. By the way, that is the first in what will be a series of pieces highlight- SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: Charter Rate: $199.00 per year, ing radio folks in jazz and smooth jazz. Let us know if you, or someone at JazzWeek w/ Industry Access -- Charter your station, should be profiled. Rate: $249.00 per year An increase in power is great news for KKJZ, in Long Beach. Step Introductory Rates effective until 12/31/04 To subscribe using Visa/MC/Discover/ one takes place next month. The greater signal range will be a boon to the AMEX/PayPal go to: Los Angeles area, and we wish our best to our friends there. Also pick- http://www.jazzweek.com/account/ ing up listenership is Sirius, now topping 800,000 subscribers. Here’s hop- subscribe.html ing all those folks signing up to hear Howard Stern also check out the great jazz programming Matt Abramovitz puts together. AIRPLAY MONITORING BY It’s hard to believe that IAJE is almost here. If you were disappointed at the lack of radio and promotion sessions in the last couple of years, check out the workshops and panels planned for this year. Industry track chairs Don Lucoff and Lee Mergner have done a great job lining up topics. There Mediaguide 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. will be a radio workshop each day, and other radio panels, including a salute Suite 150 to the legends of jazz radio. JazzWeek will have a panel session, too. Berwyn, PA 19312 Finally, let us know what’s on your mind. We’ll start publishing let- ters when we start receiving them. We know a lot of you, and know you are Published weekly by outspoken, so don’t be shy. And if you’re a writer who’d like to contribute, drop us a line, too. Reach me at [email protected]. – Ed Trefzger, Editor 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 317 Rochester, NY 14624 phone: (585) 235-4685 fax: (585) 235-4685 [email protected] Copyright ©2004 Yellow Dog Communications Inc. jazzweek.com • November 29, 2004 JazzWeek 2 Contents November 29, 2004 News . .4 Palmetto Records to Be New Label Home For LCJO . .4 Mediaguide Announces Deal With Urban Network . .4 Sirius Passes 800,000 Subscriber Mark. .4 KKJZ Begins Process to Raise Power. .5 4 Passings . .6 Industry Moves . .6 Features Radio Spotlight: Q& A With Arturo Gómez of Denver’s KUVO . .7 Radio Track Returns to IAJE 2005 . 10 Reviews . 12 7 Jazz Radio . 15 Jazz Album Chart . 16 Jazz Add Dates . 17 Jazz Current CDs . 18 Jazz Radio Panel. 24 Smooth Jazz Radio . 20 Smooth Album Chart . 21 15 Smooth Singles Chart . 22 Smooth Current CDs . 23 Smooth Radio Panel . 24 20 Cover Photo of Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: Keith Major/J@LC JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 3 jazzweek.com • November 29, 2004 JazzWeek 3 News Mediaguide Palmetto Records to Announces Deal With Urban Network Be New Label Home NEW YORK – Mediaguide, provider of music airplay data services, and The Urban Network, a print and online portal bridging the urban community, last week For LCJO announced a new multi-media marketing agreement. by Tad Hendrickson According to the companies, the deal endorses the superior tracking and reporting capabilities of Mediaguide, fter what seemed like an overly lengthy recording hiatus, the Lin- provides Urban Network with use coln Center Jazz Orchestra has signed on with New York indie la- of Mediaguide charts in all of its Abel Palmetto. The first installment in the partnership will be the publications and affords Mediaguide Orchestra’s version of the John Coltrane classic A Love Supreme. The al- branding and advertising on the Urban bum is due for February 11 release. Network site, newsletter and magazine. Importantly, Urban Network will market “When Jazz at Lincoln Center chose us to be and sell Mediaguide’s Music Monitor and their recording partner for the Lincoln Center Artist Monitor products to their multi- J a z z Orchestra, we were thrilled, million-person subscriber base. especially since Ted Nash “This agreement is yet another sign of records for our label,” says Mediaguide’s acceptance as the leading Pat Rustici, Palmetto Gen- source of music airplay intelligence,” eral Manager, in a press release. said Joe Wallace, Mediaguide Senior “We’ve worked with many of the great Vice President of Music. “We are musicians in the LCJO – including delighted to have the marketing support Wynton – over the years. The LCJO fits of Urban Network in both selling our right in with our creative belief that it is unique products and communicating the important to respect the tradition of jazz, accuracy and reach of our charts.” yet at the same time, add new ideas and ap- proaches to the canon. There is no question LCJO does that with this recording.” Sirius Passes 800,000 The Orchestra has stayed busy touring Subscriber Mark more than six months of each year, but this is the first album since 2002’s All Rise, its Sirius Satellite Radio announced Nov. 22 that it had passed the 800,000 ninth album for Sony. subscriber mark, and projects 1 million Those looking for a taste of the al- subscribers by the end of 2004. bum need look no further than the recent “Sirius is on a roll,” said Mel Karmazin, opening gala performance of the new Jazz CEO of Sirius. Keith Major/J@LC At Lincoln Center House of Swing – dur- Sirius is a jazz album chart reporter to ing its two set performance, the Orchestra JazzWeek. played “Acknowledgement.” jazzweek.com • November 29, 2004 JazzWeek 4 News Silence Will Be Golden for KKJZ on Dec. 7 as Station Begins Process to Raise Power LONG BEACH, Calif. – It will be Judy Jankowski. to the transmitter. Those changes will quieter than usual in the Chuck Niles bring the studio-quality audio prod- KKJZ will also be converting to Studio at KKJZ Radio, 88.1 FM, on uct in line with the transmission and HD (High Definition) Radio. That the California State University Long delivery capabilities provided by the upgrade will allow listeners to catch Beach campus much of the day on power increase and conversion to HD KKJZ on the new HD radios now hit- Tuesday, Dec. 7. ting the market which provide high- By the time the power increase The station will go dark about er quality digital audio with less noise takes effect, KKJZ will have an even 10:00 a.m. (PST) that day. As the sig- than FM. wider, more international audience. nal ceases, KKJZ contractors will be With HD, the more-distant fu- Before the year ends, the KKJZ signal will be heard in Japan via direct broad climbing the 160-foot broadcast tow- ture for KKJZ could include the trans- - er on Signal Hill to begin modifying mission of auxiliary services like ‘now cast satellite. The Mobile Broadcasting - the transmitter antenna and orienting playing’ and artist information, pro- Corporation (MBCO) asked the sta tion to be one of just five from the U.S. it properly. If all goes as planned, the motional text and graphics, and sec- whose signal will be broadcast in Ja- station will be back on the air by 4:00 ondary audio services – maybe even a pan. The MBCO satellite will offer 50 p.m. second format on the same radio chan- audio channels that can be accessed by That planned six-hour quiet pe- nel at some point in the future. riod is the first step in a months-long process to increase the station’s power to 30,000 watts. “We are making this and some other changes because it’s what our listeners want, and we hope that our thousands of supporters will make pay- ing for them easy,” said station manag- er Sean Heitkemper.