JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • March 23, 2005 Volume 1, Number 18 • $7.95 In This Issue: MILES DAVIS Jazz Journalists 50TH ON LEGACY ROBERT Association page 15 Nominees . 4 GLASPER Grammy SIGNS WITH Foundation News. 9 BLUE NOTE JazzWeek page 4 Summit Fellowship Awardees Named . 12 Reviews and Picks. 16 Jazz Radio . 18 Smooth Jazz Radio. 23 TH Radio MILES DAVIS 50 REMEMBERING Panels. 27 ON COLUMBIA BOBBY SHORT News. 4 page 15 page 13 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Joey DeFrancesco #1 Smooth Album – Dave Koz #1 Smooth Single – Dave Koz JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger ur colleagues at the Jazz Journalists Association have an- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS nounced nominees in 40 different categories for the JJA’s Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman Oninth Jazz Awards, to be held on Tuesday, June 14, at B.B. Tad Hendrickson King’s Blues Club and Grill in New York. 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Music Hall of Fame . 7 Grammy Foundation Announces Grants, GrammyIntheSchools.com . 9 4 Mellon/Pitt Scholarship for 2005 Announced. 10 JazzWeek Summit Fellowship Awardees Chosen . 12 Cabaret Legend Bobby Short Dead at 80 . 13 Larry Bunker, 76 . 13 Birthdays . 14 Legacy Rolls Out Plans for Miles Davis 50th Anniversary . 15 Jazz Composers Collective Holds Fifth Festival . 15 Features 15 Reviews and Picks . 16 Ted Nash & Odeon . 16 William Parker . 16 Julie Hardy . 16 Editors’ Picks . 17 Jazz Charts . 18 Jazz Album Chart . 19 Jazz Add Dates . 20 18 Jazz Current CDs . 21 Jazz Radio Panel . 27 Smooth Jazz Charts . 23 Smooth Album Chart . 24 Smooth Singles Chart. 25 Smooth Current CDs . 26 Smooth Radio Panel . 27 23 JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 18 jazzweek.com • March 23, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Blue Note Inks Pianist Robert Glasper EMI Group/Blue Note Photographed at Blue Note’s Manhattan offices are from left: Perry Greenfield (Product Manager, Blue Note Records), Bruce Lundvall (CEO & President, EMI Jazz & Classics), Robert Glasper, Tom Evered (VP & General Manager, EMI Jazz & Classics), Eli Wolf (Director of A&R, Blue Note Records) ianist Robert Glasper is the lat- area. He grew up playing in church- Fresh Sounds label in 2003. On it he est signee to the Blue Note label. es and clubs with his mother and at- was joined by bassist Robert Hurst, PWith majors shuttering their tended the Houston High School For drummer Damion Reed and a few jazz departments or trimming down The Performing Arts before com- guests. With a number of New York their roster, this is a noteworthy and ing to New York City to attend New City gigs posted on his website (www. all-too-rare event in the jazz scene. In School University. Jazz fans may have robertglasper.com), his trio should be recent years, Blue Note has focused come across him in the bands of Ter- ready when it hits the studio in May. on non-jazz signings (Van Morrison, ence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove, Nich- Blue Note is hoping to have the album Anita Baker, Al Green), jazzy artists olas Payton and Carmen Lundy, but out by fall. like Norah Jones, and signed estab- Glasper has also toured with R&B “I feel that Robert Glasper has an lished jazz players (Wynton Marsa- singer Bilal and played with Mos emerging originality as both a pia- lis, Terence Blanchard, Bill Charlap), Def, Meshell N’degeocello and De La nist and a composer,” says Blue Note’s Glasper’s contract marks the first time Soul’s Q-Tip. CEO & President, Bruce Lundvall in since Jason Moran that the label has Compared to Jason Moran, Brad a press release. “He has his own voice, taken on a young relatively unknown Mehldau and Bill Charlap by the and is one of most exciting younger jazz player. New York Times, Glasper’s first album, musicians I’ve heard in some time.” Glasper, 26, hails from Houston Mood, came out on the cutting-edge –Tad Hendrickson jazzweek.com • March 23, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2005 Nominees NEW YORK – The Jazz Journalists com. Tickets to this year’s JJA Jazz Association (JJA), representing more Among the supporters of the Awards at B.B. King’s Blues Club than 400 writers, broadcasters, pho- Jazz Journalists Awards this year are: and Grill are $50 to JJA members and tographers and new media profession- ASCAP, BMI and BET Jazz, the 24- nominees (after their two complimen- als worldwide, has announced final Hour Jazz Channel. tary tickets) and $150 to the public. nominees in 40 categories of achieve- The JJA will host Jazz Awards Tickets for the JJA Jazz Awards West ment for the Jazz Awards 2005, its nominated finalists at B.B. King’s Coast are $25 to JJA members, $75 to ninth annual ceremony honoring jazz Blues Club and Grill. The JJA is host- the public. Tickets may be bought by musicians and their supporters. ing a separate West Coast Jazz Awards check made out to the Jazz Journalists Six broadcasters have been nom- Party at the Jazz Bakery in Los Ange- Association, sent c/o Arnold J. Smith, inated for the Excellence in Jazz les on Sunday, May 29, where Kenny 436 State St., Brooklyn, NY 11217, or Broadcasting/Willis Conover-Mar- Burrell, Gerald Wilson, Wadada Leo by credit card at www.JazzJournalist- ian McPartland Award: Eric Jackson Smith, Charlie Haden, and Dr. Craig sAwards.com. (WGBH-FM), Linda Yohn (WEMU- Springer are being feted for their con- A complete list of nominees fol- FM), Rhonda Hamilton (WBGO- tributions to jazz education. lows. FM), Bob Perkins (WRTI-FM), Jim Wilke (PRI/Jazz After Hours), Ted Ninth JJA Jazz Awards List of Nominees Panken (WKCR-FM). 1) Lifetime Achievement in Jazz 6) Jazz Reissue of the Year, boxed set The Jazz Awards is a benefit for Roy Haynes Albert Ayler, Holy Ghost (Revenant), the Jazz Foundation of America’s Mu- Hank Jones Miles Davis, Seven Steps: The Complete sicians Emergency Fund, and for the Lee Konitz Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964 Jazz Journalists Association’s educa- Sam Rivers (Columbia Legacy) tional initiatives. The 2005 JJA Jazz 2) Musician of the Year Dexter Gordon, The Complete Prestige Recordings (Mosaic) Awards celebration, a cocktail-and- Dave Douglas Dave Holland Various, The Complete Norman Granz Jam supper party with musical entertain- Joe Lovano Sessions (Verve) ment, will be held on Tuesday, June Branford Marsalis 7) Jazz Record Label of the Year 14, at B.B. King’s Blues Club and 3) Up & Coming Musician of the Year Blue Note Grill, 237 W. 42ⁿd St. in New York Sean Jones Mosaic City from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Jeremy Pelt Palmetto Telarc Additionally, the JJA will hon- Madeleine Peyroux Manuel Valera 8) Jazz Events Producer of the Year or jazz activists for their humanitari- 4) Jazz Album of the Year Todd Barkan/Jazz at Lincoln Center an contributions to the art form. These Don Byron, Ivey Divey (Blue Note) Randall Kline/SFJazz nominees for the JJA’s “A Team” of al- Branford Marsalis, Eternal (Marsalis Music) Patricia Nicholson-Parker/Vision Series truists, activists, aiders and abettors of Maria Schneider, Concert in the Garden George Wein/Festival Productions jazz will be announced at a later date.