JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • February 16, 2005 Volume 1, Number 13 • $7.95 In This Issue: Jazz Grammys 2005 . 4 Select 2005 Grammy Winner Listing. 6 Hampton Bldg Shelved at U of Idaho. 8 Acts Sought for Summit . 9 REMEMBERING Reviews and Picks. 13 JIMMY SMITH p11 Jazz Radio . 15 Smooth Jazz Radio. 20 GRAMMY WINNERS 2005 p4 Radio Panels. 24 More News . 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – David ‘Fathead’ Newman #1 Smooth Album – Dave Koz #1 Smooth Single – Soul Ballet JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger ust as we were putting our last issue to bed, we heard about the death CONTRIBUTING EDITORS of Jimmy Smith. It was only a few weeks ago that many of us saw him Keith Zimmerman Jat IAJE on the NEA Jazz Masters panel, or performing with Joey De- Kent Zimmerman Francesco. We remember Jimmy in this issue with an obituary by Tad Hen- Tad Hendrickson drickson and a look at some of his enormous discography. CONTRIBUTING WRITER I was surprised a bit at how much of his music was ingrained into my Tom Mallison head when I reviewed the extent of his material. Jimmy’s Back At The Chick- PHOTOGRAPHY en Shack was one of my early purchases from Blue Note when they came out Barry Solof with those nice vinyl reissues when the label was reborn in the mid ’80s. The tour for Legacy, with Joey and Jimmy, was to include some tour dates with PUBLISHER Jimmy, which will now be tributes to him. The album is a fitting homage and Tony Gasparre a lovely swan song to a true giant. ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre * * * (585) 235-4685 x3 or In this issue, Tad also debuts an occasional column “Other Dimensions”, email: [email protected] which this week looks at a couple of fusion releases. Also, Sunday was Gram- SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: my night, and we’ve got info on all the jazz and “sorta” jazz categories. 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And as we’ve mentioned, we’ve got some exciting things planned in ad- AIRPLAY MONITORING BY dition to the panel sessions and workshops, which will include participation from the Jazz Journalists Association and Jazz Alliance International. – Ed Trefzger, Editor Mediaguide 1000 Chesterbrook Blvd. Suite 150 Berwyn, PA 19312 JazzWeek (ISSN 1554-4338) 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 • February 16, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents February 16, 2005 News . 4 Jazz Grammy Winners 2005 . 4 2005 Grammy Winners in Selected Categories . 6 Plans Shelved for Lionel Hampton Building at University of Idaho . 8 U.K.’s Jazz FM Will Be Smooth FM . 9 Acts Sought for JazzWeek Summit/Syracuse Jazz Fest Performances. 9 4 Birthdays . 10 Features Jimmy Smith: 1928-2005 . 11 Selected Jimmy Smith Discography . 12 Other Dimensions: New Fusion . 13 Reviews and Picks . 13 Fred Hersch Ensemble . 13 Harry Watters Quartet . 14 11 David Weiss . 14 Editors’ Picks . 14 Jazz Charts . 15 Jazz Album Chart . 16 Jazz Add Dates . 17 Jazz Current CDs . 18 Jazz Radio Panel . 24 Smooth Jazz Charts . 20 15 Smooth Album Chart . 21 Smooth Singles Chart. 22 Smooth Current CDs . 23 Smooth Radio Panel . 24 20 Cover: Photo of Jimmy Smith for Dot Com Blues (Verve 2001) by James Minchin JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 13 jazzweek.com • February 16, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Jazz Grammy Winners 2005 Genius Loves Company Wins for Ray Charles in Eight Categories ay Charles’ posthumous release Starbucks locations. Genius Loves Company (Concord “Everyone at Star- RRecords/Hear Music) nabbed bucks Hear Music feels a awards in eight categories at the 2005 strong emotional connec- Grammy Awards, held Sunday, Feb. tion to Genius Loves Com- 13 in Los Angeles. pany,” said Ken Lombard, Included among the awards were president of Starbucks En- Album of the Year and Record of the tertainment. “We truly Year for the duet with Norah Jones, appreciate the recognition “Here We Go Again”, which also won the Recording Academy as Best Pop Collaboration with Vo- has given this album and cals. are thrilled by the response Jones also won a Grammy for Best the public has shown to Female Pop Vocal Performance for this project.” “Sunrise”, from the album Feels Like Starbucks plans to fol- Home (Blue Note.) low up the success of Ge- Genius Loves Company (Concord Records/Hear Mu- Two million copies of Genius Loves nius with a Herbie Han- sic) came away with eight Grammys. Company have been sold in the U.S., cock project this fall. with almost 600,000 of those sold at Hosting the event was Queen Latifah, whose Telarc Jazz release, and the MCG CD The Dana Owens Album Jazz album R.S.V.P. by Nancy Wilson, (Qwest) is on the JazzWeek which won for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Jazz Album and Smooth were two of seven Grammys won by charts. She also performed a Telarc, Heads Up and MCG Jazz, in- medley from the CD. cluding classical categories. Guitarist Bill Frisell “Telarc releases about sixty re- won for Best Contemporary cords a year, so winning Grammys for Jazz Album with Unspeak- more than 10 percent of the records able (Nonesuch), while the we made last year is an unprecedent- Best Jazz Instrumental Al- ed accomplishment for the label,” said bum, Individual or Group, Elaine Martone, senior vice president was Illuminations by Mc- of artist relations and production at Coy Tyner with Gary Bartz, Telarc. “Also noteworthy is the broad Terence Blanchard, Chris- field of categories in which we won – tian McBride, and Lewis classical crossover, jazz instrumental, Nash. Illuminations topped solo classical instrumental, engineer- Illuminations (Telarc Jazz) won a Grammy for Best the JazzWeek Jazz Chart ing and choral performance.” Martone Jazz Instrumental Album for McCoy Tyner. during summer 2004. That continued ... jazzweek.com • February 16, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News 2005 Jazz Grammy Winners (continued) es won the Latin Grammy tour, commented on his win prior to Award for Best Latin Jazz taking the stage at a sold out perfor- Album. mance in Brisbane, Australia. “After Perhaps the most re- all these years I was quite liking not markable winner was in the winning, but somehow I’ll learn to live Best Large Jazz Ensemble with it. In fact, I intend to take it with Album category, where me everywhere.” Maria Schneider’s Concert Ladysmith Black Mambazo In The Garden(ArtistShare) won the award for Best Tradition- won despite not being avail- al World Music Album for Raise Your able in retail stores. Artist- Spirit Higher (Heads Up Interation- Share releases are unique al.) Heads Up president Dave Love, in that they are financed whose company celebrates its fifteenth through the support of fans anniversary this year, said, “We are so who ‘participate’ in their honored that the Academy would rec- current projects by selling ognize Black Mambazo, and we are “Participant Offers”. Ac- hopeful that this Grammy will shine a Maria Schneider’s Grammy for Best Large Jazz En- coring to ArtistShare, “By bright spotlight on the music and peo- semble Album for Concert In The Garden (ArtistShare) was especially notable becaue of its unique method of allowing such an in-depth ple of South Africa. Coinciding with distribution. look in to artists’ lives, in- the ten-year anniversary of the demise timate and long lasting re- of apartheid makes it that much more lationships are cultivated.” special.” said the Grammys for a classical proj- Schneider was the first artist at Art- A selected list of Grammy win- ect and McCoy Tyner were especially istShare. ners appears on the next page. gratifying, as she was the producer of Schneider told reporters after re- both recordings. ceiving the award, “It’s been very grat- MCG Jazz is a division of Man- ifying for me. It’s a new chester Craftsmen’s Guild, a non-profit way for fans to be closer arts and learning center in Pittsburgh. to artists and artists to be The multi-discipline, minority-direct- closer to fans.” ed center provides hope and life skills Only 10,000 copies of to youth and adults in urban environ- Concert In The Garden were ments through jazz, visual arts, voca- manufactured. Of those, tional training and business partner- 9,000 were made available ships. to participating support- R.S.V.P., which hit No. 2 on the ers, while and 1,000 more JazzWeek Jazz Chart, is the third will be auctioned later by Grammy-winning release from MCG ArtistShare. Jazz. MCG Jazz won its first Grammy Rod Stewart won his Award in 1996 for Best Large Ensem- first Grammy for Star- ble Performance for the Count Basie dust ... The Great Ameri- Orchestra with the New York Voices can Songbook Volume III. Live at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Stewart, who is on a tour album. The second win came in Sept. of New Zealand and Aus- Nancy Wilson won the Best Jazz Vocal Album 2003 when Brazilian Dreams featuring tralia before heading to a Grammy for R.S.V.P.