JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • Sept. 8, 2005 Volume 1, Number 41 • $7.95 In This Issue: J@LC Sponsors Concert to Benefit Katrina Victims . 4 Wynton Marsalis Comments . 4 Harry Connick, Jr., Is Habitat Honorary Chair . 5 McBride Tapped for L.A. Phil Jazz Post . 9 Reviews and Picks . 15 Jazz Radio . 18 Smooth Jazz Radio. 23 Radio LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA Panels. 28 Q&A With Charlie Haden page 11 News. 4 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orch. #1 Smooth Album – Richard Elliot #1 Smooth Single – Richard Elliot JazzWeek This Week EDITOR/PUBLISHER Ed Trefzger MUSIC EDITOR e’ve all watched in horror at the destruction caused Tad Hendrickson by Hurricane Katrina and reacted with some re- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Wlief as friends, colleagues, and admired musicians Keith Zimmerman have been rescued. While our initial reaction may have Kent Zimmerman CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ been anger, and even perhaps focused on blame, now is PHOTOGRAPHER the time to help out and do what we can to help the peo- Tom Mallison ple of New Orleans and the whole affected Gulf Coast – PHOTOGRAPHY Barry Solof an area the size of Great Britain – to recover and rebuild. Founding Publisher: Tony Gasparre One station with a big task ahead is WWOZ in New ADVERTISING: Call (585) 328-3104 or email: [email protected] Orleans. On the station’s web site, wwoz.org, they are keeping a helpful list of musicians and WWOZ staffers SUBSCRIPTIONS: Prices in US Dollars: Charter Rate: $199.00 per year, who have been found. 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Berwyn, PA 19312 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 • Sept. 8, 2005 JazzWeek 2 Contents Sept. 8, 2005 News . 4 Jazz at Lincoln Center Will Host Nationally Broadcast Katrina Benefit . 4 Wynton Marsalis on New Orleans Disaster. 4 Harry Connick, Jr., Named Honorary Chair for Habitat’s N.O. Rebuilding Effort . 5 Brubeck “Commandments” to Debut . 6 2005 Thelonious Monk Competition Features Guitarists . 7 Ramsey Lewis’ ‘Legends of Jazz’ Slated for January 2006 . 8 5 Christian McBride Tapped As Los Angeles Philharmonic Creative Chair for Jazz . 9 Sonny Rollins Launches Web Site . 9 Blujazz Selects MFA for Promotion. 9 Birthdays . 10 Features Artist Q&A: Charlie Haden . 11 Reviews . 15 11 Marc Johnson . 15 Billy Childs Ensemble . 15 Ray Barretto . 16 Trio Da Paz . 16 Jazz Charts . 18 Jazz Album Chart . 19 Jazz Add Dates . 20 Jazz Current CDs . 21 18 Jazz Radio Panel . 28 Smooth Jazz Charts . 23 Smooth Album Chart . 24 Smooth Singles Chart. 25 Smooth Current CDs . 26 Smooth Radio Panel . 28 Classifieds . 17 23 Cover photo: Charlie Haden and Carla Bley by Thomas Dorn (courtesy Verve Music Group) JazzWeek Volume 1 Issue 41 jazzweek.com • Sept. 8, 2005 JazzWeek 3 News Jazz at Lincoln Center Will Host Nationally Broadcast Katrina Benefit NEW YORK – Jazz at Lincoln Cen- at 60th St., by calling CenterCharge at be donated to hurricane relief efforts. ter has announced plans to produce (212) 721-6500 or via http://www.jalc. Ticket prices are $50, $100, $500, JW the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief org/. CenterCharge service fees will $1000, $5000, and $10,000. Benefit Concert on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. at Rose Theater in Freder- Wynton Marsalis on New Orleans Disaster ick P. Rose Hall in New York City. The concert will seek to raise funds for Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director deafening crescendo of affirmation to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Bill of Jazz at Lincoln Center released a silence that desperate cry that is this Cosby will host the concert and Wyn- statement about the devastation in disaster. ton Marsalis, Peter Cincotti, McCoy his hometown of New Orleans from We need people with their prayers, Tyner, Abbey Lincoln, Arturo Sando- Hurricane Katrina: their pocketbooks, and above all their val, Paquito Di Rivera, Diana Krall, New Orleans is the most unique of sense of purpose to show the world Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Buck- American cities because it is the only just who the modern American is and wheat Zydecho, Cassandra Wilson, city in the world that created its own then we’ll put our city back together and Whoopi Goldberg are confirmed. full culture – architecture, music and in even greater fashion. This is gut Additional artists and speakers will be festive ceremonies. It’s of singular check time for all of us as Americans. announced. importance to the United States of In a country with the most incredible America because it was the original XM Satellite Radio will carry this resources in the world we need the melting pot with a mixture of Spanish, concert live on its network from coast ingenuity of our best engineers to French, British, West African and put the cultural heart of our nation to coast on channel 70, the Real Jazz American people living in the same channel. Higher Ground will also back together. To put it together with city. The collision of these cultures 2005 technical expertise and with be broadcast live via radio partner created jazz and jazz is important 2005 social consciousness, which WBGO Jazz88.3FM in the New York because it’s the only art form that means without accommodating City area and offered nationally and objectifies the fundamental principals the ignorance of racism and the internationally via National Public Ra- of American democracy. That’s why deplorable conditions of poverty, dio and its 807 member stations in the it swept the country and the world and lack of education that have US, NPR Worldwide, and streamed representing the best of the United been allowed to fester in many great States. live on http://www.npr.org/, http:// American cities since slavery. www.wbgo.org/ and http://www.xm- New Orleanians are blues people. We’re only as civilized as our level radio.com/. We are resilient, so we are sure that of hospitality. Let’s demonstrate to The event will be recorded by Jazz our city will come back. This tragedy, the world that what actually makes however, provides an opportunity for at Lincoln Center and a CD will be America the most powerful nation the American people to demonstrate produced and released by Blue Note on earth is not guns, pornography to ourselves and to the world that we and material wealth but transcendent Records with all profits going to relief are one nation determined to overcome funds. and abiding soul, something our legacies of injustices based on perhaps we have lost a grip on, and Concert tickets will be available race and class. At this time all New this catastrophe gives us a great beginning on Sept. 8 at the Jazz at Orleanians need the nation to unite in a opportunity to handle up on. Lincoln Center box office at Broadway jazzweek.com • Sept. 8, 2005 JazzWeek 4 News Harry Connick, Jr., Named Honorary Chair for Habitat’s N.O. Rebuilding Effort NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans na- Orleans and he has become a symbol of Habitat plans a three-stage response tive and singer Harry Connick Jr. has this tragedy and the spirit of recovery to the hurricane: First, to help Hab- agreed to be honorary chair of Habi- and rebuilding,” said Jonathan Reck- itat affiliates in the path of Katrina’s tat for Humanity’s “Operation Home ford, chief executive officer of Habitat destruction restore some level of ser- Delivery,” a long-term rebuilding plan for Humanity. “Everyone looking for a vice. Then seek to serve as a catalyst for families victimized by Hurricane with other organizations, govern- Katrina in the Big Easy and along the ments, corporations, foundations, etc., Gulf Coast. to bring people together to talk about “It is hard to sit in silence, to watch low-income housing and recovery on a one’s youth wash away,” said Connick. scale that Habitat alone would be un- “Everything that I have professionally, able to do, and third, to establish and and so much of what I have personally, implement the “home in a box proj- is because of this great, fair city ... to ect,” where Connick’s impact may be see it being drowned like this is almost the most significant. unbearable.” With this, Habitat for Humanity Branford Marsalis, a Grammy will assemble the materials needed to Award-winning jazz saxophonist and build a house – either purchased or do- fellow New Orleans native, has also nated – and then, working with affili- joined the team and agreed to be hon- ates, churches, corporations and others orary chair of the New Orleans Hab- in communities all over the country, itat for Humanity efforts. The two volunteers, working with building spe- have been friends since childhood, and cialists, will “pre-build” the frame of a Connick was a student of the Marsalis Palma Kolansky/Rounder Records home over a few days.