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Sirius Adds Lundvall and Burton. . . . . . 4

Jazz Radio . 19

Reviews and Picks . . . . . . 16

Smooth Jazz Radio. . . . . . 24

More News . . 4

Radio Panels . . . . . 28

#1 Jazz Album – Steve Turre #1 Smooth Album – Soul Ballet#1 Smooth Single – Soul Ballet

Ken Borgers Named MD at KCLU . . . . . . . 8

Verve Relaunches Forecast . . . . 9

KBEM’s $25K from Clear Channel. . . . . 7

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TRIBUTE:MILES,

WYNTON, AND JACK JOHNSON

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This Week

Sadly, we heard the news of Mort Fega’s passing a couple of days ago. Mort was talked about at the Legends of Radio panel that Steve Schwartz hosted at IAJE, a panel Mort would have been on had he

been able to. Mort meant a lot to so many listeners, broadcasters, and musi-cians, and was a friend and mentor to many. We’ll pay tribute to him in an upcoming issue, and we’d like those of you who knew him best to share your recollections and tributes. Drop me a note at [email protected] with your thoughts; we’ll collect them and share them with everyone.

The loss of two jazz radio legends in the past year – Mort and Chuck Niles – makes me wonder from where the next generation of legends is going to come. I could suggest a few names, but I’m afraid I’d leave somebody out, so I won’t, but I wonder if conditions are too infertile.

There are a lot of things that don’t exist now, that did “back in the day.” For one thing, we don’t have commercial outlets for mainstream jazz like

we did in the past, and we don’t have jazz on (lower case) clear channel AM blow torches so that programs are heard over a wide area. Maybe syndica-tion and satellite radio will help; they bring us Jim Wilke, Tony Mowod, and Russ Davis, among others, all deserving of legendary status.

Secondly, the nature of the business has changed. Dick LaPalm – a leg-end if there ever was one – decried the conversations about spins that have displaced conversations about music between promoters and radio people. I guess we take some of the blame here; we’re providing spin counts that serve as objective measures of a subjective art form.

Thirdly, too many stations (and I know I’m going to strike a few nerves here) preprogram their music and then add insult to injury by hosting pro-grams with announcers who don’t know a darn thing about the music. Lis-teners don’t want pedantic blowhards announcing jazz, but they do want people who love, care about, and will educate a bit about the music.

And finally, radio just doesn’t get excited about the artists like it should. Miles, Trane, and Brubeck didn’t come out of the womb as household names; excited, enthusiastic, tastemaking DJs made it happen. They can make it hap-pen again.

Elsewhere in this issue:• Keith and Kent Zimmerman return with their periodic Take the “Z”

Train column, with a thought-provoking essay on Jack Johnson.• In the news, Sirius adds some new hosts, KBEM adds a benefactor,

KCLU adds an MD, and Verve adds a label.• Plus Tad Hendrickson has a review of Branford Marsalis live at the

Village Vanguard, and reviews of some excellent new releases.

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ContentsJanuary 26, 2005

JazzWeekVolume 1 Issue 10

News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Sirius Adds Lundvall and Burton to Pure Jazz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Filming Begins on Hank Garland Biopic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6KBEM Gets Donation from Clear Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Ken Borgers Named MD at KCLU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Passings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Verve Forecast Will Be Home to Label’s Adult Contemporary Artists. . . . . . 9New Mathis Standards Album on Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Jazz Labels Strike Digital Download Deals With eMusic . . . . . . . . . . 10Smithsonian Folkways Tracks Now Available at MSN Music . . . . . . . . . 10Birthdays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11FeaturesA Powerful Jazz Tribute: Miles, Wynton, and Jack Johnson Play the Tyson/Tupac/Huey Newton Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Reviews and Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Dave Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Stefano di Battista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Jeff Parker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Ken Walker Sextet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Live Review: Branford Marsalis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Editors’ Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Jazz Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Jazz Album Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Jazz Add Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Jazz Current CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Jazz Radio Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Smooth Jazz Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Smooth Album Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Smooth Singles Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Smooth Current CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Smooth Radio Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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NewsLundvall, Burton Hosts of New Weekly Shows on Sirius

Sirius Satellite Radio has added record executive Bruce Lundvall and vibraphonist Gary Burton

to its commercial-free music channel “Pure Jazz”.

Lundvall, who is president and CEO of EMI Jazz & Classics, home to Blue Note Records, hosts “The Blue Note Hour” on Fridays at 6 p.m. ET. Lundvall began moon-lighting as a Sirius ra-dio host when he pre-sented “A Blue Note Christmas” on Dec. 24, 2004, which featured holiday tunes from such noted artists as Dianne Reeves, Count Basie, Norah Jones and Dexter Gordon, among others.

As he did with “A Blue Note Christmas”, each week Lundvall will share stories about classic and current Blue Note artists, including his encounters with them early in their careers.

“I am having an enormously good time doing this show,” said Lundvall. “It’s the most fun to play the music you most love in such a personal fashion. I absolutely love it, and I do believe Sir-ius is the wave of the future.”

Sirius executive vice president of programming Jay Clark said, “Over the years, Blue Note Records has set

the standard for recorded jazz. Bruce grew up buying Blue Note 78s and now runs the company. He is a true historian and innovator in the jazz field. From Miles Davis to Norah Jones, Bruce has worked with them

all, and is able to convey his wealth of knowledge to our subscribers. He is a great addition to the Sirius tradition of great programs and program-ming.”

Grammy award-winning jazz vibra-phonist and noted mu-sic educator Burton is host of the new week-ly Sirius Satellite Radio music program, “Artist’s Choice with Gary Bur-ton.”

“I became a fan of Sirius when I bought a

new car a year ago,” said Burton. “Fi-nally, I could hear what I wanted to hear, when I wanted to hear it. Now I couldn’t be more pleased to be join-ing the Sirius team as host of my own show.”

Clark said, “I’ve always admired Gary Burton as one of the finest living vibraphonists; his knowledge of the art form is unmatched. We are very lucky that every week Sirius subscrib-ers across the country will get an art-

Sirius Inks Deal with IovineNEW YORK, Jan. 24 – Sirius Satellite Radio has announced the formation of an exclusive creative, marketing and promotional alliance with Interscope Geffen A&M Records and its chairman, Jimmy Iovine.

Iovine was instrumental in the formation of Shade 45, the just-launched, cutting-edge hip-hop channel co-executive produced by Eminem, Paul Rosenberg, Shady Records and Interscope Records, available exclusively on Sirius. In addition to serving as an executive producer of Shade 45, Iovine will act as creative advisor and consultant to Sirius on new programming opportunities. Interscope Geffen A&M will also offer Sirius marketing and promotional opportunities with their artists.

Scott Greenstein, Sirius President of Entertainment and Sports said, “Over the last 14 years, Jimmy Iovine took Interscope Records from a start-up operation to what is now one of the most influential record companies in the world. ... I look forward to the exciting new projects we will work on together for Sirius.”

Iovine said, “The opportunity that this relationship creates for an individual artist, a record label, or for that matter an industry, customizing distribution and exposure, is unparalleled in the history of the music business.”

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ist’s perspective on this music, with all the insight and experience than only Gary can offer.”

Burton, who emerged as a major jazz talent during the 1960s, brings a storied career and a unique perspective to Sirius jazz listeners. A self-taught vibraphonist, he made his recording debut with country artist Hank Gar-land at age 17, performed with jazz greats George Shearing and Stan Getz, and, with guitarist Larry Cory-ell, formed one of the early jazz fusion groups in 1967.

Burton has worked with such lu-minaries as his protégé Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Chick Corea, Stepha-ne Grappelli and Keith Jarrett, among others. He was awarded his first Grammy in 1972 for Best Jazz Solo Instrumental Performance for his al-bum Alone At Last.

During the 1980s, Burton began recording for GRP Records, and land-ed atop the Billboard jazz chart with

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Metheny for their Reunion album. He won his fifth Grammy for his 1998 Concord release, Like Minds. In recent years, his work has explored tango mu-sic and classical themes, and his latest recording, featuring his new quintet, is titled Generations, to be followed in April 2005 by Next Generation.

Burton has been recognized as an important music educator, and served for 33 years as professor and dean at the esteemed Berklee College of Mu-sic in Boston, Mass., where he was also executive vice president from 1996 to 2004. Burton recently stepped down from his leadership role at the college to concentrate on recording and work-ing on his new Sirius radio show.

“I became a fan of Sirius when I bought a new car a year ago,” said Burton. “Finally, I could hear what I wanted to hear, when I wanted to hear it. Now I couldn’t be more pleased to be joining the Sirius team as host of my own show.”

Lundvall has one of the most im-pressive backgrounds in recorded mu-sic history. He was with Columbia Records for 21 years, building the la-bel’s massive jazz roster and becom-ing president of CBS Records’ do-mestic division. He then moved to Elektra Records, and became presi-dent of Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch. In 1984, he was tapped by EMI to create the Manhattan Records pop music la-bel and revive the Blue Note jazz label. The latter became successful thanks to the signing of jazz greats such as Bob-by McFerrin, Dexter Gordon, Cassan-dra Wilson, Stanley Jordan and Di-anne Reeves, among others. In 1999, Lundvall became President of EMI Jazz & Classics, encompassing the Angel, Blue Note, EMI Classics and Manhattan Record labels. One of his most recent success stories is singer-songwriter Norah Jones, whose debut album garnered eight Grammy awards in 2002. JW

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LOS ANGELES (Jan. 20) – Crazy, an independent feature film in-spired by the life of legendary guitarist Hank Garland, began principal pho-tography in Los Angeles on Jan. 13 under the Favored Nations production banner; Ray Scherr and Steve Vai are executive producers. The film marks the directorial debut for Rick Bieber, following his prominent career as a producer on such features as Flatlin-ers, Made In America, and Radio Fly-er. Crazy stars Waylon Payne and Ali Larter as Hank and Evelyn Garland.

Co-written by Rick Bieber, Ja-son Ehlers and Brent Boyd, Crazy is an original screenplay-from a story by Bieber – based on the remarkable life of Hank Garland, who passed away last Dec. 27. The making of Crazy was spearheaded by executive producer Ray Scherr, who met Hank Garland and his family almost a decade ago. Garland was involved throughout the film’s development.

Hank Garland joined the Grand

Ol’ Opry at 15 and rose to fame in the early 1950s as Nashville’s premiere session guitarist. His immense, in-novative talents grace the timeless re-cordings of music icons including El-vis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, and Patsy Cline. In 1961, he startled the music world by jumping genres from country and pop to jazz with the release of Jazz Winds From A New Direction, a tour de force that to this day is considered an all-time clas-sic jazz album. Later that same year, a crippling, near-fatal auto accident cut short his extraordinary ascent. Crazy’s narrative is driven by Garland’s stun-ning artistic triumphs and dramatic personal travails, and his passionate and stormy relationship with his wife Evelyn.

Screen newcomer Waylon Payne stars as Hank Garland, following his debut film role as Jerry Lee Lewis in the forthcoming Twentieth Century Fox feature Walk The Line, the James Mangold-directed Johnny Cash/June

Carter biopic in which he stars oppo-site Joaquin Phoenix and Reese With-erspoon.

Ali Larter also stars as Hank’s beautiful but troubled wife Evelyn. Known for her performances in Legal-ly Blonde, the Final Destination films, Varsity Blues, American Outlaws, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and The House on Haunted Hill, she will next be seen in A Lot Like Love and Syriana.

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NewsKBEM Gets Donation from Clear Channel; Minn. Senate Debates Bill to Restore Grant

Minneapolis non-commercial jazz station KBEM has raised $80,000 toward its goal of $130,000 in its “Bridge Fund Drive.” The current fundraising campaign is designed to cover the shortfall in revenue for

this fiscal year caused by the cancellation of the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) contract with KBEM for broadcasting traffic re-ports as of March 15, which contributed more than $400,000 per year, or half the station’s budget.

MnDOT has been airing traffic reports on KBEM for 15 years, and told the station of its decision to end its contract late in Dec. 2004.

Clear Chan-nel, which owns market rival smooth jazz KJZI, donated $25,000 to the cause on Monday. Dan Seeman, Clear Channel’s local vice president and general manager, told the Minneap-olis Star Tribune, “We hope this turns into a long-term partnership. I’m hoping we can grow the jazz lifestyle in the market.”

Last week, two Minnesota state senators introduced legislation to require MnDOT to restore the traffic reports and funding to KBEM. That body’s transportation committee was scheduled to vote on the bill Tuesday after-noon.

The station continues to appeal for contributions to the Jazz88 Bridge Fund in frequent on-air announcements. If the funding from MnDOT is re-stored, KBEM will place the money raised during this special drive into a re-serve fund for any future funding crisis.

This current fund drive does not replace KBEM’s planned spring fund drive, which is scheduled for Feb. 25 through March 6.

KBEM is owned and operated by the Minneapolis Public Schools. Since 1982, the station has been housed at North Community High School in Min-neapolis, where nearly 150 students learn about broadcasting and jazz.

KBEM is a member of JazzWeek’s jazz radio panel, while KJZI is a member of the smooth jazz panel. Both stations are monitored by Mediagu-ide for airplay data.

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KBEM is taking donations online for its Jazz88 Bridge Fund via its web site at jazz88fm.com.

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Passings

Mort Fega, legendary broadcaster, record producer, concert promoter, columnist, and critic, passed away Jan. 21 in Florida. He was 84. Mort, who was a mentor, friend, and inspiration to many in the jazz radio business, will be remembered in an upcoming issue of JazzWeek. Memorial information was unavailable at press time. We invite your remembrances and tributes at [email protected].

Jody Berry, a nightclub singer who sang with Ella Fitzgerald, died Jan. 18 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles. He was 68. Berry perfomed in musical touring companies, performing in “Guys and Dolls,” “Oklahoma,” “Music Man” and “High Button Shoes.” A new CD recording, “For Lovers Over Fifty and Under,” is scheduled to be released soon.

Ken Borgers Named MD at KCLUKCLU, Thousand Oaks, Calif., has ap-pointed veteran broadcaster, publisher and educator Ken Borgers as music di-rector of KCLU. Borgers is the former program director and a former morn-ing host at KLON (now KKJZ), Long Beach, Calif., and serves on the faculty of Long Beach City College, where he teaches radio classes. He will be coor-dinating jazz programming and work-ing with KCLU to develop new local programming concepts.

In making the appointment, KCLU director of programming and operations Jim Rondeau said, “Having Ken Borgers on our staff is a dream come true. He is a great broadcast-er and one of the most knowledgeable

jazz programmers in America. Ken’s love of music and broadcasting is in-fectious and we’re excited to have him share his expertise with our staff and listeners.”

Ken Borgers will be available for music calls Mondays 10 a.m. to noon PT, at other times by appointment, or by e-mailing [email protected].

KCLU is an NPR station serv-ing California’s Ventura County at 88.3 FM and Santa Barbara County at 102.3 FM from California Luther-an University in Thousand Oaks. Thes station is a Mediaguide-monitored member of the JazzWeek jazz station panel. JW



Record NewsVerve Forecast Will Be Home to Label’s Adult Contemporary ArtistsNEW YORK (Jan. 21) –The Verve Music Group has expanded into the Adult Contemporary market with the re-launching of the Forecast label, the original home to many of music’s most acclaimed singer songwriters. The an-nouncement was made by Ron Gold-stein, President and CEO of the Verve Music Group.

Formed in 1967, Forecast (origi-nally Folkways) burst onto the scene by introducing some of the era’s most important artists to the record-buy-ing public, including Laura Nyro, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, The Blues Project, and the Velvet Underground, among others.

Over the last several years, the adult contemporary music market has grown, with increasing record sales and a nation-wide radio audience that has swelled to over 20 million.

“Our expansion into adult con-temporary is a natural evolution for us,” said Goldstein. “Verve has en-joyed great crossover success with jazz projects including Diana Krall, Linda Ronstadt, Aaron Neville, Lizz Wright and most recently, Jamie Cul-lum and with the innovative ‘Verve Remixed’ albums. It is our belief that the audience that is buying music by these artists as well as by Norah Jones, Josh Groban and Rod Stewart is hun-gry for more. Our staff is focused and well-positioned to take advantage of traditional and non-traditional mar-keting opportunities. We are excited about the re-launch of Forecast and we look forward to continuing the origi-nal Verve label’s tradition of fostering great talent at a time when music lov-ers are re-embracing the true artistry of the genre in droves.”

The Verve Forecast imprint will be home to all non-jazz artists signed

under the Verve Music Group umbrel-la.

Blues rocker Susan Tedeschi, Rhett Miller of the Old 97s, Teddy Thompson, Sacramento-based singer/songwriter Jackie Greene and Chiara Civello are among the first acts to sign to the newly-reactivated label. Three-time Grammy-nominee Tedeschi re-leased a trio of critically-acclaimed and commercially successful albums and is preparing to begin work on her Verve Forecast debut. Brazilian Girls are a quartet with deep roots in New York’s burgeoning Lower East Side music community.

New Mathis Standards Album on Columbia

Columbia Records is set to release Isn’t It Romantic: The Standards Album, Johnny Mathis’s new album of stan-dards, produced, arranged and con-ducted by Grammy winner Jorge Ca-landrelli, on Tuesday, Feb. 1.

Mathis will perform songs from the new album at select venues in 2005.

Songs on Isn’t It Romantic: The Standards Album include Roger’s and Hart’s “Isn’t It Romantic,” George & Ira Gershwin’s “Love Is Here To Stay,” Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Dindi,” Le-rner & Lowe’s “Almost Like Being In Love,” and Harold Arlen’s immortal “Over The Rainbow,” performed here by Johnny Mathis and Ray Charles (the duet also appears on Charles’ Gram-my-nominated Genius Loves Compa-ny album). On his new album, Mathis also delivers a tender performance of pop songwriter Paul Williams’ chil-dren’s classic, “The Rainbow Connec-tion,” originally written for The Mup-pets.

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Jazz Labels Strike Digital Download Deals With eMusicNEW YORK (Jan. 19) – eMusic, the world’s No. 2 digital download ser-vice, selling nearly two million tracks monthly, has announced the addition of hundreds of leading indie labels and artists to its rapidly expanding cata-log.

The addition of these sought-af-ter tracks reinforces what eMusic says is the most diverse and critically ac-claimed music service in the world and the largest catalog of indie music ever assembled.

In addition, eMusic announced continued sales growth in Q4, sell-ing more 4.75 mil-lion digital down-loads, making it second only to iTunes for holiday season download sales.

“If you took the ten hippest re-cord stores across the country, add-ed the 100 most knowledgeable mu-sic critics, and put them in the digi-tal music world, you would have eMusic,” said David Pakman, COO of eMusic. “Our catalog is di-verse, eclectic, surprising, well-consid-ered-and growing daily-a far cry from the top-100 fare offered by the other services.”

Among the labels recently added to eMusic:• Mack Avenue – A strong jazz la-

bel from Detroit just coming into its stride with artists like Terry Gibbs and Grammy-nominated Gerald Wilson alongside young lions like Ron Blake and Sean Jones.• Sunnyside – A legendary jazz label with artists including Chris Potter, Kenny Barron, Luciana Souza, Tony Malaby and many more.• Aum Fidelity – Mostly avant jazz from this New York label. • Evidence – Very strong jazz and blues catalog that leans more toward blues of late, with over 300 titles.

Delivering nearly 2 million down-loads each month; eMusic is among the top digital music services, offer-ing a diverse catalog of 500,000 tracks from established and emerging artists in every genre from the world’s top in-dependent labels.

Smithsonian Folkways Tracks Now Available at MSN Music

REDMOND, Wash. (Jan. 19) – An alliance between MSN Music and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings will make tens of thousand of histor-ic songs from legendary performers of folk, blues, jazz and world music avail-able online for the first time, allowing music fans to discover a diverse world of music and sound. The Smithson-ian Folkways catalog of nearly 35,000 tracks is only available for download through MSN Music.

“The success of our Anthology of American Folk Music, edited by Har-ry Smith, which won two Grammy Awards in 1997, showed us that there is a substantial audience for roots music,” said Dan Sheehy, director of Smithso-nian Folkways Recordings. “The prob-lem is that people can’t always find this music. It’s not on the radio, and many retailers don’t carry it.”

The Smithsonian section of MSN music is divided into 10 genre pages, with each one containing historical music and artist information as well as recommended tracks to download.

Folkways’ jazz selection includes James P. Johnson and Mary Lou Wil-liams, piano solos, big bands, Latin, cool and bebop styles, to name a few. John Cage and David Tudor’s collabo-ration, “Indeterminacy,” a milestone in the history of instrumental and elec-tronic music, is there as well.

The blues section provides a springboard to a range of region-al blues styles. The selections include vaudeville blues and contemporary re-inventions, folk-revival blues, white mountain blues, boogie, jazz and bar-relhouse blues, vocal harmony blues, and electric rock blues.

Mack Avenue’s New York, New Sound from the Gerald Wilson Orchestra is now available as an MP3 download at eMusic.com.


NewsBirthdaysJanuary 26Stephane Grappelli (1908)January 27Hot Lips Page (1908)Allen Eager (1927)Bobby Hutcherson (1941)Bob Mintzer (1953)January 28Bob Moses (1948)January 29Acker Bilk (1929)Derek Bailey (1932)Jeanne Lee (1939)January 30Roy Eldridge (1911)Bobby Hackett (1915)Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927)Tubby Hayes (1935)February 1Sadao Watanabe (1933)Joe Sample (1939)February 2Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (1922)Sonny Stitt (1924)Stan Getz (1927)James “Blood” Ulmer (1942)

February 3Lil Armstrong (1898)Snooky Young (1919)Bob Stewart (1945)February 4Tony Fruscella (1927)John Stubblefield (1945)February 7Eubie Blake (1883)February 8Lonnie Johnson (1889)February 9Walter Page (1900)Barbara Donald (1942)Bill Evans (sax) (1958)February 10Chick Webb (1909)Larry Adler (1914)Sir Roland Hanna (1932)Rufus Reid (1944)Lawrence “Butch” Morris (1947)February 12Paul Bascomb (1912)Mel Powell (1923)Bill Laswell (1955)February 13Wingy Manone (1900)Wardell Gray (1921)

February 14Rob McConnell (1935)February 15Harold Arlen (1905)Nathan Davis (1937)Kirk Lightsey (1937)Henry Threadgill (1944)February 16Machito (1912)Pete Christlieb (1945)February 17Buddy Defranco (1923)Roger “Buck” Hill (1927)Herbie Lewis (1941)February 18Emil Barnes (1892)February 19David Murray (1955)February 20Jimmy Yancey (1898)Bobby Jaspar (1926)Nancy Wilson (1937)Anthony Davis (1951)February 21Al Sears (1910)Tadd Dameron (1917)Nina Simone (1933)Warren Vache (1951)

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Take the “Z” Train

We’ll admit it up front. We’re fervent fans of Ken Burns’ doc-umentary work. We dig him. True, he’s bookish and sports a dippy ’do (at least he still has most of his hair), but more

important, he takes on risky subjects like baseball and the Civil War, American institutions, and brings their lessons to life. In documenting American history, Burns makes extremely hard choices in presenting his art. If you consider his take on his Jazz series, and while some may argue that his interpretation was heavy on the Ellington and Armstrong, it was nonethe-less a courageous undertaking. His follow-up doc-umentary on Mark Twain, while less spectacular, was outstanding as well. Yet now Burns has reached his apex. With a two-part, four-hour film on box-ing legend Jack Johnson (http://www.pbs.org/unfor-givableblackness/about/), Burns tore the roof off the sucker, to steal a phrase from Parliament, telling a poignant tale of triumph and defeat.

Aired last week under the title of Unforgivable Black-ness, The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Burns’ PBS docu-mentary included his use of rare movie footage, highlight-ing Jack Johnson in the ring. While the still photography

was breathtaking, watching the actual fight footage revealed Jack Johnson as a cagey dancer as opposed to a power-packed Tyson-like assassin. Part One’s treatment outlining the rise of Jack Johnson was a celebration of a man who

A Powerful Jazz Tribute:Miles, Wynton, and Jack Johnson Play the Tyson/

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thumbed his nose not only at his jealous peers, but at society’s penchant to-wards creating social icons before ceremoniously tearing them down. Part Two portrayed Johnson’s tragic slide downward. As the very first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson lived his life with reckless gusto on and off the canvas. The combination of his boxing skills and his taste for white women cost him dearly, unleashing a campaign of scandal that ended with no less than the American Congress passing laws based on his arrogance and ac-complishments. All of this was particularly powerful when Wynton Marsalis’

original musical jazz score supported it.Through the music, Burns utilized every bit of Marsa-

lis’ talents as a player and a musical historian, taking full ad-vantage of Wynton’s jazz ensemble that matched the correct tones and variations of the music with the appropriate time periods of the story. By mixing slide blues guitar and stand up bass (the very instrument that Jack Johnson used to pluck as a hobby) along with Wynton’s own beauti-fully muted trumpet tones, the soundtrack not only pushed the nar-ration and story, but as a CD, it stands up beau-tifully as a listening ex-perience. It is truly one of the most elegantly re-corded jazz CDs in re-cent memory.

Jazz fans certain-ly have been no strang-ers to the legend of Jack Johnson. Back in April of 1970, no less than Miles Davis (the Jack Johnson of Jazz) unleashed a mutha of a Jack John-son tribute, blasting his horn riffs to the backing of a elec-trified jazz rhythm section temporarily masquerading as a balls-out rock n roll band. Miles’ soundtrack to an obscure documentary (has anybody seen this movie?) on Jack John-son was one of the greatest compliments jazz ever paid to its black sheep cousin, rock ʻnʼ roll. Those of us who stumbled

onto Miles’ music via the psychedelic experience felt fully vindicated when we first heard the growling guitar tones played by John McLaughlin to the nas-ty back beats pounded out by Billy Cobham on Miles’ Jack Johnson album. Thanks to the sidemen who brought Miles’ musical vision to life, Jack John-

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Jack Johnson, circa 1915.

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and outlaws are still more likely to suffer in the

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son wasn’t merely an unknown champion. He was already properly lauded and many a jazz fan was more than ready to witness Burns’ PBS documentary thir-ty-five years after Miles first led fans like us to the story.

Jack Johnson was certainly not the only Black icon destined to fall. Throughout history right up to today, even beyond King and X, we’ve seen Black cultural and political leaders toppled time and time again, with more than a gentle shove from the reigning cultural and political forces in power. Having just finished co-authoring a book on Huey P. Newton, the charismatic founder of the Black Panther Party, it wasn’t at all shocking to watch the gov-ernment ruthlessly and unrelentingly take aim and wear down someone as cul-

turally threatening as Jack Johnson. In one humorous part of the program, after Johnson soundly whipped white boxer Jim Jeffries in a highly publicized bout, one Black diner custom-er requested that he wanted his “coffee as black and strong as Johnson and his scrambled eggs as beaten as Jeffries.”

One of the more shocking and revealing parts of Burns’ documentary was how unflinchingly racist such mighty jour-nalistic institutions like the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times were in publishing their editorial content scorn-ing Jack Johnson and his predilection for white “sport” ladies. In watching Unforgivable Blackness, no doubt the publish-ers of these grand publications must have grimaced sheepish-ly at their own sordid pasts. That’s because racism is still alive and well, even in the hallways of the so-called liberal institu-tions of newspapers and publishing. Racism might not seem as glaringly obvious today as it was in Johnson’s day when the KKK openly burned crosses and lynched Black folks on the outskirts of town. But believe us, even we ran into suspicious obstacles while working with “reputable” publishers in shop-ping and preparing Huey’s story. Whether it’s obvious and blatant or cleverly subdued, racism is still racism, mostly born

out of fear, ignorance, and unfair double standards. Think about it. Black artists and outlaws are still more likely to suffer in

the crosshairs of the press and law enforcement. Icons like Iron Mike Ty-son and Tupac Shakur were routinely handed hard prison time while true evil predators like Ken Lay and the WorldCom corporate pirates were (and still are) permitted to cause infinitely more damage, not only to thousands of work-ing and middle class individuals’ retirement accounts, but to the American economy as a whole. And while Tyson and Tupac (and Jack Johnson and Huey Newton) were summarily rushed off to prison, corporate criminals like Lay are still free to drink martinis and walk the streets after raping and pillaging the capitalist system.

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Against the backdrop of a defiant jazz soundtrack by Wynton, Jack John-son’s rise and fall serves as a stern reminder. Justice is still hinged on money and power. Freedom comes with a price tag. They’re still dancing and celebrat-ing in Washington D.C. to the tune of a $47 million dollar inaugural house band. Still, we’d like to believe that through a documentary like Unforgivable Blackness, we could still learn that the foibles of history need not be repeated infinitum. Rather, we can learn to step back and look more objectively at the messages and works of leaders and artists like Johnson and Huey and Tupac and Tyson, whose works and accomplishment may seem brash and revolution-ary at first, but with the passage of time, grow to become ideas that are main-stream and embraceable.

Keith & Kent Zimmerman are JazzWeek contributing editors and are authors of 7 books, including their latest, Sing My Way Home: Voices of the New American Roots Rock, published by BackBeat Books.


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Dave DouglasMountain Passages (Greenleaf )YOU NEED A cheat sheet to keep up with all the different projects that trumpeter Dave Douglas leads. Here the pe-rennial winner of various jazz polls returns with Nomad, a

new project with the atypical lineup of trumpet, sax, cel-lo, tuba and drums. Doug-las has done some his most magical work in his cham-ber music meets tango group Charms of The Night Sky and the Balkan folk music inspired Tiny Bell Trio, and Nomad falls into line with these two groups. Drawing upon the Ladino folk music

of the Dolomite Mountains, Douglas took the serenity and mayhem of that music and fashioned it into a chamber jazz that doesn’t so much swing as it does sway with a waltz-like grandeur. The music sounds like something you’d hear at a mountain-top cabaret, which is appropriate because it was originally commissioned to be performed al fresco – the group and a couple hundred fans hiked up a mountainside for music with a view during a recent festival in Northern Italy’s Dolomite Mountains. The disc demands less physical commitment, but the rewards are still great.

– Tad Hendrickson

Contact: Michael FriedmanPhone: (773) 486-2305Email: [email protected] Date: Jan. 25Add Date: Jan. 27

Stefano di BattistaParker’s Mood (Blue Note)ITALIAN ALTO SAXOPHONIST Stefano di Battista isn’t the first to be obsessed with the music of Charlie Parker, but you have to give him props just for daring to take on the legacy of Bird for a full album. Joined by pianist Kenny Barron, drummer Herlin Riley, bassist Rosario Bonaccor-so, and, occasionally, trumpeter Flavio Bolto, di Battista

doesn’t just offer his own renditions of Parker classics, he did his homework, throw-ing in classic Parker licks and whole passages of clas-sic Parker solos. The album opens with a blazing ver-sion of “Salt Peanuts” that nearly rivals the energy of the Savoy original – the band is at its best on the faster stuff, though Barron is his usual elegant self on the ballads. The band prob-ably steps furthest from the original on “Hothouse” to fine effect. If nothing else, Parker’s Mood does a great job of re-minding us all how great these tunes are, no matter who plays them. Fortunately we get someone who knows what he is doing.

– Tad Hendrickson

Contact: Groov MarketingPhone: (877) GROOV 32Email: [email protected] and Add Date: Jan. 25

Jeff ParkerThe Relatives (Thrill Jockey)CHICAGO GUITARIST JEFF Parker can be found in a vari-ety contexts. Post-rock fans will recognize him the band Tortoise, jazz fans might recall his work with Brian Blade’s Fellowship, his solo debut, Like-Coping, on Delmark, and his work in the Chicago Underground. Here the warm-

toned guitarist works within a moody tapestry of electric keyboards (Sam Barshshet), upright bass (Chris Lopes) and drums (Chad Taylor). Parker’s playing is almost el-liptical in its taste and econ-omy, and it makes a strong argument for a cohesive group sound that ranges be-tween electric Miles, Pat



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Metheny and Jim Hall. The dub-reggae production gives the laid-back group sound a dreamy lilt to it, but the music is hardly sleepy – “Sea Change” and “Mannerisms” are both quick and muscular. Of the eight tracks (all originals except a cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Without You”), the ones likely easiest for jazz programming are the Gaye cover and the shimmying “Beanstalk.” Recommended to guitar freaks and those whose definition of jazz is not narrowly defined.

– Tad Hendrickson Contact: Jessica LinkerPhone: (312) 492-9634Email: [email protected] and Add Date: Jan. 25

Ken Walker SextetTerra Firma (Synergy Music)ONE OF THE toughest things about being a jazz musician in fly-over country is that you don’t have the kind of name recognition your coastal brethren have. Fortunately, most radio programmers don’t need to see a “big” name on the cover to discover that the music is good. Bassist Ken Walk-er has assembled a sextet of the top jazz men in the Denver area on his debut CD, Terra Firma. With a perfect mix of standards, classics, and solid originals, this group swings through its set, driven by Walk-er’s propulsive bass. Most tunes on the album start with catchy, unison heads in the best hard bop tradition by trumpeter Al Hood and tenor man Peter Sommer. The other first-call musicians, guitarist Dave Corbus, pianist Jeff Jenkins, and drummer Paul Romaine, all deliver top-notch performances. If the list of names with whom these gentlemen have performed isn’t recommendation enough, certainly the rave liner notes from Benny Golson are. “Amsterdam After Dark”, “Ve-locity”, “Song for M”, “Blues for P.K.”, “Boogie Woogie Bossa Nova”, and the slightly more adventurous title tune are good radio tracks on this highly-recommended CD.

– Ed TrefzgerContact: Mitchell FeldmanPhone: (888) 355-9387Email: [email protected] Date: Out NowAdd Date: Added Jan. 17

Live Review: Branford MarsalisVillage Vanguard, Jan. 23

Even though a blizzard ravaged New York City and the rest of

the Northeast, the show went on. The Branford Marsalis Quartet played Jan. 18-23 at the Village Vanguard, which includ-ed two Saturday perfor-mances held during the brunt of the snowstorm and two more on Sunday while the City dealt with the aftermath of the foot-plus dump. “This is cool,” said Marsalis at the beginning of the first set on Sunday, thanking the sold-out crowd for making the trek out.

After bantering amongst itself for a minute, the band eased into the set with the mid-tempo “Spartacus,” a tune Marsalis dusted off the previous Tuesday for the first time in years and decided to give it another go here. The saxo-phonist played his tenor, slowly building a well construct-ed solo that took several minutes to crest into a flurry of quarter notes. The band was tight from the get-go with Jeff “Tain” Watts locked in with bassist Eric Revis. Pianist Joey Calderazzo followed the saxophonist’s solo with one of his own as the Revis and Watts held the course.

After a slow thoughtful drum solo from Watts, the band transitioned straight into Kenny Kirkland’s “Sleepian Faith.” Marsalis accentuated the darting melody, playing soprano. The band worked through the song unhurriedly with Revis taking his first solo of the night.

Another crowd-pleasing drum solo led the way straight into Ornette Coleman’s “Giggin’,” which was the first high-light of the night. Here Watts kicked up a whirlwind of beats and cymbal crashes before Marsalis and Revis joined in. The solo sent a jolt of energy to the other two, and the three charged through it, trimming some of Coleman’s atonal edges but leaving the spirit of piece intact. After an-other soprano solo, Calderazzo offers up his best solo of the night, taking over the trio from Marsalis. The pianist echoed some of the same ideas of the saxophonist, then shot them back to the band with his own spin – by the end of

Eternal, the latest Branford Marsalis CD (Marsalis Music/Rounder Records)

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Reviews and PicksGabriel Mark Hasselbach Gabriel ... First Name Basis (Wind Tunnel Multimedia)

Gabriel is well-versed in all styles of music, including jazz and smooth jazz. Last year he cracked the top thirty of the JazzWeek Jazz Chart and this year he has moved back to smooth jazz. Gabriel has put together a strong selection of songs on this album, which features the single “Take That!” Other key tracks include “The Look In Your Eyes”, and “Comfort Zone.”

Kevin Mahogany Big Band (Zebra Records/Mahogany Jazz)

The passing of Johnny Carson has started a thread on the Jazz Programmers Mailing list about The Tonight Show Band. Those longing for that band can find solace with this release. Kevin fronts several big bands such as The Frank Mantooth Jazz Orchestra, The Kansas City Boulevard Big Band, and The Big City Swing Big Band with Veronica Martell. You can almost picture Kevin on the TV screen doing these songs. Key Tracks: “It Don’t Mean A Thing”, “There Will Never Be Another You”, and “It’s Alright With Me”.

Bill Connors Return (Tone Center)

Bill’s self-taught approach to rock and blues guitar began when he was fourteen. He soon found his way to jazz and has never stopped playing it. In 1973, Bill signed on to be the guitarist for Return to Forever. The rest, they say, is history. This is the present and this album is electric jazz. There are no smooth jazz hooks, no wind chimes, and no whistles. Just flat out playing that should bring a smile to your face. Key tracks: “On The Edge”, “Try One Today”, and “Terrabill Blues”.

Pablo Menéndez Havana Blues Mambo (Zoho)

Over the years, Pablo has performed with many top artists including Carlos Santana and Bonnie Raitt. However, this debut release is all Pablo with his own sound and style with mixtures of Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz, blues and Latin rock. This is just great stuff! Key Tracks: “Mambo Influenciado”, “Bonnie’s Blues Mambo”, and “People Together”.

Katie Bull Love Spook (Corn Hill Indie)

This is Katie’s second solo release, containing songs she had performed with Matt Wilson at a gig in NYC. After the show, Matt approached Katie about recording some of her original songs they had just played. Knowing when a good thing comes along, she agreed. The result is respect for both innovation and tradition. The album is half original and the other half is rounded off with standards that have been taken slightly out. Key Tracks: “Strange”, “Deer Run”, and “Leftover Blues”.

Jason Miles Miles To Miles (Narada Jazz)

Jason Miles, whose work is all over the Miles Davis 1986 album Tutu, has put together a few top names in jazz to help create a sound that Davis could be making today if he were alive. The cast includes Michael and Randy Brecker, James Genus, Tom Harrell, DJ Logic and one of the last studio performances of saxophonist Bob Berg. This is a fun disc that may be too hip for smooth jazz radio and not enough jazz for traditional jazz radio. Just like Davis, Jason is making music his way. Key Tracks: “Ferrari”, “Street Vibe”, and “Flamenco Sketches”.

– Compiled by Tony Gasparre

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his own solo, the pianist was bouncing out of his seat as he played while Watts and Revis dug deeper.

The band offered a pleasing version of “Rekha’s Loss” (from the recently issued Eternal), a Watts ballad that man-aged to sound delicate without being flowery. The band fin-ished with “Mr. JJ,” though Marsalis renamed it “Mr. Ro-ethlisburger, Ben Was His Name” in honor of the Patriots’ trouncing of the Steelers. The band burned together here with a sense of purpose that makes it one of today’s great quartets. Back on tenor, Marsalis was gregarious as Watts dropped kick-drum bombs that raised the band’s intensity.

Not the best set ever from the band, but it was a strong reminder of how good this quartet is on any given night as it reached deep into its songbook and offered up a well-cho-sen cover.

– Tad Hendrickson

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Jazz Radio

Steve Turre Hangs On at No. 1Stefano Di Battista Parker’s Mood is Week’s Most Added

Steve Turre’s The Spirits Up Above (High-Note) hangs onto the top spot on this week’s Jazz Album Chart, on 52 stations in its 11th

week.Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood (Blue Note)

is the most added CD this week with 24 adds, and debuts on the chart at No. 33. Picking up the most spins is Michel Camilo’s Solo, with 87 additional plays.

Topping the chart in longevity at 25 weeks is Al Jarreau’s Accentuate The Positive (Verve).

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Steve Turre’s The Spirits Up Above (HighNote) holds onto the top spot on the Jazz Album Chart.

Stefano di Battista’s Parker’s Mood (Blue Note) is the week’s Most Added CD, picking up 29 sta-tions.


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Jan. 26, 2005Jazz Album Chart

Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood (Blue Note) +24Michel Camilo Solo (Telarc Jazz) +19Roger Kellaway I Was There:Roger Kellaway Plays From The Bobby Darin Songbook (IPO Recordings) +18The Jim Seeley/Arturo O’Farrill Quintet (Zoho Music) +16Monk’s Music Trio Think Of One (CMB Records) +16

Michel Camilo Solo (Telarc Jazz) +87Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme (Palmetto) +86Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood (Blue Note) +84David Sanborn Closer (Verve Music Group) +62Jay Leonhart Cool (Sons of Sound) +61

Jim Pearce Washington Square Park (Oak Avenue Publishing)The Jim Seeley/Arturo O’Farrill Quintet (Zoho Music)Monk’s Music Trio Think Of One (CMB Records)Darek Oles Like A Dream (Cryptogramophone)Russ Nolan Two Colors (Rhinoceruss)Wynton Marsalis Unforgivable Blackness ... (Blue Note)Richie Hart Blues In The Alley (Zoho Music)Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron Left Alone Revisited: Tribute To Billy Holiday (Synergy Music)Jason Moran Same Mother (Blue Note)Russell Gunn Ethnomusicology Vol. 4: Live In Atlanta (Justin Time)

TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds1 1 1 1 Steve Turre The Spirits Up Above HighNote 223 290 -67 11 52 02 3 3 1 Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot Palmetto 219 261 -42 11 48 03 2 2 1 Eric Alexander Dead Center HighNote 201 264 -63 12 44 03 12 NR 3 David Sanborn Closer Verve Music Group 201 139 62 2 39 95 5 5 5 Jim Snidero Close Up Milestone 200 211 -11 13 41 16 10 20 6 Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird Concord Jazz 196 156 40 4 38 67 7 8 7 Orbert Davis Blue Notes 3 Sixteen 192 174 18 6 44 58 6 7 5 Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Qwest 182 193 -11 12 35 19 28 NR 9 Jay Leonhart Cool Sons of Sound 157 96 61 2 45 1210 4 4 2 Houston Person To Etta With Love HighNote 154 226 -72 12 35 011 NR NR 11 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme Palmetto 150 64 86 1 34 1412 22 NR 12 Christian Jacob Styne and Mine WilderJazz 148 106 42 2 40 913 29 35 13 Caribbean Jazz Project Here and Now: Live In Concert Concord Picante 144 95 49 4 39 914 19 13 13 Tony Monaco Firey Blues Summit 139 124 15 13 29 015 8 11 7 Ken Peplowski Easy To Remember Nagel Heyer 122 159 -37 12 37 016 15 14 12 Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers The Hideout Milestone 119 133 -14 10 26 017 8 14 8 Paradigm Shift Shifting Times Nagel Heyer 116 159 -43 11 36 018 17 9 7 Deep Blue Organ Trio Deep Blue Bruise Delmark 113 127 -14 13 25 019 25 17 17 Michael Wolff Dangerous Vision Artimas 111 99 12 10 33 120 13 9 8 Wallace Roney Prototype HighNote 105 136 -31 10 36 020 11 16 11 Martijn van Iterson Quartet The Whole Bunch Munich Records 105 142 -37 12 26 022 16 6 6 New Stories Hope Is the Air: Music of Elmo Hope Origin 103 128 -25 13 23 022 14 18 5 Clark Terry Porgy & Bess Americana Music/A440

Music Group103 134 -31 19 25 1

24 18 19 5 Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Rounder 101 126 -25 18 30 124 NR NR 24 Ken Walker Sextet Terra Firma Synergy Music 101 62 39 1 24 1126 NR NR 26 Michel Camilo Solo Telarc Jazz 98 11 87 1 28 1927 20 24 7 Mike Longo and the New York State of the

Art Jazz EnsembleOasis CAP 97 113 -16 15 21 0

28 40 NR 28 Roditi / Ignatzek / Rassinfosse Light In The Dark Nagel Heyer 92 74 18 2 28 929 30 34 29 Leslie Pintchik So Glad To Be Here Ambient 90 94 -4 6 21 129 33 12 2 Phil Woods This Is How I Feel About Quincy Jazzed Media 90 88 2 16 25 031 34 29 29 Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Records 87 86 1 10 22 032 NR NR 32 Carl Amundson & The Modern Guitar Quintet Guitarists Blue Line Music 85 37 48 1 22 833 27 30 20 Maurice Brown Hip To Bop Brown Records 84 97 -13 14 21 033 NR NR 33 Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood Blue Note 84 NR 84 1 24 2435 42 26 26 Linda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music Group 82 71 11 6 20 036 38 39 29 Bob Dorough Sunday At Iridium Arbors 81 78 3 10 23 037 23 21 13 Joe Sample Soul Shadows Verve Music Group 80 104 -24 14 20 138 NR NR 38 Donald Harrison Free Style Nagel Heyer 77 56 21 1 28 838 36 NR 36 Sasha Dobson w/The Chris Byars Octet The Darkling Thrush Smalls Records 77 81 -4 2 27 340 39 28 28 George Kahn Compared To What? Playing Records 76 75 1 7 22 041 NR NR 41 Roger Kellaway I Was There: Roger Kellaway Plays From The

Bobby Darin SongbookIPO Recordings 75 19 56 1 23 18

42 42 32 3 Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music Group 73 71 2 25 18 143 20 23 19 Manuel Valera Forma Nueva MAVO Records 69 113 -44 13 26 344 24 26 23 Elvin Jones Jazz Machine The Truth Half Note Records 67 103 -36 13 21 045 47 37 21 Alice Coltrane Translinear Light Impulse 66 66 0 16 21 045 NR NR 45 Roomful Of Blues Standing Room Only Alligator 66 58 8 1 18 647 NR NR 47 Octobop After Dark Mystic Lane Productions 65 46 19 1 21 747 42 39 13 Peter Cincotti On The Moon Concord 65 71 -6 21 12 147 47 NR 47 Randy Halberstadt Parallel Tracks Origin Records 65 66 -1 4 20 150 NR NR 14 Medeski Martin & Wood End of The World Party Blue Note 63 60 3 18 16 0


Jazz Radio AddsJanuary 17, 2005

Abram Wilson – Jazz Warrior (Dune Records)Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron – Left Alone Revisited – A Tribute To Billie Holiday (Synergy Music)Denys Baptiste – Let Freedom Ring! (Dune Records)Ken Walker Sextet – Terra Firma (Synergy Music)Opie Bellas – Faces (Bella Blue)

January 18, 2005Wynton Marsalis – Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise & Fall Of Jack Johnson (Blue Note)

January 19, 2005Dave Wilson – Through The Time (Dreamscape Records)Will Martin – Morning (Saguaro Beach Records)

January 20, 2005Caribbean Jazz Project – Here And Now Live (Concord Records)Christian Jacob – Styne And Mine (Wilderjazz)Monk’s Music Trio – Think Of One (CMB Records)Roger Kellaway – I Was There: From The Bobby Darin Songbook (IPO Recordings)

January 24, 2005Ed Neumeister – New Standards (Vienna/2 Day Records)Jeni Fleming Acoustic Trio – Once Around The Sun (SVFM Records)The Corey Christiansen Quartet – Awakening (Mel Bay Records)

January 25, 2005Michel Camilo – Solo (Telarc)Stefano Di Battista – Parker’s Mood (Blue Note)

January 27, 2005Bettina Devin – Dangerous Type (BettinaDevin.com)

January 31, 2005Jeff Berlin – Lumpy Jazz (M.A.J. Records)Pat Metheny Group – The Way Up (Nonesuch Music)Sylvain Luc – Ambre (Dreyfus Jazz)

February 1, 2005Avery Sharpe Trio – Dragonfly (JKNM)Charles McPherson w/ Strings – A Tribute To Charlie Parker (Clarion Jazz) Onaje Allan Gumbs – Remember Their Innocence (Ejano)

February 3, 2005Dan Haerle Trio with Bob Bowman and Jack Mouse – Standard Procedure (Bluejazz)

February 5, 2005John O’Gallagher – A Line Of Sight (Fresh Sound)

February 7, 2005Bireli Lagrene – Move (Dreyfus Jazz)Joey DeFrancesco/Jimmy Smith – Legacy (Concord Records)Mulligan, Shearing, Tormé – Terrible Trio (Concord Records)

February 8, 2005Harry Watters — Out Of A Dream (Summit Records)Michael Hackett — Circles (Summit Records)Scott Whitfield — The Minute Game (Summit Records)Soul Rebels Brass Band (Barn Burner)

February 10, 2005Jason Moran – Same Mother (Blue Note)

February 14, 2005Dafnis Prieto – About The Monks (Zoho Music)

February 21, 2005Kurt Rosenwinkel – Deep Song (Verve Records)

February 22, 2005Avishai Cohen Trio & Ensemble – At Home (RazDaz)Fred Hersch Ensemble-leaves Of Grass – Leaves Of Grass (Palmetto)Monty Alexander – Live At Iridium (Telarc)Zach Brock & The Coffee Achievers – Chemistry (Secret Fort Records)

March 1, 2005Dale Fielder Quartet – Baritone Sunride (Clarion)

March 14, 2005Jacqui Naylor – East/West Birdland-Yoshi’s (Ruby Records)

March 15, 2005Dena DeRose – TBA (Vocal/Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ)Peter Martin – TBA (Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ)Ted Nash & Odeon – La Espade De La Noche (Palmetto)

March 22, 2005Cheryl Bentyne – Let Me Off Uptown (Telarc)John Pizzarelli – Knowing You (Telarc)Lea DeLaria – Double Standards (Telarc)

March 28, 2005Katie Bull – Love Spook (Corn Hill Indie Records)

April 5, 2005Kate McGarry – Mercy Streets (Palmetto)Lorraine Feather – Dooji Wooji (Sanctuary)Mulgrew Miller – TBA (Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ)Paul Grabowsky – Tales Of Time And Space (Sanctuary)

April 11, 2005Dave’s True Story – Nature (BeBop Records)

April 26, 2005Jessica Williams – TBA (Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ)

May 10, 2005Denny Zeitlin – TBA (Piano Series) (MAXJAZZ)

May 24, 2005Dave Brubeck – London Flat, London Sharp (Telarc)Tony DeSare – Want You (Telarc)

June 28, 2005Jeremy Pelt – TBA (Horn Series) (MAXJAZZ)

Here are upcoming add dates for new releases, and add dates that have passed during the last few weeks. This listing was current as of press time.

Note: JazzWeek industry subscribers may update this information online at jazzweek.com.Add dates may also be submitted via email to [email protected].



Jazz Radio CurrentsAhmed Abdullah’s Dispersions of the Sprit of RA

Traveling The Spaceways Planet Arts

Bob Acri w/Lew Soloff/Frank Wess/Ed Thigpen/George Mraz/Diane Delin

Blujazz

Eric Alexander Dead Center HighNoteGeri Allen The Life Of A Song Telarc JazzJackie Allen Love Is Blue A440 Music GroupBuyu Ambroise Blues In Red Justin TimeCarl Amundson & The Modern Guitar Quintet

Guitarists Blue Line Music

Gabriela Anders Last Tango In Rio Narada JazzThe William Ash Trio The Phoenix Smalls RecordsThe Bad Plus Give ColumbiaThe Sheryl Bailey 3 Bull’s Eye Pure Music RecordsJeff Baker Monologue OA2 RecordsDenys Baptiste Let Freedom Ring Dune RecordsPatricia Barber Live: A Fortnight In France Blue NoteCount Basie Good Time Blues PabloBebo & Cigala Lai Grimas Negras BluebirdOpie Bellas Faces Bella BlueTony Bennett The Art Of Romance ColumbiaShelly Berg Trio Blackbird Concord JazzDavid Berger and the Sultans of Swing

Marlowe Such Sweet Thunder Records

Joe Bonner New Beginnings EvidenceChris Botti When I Fall In Love ColumbiaMaurice Brown Hip To Bop Brown RecordsBetty Bryant Weathervane Bry-Mar MusicJane Bunnett Red Dragonfly (Aka Tombo) Narada JazzVicki Burns Siren Song Merrymaid Produc-

tionsDon Byron ivey-divey Blue NoteAnn Hampton Callaway Slow ShanachieMichel Camilo Solo Telarc JazzRoyce Campbell Six By Six Moon Cycle RecordsCaribbean Jazz Project Here and Now: Live In Concert Concord PicanteRay Charles Genius Loves Company ConcordRondi Charleston Love Is The Thing LML MusicLarry Chernicoff October Windy Planet MusicPeter Cincotti On The Moon ConcordJeff Coffin Bloom CompassTom Collier Mallet Jazz Origin RecordsAlice Coltrane Translinear Light ImpulseHarry Connick Jr Harry For The Holidays ColumbiaJamie Cullum Twentysomething Verve Music GroupOrbert Davis Blue Notes 3 SixteenErnest Dawkins New Horizons Mean Ameen DelmarkDeep Blue Organ Trio Deep Blue Bruise DelmarkPapa John DeFrancesco Walking Uptown SavantThe Dynamic Les DeMerle Band Hittin’ the Blue Notes - Vol. Two Origin RecordsTom Dempsey / Tim Ferguson Quartet

Perspectives Imaginary Records

Stefano Di Battista Parker’s Mood Blue NoteSasha Dobson w/The Chris Byars Octet

The Darkling Thrush Smalls Records

Bob Dorough Sunday At Iridium ArborsDave Douglas/Sclavis/Lee/van der Schyff

Bow River Falls Premonition

Rosanne Drago Hot Sophisticated Jazz Now Self-ProducedChristiana Drapkin Songs About You IANA RecordsE.S.T. Seven Days of Falling 215 RecordsMark Elf Glad To Be Back Jen Bay RecordsJeni Fleming Acoustic Trio Once Around The Sun SVFMThe Frank And Joe Show 33 1/3 Hyena RecordsEric Frazier Find Yourself (Then Find Me) Eric Frazier MusicJacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Walking With Giants Hyena RecordsBill Frisell Unspeakable NonesuchThe Mike Frost Project Nothing Smooth About It BlujazzWilliam Galison w/ Madeleine Peyroux

I Got You On My Mind Waking Up Music

Jan Garbarek In Praise of Dreams ECMGiacomo Gates Centerpiece Origin RecordsGeorge Gee Big Band Settin’ The Pace GJazz RecordsSai Ghose Trio E-Motion Summit

Terry Gibbs 52nd & Broadway: Songs of the Bebop Era

Mack Avenue

Herb Gibson Blue Vibes Silverado RecordsGlobal Village Orchestra Globalistics Random ChanceBenny Golson Terminal 1 ConcordJerry Gonzalez Y Los Piratas Del Flamenco SunnysideThe Great Jazz Trio Someday My Prince Will Come Eighty-Eights/Co-

lumbiaDave Grusin Now Playing GRPDon Grusin The Hang Sovereign RecordsRussell Gunn Ethnomusicology Vol. 4: Live In

AtlantaJustin Time

Charlie Haden Land Of The Sun Verve Music GroupAngela Hagenbach Poetry Of Love Amazon RecordsRandy Halberstadt Parallel Tracks Origin RecordsJeff Hamilton The Best Things Happen Azica RecordsSteve Hancoff The Single Petal Of A Rose Out Of Time RecordsDonald Harrison Free Style Nagel HeyerJoel Harrison So Long 2nd Street Act 3 Music GroupJohn Hart Indivisible Hep JazzRichie Hart Blues In The Alley Zoho MusicJeff Hedberg The Summer Knows BlujazzAlex Heitlinger Sextet Green Light Synergy MusicIan Hendrickson-Smith Still Smokin’ Sharp NineBruce A. Henry Connections BAHLOVE ProductionsHermann / Fontana The Jazz Trombone Sea BreezeGary Hobbs Of My Times Origin RecordsStevie Holland Restless Willow 150 MusicMike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra

Thought Trains Sons of Sound

Charlie Hunter Freinds Seen And Unseen Ropeadope/AtlanticWeber Iago Children of the World Adventure MusicFrank Jackson New York After Dark KasisChristian Jacob Styne and Mine WilderJazzAl Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music GroupKeith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette

The Out of Towners ECM

Jazz Jamaica All Stars Massive Dune RecordsDr. John N‚ÄôAwlinz: Dis, Dat or D‚Äôudda Blue NoteJeff Johnson Near Earth OriginLiz Johnson Playground Lily RecordsNorah Jones Feels Like Home Blue NoteElvin Jones Jazz Machine The Truth Half Note RecordsAnders Jormin In Wind, In Light ECMVic Juris Blue Horizon Zoho MusicGeorge Kahn Compared To What? Playing RecordsKatahdin’s Edge Step Away Incline RecordsRoger Kellaway I Was There - Roger Kellaway Plays

From The Bobby Darin SongbookIPO Recordings

Chaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary Records

Soweto Kinch Conversations With The Unseen Dune RecordsPaul Kogut Know It? I Wrote It! BlujazzLee Konitz w/ Alan Broadbent More Live-Lee MilestoneDiana Krall The Girl In The Other Room Verve Music GroupQueen Latifah The Dana Owens Album QwestChad Lawson Unforeseen SummitThe Nguyen Le Trio Bakida Act 3 Music GroupMike Ledonne Smokin’ Out Loud SavantPeter Leitch Autobiography ReservoirJay Leonhart Cool Sons of SoundRamsey Lewis Trio Time Flies NaradaLincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme PalmettoLorie Line Young At Heart Lori Line MusicMike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble

Oasis CAP

Micarelli Lucia Music From A Farther Room RepriseLuna Rendezvous JetsetMatthias Lupri Transition Sonic SummitFrank Macchia Animals Cacophony RecordsBruce MacLeod Parade Parhelion RecordsKevin Mahogany Big Band Zebra Records/Ma-

hogany JazzGui Mallon Live at Montreux Adventure MusicManhattan Transfer Vibrate Telarc


Jazz Radio CurrentsHerbie Mann / Phil Woods Beyond Brooklyn MCG JazzRay Mantilla Man-Ti-Ya SavantRene Marie Serene Renegade MAXJAZZLou Marini Lou’s Blues Chase Music GroupWynton Marsalis Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise

and Fall of Jack JohnsonBlue Note

Branford Marsalis Quartet Eternal Marsalis Music/ Rounder Records

Wynton Marsalis Quartet The Magic Hour Blue NoteRebecca Martin People Behave Like Ballads MAXJAZZMat Marucci / Markus Burger Ensemble Sounds

Genesis Cadence Jazz

Tim May Trio Mayzing RecordsChris Mc Nulty I Remember You Mop Top RecordsPaul McCandless / Art Lande Shapeshifter Synergy MusicLarry McDonough Tuscarora: Short Stories for Jazz

PianoSelf-Produced

Ladd McIntosh Big Band Ride The Night Beast L.E.M. ProductionsTim McNamara Quartet Earth Sign BlujazzMedeski Martin & Wood End of The World Party Blue NoteBrad Mehldau Live In Tokyo NonesuchCarol Mennie I’m Not A Sometime Thing CDMPat Metheny Group The Way Up NonesuchMilla Dream A Little Avid DivaMulgrew Miller Live @ Yoshi’s Volume One MAXJAZZPete Mills Art And Architecture SummitDom Minasi Quick Response CDMTony Monaco Firey Blues SummitGrachan Moncur III Exploration CapriJane Monheit Taking A Chance On Love Sony ClassicalTyphanie Monique / Neal Alger Intrinsic BlujazzMonk’s Music Trio Think Of One CMB RecordsJason Moran Same Mother Blue NoteFrank Morgan City Nights: Live at the Jazz

StandardHighNote

Maria Muldaur Love Wants To Dance Telarc BluesMark Murphy Bop For Miles HighNoteYoussou N’Dour Egypt NonesuchNegroni’s Trio Piano/Drums/Bass Universal Music

LatinoEd Neumeister Quartet New Standards MeisteroNew Stories Hope Is the Air: Music of Elmo Hope OriginDavid “Fathead” Newman I Remember Brother Ray HighNoteAdam Niewood Introducing Adam Niewood Native LanguageGerry Niewood Facets Native LanguageRuss Nolan Two Colors RhinocerussBill O’Connell Latin Jazz Fantasy Random ChanceOctobop After Dark Mystic Lane Produc-

tionsDarek Oles Like A Dream CryptogramophoneRenee Olstead Renee Olstead 143 Records/RepriseParadigm Shift Shifting Times Nagel HeyerRob Parton’s Jazztech Big Band Two Different days Sea BreezeRosa Passos Amorosa Sony ClassicalJim Pearce Washington Square Park Oak Avenue

PublishingKen Peplowski Easy To Remember Nagel HeyerDenise Perrier Live At Yoshi’s Chez Perrier RecordsHouston Person To Etta With Love HighNoteMadeleine Peyroux Careless Love RounderEnrico Pieranunzi Fellini Jazz CAMJean-Michel Pilc Follow Me Dreyfus JazzLeslie Pintchik So Glad To Be Here AmbientPucho & His Latin Soul Brothers The Hideout MilestoneHugh Ragin Revelation Justin TimePhil Ranelin Inspiration Wide Hive RecordsPaul Renz & Friends Hubbub Gabwalk RecordsBuddy Rich No Funny Hats Lightyear Entertain-

ment/Lobitios Creek Ranch

Kim Richmond / Clay Jenkins Crossweave OriginRoditi / Ignatzek / Rassinfosse Light In The Dark Nagel HeyerWallace Roney Prototype HighNoteLinda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music GroupRoomful Of Blues Standing Room Only Alligator

Gonzalo Rubalcaba Paseo Blue NoteKermit Ruffins PutumayoThe Sala Bros Out Of The Blue BlujazzJoe Sample Soul Shadows Verve Music GroupDavid Sanborn Closer Verve Music GroupDavid Sanchez Coral ColumbiaRob Schneiderman Back In Town ReservoirDave Schnitter Sketch SunnysideAnton Schwartz Holiday Time Anton JazzJill Scott Beautifully Human: Words And

Sounds Vol. 2Hidden Beach

Marilyn Scott Nightcap Prana EntertainmentSeattle Woman’s Jazz Orchestra Dreamcatcher OA2 RecordsThe Jim Seeley/Arturo O’Farrill Quintet

Zoho Music

Cybill Shepherd At Home With Cybill River SirenArchie Shepp & Mal Waldron Left Alone Revisited: Tribute To Billy

HolidaySynergy Music

Mark Sherman The Motive Series CAPDavid Sills Eastern View Origin RecordsJudi Silvano Let Yourself Go Zoho MusicRicardo Silveria Live: Plays the Music of Milton

NascimentoAdventure Music

Norman Simmons In Private SavantAlex Skolnick Trio Transformation Magatude RecordsCharles Small Small Talk Blue LadyDoctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot PalmettoSteve Smith and Vital Information Come On In OmniToneJim Snidero Close Up MilestoneOmar Sosa Mulatos OTAJohnny Souza Meet me In The City 1620 Jazz RecordsGeorge Stone Performs The Music Of Stewart

“Dirk” FisherSea Breeze

Rick Stone Samba de Novembro JazzandSteve Swallow /Ohad Talmor The Bum’s Tale PalmettoJonas Tauber Storm Walking Singing OriginXimo Tebar Champs SunnysideClark Terry Porgy & Bess Americana

Music/A440 Music Group

Trio Mundo Rides Again Zoho MusicMichael James Turre Compositions IllusorySteve Turre The Spirits Up Above HighNoteMcCoy Tyner Illuminations Telarc JazzManuel Valera Forma Nueva MAVO RecordsMartijn van Iterson Quartet The Whole Bunch Munich RecordsVarious Artists Syncopated Energy - Jazz From The

Synergy Music CatalogSynergy Music

Various Artists Verve Remixed 2 Verve Music GroupVarious Artists Blue Note Revisited Blue NoteFay Victor Lazy Old Sun - Live/Life in the

LowlandsGreen Avenue Music

Claudia Villela & Kenny Werner Dreamtales Adventure MusicKen Walker Terra Firma Synergy MusicRich Walker Sextet Bar Hop Altru MusicBobby Watson & Horizon Horizon Reassembled PalmettoJeff Watts Detained At The Blue Note Half Note RecordsMort Weiss The Three of Us SMS JazzThe Jim Widner Big Band Flying High Chase Music GroupBuster Williams Griot Liberte HighNoteJessica Williams Live At Yoshi’s Volume One MAXJAZZAbram Wilson Jazz Warrior Dune RecordsNancy Wilson R.S.V.P. MCG JazzGerald Wilson Orchestra New York, New Sound Mack AvenueMatt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts Wake Up! (to what’s happening) PalmettoBen Wolfe My Kinda Wonderful Planet ArtsMichael Wolff Dangerous Vision ArtimasAnthony Wonsey Blues For Hiroshi Sharp NinePhil Woods This Is How I Feel About Quincy Jazzed MediaJosh Workman Jumpin’ At The Border TetrachordYellowjackets Peace Round Heads UpJacob Young Evening Falls ECMKahil El Zabar & David Murray We Is Live At The Bop Shop DelmarkPete Zimmer Common Man Tippin’ Records


Smooth Jazz Radio

Soul Ballet Retakes No. 1 on Singles and Album Charts

Dream Beat Dream from Soul Ballet (215) with the single “Cream” retakes the No. 1 spot on this week’s JazzWeek Smooth Jazz Album and Smooth

Singles Chart, displacing Forever, For Always, For Lu-ther (GRP) and Richard Elliot’s single from the album, “Your Secret Love.”

Paseo, from Gonzalo Rubalcaba & New Cuban Quar-tet (Blue Note) was added on 29 stations, as were two singles from the album, “Sea Change” and “El Guerril-lero”

Seeing the biggest jump on the Singles Chart was Euge Groove’s “XXL” (EMI), adding 99 spins, while David Sanborn’s Verve album Closer added 116 spins on the Album chart.

Smooth Album Chart p. 25

Smooth Singles Chart p. 26

Smooth Current CDs p. 27

Smooth Radio Panel p. 28

Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s Paseo is Most Added Album with Top 2 Most Added Singles

Topping the charts is Soul Ballet’s Dream Beat Dream (215) with its single “Cream”.

Paseo has the week’s top two most added singles: “Sea Change” and “El Guerrillero”.




Jan. 26, 2005Smooth Album Chart

Gonzalo Rubalcaba & New Cuban Quartet Paseo(Blue Note) +28The Ramsey Lewis Trio Time Flies (Narada Jazz) +7Nils Pacific Coast Highway (Baja) +5Marcus Johnson Just Doing What I Do (Three Keys) +5Brian Hughes Along The Way (A440) +4

David Sanborn Closer (Verve) +116Euge Groove Livin’ Large (EMI) +99Chris Botti When I Fall In Love (Columbia) +81Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream (215) +64Gonzalo Rubalcaba & New Cuban Quartet Paseo (Blue Note) +62

Alexander Zonjic Seldom Blues (Heads Up)Candy Dulfer Right In My Soul (Eagle)Doc Powell Cool Like That (Heads Up)Gonzalo Rubalcaba & New Cuban Quartet Paseo (Blue Note)Novecento Dreams Of Peace (Favored Nations)Positive Flow The City Streets [Single] (Shanachie)Paradigm Shift Shifting Times (Nagel Heyer)Sergio Caputo Jazzy Girl [Single] (Idiosyncrasy)

TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds1 3 4 1 Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 736 672 64 12 36 12 1 1 1 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP 713 770 -57 7 36 03 2 2 1 Dave Koz Saxophonic Capitol 697 716 -19 12 36 04 4 3 2 Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. 646 668 -22 12 37 05 6 6 5 Paul Brown Up Front GRP 604 587 17 7 36 06 8 11 6 Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up 573 532 41 12 35 07 12 15 7 Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 571 519 52 4 32 08 5 7 2 Boney James Pure Warner Bros. 552 592 -40 12 37 09 7 5 5 Chris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep Columbia 543 583 -40 12 37 010 9 13 9 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 533 526 7 12 37 011 10 12 7 Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous 527 526 1 12 36 012 11 14 11 Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album Universal Music Group / AM 497 525 -28 7 36 013 21 19 11 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 496 397 99 12 36 014 13 10 9 Peter White Confidential Columbia 495 516 -21 7 35 015 14 21 14 Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista 450 494 -44 7 32 016 16 8 1 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous 438 473 -35 12 37 117 18 17 1 Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up Universal Music Group / GRP

/ VMG425 452 -27 12 37 0

18 17 16 14 Nick Colionne Just Come On In Will Keys 401 471 -70 12 34 019 15 9 3 Paul Jackson, Jr. Still Small Voice Blue Note 398 490 -92 12 35 020 20 20 13 Marc Antoine The Very Best Of Marc Antoine VMG 398 420 -22 12 36 021 22 23 20 Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Concord 385 373 12 5 28 022 19 18 18 Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note 384 448 -64 4 35 023 29 29 14 Chris Botti When I Fall In Love Columbia 380 299 81 7 36 324 25 25 14 Marc Antoine Mediterraneo Rendezvous 352 343 9 12 34 025 28 28 21 Joyce Cooling This Girl’s Got To Play Narada Jazz / Virgin 351 325 26 7 29 026 26 27 18 Michael McDonald Motown Two Motown 346 330 16 7 29 027 24 24 5 George Benson Irreplaceable Universal Music Group / GRP

/ VMG342 354 -12 12 35 0

28 23 22 22 Seal Best: 1991-2004 Warner Bros. 332 354 -22 4 26 029 30 30 16 Fourplay Journey BMG 288 289 -1 12 24 030 43 NR 30 David Sanborn Closer Verve 286 170 116 2 24 231 27 26 16 Kim Waters In The Name Of Love Shanachie 278 328 -50 7 27 032 31 32 22 Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out Peak / Concord 251 270 -19 7 34 033 37 38 33 Daryl Hall & John Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch 234 219 15 4 18 034 33 31 18 Pieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads Up 232 245 -13 12 25 035 32 35 18 Praful One Day Deep Rendezvous 231 253 -22 12 32 036 34 34 26 Richard Smith Soulidified A440 222 230 -8 7 29 037 35 33 25 Mindi Abair It Just Happens That Way GRP 222 227 -5 7 33 038 39 42 38 Various Artists Rendezvous Lounge, Vol.1 Rendezvous 220 187 33 12 21 039 36 37 18 Najee Classic Masters Capitol / EMI 194 223 -29 12 31 040 41 39 33 Richard Elliot Ricochet VMG 194 182 12 7 35 041 38 40 20 Dan Siegel Inside Out Native Language 190 187 3 12 24 042 40 36 31 Rick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros. 188 184 4 7 29 043 45 43 37 Seal Seal IV Warner Bros. 168 169 -1 4 30 044 44 41 23 Greg Adams Firefly 215 164 170 -6 7 18 045 42 48 25 The Jazzmasters The Jazzmasters 4 Trippin ‘N’ Rhythm 151 173 -22 12 26 046 46 44 37 Steve Cole NY LA Warner Bros. 143 166 -23 7 29 047 49 45 21 Brian Culbertson Come On Up Warner Bros. 132 128 4 12 27 048 54 49 25 The Ramsey Lewis Trio Time Flies Narada Jazz 124 110 14 7 34 749 50 52 20 Steve Oliver 3-D Koch 116 127 -11 12 18 050 60 59 41 Urban Knights Urban Knights V Narada 116 99 17 7 29 0




Jan. 26, 2005Smooth Singles Chart

Gonzalo Rubalcaba & New Cuban Quartet “Sea Change” (Blue Note) +29Gonzalo Rubalcaba & New Cuban Quartet “El Guerrillero” (Blue Note) +29Chris Botti “When I Fall In Love” (Columbia) +16David Sanborn “Poinciana” (Verve) +11David Sanborn “Sofia” (Verve) +11

Euge Groove “XXL” (EMI) +99David Sanborn “Tin Tin Deo” (Verve) +92Soul Ballet “Cream” (215) +64Tim Bowman “Summer Groove” (Liquid) +53Kenny G & Earth Wind, & Fire “The Way You Move” (Arista) +45

David Sanborn “Tin Tin Deo” (Verve)Joyce Cooling “Camelback” (Narada Jazz / Virgin)Daryl Hall & John Oates “I’ll Be Around” (U-Watch)Rick Braun “Daddy-O” (Warner Bros.)Kenny G & Earth Wind, & Fire “The Way You Move” (Arista)Richard Elliot “Sly” (VMG)The Ramsey Lewis Trio “The In Crowd” (Narada Jazz)Adani & Wolf “Daylight” (Rendezvous)

TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds1 2 3 1 Soul Ballet Cream 215 736 672 64 12 36 12 1 1 1 Richard Elliot Your Secret Love GRP 663 721 -58 7 35 03 3 2 2 Norman Brown Up ‘N’ At ‘Em Warner Bros. 646 668 -22 12 37 04 5 8 4 Tim Bowman Summer Groove Liquid 571 518 53 4 32 05 6 5 5 Marion Meadows Sweet Grapes Heads Up 557 516 41 12 35 06 4 6 4 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 533 526 7 12 37 07 9 7 5 Chris Botti Back Into My Heart Columbia 466 464 2 12 37 08 7 9 7 Queen Latifah California Dreamin’ Universal Music Group / AM 442 475 -33 7 35 09 8 4 1 Wayman Tisdale Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now Rendezvous 430 469 -39 12 35 110 12 14 10 Paul Brown Moment By Moment GRP 418 390 28 7 35 011 11 12 11 Dave Koz Let It Free Capitol 402 400 2 12 30 012 10 11 1 Gerald Albright To The Max Universal Music Group / GRP

/ VMG388 417 -29 12 36 0

13 25 24 13 Euge Groove XXL EMI 362 263 99 12 31 014 20 22 14 Michael Lington Two Of A Kind (w/ Chuck Loeb) Rendezvous 336 307 29 12 33 015 15 13 13 Seal Walk On By Warner Bros. 332 354 -22 4 26 016 16 16 3 George Benson Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise Universal Music Group / GRP

/ VMG330 343 -13 12 35 0

17 17 15 15 Peter White How Does It Feel Columbia 329 325 4 7 28 018 21 21 18 Ray Charles You Don’t Know Me (w/ Diana Krall) Concord 316 296 20 5 26 019 18 18 16 Michael McDonald Tracks Of My Tears Motown 309 311 -2 7 28 020 23 30 20 Boney James Stone Groove (w/ Joe Sample) Warner Bros. 300 286 14 11 30 121 13 17 13 Anita Baker You’re My Everything Blue Note 295 362 -67 4 35 022 27 31 11 Chris Botti No Ordinary Love Columbia 287 244 43 7 36 523 19 23 19 Kenny G & David Sanborn Pick Up The Pieces Arista 277 310 -33 7 30 024 14 10 5 Paul Jackson, Jr. Walkin’ Blue Note 260 359 -99 12 31 025 22 19 12 Kim Waters In Deep Shanachie 254 292 -38 7 25 026 26 25 11 Nick Colionne It’s Been Too Long Will Keys 245 256 -11 12 30 027 28 26 16 Pieces Of A Dream It’s Go Time Heads Up 231 244 -13 12 24 028 29 27 12 Marc Antoine Mediterraneo Rendezvous 225 221 4 12 34 029 24 20 2 Boney James Here She Comes Warner Bros. 219 276 -57 12 33 030 53 NR 30 David Sanborn Tin Tin Deo Verve 208 116 92 2 39 231 35 37 19 Fourplay Fields Of Gold BMG 197 190 7 12 21 032 33 29 14 Dave Koz All I See Is You Capitol 192 197 -5 12 34 033 30 28 10 Michael Lington Show Me Rendezvous 189 219 -30 12 32 034 32 38 23 Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out Peak / Concord 189 201 -12 7 32 035 43 44 35 Joyce Cooling Camelback Narada Jazz / Virgin 185 155 30 7 16 036 34 34 29 Paul Brown 24/7 GRP 184 194 -10 7 33 037 36 41 36 Daryl Hall & John Oates I’ll Be Around U-Watch 182 170 12 4 14 138 40 32 28 Rick Braun Daddy-O Warner Bros. 167 159 8 7 28 039 37 36 15 Greg Adams Firefly 215 164 169 -5 7 18 040 41 39 15 Dan Siegel In Your Eyes Native Language 162 157 5 12 23 041 39 35 26 Joyce Cooling Expression Narada Jazz / Virgin 157 162 -5 7 28 042 31 33 31 Nick Colionne High Flyin’ Will Keys 154 212 -58 7 31 043 42 40 33 Richard Smith Sing A Song A440 149 157 -8 7 22 044 38 42 33 Peter White Talkin’ Bout Love Columbia 140 165 -25 7 30 045 47 47 21 Paul Jackson, Jr. It’s A Shame Blue Note 138 131 7 12 32 046 45 43 19 Praful Sigh Rendezvous 136 138 -2 12 32 047 44 45 42 Seal Love’s Divine Warner Bros. 131 142 -11 4 29 048 68 88 48 Kenny G & Earth Wind, & Fire The Way You Move Arista 125 80 45 3 12 149 50 46 17 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 123 118 5 12 28 050 52 50 48 Richard Elliot Sly VMG 123 117 6 7 34 0


Smooth Jazz Radio Current AlbumsMindi Abair It Just Happens That Way GRPMindy Abair Come As You Are GRPAcoustic Alchemy Radio Contact Higher OctaveGreg Adams Firefly 215 RecordsGerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRPGabriela Anders Last Tango In Rio Narada JazzMarc Antoine Mediteraneo RendevousMarc Antoine The Very Best of Marc Antoine Verve Music GroupAnita Baker My Everything Blue NoteBob Baldwin Brazil Chill A440 Music GroupWalter Beasley Go With The Flow N-Coded MusicPete Belasco Deeper CompendiaRegina Belle Lazy PeakDavid Benoit / Russ Freeman Benoit Freeman Project 2 PeakGeorge Benson Irreplaceable GRPTheo Bishop Newport Nights Native LanguageChris Botti A Thousand Kisses Deep ColumbiaChris Botti When I Fall In Love ColumbiaTim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8Jeff Bradshaw Bone Deep Hidden BeachRick Braun Esperanto Warner Bros.Toni Braxton Ultimate Toni Braxton LaFaceBraxton Brothers Rollin PeakBridge To Havana (f. Gladys Knight) Bridge To Havana PyramidBrian Bromberg Choices A440 Music GroupNorman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros.Paul Brown Up Front GRPAlex Bugnon Southern Living Narada JazzCabo Frio Island Dance Kezia RecordsJonathan Cain Bare Bones Reality/AAO MusicSergio Caputo That Kind of Thing Idiosyncrasy MusicLarry Carlton Sapphire Blue BluebirdCraig Chaquico Midnight Moon Higher OctaveRay Charles Genius Loves Company ConcordClub 1600 Ridin, High N-Coded MusicSteve Cole NY LA Warner Bros.Nick Colionne Just Come On In Three Keys MusicHarry Connick Jr Harry For The Holidays ColumbiaJoyce Cooling This Girl’s Got to Play Narada JazzCouch Potato Allstars Jazz For Couch Potatoes ShanachieBrian Culbertson Come On Up Warner Bros.Jamie Cullum Twentysomething Verve Music GroupEric Darius Night On The Town Higher OctaveWill Downing Emotions GRPRichard Elliot Ricochet GRPFattburger Work To Do ShanachieFourplay Journey RCA / VictorA. Ray Fuller The Weeper A Ray Artists MusicGarry Goin Goin’ Places CompendiaJeff Golub Soul Sessions GRPAl Green The Absolute Best EMIRayford Griffin Rebirth Of The Cool Razor EdgeEuge Groove Living Large NaradaDave Grusin Now Playing GRPDon Grusin The Hang Sovereign RecordsDaryl Hall Can’t Stop Dreaming Rhythm & GrooveHall & Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-WatchPaul Hardcastle The Jazzmasters 4 Trippin’ N’ Rhythm

RecordsEverette Harp All For You A440 Music GroupHil St. Soul Copasetik & Cool ShanachieHiroshima The Bridge Heads UpIncognito Who Needs Love Narada JazzPaul Jackson Jr. Still Small Voice Blue NoteBoney James Pure Warner Bros.Al Jarreau Accentuate The Positive Verve Music GroupJazz Crusanders Soul Axess True LifeMarcus Johnson Urban Groove Marimelj Entertain-

mentNorah Jones Feels Like Home Blue NoteRonny Jordan At Last N-Coded MusicJeff Kashiwa Peace Of Mind Native LanguageKem Kemistry MotownAlicia Keys The Diary Of Alicia Keys J RecordsChaka Khan Classikhan AGU Sanctuary

Records

Dave Koz Saxophonic CapitolDiana Krall The Girl In The Other Room Verve Music GroupPattie LaBelle Timeless Journey Island /Def JamDavid Lanz The Good Life DeccaQueen Latifah The Dana Owens Album QwestRonnie Laws Everlasting Holland GroupRamsey Lewis Trio Time Flies NaradaMichael Lington Stay With Me RendevousLiquid Soul Evolution ShanachieChuck Loeb eBop ShanachieJeff Lorber Uncle Darrow NaradaLuna Rendezvous JetsetTorcuato Mariano Diary 215 RecordsEric Marienthal Sweet Talk PeakKeiko Matsui Wildflower NaradaMichael McDonald Motown MotownMichael McDonald Motown Two MotownMarion Meadows Player’s Club Heads UpChieli Minucci Night Grooves ShanachieYoussou N’Dour Egypt NonesuchNajee Embrace N-Coded MusicNajee Classic Masters CapitolKen Navarro All The Way ShanachieGrady Nichols Sophistication CompendiaNils Pacific Coast Highway Baja/TSA RecordsAndrew Oh Silk Ark MusicSteve Oliver 3-D Koch RecordsRenee Olstead Renee Olstead 143 Records/RepriseJoan Osborne How Sweet It Is CompendiaPieces Of A Dream No Assembly Required Heads UpDoc Powell 97th & Columbus Heads UpDoc Powell Cool Like That Heads UpPraful One Day Deep Rendezvous/N-CodedNelson Rangell Look Again A440 Music GroupThe Rippingtons Let It Ripp PeakLinda Ronstadt Hummin’ to Myself Verve Music GroupJoe Sample Soul Shadows Verve Music GroupDavid Sanborn Time Again Verve Music GroupDavid Sanborn Closer Verve Music GroupJill Scott Beautifully Human: Words And

Sounds Vol. 2Hidden Beach

Marilyn Scott Nightcap Prana EntertainmentSeal IV Warner Bros.Dan Siegel Inside Out Native LanguageSimply Red Home Simply RedRichard Smith Soulidfied A440 Music GroupJimmy Sommers Love Life Higher OctaveSpecial EFX Party ShanachieSpyro Gyra The Deep End Heads UpStanley B. All For LoveWonder Stevie The Definitive Collection MotownPaul Taylor Steppin Out Peak/ConcordJ. Thompson Romantic Night AMH RecordsWayman Tisdale Hang Time RendevousNester Torres Sin Palabras Heads UpUrban Knights Urban Knights V NaradaLuther Vandross Dance With My father J RecordsVarious Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRPVarious Artists Wedding Songs: A Body & Soul

CollectionTime Life

Various Artists Princess Diaries 2 : Royal Engage-ment [Original Soundtrack]

Walt Disney

Andre Ward Steppin Up OrpheusKim Waters Someone To Love You ShanachieKim Waters In The Name Of Love ShanachieKirk Whalum Into My Soul Warner Bros.Peter White Confidential ColumbiaBernie Williams The Journey Within GRPPamela Williams The Perfect Love ShanachieJim Wilson River HillsboroNancy Wilson R.S.V.P. MCG JazzSteve Winwood About Time Sci FidelityChuck Yamek Feels So Right MopayYellowjackets Peace Round Heads Up


Call letters Frequency Market Rank

KAJZ-FM 101.7 Albuquerque, NM 71

KBZN-FM 97.9 Salt Lake City - Ogden - Provo, UT 31

KEZL-FM 96.7 Fresno, CA 68

KHJZ-FM 95.7 Houston - Galveston, TX 7

KIFM-FM 98.1 San Diego, CA 17

KJCD-FM 104.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22

KJZI-FM 100.3 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16

KJZY-FM 93.7 San Francisco, CA 4

KKSF-FM 103.7 San Francisco, CA 4

KKSJ/KTSJ-FM 105.9 Lafayette, LA 102

KLJT-FM 102.3 Tyler-Longview, TX 148

KMGQ-FM 97.5 Santa Barbara, CA 204

KOAI-FM 107.5 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5

KOAS-FM 105.7 Las Vegas, NV 38

KRVR-FM 105.5 Stockton, CA 82

KSKX-FM 105.5 Colorado Springs, CO 97

KSMJ-FM 97.7 Bakersfield, CA 83

KSSJ-FM 94.7 Sacramento, CA 26

KTWV-FM 94.7 Los Angeles, CA 2

KWJZ-FM 98.9 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14

KYOT-FM 95.5 Phoenix, AZ 15

WBRH-FM 90.3 Baton Rouge, LA 84

WEIB-FM 106.3 Hartford - New Britain - Middletown, CT 50

WFJZ-FM 106.7 Ft. Wayne, IN 105

WFSK-FM 88.1 Nashville, TN 44

WGPR-FM 107.5 Detroit, MI 10

WJAB-FM 90.9 Huntsville, AL 116

WJJZ-FM 106.1 Philadelphia, PA 6

WJSJ/WSJF-FM 105.5 Jacksonville, FL 49

WJZA/WJZK-FM 103.5 Columbus, OH 35

WJZI-FM 93.3 Milwaukee - Racine, WI 32

WJZL/WJZO-FM 93.1 Louisville, KY 55

WJZR-FM 105.9 Rochester, NY 54

WJZW-FM 105.9 Baltimore, MD 20

WJZZ-FM 107.5 Atlanta, GA 11

WLOQ-FM 103.1 Orlando, FL 39

WLVE-FM 93.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12

WNUA-FM 95.5 Chicago, IL 3

WNWV-FM 107.3 Cleveland, OH 25

WPMJ-FM 94.3 Peoria, IL 149

WQCD-FM 101.9 New York, NY 1

WSJT-FM 94.1 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21

WSJW-FM 92.7 Harrisburg - Lebanon - Carlisle, PA 80

WSMJ-FM 104.3 Baltimore, MD 20

WSSM-FM 106.5 St. Louis, MO 19

WVAS-FM 90.7 Montgomery, AL 152

WVMV-FM 98.7 Detroit, MI 10

WXJZ-FM 100.9 Gainesville - Ocala, FL 87

WYJZ-FM 100.9 Indianapolis, IN 41

Music Choice National N/A

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Call letters Frequency Market RankCJRT-FM* 91.1 Toronto, ON N/AKANU-FM 91.5 Topeka, KS 195 KBEM-FM 88.5 Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN 16 KCCK-FM* 88.3 Cedar Rapids, IA 204KCLU-FM 88.3 Los Angeles, CA 2 KCSM-FM 91.1 San Francisco, CA 4 KEWU-FM 89.5 Spokane, WA 93 KFSR-FM 90.7 Fresno, CA 68 KIOS-FM 91.5 Omaha, NE - Council Bluffs, IA 73 KIPO-FM* 89.3 Honolulu 62KJZZ-FM 91.5 Phoenix, AZ 15 KKJZ-FM 88.1 Los Angeles, CA 2 KLCC-FM 89.7 Eugene-Springfield, OR 171KMHD-FM 89.1 Portland, OR 24 KMUW-FM 89.1 Wichita, KS 95 KNTU-FM 88.1 Dallas - Ft. Worth, TX 5 KPLU-FM 88.5 Seattle - Tacoma, WA 14 KRTU-FM 91.7 San Antonio, TX 30 KSDS-FM 88.3 San Diego, CA 17 KSJS-FM 90.5 San Jose, CA 109KSMF-FM* 89.1 Ashland, OR 207KSUT-FM* 91.3 Ignacio, CO N/AKTSU-FM 90.9 Houston - Galveston, TX 7 KUAZ-FM 89.1 Tucson, AZ 63 KUNR-FM* 88.7 Reno, NV 231KUNV-FM 91.5 Las Vegas, NV 38 KUT-FM 90.5 Austin, TX 7KUVO-FM 89.3 Denver - Boulder, CO 22 KXJZ-FM 88.9 Sacramento, CA 26 WAER-FM* 88.3 Syracuse, NY 79WBEZ-FM 91.5 Chicago, IL 3 WBFO-FM 88.7 Buffalo - Niagara Falls, NY 52 WBGO-FM 88.3 New York, NY 1 WCFJ/WSBC* 1470 AM Chicago, IL 3WCLK-FM 91.9 Atlanta, GA 11 WCPN-FM 90.3 Cleveland, OH 25 WDCB-FM* 90.9 Chicago, IL 3 WDET-FM 101.9 Detroit, MI 10 WDNA-FM 88.9 Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood, FL 12 WDUQ-FM 90.5 Pittsburgh, PA 23 WEAA-FM 88.9 Baltimore, MD 20 WEMU-FM* 89.1 Ypsilanti, MI 10WFNX-FM 101.7 Boston, MA 133 WFSS-FM 91.9 Fayetteville, NC 128 WGBH-FM 89.7 Boston, MA 8WGLT-FM 89.1 Peoria, IL 149 WGMC-FM 90.1 Rochester, NY 54 WGVU-FM 88.5 Grand Rapids, MI 67 WHRV-FM 89.5 Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Newport News, VA 40 WICN-FM* 90.5 Worcester,MA 8WJSU-FM 88.5 Jackson, MS 123 WMOT-FM 89.5 Nashville, TN 44 WNCU-FM 90.7 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 WRTI-FM 90.1 Philadelphia, PA 6 WSHA-FM 88.9 Raleigh - Durham, NC 43 WSIE-FM 88.7 St. Louis, MO 19 WTEB-FM 89.3 Greenville,NC 87WUAL-FM 91.5 Tuscaloosa, AL 133 WUCF-FM 89.9 Orlando, FL 39 WUMR-FM 91.7 Memphis, TN 48 WUSF-FM 89.7 Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater, FL 21 WVPR-FM* 94.3 Burlington, VT-Plattsburgh, NY 220WWOZ-FM 90.7 New Orleans, LA 46 WWSP-FM* 89.9 Wausau-Stevens Point, WI 198WXUT/WXTS-FM 88.3 Toledo, OH 85 Music Choice National Distribution N/ASirius* National Distribution N/A

Note: As of 1/7/05, WZMR (Albany – Schenectady – Troy) has dropped its Smooth Jazz Format and is now dropped from the panel.

t’s a long way from the Apollo

Theatre to the Apollo program

And while his playing may have

been “as lofty as a moon flight,

as Time magazine once suggested

that would be as close as Louis

Daniel Armstrong would ever get

to taking “one small step for man.

But as the jazz musician of the

20th century, giant

leaps were simply a matter of course for

Satchmo. For no one has ever embodied

the art form the way he did. It was he

who helped make virtuoso solos a part

of the vocabulary. It was he who was honored with

the title “American goodwill ambassador” by the State

Department. It was he who was the last jazz musician

to hit #1 on the Billboard pop chart.

Not bad for a kid whose first experience with

the trumpet was as a guest in a

correctional home for wayward

boys. If only today’s schools were

as enlightened and informed as

that reformatory was.

Alas, the arts are dismissed as

extravagant in today’s schools

This, despite all the studies that

show parents believe music and

dance and art and drama make

their children much better students and better people

If you feel like your kids aren’t

getting their fair share, make

some noise. To find out how

or for more information about

the benefits of arts education

please visit us on the web at

AmericansForTheArts.org. Just like the great Louis

Armstrong, all you need is a little brass.

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Armstrong left his footprints on the jazz world,

wearing lace-up oxfords.

There’s plenty of brain to goaround. Give more to art.

Instead of a giant leap, Louis Armstrong delivered one giant free-form crazy jazz groove for mankind.

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Photo used with permission, Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.

For more information about the importance of arts education, contact www.AmericansForTheArts.org.

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