Tour Stops

Norah Jones is currently on world tour with her band and is scheduled for 25 performances through April 19, 2005. Stops on the tour include Thailand, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Japan.

Pat Metheny Group are booked through June 3, 2005 hitting with 48 dates in the US, Canada, along with Sweden, Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland, and France.

Chris Botti is on the road through April 9, 2005 where he hits Las Vegas with two dates (April 8-9) at the Sun Coast Hotel. Stops along the way include Madison Square Garden on February 11 and the SBC Center in San Antonio, TX on March 15.

Bebel Gilberto plays at the East Coast Blues and Roots Music Festival on March 26, 2005 at the Red Devil Park in Byron Bay, Australia.

Al Jarreau will be bringing his smooth jazz sound to the Beau Rivage on February 18, 2005 in Biloxi, MS, and on March 18, 2005 at the Sovereign Center for Performing Arts in Reading, PA.

Lee Ritenour is scheduled for the Cerritos Center in Cerritos, CA on May 20, 2005, and will join the JVC Jazz Festival coming up at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA on August 21, 2005.

Daryl Hall & John Oates will be appearing in Japan during the month of March 2005 with 11 dates booked. The tour starts off in Yokohama on March 4 and ending in Tokyo on March 20.

Fourplay will perform their jazz music at the Berks Jazz Fest coming up on March 20 at the Scottish Rite Auditorium.

Upcoming Industry Conferences

Media Summit New York
February 9-10, 2005, New York, NY

Digital Music Forum
March 2, 2005, New York, NY

Billboard Music & Money Symposium
March 3, 2005, New York, NY

South by Southwest (SXSW)
March 11-20, 2005, Austin, TX

CTIA Wireless 2005
March 14-16, 2005, New Orleans, LA

Winter Music Conference
March 22-26, 2005, Miami Beach, FL

Digital Hollywood Spring
March 30 - April 1, 2005, Santa Monica, CA

GEMS: The Global Entertainment & Media Summit
May 14-15, New York, NY

Digital Rights Management Strategies 2005
July 27-28, New york, NY

NARM 2005
August 2005, San Diego, CA

New Releases Worth Checking Out . . .

Here are some recommendations for the best in jazz music, smooth jazz and electronic music...
Brenda Russell Between The Sun and Moon (Narada)
Gato Barbieri Pompero - Original Recording Remastered (BMG)
Ocean's 12 Soundtrack (Warner Bros.)
Love Gypsies Smooth Journey (Indie)
Chaka Khan ClassiKahn (Santucary Urban Records)
Gabriela Anders Last Tango In Rio (Narada)
Armik Cafe Romantico (Bolero)
Martin Taylor Valley (R-3 Music)
Purpose Of Soul Purpose Of Soul (Rocknik Ent.)
Pat Methany The Way Up (Nonesuch)
Adani & Wolf Les Seigneurs 1 (Rendezvous)
Ronny Jordan After 8 (Encoded Music)

WQCD-FM PLAYLIST

WQCD-FM PLAYLIST or those of you who reside in or around the New York area, Smooth Jazz station WQCD 101.9FM recently started adding electronic music to its playlist and has recoined itself as "New York Chill". Along with tracks from Chris Botti, Sade, Boney James, Stevie Wonder, Rick Braun and Earth, Wind & Fire, they have added music from the likes of Jazzanova, Gotan Project, Bebel Gilberto, Adani & Wolf featuring Ernest Ranglin, and a bunch of others. All in all, it's cool lifestyle sound that we hope will play out succesfully for the station. Let's hope that the word spreads enough so that other stations around the country can do the same by adding more electronic music to their playlists.

Here is a sampling of the 400 or so tracks from their playlist that you will hear on the station:
3rd Force Revelation of the Heart; A Vida Azul Landslide; Adani & Wolf featuring Ernest Ranglin Daylight; Afterlife Breather 2000; Air La femme D’argent; Airlock Awakening; Alex Bugnon Around 12:15AM; Alec Bugnon 107 Degrees in the Shade; Alex Cortiz Fingerprints; Alex Cortiz Schmooz; Alfonzo Blackwell Hermina (Her-Mean-Ah); Alicia Keys Fallin’; Alicia Keys If I Ain’t Got You; Alkemix Musa’s Night; Alkemix Time to Lounge; Al Jarreau After All; Al Jarreau w/Bob James & David Sanborn Since I Fell For You; Al Jarreau We’re in this Love Together; Anita Baker I Apologize; Anita Baker No One in this World; Anita Baker Mystery; Anita Baker You’re My Everything; Anita Baker It’s Been You; Anita Baker Same Ole Love; Anita Baker Been So Long; Anita Baker Fairytales; Anita Baker Soul Inspiration Anita Baker Giving You the Best that I Got; Anita Baker Sweet Love; Anita Baker Caught Up in the Rapture; Apostles Mercy, Mercy Me; Arling & Cameron Voulez-Vous; Art Of Noise Moments in Love; Art Porter; Inside Myself; As One West by Southwest; Astro Mezz Bar Blue; At Home Project All in My Mind; Autopilot Seen it All; Avenue Blue Always There; Avenue Blue Night Life; Avenue Blue Pick Up the Pieces; Aya Uptown; B-Tribe Sometimes; Bebel Gilberto River Song; Bent I Can’t Believe it’s Over; Bent Swollen (Café Del Mar Mix); Big Muff My Funny Valentine; Bill Evans The Sunday After; Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr. Just the Two of Us; Bill Withers Lovely Day; Billy Paul Williams Desert Moon; Blue Knights Nightflight; Blue Knights Soft Silk; Bob Baldwin & Tom Browne Funkin’ for Jamaica; Bob James Restless; Bob James & Boney James Mind Games; Bob James & David Sanborn Maputo; Bob Mamet & Gerald Albright Greenstreet; Bona Fide X-Ray Hip; Boney James After the Rain; Boney James Stone Groove; Boney James Lights Down Low; Boney James Sweet Thing; Boney James Nothin’ But Love; Boney James Metropolis; Boney James Camouflage; Boney James Ain't No Sunshine Boney James Here She Comes; Boozoo Bajou Under My Sensi; Braxton Brothers When Love Comes Around; Brazilian Girls Lazy Lover; Brian Culbertson All About Her; Brian Culberton Come to Me; Brian Culbertson Say What?; Brian Culbertson On My Mind; Brian Culbertson Back in the Day; Brian Culbertson & Norman Brown Come On Up; Brenda Russell & Joe Esposito Piano in the Dark; Brian McKnight Anytime; Bryan Savage Caribbean Dream; Bugge Wesseltoft Change; Caia Remembrance; Cal Tjader Soul Sauce (Fila Brazilia Remix); Camiel Trying to Get to You; Camiel Eighty-Eight; Candy Dulfer & Dave Stewart Lily Was Here; Candy Dulfer Finsbury Park Café 67; Candy Dulfer For the Love of You; Charley Hunter featuring Norah Jones More Than This; Chieli Minucci Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers; Chris Botti Back Into My Heart; Chris Botti Drive Time; Chris Botti World’s Outside; Chris Botti Indian Summer; Chris Coco Falling; Chris Standring Cool Shades; Chuck Loeb The Music Inside; Chuck Loeb Sarao; Chuck Loeb High Five; Commodores Nightshift; Count Basic M.L. in the Sunshine; Count Basic On the Move; Count Basic Joy and Pain; Craig D. Booker Waiting for Everly; Crusaders & Randy Crawford Street Life; Dalminjo Bossa Note; Dancing Fantasy When Dreams Come True; Daryl Hall She’s Gone; Daryl Hall Cab Driver; Dave Brubeck Quartet Take Five; Dave Koz All I See is You; Dave Koz You Make Me Smile; Dave Koz Love is on the Way; Dave Koz Together Again; Dave Koz Together Again; David Benoit Kei’s Song; David Sanborn You Are Everything; David Sanborn Spooky; David Sanborn This Masquerade; David Sanborn Tin Tin Deo; De-Phazz Happiness; De-Phazz You Stayed; De-Phazz No Jive; Des-ree You Gotta Be Me; Diana Krall Peel Me a Grape; Diana Krall The Look of Love; Diana Krall Temptation; Dido White Flag; Dido Thank You; DJ Cam So What Part 2; Doctor Rockitt Café De Flore; Doobie Brothers Minute by Minute; Doobie Brothers You Belong to Me; Double Captain of Her Heart; Down To The Bone Staten Island Groove; Down To The Bone Long Way From Brookyn; Down To The Bone Brooklyn Heights; Down To The Bone Electra Glide; Down To The Bone The Zodiac; Dzhihan & Kamien Stiff Jazz; Earth Wind & Fire Fantasy; Earth Wind & Fire Can’t Hide Love; Earth Wind & Fire That’s the Way of the World; Earth Wind & Fire After the Love is Gone; Emotive Blue Captured; Enigma Sadness; Etta James At Last; Euge Groove Livin’ Large; Euge Groove Rewind; Everthing But The Girl Missing; Exodus Quartet Fly; Female/Male Bed B; Fishbelly Black Spontaneous Combustion; Fishbelly Black Ven A Gozar; Four 80 East Bumper to Bumper; Frou Frou Breathe In; G Club Presents Banda Sonora Guittara G (Afterlife Mix); Gabin Doo Uap; Gabin La Maison (Di Battista’s Dream); Gato Barbieri Europa; George Benson Breezin’; George Benson This Masquerade (N.O.W. Remix); George Benson This Masquerade; George Benson Softly As in a Morning Sunshine; George Benson That’s Right; George Benson Cruise Control; George Benson On Broadway; George Benson Affirmation; George Benson Fly by Night; Gerald Albright To the Max; Gota In the City Life; Gota Let’s Get Started; Gota European Comfort; Gotan Project Last Tango in Paris; Gotan Project Chunga’s Revenge; Greg Adams Burma Road; Greg Adams Smooth Operator; Grover Washington Jr. Bordertown; Grover Washinton Jr. Mr. Magic; Grover Washington Jr. Take Five; Grover Washington Jr. Strawberry Moon; Heavy Shift 90 Degrees in the Shade; Heavy Shift Last Picture Show; Herbie Hancock Thieves on the Temple; Hugh Masekela Grazing in the Grass; I:Cube Adore; Incognito After the Fall; Innerzone Orchestra People Make the World Go Round; Italian Secret Service Via Beato Angelico; J. Thompson Tell Me the Truth; Jaffa Sneakin’; Jamie Cullum These Are the Days; Jazzanova Bohemian Sunset; Jazzanova No Use; Jazzinho Moody Maria; Jazzmasters London Chimes; Jeff Golub Cut the Cake; Jeff Golub Pass it On; Jeff Golub Cold Duck Time; Jerald Daemyon Summer Madness; Jimmy Cliff I Can See Clearly Now; Joe Sample Night Flight; Joe Sample X Marks the Spot; Joe Sample Ashes to Ashes; Joe Sample Spellbound; John Mayer Daughters; Joyce Cooling Expressions; Joyce Cooling Coasting; Kaskade Honesty; Keiko Matsui Bridge Over the Stars; Ken Navarro Smooth Sensation; Kenny Blake European Underground; Kenny Garrett Simply Said; Kim Waters In Deep; Kinobe Bop Along; Kirk Whalum Ascension; Kirk Whalum If Only For One Night; Kirk Whalum & Wendy Moten All I Do; Klement Julienne Martin; Klement Julienne Mannix; Kofi Harlem Noctune; Kool & The Gang Summer Madness; Koop Summer Sun (Coming Home II); Koop Waltz for Koop; Larry Coryell & Wes Montgomery Angel on Sunset; Lazybatusu Endless Road; LE D King Cobra; Lee Ritenour A Little Bumpin’; Lee Ritenour & Maxi Priest Waiting in Vain; Lemongrass This Way; Les Hommes Instaspetto; Llorca True to Me; Llorca & Nicole Graham Indigo Blues; Luther Vandross Any Love; Luther Vandross Your Secret Love; Luther Vandross Here and Now; Luther Vandross If Only for One Night; Luther Vandross Don’t Want to Be a Fool; Luther Vandross A House is Not a Home; Luther Vandross Dance With My Father; Mandalay This Life; Marc Antoine Mediterraneo; Marc Antoine Madrid; Marc Antoine Sunland; Marc Antoine Cubanova; Marc Antoine Follow Your Bliss; Marc Antoine Funky Picante; Marc Antoine Quand Le Jazz Hip Hop; Marion Meadows Sweet Grapes; Mark Gorbulew Dreamsville; Mark Whitfield That Girl; Marvin Gaye Mercy Mercy Me; Marvin Gaye What’s Going On; Massive Attack Weather Storm; Massive Attack Protection; Maysa Can We Change the World?; Maxi Priest Close to You; Maxwell Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder); Micatoe featuring Gerard Presencer To the Sound; Michael Lington Twice in a Lifetime; Michael Lington Show Me; Michael McDonald I Keep Forgettin’; Mindi Abair Save the Last Dance; Mindi Abair Come As You Are; Mindi Abair Play; Mindi Abair Flirt; Moby Porcelain; Mocean Worker Right Now; Moonwatcher Sofa Lofa; Morcheeba Undress Me Now; Mr. Scruff Get a Move On; Mystic Diversions Calling My Mermaid; Nick Colionne It’s Been too Long; Nick Colionne High Flyin’; Nightmares On Wax Les Nuits; Nightmare On Wax Survival; Nitin Sawhney Sunset; Norah Jones Don’t Know Why; Norah Jones Sunrise; Norman Brown Breaking Out; Norman Brown Just Chillin’; Norman Brown Up ‘N’ At ‘Em; Novacento & Stanley Jordan Easy Love; Numaro First Icon; O’2L Riders on the Storm; Oleta Adams Rhythm of Life; Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays Chris; Pat Metheny Group The Girls Next Door; Paolo Rustichelli Paisa’; Patti Austin The Look of love; Paul Brown Moment by Moment; Paul Brown 24/7; Paul Hardcastle Rain Forest; Paul Hardcastle First Light; Paul Hardcastle Bird Island; Paul Hardcastle Lost Summer; Paul Hardcastle Desire; Paul Hardcastle It Seems to Hang On; Paul Hardcastle Northern Lights; Paul Hardcastle Paradise Cove; Paul Hardcastle Lazy Days; Paul Taylor Exotica; Paul Taylor On the Move; Paul Taylor Avenue; Paul Taylor Hypnotic; Paul Taylor Steppin’ Out; Paul Taylor Pleasure Seeker; Peggy Lee Fever; Pete Belasco Deeper; Peter White How Does it Feel; Peter White Dreamwalk; Peter White Who’s That Lady; Peter White Boulevard; Peter White Autumn Day; Peter White Talkin’ ‘Bout Love; Peter White Could it Be I’m Falling in Love; Peter White The Closer I Get to You; Peter White & Boney James Never Gonna Give You Up; Philippe Saisse Masques; Philippe Saisse Moanin’; Positive Flow The City Street; Praful One Day Deep; Praful Let the Chips Fall; Praful Sigh (Maneesh De Moor Remix); Praful Sigh (Amsterdam Radio Edit); Project 2000 Namoro; Projections Backbone; Quantic Transatlantic; Quincy Jones Killer Joe; Rafe Gomez Icy; R. Kelly I Believe I Can Fly; Raccoon Monkey Business; Ramsey Lewis & Earth Wind & Fire Sun Goddess; Ramsey Lewis Trio The In-Crowd 2004; Randy Crawford Give Me the Night (Chill Mix); Ray Charles Georgia On My Mind; Ray Charles A Song for You; Re: Jazz Swoundsophy; Ricardo Eberspacher Sand; Richard Elliot Candlelight; Richard Elliot Ricochet; Richard Elliot In the Groove; Richard Elliot Sly; Richard Elliot When a Man Loves a Woman; Richard Elliot Chill Factor; Rick Braun Chelsea; Rick Braun Use Me; Rick Braun Daddy-O; Robert Palmer Every Kind of People; Ronnie Laws Listen Here; Ronny Jordan After Hours; Ronny Jordan Tinsel Town; Sade Paradise; Sade No Ordinary Love; Sade Cherish the Day; Sade Kiss of Life; Sade Hang on to Your Love; Sade Never As Good As the First Time; Sade Your Love is King; Sade I Couldn't Love You More; Sade Nothing Can Come Between Us; Sade Paradise; Sade Is It a Crime; Sade Keep Looking; Seal Love's Divine; Seal Violet; Shilts Your Place or Mine; Simply Red Sunrise; Simply Red If You Don't Know Me By Now; Simply Red Holding Back the Years; SJ Positioning Sweeper; Slash Obsession Confession; Slow Train Slow Naturally; Slow Train Slow Twisted Cupid; Smokey Robinson Quiet Storm (Rafe Gomez Remix); Sonic Generation; Funky Solution; Soul II Soul Storm; Soul Ballet N.Y.C. Trippin'; Soul Ballet Blu Girl; Soul Ballet featuring Rick Kelly Cream; Soulstance Truth, Simplicity and Love; Soulstance Blue Grassland; Sounds From The Ground Lean On Me; Spandau Ballet True; Stan Getz Desafinando; Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto The Girl from Ipanema; Stanley Clarke Lisa; Stanley Jordan The Lady in My Life; Stateless Falling Into; Steve Cole Everyday; Steve Cole From the Start; Steve Cole When I Think of You; St. Germain Sure Thing; Steely Dan Do It Again; Steely Dan Deacon Blues; Steely Dan Black Cow; Steely Dan Time Out of Mind; Steely Dan Hey Nineteen; Stevie Wonder Ribbon in the Sky; Stevie Wonder Send One Your Love; Stevie Wonder That Girl; Stevie Wonder Creepin' Stevie Wonder Overjoyed; Stevie Wonder Golden Lady; Stevie Wonder Knocks Me Off My Feet; Stevie Wonder As; Sting Fields of Gold; Sting If You Love Somebody Set Them Free; Sting Fragile; Sting It's Probably Me; Sting Englishman in New York; Sting Be Still My Beating Heart; Surfers Paradise Island; Sven Van Hees Breakfast With Abductees; Terence Trent D'Arby Sign Your Name; Thievery Corporation Until the Morning; Thievery Corporation Liberation Front; Thievery Corporation A Simple Story; Thievery Corporation Pela Janela; Thievery Corporation The Richest Man in Babylon; Tim Bowman I'll Be There; Tim Bowman Summer Groove; Tosca Chocolate Elvis (Boozoo Bajou Remix); Tracy Chapman Fast Car; Urban Knights Got to Give it Up; US 3 Cantalloop (Exclusive Remix); Van Morrison Moondance; Vanessa Daou Two to Tango; Waldeck & Chet Baker This Isn't Maybe; Warren Bernhardt Felicity; Warren Hill Do You Feel What I'm Feeling; Warren Hill U R the One; Wax Poetic featuring Norah Jones Tell Me; Wes Montgomery Bumpin' on Sunset; Yulara Flyin' High; XL Take Five; Zachary Breaux Where is the Love; Zachary Breaux Coming Home Baby; Zeb The Place Or Mine; Zero7 Destiny; Zero7 Home; Zero7 In The Waiting Line; Zero7 Spinning