(For the third consecutive year HighNote/Savant Records was the most listened-to jazz label in the US, finishing 2006 with 14 titles on JazzWeek's Top-100 Chart, 10 in the Top-50. JazzWeek's year-end chart appears in the December 25, 2006 issue of the nation's leading jazz broadcasting trade publication.
Each year since 2004 HighNote/Savant, a Manhattan-based jazz record company founded and run by music industry veteran Joe Fields, has had the most titles on JazzWeek's year-end chart, having topped the JazzWeek Year-End Chart with 15 top-100 titles in 2005 and with nine in 2004. The eight HighNote and two Savant titles in the JazzWeek 2006 Top-50 alone represent 20% of the jazz airplay reported to JazzWeek in 2006.
JazzWeek's weekly chart ranks jazz recordings using daily airplay data compiled by MediaGuide's MusicMonitor system that tracks recordings broadcast 24/7 in the 100 major media markets in the US.
The HighNote/Savant titles appearing in JazzWeek's 2006 Top-100 Jazz Radio Chart are:
#8 Eric Alexander - It's All In The Game (HighNote)
#11 David “Fathead" Newman - Cityscape (HighNote)
#21 Cedar Walton - One Flight Down (HighNote)
#27 Vincent Herring - Ends And Means (HighNote)
#28 Larry Willis - The Big Push (HighNote)
#34 Houston Person - All Soul (HighNote)
#40 Frank Morgan - Reflections (HighNote)
#44 Ray Mantilla - Good Vibrations (Savant)
#45 Louis Hayes & The Cannonball Legacy Band - Maximum Firepower (Savant)
#50 Houston Person & Bill Charlap - You Taught My Heart To Sing (HighNote)
#58 Ernie Andrews - How About Me (HighNote)
#71 Freddie Cole - Because Of You (HighNote)
#89 Rodney Jones - Dreams & Stories (Savant)
#98 Mike LeDonne - Night Song (Savant)
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