John Hilderbrand
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Nicholas Payton – Drip
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Nicholas Payton, more than just a big name in contemporary jazz, is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, producer, arranger, essayist, and social activist. Payton released his 26th recording as a…
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Follow ContemporaryJazz on Threads!
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As I continue to exit all things Twitter/X/dumpster fire, I hope you’ll follow your favorite contemporary jazz quick posts over at Threads! Today, I posted how awesome it might…
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Cortex – French Fusion Jazz
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My son, now a freshman at college, asked me if I’d heard about a French jazz band called Cortex. I said I had not and he shared a link…
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1988, charts, chick corea, contemporary jazz, david benoit, dianne reeves, kirk whalum, michael brecker, rippingtons
Top Contemporary Jazz Albums – June 25, 1988
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Bobby McFerrin had the top recording on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart 35 years ago. Simple Pleasures was spending its second week as the #1 album the week…
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David Benoit Returns
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Contemporary jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and arranger David Benoit feels new energy after a recent kidney transplant. โIโve been given this incredible giftโฆ and I feel like I can…