John Hilderbrand
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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 be for people discovering Moonlighting on Hulu to experience the great theme sung by Al Jarreau!
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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 with me. I laughed and said “this sounds like 1975!” He was like “yeah! I heard it in a record store today!” I’d never heard of…
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1988, charts, chick corea, contemporary jazz, david benoit, dianne reeves, kirk whalum, michael brecker, rippingtonsTop 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 of June 25, 1988. Simple Pleasures was a bestseller thanks to the massive success of the single “Don’t Worry Be Happy” According to McFerrin on the…
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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. “I’ve been given this incredible gift… and I feel like I can almost start over again.” In a good article by Bondo Wyszpolski, Benoit talks about difficulties with a failing kidney over the last decade, struggles with keeping…