Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
In the summer of 1991, David Sanborn fans were thrown for a loop. Having spent more than a decade defining the sleek pop-funk-jazz sound on the Warner Bros. label proper, Sanborn did something completely unexpected. He pivoted. The release of…
The Crusaders, down to just original members Joe Sample and Wilton Felder, released their penultimate recording Healing the Wounds in April 1991. It hit the top of the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart on June 22, 1991. The album…
Looking back at the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart from May 11, 1991, you see some of the first recordings from the post-MCA acquisition of GRP Records. Greenhouse by Yellowjackets, Love and Understanding by George Howard, and Healing the Wounds…