Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Here’s the press release sent out with the release of Curves Ahead, the recording by The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman, released August 13, 1991 on GRP Records. The original press release and album credits spell keyboardist Mark Portmann’s surname “Portman.”…
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…