Category 1991

Album cover montage from the October 12, 1991 contemporary jazz chart featuring Béla Fleck & the Flecktones’ Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, Candy Dulfer’s Saxuality, Fourplay’s Fourplay, The Manhattan Transfer’s The Offbeat of Avenues, Kim Waters’ Sax Appeal, The Rippingtons’ Curves Ahead, Chick Corea Elektric Band’s Beneath the Mask, Warren Hill’s Kiss Under the Moon, and Acoustic Alchemy’s Back on the Case.

Top Contemporary Jazz Chart – October 12, 1991

The October 1991 chart was packed with debuts and big names! The Rippingtons were back at #1 with Curves Ahead, their second consecutive chart-topper and one of five #1 contemporary jazz albums the group would eventually have. At #2 was…

John Hilderbrand
September 28, 2026

Images from Curves Ahead release by The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman including band photo and skiing jazz cat

Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman – Curves Ahead Press Release

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.”…

John Hilderbrand
August 12, 2026

cover art to another Hand by David Sanborn

David Sanborn’s ‘Another Hand’: 35 Years Later

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…

John Hilderbrand
July 5, 2026