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Top Contemporary Jazz Albums – January 1998!

Here were the best-selling contemporary jazz albums according to the January 23, 1988 issue of Billboard magazine! Hiroshima, Go Spyro Gyra, Stories Without Words Pat Metheny Group, Still Life (Talking) Dianne Reeves, Dianne Reeves Fattburger, Good News Jean-Luc Ponty, The…

cover to the album Live Wires by contemporary jazz band Yellowjackets

Top Contemporary Jazz March 22, 1992

Years before I launched ContemporaryJazz.com, I maintained a personal top 10 “Jazz and New Adult Contemporary” chart of my own. It was based on what I liked and what seemed to be popular according to other charts and magazines. Top…

cover art to Tourist by St. Germain

Top Contemporary Jazz for 2001

Looking back 20 years, Billboard reported St. Germain as the top contemporary jazz artist for the year 2001, breaking a ten-year monopoly by Kenny G: A 10-year reign comes to an end in the recap of the Top Contemporary Jazz…