Category contemporary jazz

montage of covers to top contemporary jazz album April 24 1996

Top Contemporary Jazz Chart – April 24, 1996

Looking back 30 years at the top-selling contemporary jazz albums chart, it was the all-star Q’s Jook Joint from Quincy Jones keeping perennial number one Kenny G from the top spot. Like his previous multi-Grammy-winning recording Back on the Block…

The Breaks - Robert Walter Eddie Roberts Stanton Moore; photo by Mark Pagani

The Breaks: Modern Groove Masters Assemble

If you’ve been following the scene as long as I have, you know that some collaborations are just written in the stars. The Breaks brings together guitarist Eddie Roberts (The New Mastersounds), drummer Stanton Moore (Galactic), and organist Robert Walter (The Greyboy Allstars) – three “modern…

A green Spotify logo in a red prohibition sign over an audio wave

No to Spotify

I left Spotify years ago when they decided they were rather pay millions of dollars for exclusivity rights to a podcast rather than increase the paltry amounts they pay the musicians who make up their business. All About Jazz, the…