Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Michael Franks was sitting at #1 on Billboard’s Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart for the week ending October 13, 1990 with Blue Pacific. The album had been on the chart for 15 weeks and was spending its fifth week at…
Tenderness from Al Jarreau was a live-in-the-studio recording that blended the intimacy of a concert performance with the polish of a studio album. Produced by Marcus Miller, the project featured an all-star cast including Joe Sample, David Sanborn, Michael Brecker,…
I first came across Jim Beard’s music on the Michael Brecker recording Now You See It… . He was playing keyboards on this contemporary jazz recording, making modern sounds and jazzing things up. His compositions on that album, “Ode to…