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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…

John Hilderbrand
March 22, 2022

Top Contemporary Jazz Feb. 13, 1994: The Benoit/Freeman Project

The top ten contemporary jazz recordings from the week of Feb. 13, 1994! David Benoit and Russ Freeman, The Benoit/Freeman Project Nelson Rangell, Yes Then Yes Tom Scott, Reed My Lips Richard Smith, From My Window Torcuato Mariano, Paradise Station…

John Hilderbrand
February 15, 2019

Top Contemporary Jazz Chart – May 11, 1991

Looking back at the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart from May 11, 1991, you see some of the first recordings from the post-MCA acquisition of GRP Records. Greenhouse by Yellowjackets, Love and Understanding by George Howard, and Healing the Wounds…

John Hilderbrand
May 10, 2016