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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…

an acoustic guitar and a candle softly lit

Obituary: Nick Webb

Guitarist and composer Nick Webb, a founding member of the contemporary jazz group Acoustic Alchemy, died in London Feb. 5, 1998, from cancer, the group’s publicist said. He was 43. Webb, a native of England, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer…