Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Here’s the press release sent out with the release of Curves Ahead, the recording by The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman, released August 13, 1991 on GRP Records. The original press release and album credits spell keyboardist Mark Portmann’s surname “Portman.”…
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…
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…