Smooth Jazz Artists Make iTunes Best of 2008
Apple has appropriately celebrated the end of the year by releasing a catalog of the year’s best music. The “Best of 2008″ section of the iTunes Store lets users browse through the top-downloaded Music, via genre, as well as the most popular TV Shows, Movies, Applications, Podcasts, and Audiobooks.
The list is a compilation of the year’s Top Sellers along with user and store favorites.
The Jazz and Smooth Jazz genres offer up an impressive array of musicians and albums that reflect the incredible year it has been for Smooth Jazz artists.
Top Selling Smooth Jazz Albums include Kenny G’s Rhythm & Romance, Marcus Miller’s Marcus, Earl Klugh’s The Spice of Life, Incognito’s Tales from the Beach, Brian Culbertson’s Bringing Back the Funk, Wayman Tisdale’s Rebound, George Duke’s Dukey Treats, Eric Darius’ Goin’ All Out, Paul Hardcastle’s 5 and Dave Koz’s Greatest Hits.
The Best Smooth Jazz Songs list includes tracks from Kenny G, Dave Koz, Eric Darius, Tim Bowman, Paul Hardcastle, Warren Hill, Earl Klugh, Wayman Tisdale, The Sax Pack, Brian Culbertson, Nick Colionne, Shilts, Michael Lington, Chris Standring, Fourplay, Jeff Lorber, David Sanborn, Mindi Abair, Yellowjackets and others.
Best Resissue Albums in the Smooth Jazz genre include albums by Miles Davis, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and many more.
Top selling Traditional Jazz Albums include Melody Gardot’s Worrisome Heart, the Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis collaboration Two Men With the Blues, SMV’s Thunder, Boz Scaggs’ Speak Low, and Dianne Reeves’ When You Know.
Best New Vocal Albums in the Jazz genre include Dianne Reeves’ When You Know, Boz Scaggs’ Speak Low, Esperanza Spalding’s Esperanza, and Melody Gardot’s Worrisome Heart.
You can browse through the entire Best Of list by following this link, itunes.apple.com. Once there, find the music icon click the pull-down tab for Genres and select Jazz.