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Subject: jazz music in the 80's
i read somewhere that jazz got overlooked in the 80's, not true. 1981: the year that top 40 went into a unexepected shift as jazz artists hit the top 40 for the first and for some, the last time. Al Jarreau, The Manhattan Transfer, Lee "Captain Fingers" Rittenour, The late, great Grover Washington,Jr., Stanley Clarke & George Duke, Quincy Jones, Mike Post & Larry Carlton, Spiro Gyra (they hit the a.c. chart, not the top 40 with, "Cafe Amour"). those are just a few artists from the jazz field that had their day in the top 40.I wish it was like that now; but, some record industries nowadays just don't have the guts anymore to give jazz a chance in the top 40. maybe because some people in the jazz field don't want anyone to crossover to pop because they'll think they "SOLD OUT TO TOP 40 INSTEAD OF STAYING IN JAZZ INSTEAD". my response, "BULLCRAP!" is there a law that prevents any artist(s) from any format to crossover from one format to another? i don't think so. what do you think?