Gerald Albright

Since the late 1980s, contemporary jazz saxophonist Gerald Albright has recorded many charting albums and singles. His added fluency on bass, keyboards, and woodwinds have garnered him hundreds of recording credits playing with R&B, gospel, and hip hop artists. In 1987, his debut leader date Just Between Us cracked the Top 200 and spent 25 weeks on the jazz albums charts. After six more albums -- two of which charted -- Albright and Will Downing released the chart-topping Pleasures of the Night on Verve in 1998. 2002's Groovology spent 21 weeks on the charts, while 2012's 24/7 with Norman Brown went to number one. 2014's Slam Dunk rode the charts for six months and peaked at two. In 2019, after forming the Bright Music label, Albright issued the album 30; it spent nearly six months on the jazz charts and peaked at number seven. ~ Thom Jurek