Around here, we often claim 1982 as the best year in music, so I wanted to check out the best albums released in '82 that charted on Billboard's Jazz Album Chart. Unfortunately, the magazine's year-end charts were no help as the 1982 year-end chart contained many albums from 1981. So since I had time to burn and I'm more than a little compulsive about such things (I created this jazz chart book, for example), I decided to create my own list of jazz albums that were actually released in 1982. I crunched some numbers and used a formula that took into account both chart peak positions as well as length on the chart. Here are the top 25 from that list (if you're interested in the whole list of 127 albums that charted, click here):
 | Sleepwalk Larry Carlton Warner Bros. |
 | Weather Report Weather Report ARC/Columbia |
 | Touchstone Chick Corea Warner Bros. |
 | Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis Columbia |
 | Royal Jam The Crusaders with B.B.King MCA |
 | Quartet Herbie Hancock Columbia |
 | It's a Fact Jeff Lorber Arista |
 | Off the Top Jimmy Smith Elektra/Musician |
 | Rit/2 Lee Ritenour Elektra |
 | We Want Miles Miles Davis Columbia |
 | We Are One Pieces of a Dream Elektra |
 | Dave Grusin and the NY-LA Dream Band Dave Grusin GRP |
 | Objects of Desire Michael Franks Warner Bros. |
 | Electric Rendezvous Al DiMeola Columbia |
 | Winter Into Spring George Winston Windham Hill |
 | Out of the Shadows Dave Grusin GRP |
 | Incognito Spyro Gyra MCA |
 | Casino Lights Various Artists Warner Bros. |
 | Hands Down Bob James Columbia/Tappan Zee |
 | The Best is Yet to Come Grover Washington, Jr. Elektra |
 | Mystical Adventures Jean-Luc Ponty Atlantic |
 | December George Winston Windham Hill |
 | Two of a Kind Earl Klugh and Bob James Capitol |
 | As We Speak David Sanborn Warner Bros. |
 | Offramp Pat Metheny Group ECM |
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