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76 NAC/SMOOTH ALBUMS MOST ADDED® OCTOBER 24, 1997 ARTIST TILE LABEL(S) ADDS

CANDY DULFER For The Love Of You (MK Encoded Music) 28 11 TOTAL PETE BELASCO Get It Together (Verve Forecast) LW r,'d ARTIST TITLE LAEELIS) PLAYS EMPHASIS TRACKS 3W 2W PLAYS (PLAYS) BOB BALDWIN Cool Breeze (Shanachie) 9 (14) 7 5 4 2 p JOYCE COOLING Playing It Cool (Heads Up) 950 +38 "South" (916) "Hours" American Landscape (GRP) PAT METHENY Imaginary Day (Warner Bros.) 7 1 1 1 2 AVENUE BLUE Nightlife (Mesa/Bluemoon) 880 -77 "Nightlife- (844) "Always" (29) DOC POWELL Don't Let The Smooth Jazz... (Discovery) 7 2 3 3 3 Body And Soul (Mesa/Bluemoon) 868 -29 "Venice" (818) "Chelsea" (22) ALANA DAVIS Blame It On Me (Elektra/EEG) 4 6 6 6 Q BONEY JAMES Sweet Thing (Warner Bros.) 846 +102 "Sweet" (734) "East" (49) To Make Me Who I Am (A &M) 4 3 2 4 VARIOUS ARTISTS A Twist Of Jobim (L.E.Nerve) 829 -19 "Favela" (775) "Waters" (29) THOM ROTELLA Can't Stop (Telarc) 4 +53 " Regroovable' (731) "Way" (58) 8 7 5 0 CHRIS BOTTI Midnight Without You (Verve Forecast) 801 SPECIAL EFX Here To Stay (JVC) 4

9 8 7 3RD FORCE Vital Force (Higher Octave) 650 -24 "Real" (612) 'Moonlight" (23)

16 12 10 Q RIPPINGTONS Black Diamond (Peak/Windham Hill Jan) 619 +31 "Diamond" (563) 'Life" (29) +21 (541) 'Do" (60) 20 11 9 0 JONATHAN BUTLER Do You Love Me? (N2K Encoded Music) 610 "Elizabeth"

4 5 8 10 PHILLIPE SAISSE Next Voyage (Verve Forecast) 587 -83 " Moanin'' (513) 'Riviera" (54)

10 9 11 11 DAVID GARFIELD & FRIENDS Tribute To Jeff (Zebra) 572 -5 "Together" (545) 'Lowdown" (19) 17 13 14 a The Journey (Warner Bros.) 568 +22 "Last" (439) 'Walk- (89) +1 "Northern" (511) 'Havana" (28) 23 15 13 e KENNY G The Moment (Arista) 548 (348) 'Easy- (168) MOST INCREASED 7 10 15 iD ERIC MARIENTHAL Easy Street (I.E.Nerve) 536 +4 "Summer"

1, 'Night" (71) PLAYS 15 14 12 JOE SAMPLE Sample This (Warner Bros.) 533 -16 "Chain" (413) TOTAL PLAY 30 26 20 BRIAN CULBERTSON Secrets (Bluemoon/Atlantic) 516 +55 "Good" (506) 'Mind" (10) 0 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) INCREASE 'Adventures" 24 19 18 D BOB MAMET Adventures In Jazz (Atlantic) 510 +35 "News" (495) (15) BONEY JAMES Sweet Thing (Warner Bros.) +102 27 22 17 CRAIG CHAQUICO Once In A Blue Universe (Higher Octave) 506 +26 "Lights" (402) 'Midnight" (49) 0 DOC POWELL Don't Let The Smooth Jazz... (Discovery) +87 -6 (490) (2) 19 10 16 Tribute To Eddie Harris (Blue Note) 492 "Listen" 'Compared" THOM ROTELLA Can't Stop (Telarc) +69 471 +54 "Mind" (457) 'Where- (8) 27 23 a Playin' Hooky (Warner Bros.) BRIAN CULBERTSON Secrets (Bluemoon /Atlantic) +55 13 16 21 21 STEVE WINWOOD Junction Seven (Virgin) 442 -2 "Plenty" (382) 'Mercy" (47) BOB JAMES Playin' Hooky (Warner Bros.) +54 CHRIS BOTTI Midnight Without You (Verve Forecast) +53 14 17 19 22 BRAXTON BROTHERS Steppin' Out (Kokopelli) 424 -51 "Sunset- (416) 'Eventide" (8) PAT METHENY Imaginary Day (Warner Bros.) +48 21 20 22 23 VANESSA WILLIAMS Next (Mercury) 415 -8 "Start" (355) 'Surrender" (46) PETE BELASCO Get It Together (Verve Forecast) +43 29 29 25 VARIOUS ARTISTS Sweet Emotions (Instinct) 392 +8 "Sunset" (363) 'Sweet" (22) m JIM BRICKMAN The Gift (Windham Hill) +43 26 a LUTHER VANDROSS The Best Of Love Volume 2 (LV/Epic) 376 +11 "Call" (376) Colors (Warner Bros.) +39 28 e) DON DIEGO Feel Me (Ultrax/Ichiban) 351 +7 "Top' (351) JOYCE COOLING Playing It Cool (Heads Up) +38 KUH +36 18 24 24 27 PATRICE RUSHEN Signature (Discovery) 350 -62 "Days" (327) "Sneaky" (18) Precious (Gold Koast/Navarre) BOB MAMET Adventures In Jazz +35 E B U (Atlantic) ID T) a AARON NEVILLE To Make Me Who I Am (A &M) 327 +33 "Say" (327) AARON NEVILLE To Make Me Who I Am (A &M) +33 25 25 27 29 RAY OBIEDO Sweet Summer Days (Windham Hill) 321 -28 "Sweet" (200) "Current" (69) RIPPINGTONS Black Diamond (Peak/Windham Hill Jazz) +31 [DEBUT e) DAVID BENOIT American Landscape (GRP) 296 +14 "Soliel" (247) "Lost" (39)

This chart reflects airplay from October 8 -14. Albums ranked by total plays, with plays from all cuts from an album combined. 54 NAC reporters. 53 current playlists. ©1997, R &R Inc. NAC NOTES By Carol Archer

Hearty congratulations to Joyce Cooling and her la- already getting play from almost 60% of the panel. On the theory that you can't have too much good sax, bel, Heads Up, for taking a great record straight Boney James and Chris Botti are poised to duke it here are several other outstanding entries: Special EFX's to the top. Cooling's track "South Of Market" and her out for the chart's top slot in the coming weeks. Botti's "Here To Stay" (JMUJVC); GeraldAlbright's "Sookie album Playing It Cool move 2 -1 on both NAC charts. "Regroovable" (Verve Forecast) has 100% of the panel, Sookie" (Atlantic), added this week at WQCD/NY; There's added symmetry to this scenario, too: Ten years but James' "SweetThing" (Warner Bros.) has more than Dean James' "Market Street" (Brajo/Ichiban), one of ago, Cooling performed at KKSF /San Francisco's very twice the increase in plays, +127, for Most Increased. two consensus adds from OpTiMum this week (the other first listener party. Now. the station celebrates its decade See your bookmaker on this match. is Brent Mason's "Blue Water Girl" on Mercury); and anniversary and Cooling gets her number one record in Richard Elliot's "If You Want My Love" (Blue the John Tesh Project's "Sax All Night" (GTSP). the very same week! Note), from the forthcoming Jumpin' Off, is such a hit Interest in Bob Baldwin's "Summer Breeze" Candy Duffer's "For The Love Of You- (N2K En- that if the rest of the CD is even half as good as this (Shanachie) is building, with nine reporters including coded Music) is so strong she's not only top MostAdded lead track, current playlists will be musically enriched WJZW/Washington and WLVE/Miami adding this this week with 28 stations coming aboard, the track is until this time next year! week. Strong performance. instant familiarity.

Smooth Jazz Soars...Big Gains for BA Stations

Significant growth for nearly all BA client stations in the Summer Arlbitron sweep. Congratulations!

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