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Best crossover jazz artists of the 2000s

The industry lost control of distribution and the music got stranger for it. Blogs did the job radio used to do. The South took the charts outright, and Kanye West began a run of reinventions that outlasted the decade he started it in.

Everyone who released a crossover jazz album in the 2000s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.

Herbie Hancock№ 1Herbie Hancock1 album here4.2Weighted score4.4 avg · 6 ratings
  1. 2Jill ScottJill Scott1 album here3.73.6 avg · 18 ratings
  2. 3Grover Washington, Jr.Grover Washington, Jr.1 album here1 rating
  3. 4Spyro GyraSpyro Gyra3 albums here1 rating
  4. 5Jamie CullumJamie Cullum1 album here
  5. 6Richard ElliotRichard Elliot1 album here
  6. 7Jan HammerJan Hammer1 album here
  7. 8Acoustic AlchemyAcoustic Alchemy3 albums here
  8. 9Paul TaylorPaul Taylor1 album here
  9. 10HiroshimaHiroshima3 albums here

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