While the Billboard Top Jazz albums chart remains fairly

unchanged, guitarist Jeff

Golub debuts this week at #14 on the Top Contemporary

albums chart with Dangerous Curves.

The June release is Golub's third album since his days with

color="#003163">Rod Stewart and was recorded with a

six-piece band in only eight days.

"I like Les McCann and

Cannonball Adderley and

Grant Green, how they would

get one band, go into the studio and they would just play the music,"

Golub said. "You could feel the joy of all the guys in this one room ... and I wanted to try to capture that."

Golub's change from Blue Moon/Atlantic to Verve allowed him to

create music that was sparely produced. With the last album, Out

of the Blue, there was "a lot more arrangement and

orchestration," Golub said. "Whereas [with] this record I discussed

the couple of ways I would like to go ... and Verve was completely

behind me. I really wanted to keep an organic sound to it."

On the rest of the Top Contemporary Jazz albums chart,

saxophonist Boney James

and trumpeter Rick Braun's

Shake It Up and guitarist George

Benson's Absolute Benson hold on to the top two

spots, respectively. Acoustic

Alchemy's The Beautiful Game moves up two to

#3, followed by saxophonist Dave

Koz's The Dance (#4),

color="#003163">Kenny G's Classics in the Key of

G (#5), Al Jarreau's

Tomorrow Today and Boney James' Body Language.

Singer/pianist Keiko Matsui's

Whisper From the Mirror stays at #8, while singer

color="#003163">Maysa's All My Life (#9) and

Urban Knights' Urban

Knights III (#10) trade spots.

Meanwhile, on the Top Jazz albums chart, singer/pianist

color="#003163">Diana Krall asserts her commercial

dominance with another week at #1. BET on Jazz Presents: For

the Love of Jazz (#2) and pianist

color="#003163">David Benoit's Here's to You

Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years! (#3) hold on to their positions,

with Harry Connick Jr.'s

Come by Me (#4) and Medeski

Martin & Wood's Tonic (#5) trailing right behind.

Krall's reissued Stepping Out jumps up four spots to #6,

followed by the Miles Davis

compilation Love Songs (#7), saxophonist

color="#003163">Joshua Redman's Beyond (#8)

and guitarist Charlie Hunter's

self-titled album (#9). Breaking into the top 10 this week is Rykodisc's

compilation CD Jazz for the Quiet Times at #10.