Billboard #1 Jazz Albums of 1986

In 1986, Billboard published a Jazz Album list every two weeks with forty albums ranked. Here’s a chart of the #1 jazz albums of 1986:

Week Ending	Album	Artist(s)
January 18	Magic Touch	Stanley Jordan
February 1
February 15
March 1
March 15
March 29
April 12
April 26
May 10
May 24	Love Will Follow	George Howard
June 7
June 21
July 5
July 19	Alone/But Never Alone	Larry Carlton
August 2	Double Vision	Bob James & David Sanborn
August 16
August 30
September 13
September 27	Breakout	Spyro Gyra
October 11	Down to the Moon	Andreas Vollenweider
October 25
November 8
November 22	Tutu	Miles Davis
December 6
December 20

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#1 Jazz Albums:
1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979
1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985