1. Smooth jazz was the most popular jazz style after the mid 1980's.
2. Kenny G was the most popular saxophonist in history, selling upwards of 50 million albums.
3. David Sanborn was the second most popular saxophonist during the 1980's and 90's.
4. Michael Brecker, Joe Henderson, and Wayne Shorter were the most important saxophonists concerned with complex, noncommercial jazz.
5. A swing dance craze during the 1990's boosted revival of interest in 1930's band styles and "jump bands" of the late 1940's and early 50's.
6. Backward-looking "neo-traditional" musicians and their repertory bands received the most media attention, though not substantial record sales. Even musicians who had been originators in the past tended to devote part of their output to older styles of others.
7. Fresh styles were devised by saxophonist John Zorn, trumpeter Dave Douglas, and their colleagues; frequently incorporating Yiddish Klezmer music with Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry approaches.
8. A number of musicians combined accompaniment styles from hip-hop and other pop genres with jazz improvisation, some of which was called "Drum 'n Bass".
9. The period was marked by continuing vitaity in the careers of several musicians who had innovated in prior decades: Cecil Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, and John McLaughlin.
10. Though there were fewer places to play jazz and lower fees for doing so, larger numbers of high school and college students chose to learn how to play jazz.