What are your favorite jazz "One Hit Wonders"?

Mine = David Blamires Group - Deep is the Midnight Sea

Cliff Sarde "Take My Love" from the album Waiting released 1986. He plays/played Alto & Tenor Sax and did his own drum programming.

He had Dave Samuels and Paulinho DaCosta playing with him. The whole thing was very upbeat, kind of funky, very different at the time.

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Oceans "Nights on the Harbor" from the CD second chance also released 1986. It was very fresh, I still love this song like I did the first time I heard it.
Lineup:
Warren (vito) Wiegratz--Saxes & Keys
Duane Stuermer--Bass, Vocals
Pete Safir--Keys
Brian Nielsen--Keys
Ernie Adams--Drums
McKinley Perkins--Percussion
Danny Torroll--Guitar

One Wish by Hiroshima! They've done nothing but boring since!

Warren Hill===Marathon Man
Lenny White===Thick

Those were the first to come to mind.

Geez, Dave, have you heard any of Hiroshima's older stuff? San Say is pretty hot.
But then, when it comes to jazz, what exactly is a one-hit wonder? Considering how little jazz actually reaches hit status.
Thinking of what's in my collection, I can't think of a single artist/group who made one good record and I didn't like anything else they did. I can say that about those whose music has become more R&B - Patti Austin, Sade, Boney James, etc. - but not about the rest.

Around 1990 when the smooth jazz station stated here in Philadelphia they played a cut called ‘Slider Inside’ by a group called ‘Porcupine’ (not Porcupine Tree). This thing was so good I ran out and bought the CD the first time I heard it. The CD featured Gerald Albright on some tracks but I don’t think he was a core member. I waited and waited but never heard anything from them again. Since then I found out that the CD ‘Porcupine’ is out of print. If you are ever able to stumble onto this CD get it, it’s that good.

hiroshima are awesome. the whole album of Go is top quality, start to finish.

i dont quite understand the concept of one hit wonder when applied to jazz. its not like there are singles that never get backed up by great albums is there?

cause surely garden party by mezzoforte and morning dance by spyro should be one hit wonders cause they broke into the popular music charts.

Well, I was going by tunes that charted as 'hit's'! I don't recall anything else by Hiroshima really charting after 'One Wish'. I could be wrong. The 'Go' album wasn't too bad but I only liked 2-3 songs on it.

How about Stories Without Words by Mark Sloniker? He's had nothing charted or even on contempo/smooth jazz radio since (that I know of)!

Hey txjzlady, Oceans were a local Milwaukee band that actually were the leftovers from SweetBottom after Daryl Stuermer left the band. They used to play at all the Milwaukee Bucks games and have had solo and studio careers as well. In fact I will be attending a CD release party for the band SweetBottom on the 23rd of May. They are releasing a live recording from last year’s concert at Shank Hall. I was there for the first of the two shows they put on last December and have to say that I’m looking forward as much to this CD as The Rippingtons Let It Ripp. Daryl Stuermer and Warren Wiegratz play at and with each other with a fire and a passion that is comparable to Russ Freeman and Eric Marienthal.

Fishman