 # 43
Singles Artist of the Year
  Washington hit the Top 40 with
"Just The Two Of Us."
from the LP Winelight
ARC chart run: 34 - 27 - 20 - 11 - 8 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 5 - 15 - 28 - 32 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 23
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
Washington hit the Top 10 with "Just The Two Of Us."
Washington hit #1 for a week with "Just The Two Of Us."
 Washington topped the Billboard 1981
Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Jazz Artist
and with the Top Jazz Album (Winelight).
Washington won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion
Performance (Winelight) and was nominated for
Record of the Year ("Just The Two Of Us" with Bill
Withers).
December 31: Washington topped the
Billboard 1982
Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Jazz Album
Artist.
Washington was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental
Performance ("Come Morning").
Washington was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental
Performance (Inside
Moves).
Washington was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental
Performance ("Summer Chill").
Washington was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental
Performance ("Soulful Strut").
Washington died at the age of
56. He had been taping a performance for the
CBS show The Saturday Early Show
when he collapsed and was rushed to the
hospita where he died an hour later.
Washington was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental
Performance ("Camaleao").
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