Sunday, 8 June 2008

Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau   
Artist: Al Jarreau

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
   Jazz: Funk
   



Discography:


Accentuate the Positive   
 Accentuate the Positive

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


All I Got   
 All I Got

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


Tomorrow Today   
 Tomorrow Today

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


The Best of Al Jarreau   
 The Best of Al Jarreau

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 17


Tenderness   
 Tenderness

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


Heaven and Earth   
 Heaven and Earth

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


We Got By   
 We Got By

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


This Time   
 This Time

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


Look to the Rainbow (Live)   
 Look to the Rainbow (Live)

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


Live in London   
 Live in London

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 8


L Is for Lover   
 L Is for Lover

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


Jarreau   
 Jarreau

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


High Crime   
 High Crime

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


Heart's Horizon   
 Heart's Horizon

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


Breakin' Away   
 Breakin' Away

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


All Fly Home   
 All Fly Home

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


Glow   
 Glow

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 9




The only vocalizer in history to net Grammy Awards in ternary different categories (jazz, pop, and R&B, severally), Al Jarreau was born in Milwaukee, WI, on March 12, 1940. The boy of a vicar, he earned his first playing receive singing in the christian church choir. After receiving his master's arcdegree in psychology, Jarreau chased a vocation as a social worker, but eventually he decided to relocate to Los Angeles and try his mitt in testify business, playing small clubs throughout the West Coast.


He recorded an LP in the mid-'60s, merely for the most part remained an unknown, not reentering the studio for some other ten. Upon signing to Reprise, Jarreau resurfaced in 1975 with We Got By, earning herald for his sophisticated brand of vocalese and victorious positive comparing to the likes of Billy Eckstine and Johnny Mathis. After 1976's Glow, Jarreau issued the undermentioned year's Look to the Rainbow, a two-disc live set that reached the Top 50 on the U.S. album charts. With 1981's Breakin' Away, he entered the Top Ten, marking a match of hits with "We're in This Love Together" and the title track. After recording 1986's L Is for Lover with manufacturer Nile Rodgers, Jarreau scored a strike with the theme to the popular television system computer programme Moonlighting, simply his mainstream pop success was on the wane, and subsequent efforts like 1992's Heaven and Earth and 1994's Tenderness establish greater success with grownup contemporaneous audiences.


A string of budget compilations and original albums hit the shelves at the end of the 10, only into the turn of the century his original output signal slowed downward. That was until he signed with the Verve/GRP tag in 1998 and reunited with manufacturer Tommy LiPuma. LiPuma had produced Jarreau's ostensible 1975 debut, We Got By, and the pairing seemed to invigorate Jarreau, world Health Organization went on to acquittance leash starring albums under LiPuma's direction, including 2000's Tomorrow Today, 2002's All I Got, and 2004's Stress the Positive. 2006's Givin' It Up, recorded with George Benson, was nominated for trinity Grammy Awards -- each one for a different song.





Karis