Artist: Al Jarreau
Genre(s):
Jazz
Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
Jazz: Funk
Discography:
Accentuate the Positive
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
All I Got
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Tomorrow Today
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
The Best of Al Jarreau
Year: 1996
Tracks: 17
Tenderness
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Heaven and Earth
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
We Got By
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
This Time
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Look to the Rainbow (Live)
Year: 1990
Tracks: 12
Live in London
Year: 1990
Tracks: 8
L Is for Lover
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Jarreau
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
High Crime
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Heart's Horizon
Year: 1990
Tracks: 12
Breakin' Away
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
All Fly Home
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
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.
