Al Jarreau Alwyn Lopez Jarreau actually, (March 12, 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American jazz, pop and rhythm and blues singer and song writer.
"voice artist", "the voice", "Voice Artist", "human synthesizer", "acrobat of the amazing scat" - these are just some of the names that were given Al Jarreau in recent years.
Lyrics TAKE FIVE:
Will not you stop and take a little
Time out with me, just take five
Stop your busy day and take the
Time out to see if I'm alive
Though I'm going out of my way
Just so I can pass by each day
Not a single word do we say
It's a pantomime and not a play
Still, I know our eyes often meet
I feel tingles down to my feet
When you smile, that's much too discreet
Sends me on my way
Wouldn't it be better not to be so polite
You could offer a light
Start a little conversation now, it's alright
Just take five, just take five
Al Jarreau ist das fünfte von sechs Kindern. Die Familie war sehr arm und zeichnete sich by great musicality. Al sang the age of four his first solo in church. His native of New Orleans father - Emile Alphonse Jarreau - was a pastor in the Seventh Day Adventist Church ", but worked during World War II in the munitions factory, AO Smith, so that Al could hear preach his father never in the church, just at home. His mother - Pearl Walker Jarreau - was a church organist. As a child, Al Jarreau discovered by his brothers improvisation, as he sang with them at home.
began in his youth, he bars his hometown to perform. In one of them he met the Hungarian jazz pianist Laszlo Les Czimber (called "Tarzan") Know who had fled in 1956 after the uprising in Budapest to Milwaukee, and taught him how to draw up songs. From 1958 to 1962 Al studied at Ripon College in Wisconsin psychology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. During his studies, he joined locally with a four-man group called The Indigos "on the weekends. He then graduated from the University of Iowa, a Master's degree (Master's Degree in Vocational Rehabilitation).
1964 he went after six months of service, Zeist in the Army Reserve to San Francisco. There he held a kind of double life: three times per week, he came in the evening at a club with a trio that of the then-unknown George Duke was headed. By day he works as a rehabilitation assistant in the California Division and Rehabilitation Center, where he people with mental or physical disabilities helped to integrate them back into work with. In 1965 he sang as a student at weekends including the Joe Abodeely trio at a club in Cedar Rapids, known as "The Tender Trap." There he also met the saxophonist JR Monte Rose, who taught him the notes which were intended for the saxophonist to sing, or simply "scat" to. A live performance was recorded, who later as a plate under the title "1965 - Al Jarreau" appeared in the "Bainbridge label (Also under the titles "The Masquerade Is Over" or "JR Monte Rose - Live at the Tender Trap" known), on which he so well known standards like "Sophisticated Lady," "My Favorite Things," "Come Rain or Shine" or "One Note Samba" sings.
with the Brazilian guitarist Julio Martinez, whom he met in 1968, he joined the duo in "Gatsby's in Sausalito. During this time he also discovered his love for Bossa Nova, and he developed his particular style of singing (the song with instrumental sounds inferior to). The function of the social worker was supposed to be a dream job because he has always other people wanted to help in any way. In 1969, he decided, however, entirely for the music and quit his job as a double life was just too exhausting in the long run.
1975 he joined the opening act of the jazz pianist Les McCann at the Troubadour Club in Hollywood. In a subsequent appearance in "Bla Bla Cafe", he was spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout and signed his first recording contract. Shortly after, he released his first album on Warner: "We Got By". He was already 35 years old. 1976 came out his second album, "Glow". 1977, excerpts from the European tour also pressed onto the plate Look to the Rainbow. This made him especially the live version Dave Brubeck's classic "Take Five" with a known impact. He was awarded the German Record Prize for young artists. Even in the United States grew its familiarity and popularity. In the same year he was there the Grammy for Best Male Jazz Vocalist ". In 1978 he won for "All Fly Home" a second Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance "was published in 1980
" This Time ". In 1981 "Breakin 'Away" with the breakneck Song "(Round, Round, Round) Blue Rondo a la Turk" by Dave Brubeck, to him his third Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male "and the fourth for the" Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male earned. 1983 and 1984 released the albums "Jarreau" and "High Crime". 1985 "Live in London" at Wembley Stadium in London, recorded live before an audience. He also sang at the Quincy Jones-produced hit "We Are the World" with other well known artists for the "USA for Africa" Africa's World Hunger Relief. Appeared in 1986 "L Is For Lover". In 1987, he struck up the theme song for the popular American TV series "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis in the lead roles and even wrote the text to the music of Lee Hold Rige. In 1988, "Heart's Horizon ".
1992, he received his fifth Grammy for his album "Heaven and Earth" for the "Best R & B Performance, Male". In 1994, "Tenderness" recorded live on a small stage in Los Angeles before about 250 spectators, produced by Marcus Miller. First time in 1996 was followed by a tour break, during which he spent three months on Broadway in New York played in the musical Grease, the role of "Teen Angel". Also TV guest appearances in the American series "New York Undercover" and "Touched by an Angel" (Eng. "Touched by an Angel"). Also appeared in "Best of Al Jarreau," a compilation of his known hits.
came in the following years there are no other publications, as Jarreau himself from his longtime record company (Warner Brothers) separated. He continued touring around the globe. 2000 his album "Tomorrow Today" and a new record company Verve / Grp was published). In 2002 "All I Got". In 2004 he broke with "Accentuate the Positive" is a long standing promise to finally release a jazz album that he recorded with a trio. In 2006 he published with "Givin 'It Up" a whole album with jazz guitarist and singer George Benson. In 2007 he won his sixth Grammy for the song from the Album "God Bless the Child" in the category "Best Traditional R & B Vocal Performance with".
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