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Post by Jessiealan on Feb 12, 2017 23:29:46 GMT -5
Al Jarreau, seven-time Grammy-winning singer, dies at 76 Al Jarreau, a Grammy Award-winning singer whose versatile tenor voice and vibrant stage style blurred the lines between jazz, soul and pop music, died Feb. 12 at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 76. His publicist, Joe Gordon, announced the death, saying the singer had been treated for exhaustion, after announcing his retirement from touring last week. The cause of death was not immediately known. Mr. Jarreau was loosely classified as a jazz singer, but his eclectic style was entirely his own, polished through years of obscure apprenticeship in lonely nightclubs. He did not release his first album until 1975, when he was 35, but within two years, he had won the first of his seven Grammy Awards and had begun to attract a wide following. He was dubbed the “acrobat of scat” for the way he adopted the fast, wordless syllables of bebop jazz musicians, but he did not limit himself to the musical backdrop of an earlier generation. His approach emphasized the percussion-heavy and electronically amplified sound of rhythm-and-blues and funk music, and he had a particular gift for mimicking almost any kind of musical instrument or sound. “Jarreau imitates the electronic and percussive hardware of the 1970s,” critic Robert Palmer wrote in Rolling Stone in 1979. “But he does more than that. He stands there and makes it all sound natural, singing so sweetly and unaffectedly you’d think he just happened on this remarkable vocal vocabulary.” more www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/al-jarreau-seven-time-grammy-winning-singer-dies-at-76/2017/02/12/7edf5c7e-f14c-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html?utm_term=.1eb22183206c
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Post by Jessiealan on Feb 12, 2017 23:36:48 GMT -5
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Post by Jessiealan on Feb 12, 2017 23:37:56 GMT -5
One of my favorite singers, from a very nice time in my life.
R. I. P. Mr. Jarreau
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Post by Sysop3 on Feb 13, 2017 1:26:20 GMT -5
R.I.P
One of the best.
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Post by Dex on Feb 13, 2017 9:26:01 GMT -5
That's case where he worked almost all of his life. I read he was just getting ready to retire.
Big lose to American music.
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Post by annaj26 on Feb 13, 2017 13:18:12 GMT -5
Rest in Peace
Excellent singer and musician. So sad.
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