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I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
Al Jarreau
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Al Jarreau
Age: 76 †
Born: 1940
Born: March 12
Died: 2017
Died: February 12
Jazz Musician
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Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
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I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you would do for free.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, When is Al coming back?
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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.
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It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.
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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I've always tried to stay fit. Until my knee said, Uh-uh, I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don't like walking a lot, but I'll push them.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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