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86129squids
Posted on Monday, February 13, 2017 - 02:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)



Dang. What are we gonna do when we lose all the great ones? Who can carry that mantle?

Not sure, but I'm pretty dang sure that's Omar Hakim on the drums, in Sanborn's band.
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86129squids
Posted on Monday, February 13, 2017 - 02:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Didn't know they covered one of my favorite songs...

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Two_seasons
Posted on Monday, February 13, 2017 - 12:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hometown boy, raised in Milwaukee.

Excellent jazz. He was a nice man too.

They say he died of exhaustion. It is what he loved.

RIP Al
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86129squids
Posted on Monday, February 13, 2017 - 12:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Here's a great piece on the man- he left a career in psychology and voice rehab to become a singer... ! Wow.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/12/ 514846063/al-jarreau-a-versatile-vocalist-who-play ed-his-voice-dies-at-76
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86129squids
Posted on Monday, February 13, 2017 - 12:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Also- as I began this thread, I was also scanning Youtube with my smart tv, which pipes into my hi-fi... found a vid almost an hour long with many other great jazz covers by him and George Benson. Watching Jarreau sing Brubeck's "Take Five" was mesmerizing. My sweetie was already in bed, DANG if I didn't want to crank the volume!

Couldn't find it just now... but lots of great stuff out there! Bobby McFerrin must've learned a LOT from Al.
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