LEGENDARY SINGER AL JARREAU DIES AT76
Al Jarreau, one of the world’s great
singers and a song stylist who defied categorization for decades, died
today in Los Angeles at the age of 76.
“We feel very fortunate to have worked
with Al, one of the most distinctive and extraordinary vocalists in the
music,” says Concord Records President John Burk. “He was truly a force
of nature and a beautiful human being that will be fondly
remembered and deeply missed by us all.”
The seven-time GRAMMY winner had
recently announced his retirement from the entertainment business after
being hospitalized for exhaustion. Jarreau had fought through
respiratory and cardiac issues in recent years.
“We feel very fortunate to have worked
with Al, one of the most distinctive and extraordinary vocalists in the
music,” says Concord Records President John Burk. “He was truly a force
of nature and a beautiful human being that will be fondly
remembered and deeply missed by us all.”
Jarreau had little interest in
boundaries or preconceived limitations. Since the mid-1970s, he applied
his distinctive and instantly recognizable vocal style – a unique
combination of lyrical swing and captivating vocalese – to a broad
spectrum of musical genres. With this eclectic approach, he earned much
success along the way – enough to position him as the only vocalist in
history to claim GRAMMY Awards in the three distinct genres of jazz, pop
and R&B.
Jarreau’s final recording, My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke,
was released August 5, 2014 on Concord Records, a division of Concord
Music Group. The album, which re-interpreted some of Duke’s renowned
catalog of post-bop, jazz-fusion,
R&B and Brazilian jazz, spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Albums and Current Jazz charts.
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