Word: jarreau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jarreau goes with just about anything. One doesn't have to be a committed jazz fan to get into Jarreau. He's been making albums since 1975 when he started with We Got By, followed by Glow in 1976, a live album Look to the Rainbow in 1977 and most recently All Fly Home, the fourth in his series of introspective albums. Jarreau has a nice voice and the way in which he uses it is the highlight of each new recording...
...past, Jarreau has not been as original as some critics would have liked him to be. His first album, rather than simply re-interpreting the songs of others, displayed more originality than his later ones. However, Jarreau has exhibited some originality, most notably through his almost total re-arranging of other artists' work. In this respect Jarreau exhibits more originality than many of his contemporaries. One can hardly argue that "Wait a Little While," already a hit, is at all a carbon copy of Kenny Loggins' lyrics, or that "She's Leaving Home," a twelve-year-old number penned...
...Jarreau sings with a flavor. Like Rushen, his voice is an instrument, but unlike most artists, Jarreau pronounces the words in the lyrics to fake an instrumental beat. For an example of this intricate style, listen to "Thinkin' About...
...unfortunate and unfortunately common mishap of albums is the mistaken exclusion of a track. In the case of All Fly Home, "Love Sweet Love" has been deleted. Although the lyrics are listed and the album cover stated that the piece is the only song Jarreau does not sing, the song fails to appear on the disc itself. Probably with good reason. If Jarreau didn't sing...
Horns are an important part of the instrumentation of this album. Jarreau received help from some of the best instrumentalists around when he got Freddie Hubbard for the flugelhorn and Pauline Da Costa for percussion. The sounds of their instruments and Jarreau's own vocal vibrations interact for fantastic acoustics...