Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musically speaking, Al Jarreau's spectacular genre-crossing voice was also his great career challenge. Kurt Dietrich develops that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A holiday gift is arriving early for Al Jarreau fans. A lost live album recorded by the Grammy-winning jazz/R&B/pop ...

LOS ANGELES (WPVI) -- Grammy-award winning singer Al Jarreau has died at age 76, according to a statement on his website. Jarreau had announced his retirement last week after being hospitalized in Los ...

*In the biography “Never Givin’ Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau” (Wisconsin Historical Society Press), Kurt Dietrich, a three-time author and Professor Emeritus of Music at Ripon College in ...

The Milwaukee Common Council has unanimously approved renaming a north-side park in honor of singer Al Jarreau. On Monday the council formally approved renaming the 30th and Cawker Park Area at 2929 N ...

What I was really struck by with this recording—particularly because it was from early in his career—was how much scatting Al did—how he would take the melodies of songs, and the lyrics then turn them ...

Barbara Smith, the chair of the housing and economic development committee at Amani United, standing next to the mural in Milwaukee's Al Jarreau Park. Wherever Al Jarreau went, he always spoke on his ...

One of the great joys of interviewing Al Jarreau is that he will sing to you. Mention any of his songs and you’re suddenly enveloped by the marvelous voice that has mesmerized audiences around the ...

*More than 35 years ago, I was one of a sold-out crowd at southern Cali’s Universal Amphitheater to see Natalie Cole … and an opening act whose name I couldn’t even pronounce, Al Something Or Other?

Legendary singer Al Jarreau has been hospitalized for breathing problems. He was taken to a hospital in France after complaining about breathing problems. Jarreau is a jazz artist who enjoyed ...

Musically speaking, Al Jarreau's spectacular genre-crossing voice was also his great career challenge. Kurt Dietrich develops that theme throughout his new biography of the Milwaukee native, "Never ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Grammy-winning jazz singer Al Jarreau died Sunday morning, according to a statement on his website. He was 76. News of his passing comes just days after Jarreau retired from ...