Making the old new again is what Jarreau has been doing with music since his childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Born in 1940, he sang his first songs in his church choir (his father was a vicar). Although armed with a degree in psychology and some early career experience in social work, he made a dramatic career change when he moved to Los Angeles and began singing in small clubs along the West Coast.<\/p>\n
Although he recorded an album in the mid \u201860s, he didn\u2019t make his first significant mark on the music scene until the release of We Got By in 1975. Early praise from the critics translated to commercial success in 1981 with the release of Breakin\u2019 Away, the 1981 album that generated the hit single, \u201cWe\u2019re In This Love Together.\u201d He made a huge and recurring splash in American living rooms a few years later when he recorded the theme music to Moonlighting, the hit TV series that ran through the latter half of the 1980s and continues in syndication to this day.<\/p>\n
Jarreau enjoyed moderate success in the following decade with albums like Heaven and Earth (1992) and Tenderness (1994), then got a boost in 1998 when he reunited with producer Tommy LiPuma, with whom he\u2019d recorded We Got By more than a decade earlier. The Jarreau\/LiPuma partnership resulted in a string of successful albums, including Tomorrow Today (2000), All I Got (2002) and Accentuate the Positive (2004). Givin\u2019 It Up, his 2006 collaboration with George Benson, resulted in two Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n
For all of Jarreau\u2019s studio successes over the decades, Al Jarreau and the Metropole Orkest – Live offers recorded proof that he\u2019s still a master in front of a live audience as the frontman to a fully staffed orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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