I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
AL JARREAUEvery day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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