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.
AL JARREAUA couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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