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.
AL JARREAUUntil my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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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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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I was age six or seven, and singing, “Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him,” and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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