The founder of Wikipedia, Huntsville’s Jimmy Wales, has a book coming out later this month that he hopes will provide lessons ...

Many purists believe that the only true Yacht Rock contains elements of jazz music. While we tend to take more of a big-tent approach to the genre, it’s clear that many of the most beloved songs of ...

01 Take Five 02 Drums solo Mark Simmons 03 Step By Step 04 Breakin Away 05 I Will Be Here For You 06 Boogie Down 07 Voice improvisation with Mark Simmons 08 Roof Garden 09 Voice improvisation 10 Waltz ...

Lost 1976 recording, capturing Jarreau's performance at Washington, D.C.'s Childe Harold Club, arrives Nov. 29 for Record Store Day's Black Friday celebration. By Gail Mitchell A holiday gift is ...

*“He was an amazing guy,” said Zev Feldman, co-president of Resonance Records, when talking about the November 29, 2024 release of the “Wow” album that consisted of five live performances by Al ...

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 ...

DUKE: WELCOME BACK. A TRIBUTE TO A SEVEN-TIME GRAMMY WINNER FROM MILWAUKEE. ♪♪ DUKE: THAT IS MY DADDY’S SONG. HE’S BEING MEMORIALIZED IN A ONE NIGHT ONLY CONCETHE SINGER, SONG PRODUCER B CLARK JOINING ...

MILWAUKEE — “Boogie Down: A Tribute to Al Jarreau featuring Blair Clark,” featuring the Milwaukee Jazz Orchestra, is 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Skylight Music Theatre, 158 N. Broadway in ...

Summer may not officially arrive until June 20, but Hoda Kotb and Al Roker are getting their Summer Fridays in early. The Today show stars — along with fellow cohosts Craig Melvin and Carson Daly — ...

*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 ...

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 ...