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Al passed away in just short of his 77 birthday; I am sharing this now on what would have been his 78th, March 12, He was a sweet, gentle soul and a man whom my then roommate, Kathy Harrison, thought al jarreau was he gay one of the handsomest men in the world. The tonsils have been yanked, as Al Jarreau described the operation, and the talented jazz singer is back at work.

Music critic Robert Palmer once suggested Jarreau had created a remarkable vocal vocabulary in his throat, as a way of describing the breadth of sounds that come from it. A German writer, equally dazzled, suggested Jarreau has a whole orchestra in his pipes. These are my habits.

THE SON of a preacher, Jarreau, 44, began his singing career at the age of 4 evidenced, he said, by an old placard he found advertising his performance at a church fund-raising recital. A lot of it I did as a real young kid in the church. There was nobody who ever did that. My mom and dad never discouraged me.

They did music, loved music, but there was something else that they put in me,8 practical bone deep inside my body somewhere. I knew that I would go off to school sometime and get a formal education in some area that would allow me to make some money. It was a practical sense of things they instilled in me.

I got interested in psychology and sociology and ended up in one of the helping professions. That was the year he stopped working as a rehab counselor. I was beginning to feel a lot of validation regarding my music, in what I think was one of the greatest music-creating communities in the world during those days.

He found a guitar player and for the first time was doing music as a feature rather than incidental member of a trio.

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I began to scat more and really open up to try a lot of different things. Q: Do you remember how you discovered the different depths and capacities of your voice? I am now, though. There was a lot of experimenting going on, but not in the laboratory sense. I never went to the back room and started cataloging the sounds or numbering them and noting how I did it.

I was experimenting in a real practical performing sense, discovering there were places in the voice that I could go to. I was doing, for many years, al jarreau was he gay, ti-ka, ti-ke, ti-ka, ti-ti-ti-ka-a-a-a, stuff like that, making vocal percussion sounds by myself and just fooling around, entertaining myself, driving in the car, walking down the street, being my own radio, It was fun, trying this and that once in a while.

Outside of things I picked up in senior and acapella choir in high school, I really had to discover on my own technically what to do and what not to do, what works for me in preparation for concerts. God, I think I know most of the repertoire. I want to find a way of doing the essential qualities and the other qualities that maybe we share and finding a way of magnifying those.

I hope it is done with sensibility and sensitivity. Jarreau, whose screen charms have been evidenced in the videos for songs like Roof Garden, will have an opportunity to portray himself in an early May episode of Days of Our Lives. There is a jazz attitude and approach that runs through everything that I do.

Blue Rondo requires a lot of technical ability. All the stuff gets synthesized in me and goes through this Jarreau filter and comes out with this influence of jazz. They come through the filter.