He is there feel as home my dear Paris says

His legs do most allow to sketch the its twenty years dance steps, but Al Jarreau, seventy years, has retained a silhouette of young man, and, above all, a unique and ductile voice to desire. It will happen tonight at the Nice Jazz Festival.

Since its inception in the 1970s mid-life Al Jarreau has always received a warm welcome in France. He is there feel as home ("my dear Paris!", says). His generosity on stage explains its popularity. He received a triumphant welcome to the Olympia a fortnight ago in interpreting most of its success. The nice public will also have this evening this "best of".

As the first notes, it plunges us into his clever cocktail of music "soul", jazz, funk, rhythm' is blues, pop "The only thing that I know do is to mix genres, he says". I don't care how know how is the music that I read, it requires only that emotion is. Locking an artist into a category, it is pass the handcuffs!

If some pieces evoke the sweets of jazz FM, Al Jarreau not focuses and offers quickly a few titles waterlogged funk as, for example, "save Me", "sweet potato Pie" and "Boogie Down", or a sublime "agua de beber" version of Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim. The voice of Al Jarreau is like his music, it evolves in many records.

"When I was young, I sang as Nat King Cole, Thad Jones, even as Johnny Mathis, but fortunately, at the time, person not me hired to sing like that!" fun. I may have kept a few ways from this time, but, thank God, I found my voice! "Find her voice, it is also developing a style that no other such, which allows him to give a new sheen to the songs of others.

"When I sing"She's Living Home", a Beatles, I hope that is not them that you hear, but a completely different interpretation.". The ideal would be that you have the impression to hear this song for the first time! "According to him, it can even happen that the creator of the song is not the best performer. "Blackbird" (always of the Beatles) reinterpreted by Bobby McFerrin is a good example.

Even if the music will play tonight is not jazz "stricto sensu", Al Jarreau is jazz. He is constantly improvising, so change the order of the pieces depending on his mood, and almost never sings her songs in the same way that it has registered. For example, on "Take Five", reckless Devil theme, it is allows exchanges in "scat" with drummer, when it does not replace drummer himself with his vocalizations.

His voice has hardly changed: it per tonne in the graves and bursts in the acute separating metal chips. "I'm training in keeping silent, to have a relationship discussions with my throat that accompanies me for so many years!" he fun. His main fear on stage is not to be a victim of a termination of voice, but the "trrrrrac" as he says in French by rolling the "r". "It is a delicate work to seduce the public, he concluded." It's like to carry a Fabergé egg!