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Al Jarreau
Released 1994

Mas Que Nada
05:14
3,318 plays

Try A Little Tenderness
07:37
1,938 plays

We Got By
06:04
1,902 plays

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- 1
- Mas Que Nada
- 05:14
- 3,318 plays

- 2
- Try A Little Tenderness
- 07:37
- 1,938 plays

- 3
- Your Song
- 06:05
- 1,827 plays

- 4
- My Favorite Things
- 05:21
- 1,876 plays

- 5
- She's Leaving Home
- 07:39
- 1,650 plays

- 6
- Porgy And Bess: Summertime
- 06:17
- 1,401 plays

- 7
- We Got By
- 06:04
- 1,902 plays

- 8
- Save Your Love For Me
- 05:55
- 1,311 plays

- 9
- You Don't See Me
- 05:27
- 1,254 plays

- 10
- Wait for The Magic
- 05:52
- 1,521 plays

- 11
- Dinosaur
- 05:24
- 1,339 plays

- 12
- Go Away, Little Girl
- 05:43
- 1,533 plays

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album review

Rather than do a strictly studio or strictly live album next, Jarreau recorded a "live in the studio" affair before an invited audience -- and this time he would not be bothered with the latest new mediocre R&B tunes. Spreading his net from the Gershwins through Lennon-McCartney to Jorge Ben, Elton John and himself, Jarreau assembled a core band that includes vets like Joe Sample, Steve Gadd, the late Eric Gale, and producer Marcus Miller and turned himself loose on the songs with a freedom that hasn't been heard extensively on his records since the '70s. As then, he transplants standards of whatever school into his own cross-genre idiom, squeezing his tone through the syllables and flashing his speed scatting. He produces some lovingly drawn-out reprises of "She's Leaving Home" and "We Got By," a semi-funk "Summertime" with echoes of Gil Evans in the horns, and fits into the rapid-fire "Mas Que Nada" in the Brazilian manner-born. Opera diva Kathleen Battle's breathless coloratura soprano makes for an odd, unsettling contrast with Jarreau's snake-like wanderings in "My Favorite Things" (the only track recorded at a separate session in New York; the others were cut in L.A.); Michael Brecker's tenor sax adds a third alien voice to the mix. Those who were first drawn to Jarreau from his live and recorded performances of the mid-'70s are going to like this CD -- and this time, the new material ("Wait for the Magic," "Dinosaur") is not only interesting and thought-provoking, it makes good use of Jarreau's voice. As with Live In London, a home video of the sessions is available, but contains only ten tracks. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide