Al Jarreau

 Ridiculously, unjustly, few Oscar prognosticators include “This is 40” star Leslie Mann or her husband, writer-director Judd Apatow, on lists of likely nominees. Thing is, Apatow’s a member of the Academy—will he vote for himself?...

Every year, the Grammy Awards makes noise about freshening itself for a younger audience. And every year, it seems, it doesn’t. Or if it does, its efforts are clumsy. Yes, Adele, then 23, won six Grammys in 2012 — the......

Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week: 1. ALABAMA SHAKES Alabama Shakes’ name is appropriate for how the bluesy roots rockers have taken over the music world: like a Southern earthquake. In less than a year, the band has gone......

A Parkland High School graduate and former Allentown resident has been nominated for a Grammy Award – her second in three years. Denise Donatelli, who grew up in South Whitehall Township and graduated from Parkland in 1968, was nominated for......

A seven-time Grammy Award winner will play at Musikfest Café in the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStack in Bethlehem, the venue has announced. Jazz singer Al Jarreau, best known for his 1981 hit “We’re in This Love Together” and a member........

Al Jarreau, the only vocalist to win Grammy Awards in jazz, pop and R&B, will headline the 21st annual Berks Jazz Fest, March 25-April 3. Also among the fest’s 47 ticketed events at major venues, clubs and restaurants throughout Reading......

Indie-rock trio Fun. and R&B/hip-hop star Frank Ocean scored big in Grammy Award nominations, scoring six nods apiece mostly in the top Grammy categories. The Recording Academy announced the nominations Wednesday during a show in Nashville. The 55th...

1. Record Of The Year Lonely Boy The Black Keys The Black Keys & Danger Mouse, producers; Tom Elmhirst & Kennie Takahashi, engineers/mixers; Brian Lucey, mastering engineer Track from: El Camino [Nonesuch] Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) Kelly Clarkson...

Some kind of poetic conjunction will occur when jazz singer Diane Hubka performs a recital at Pasadena Presbyterian Church Saturday. Though she works as the church's accountant, what makes the pairing compelling is her lovely sound set in a sanctuary...

From the stirring, gospel-flavored intro of her inspiring reading of Des’ree’s 1994 hit “You Gotta Be” to the final bars of a highly distinctive, ethereal and moody remake of the Depeche Mode staple,“Enjoy The Silence,”...

Skid Row with special guests Warrant and Downtread - 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12; Betty Englestad Sioux Center, Grand Forks, N.D. Ed Asner's FDR- 7 p.m. Sept. 9; Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minn. Murs - 8 p.m. Nov. 1; Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis....

Vocalist Al Jarreau is a lot of things to a lot of people. Jazz and soul-savvy boomers know his early stuff, when, working by day as a San Francisco rehabilitation counselor in the ‘60s, Jarreau moonlighted as a strict, hep-cat jazzer in a trio with...