{"id":18809,"date":"2017-02-13T18:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T00:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=18809"},"modified":"2017-02-13T18:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T00:58:24","slug":"rip-al-jarreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2017\/02\/13\/rip-al-jarreau\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Al Jarreau"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We heard the sad news as we pulled into our driveway yesterday. It made me regret never getting around to seeing Al\u00a0perform too. He was quite a fixture of Milwaukee pride around Summerfest and the city’s somewhat conservative Jazz cliques.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like most people, I never heard of him until his mainstream Pop hit, “We’re In This Love Together” around 1981. It would take me another decade to gain a greater appreciation of his music though. WBZN lives!<\/span><\/p>\n

One really cool thing I always loved about Al was his good nature on\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. Unlike\u00a0SNL<\/em>, the more daring Canadian show would integrate the musical guest into a couple skits. For him, he played the reluctant son in their parody of\u00a0The Jazz Singer<\/em>. Their twist, Al didn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps (a Pop star), he wanted to be a cantor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks for all the great music and smiles Al! I hope Milwaukee builds a statue to you and your generosity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We heard the sad news as we pulled into our driveway yesterday. It made me regret never getting around to seeing Al\u00a0perform too. He was quite a fixture of Milwaukee pride around Summerfest and the city’s somewhat conservative Jazz cliques. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[280,383,148],"class_list":["post-18809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-jazz","tag-milwaukee","tag-obit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18811,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions\/18811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}