Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musically speaking, Al Jarreau's spectacular genre-crossing voice was also his great career challenge. Kurt Dietrich develops that ...

FOND DU LAC - Kurt Dietrich, professor emeritus of music at Ripon College, has written the recently released authorized biography of jazz/pop vocalist Al Jarreau, a native of Milwaukee. “Never Givin’ ...

*In the biography “Never Givin’ Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau” (Wisconsin Historical Society Press), Kurt Dietrich, a three-time author and Professor Emeritus of Music at Ripon College in ...

Al Jarreau (born Alwin Lopez Jarreau March 12, 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American jazz singer. He grew up in a religious house and even received a master’s degree in vocational ...