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Accentuate The Positive

Label
Universal Music International Ltda.
Release date
30 Jun 2006
Running length
11 tracks
Running time
49:52

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Cold Duck 3:45 14,847
2 The Nearness Of You 3:43 6,646
3 I'm Beginning To See The Light 4:04 3,762
4 My Foolish Heart 5:32 11,016
5 Midnight Sun 6:00 4,800
6 Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive 4:02 2,999
7 Betty Bebop's Song 4:16 3,178
8 Waltz For Debby 4:43 3,648
9 Groovin' High 4:11 3,350
10 Lotus 5:11 3,491
11 Scootcha-Booty 4:25 2,406

About this album

Al Jarreau’s style bridges Jon Hendricks’s vocalese and Bobby McFerrin’s incredible flights of fancy. This CD, with Diana Krall’s rhythm section—guitarist Anthony Wilson, drummer Peter Erskine, and bassist Christian McBride—should please fans of albums like Jarreau’s phenomenal 1977 live LP, Look to the Rainbow. look to the rainbow’s “I’m Beginning To See The Light” is illuminated by Larry Goldings’s down-home Hammond organ, while I’m Beginning To See The Light’s “Midnight Sun” bops with hip-hop-friendly rim shots. Jarreau’s tenor tones curve with saxophonic dexterity and pulse with percussive precision, especially on Dizzy Gillespie’s “Groovin’ High,” where he slyly drops in a few words from the old show tune, “Whispering.” —Eugene Holley, Jr.
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