I can still remember when Al Jarreau Miite 70's wurde.Der known years after his performance at the Berlin Jazz Festival quasi overnight at a broad public man - after all, already mid-thirties - was at that time a sensation, the public and press was racing with hymns of praise and rightly so! At that time I experienced it myself on 2 concerts and was like all begeistert.Nicht only that he has a beautiful, soft and expressive voice, he sat on a then completely new way, well above the scat addition to how a Instrument ein.Virtuose melasmische vocals went on in a whisper, and then eruptive take the melody again, sometimes imitating the voice of a saxophone, then a flute, then a Schlagzeug.Das whole went beyond the undoubted show effect was harmonious in the musical embedded flow and made each song to a varied Kustwerk.Dazu still came an incredible stage presence and a sympathetic Lockerheit.Am best this is due to the excellent live album "Look to the Rainbow", which is not included in the box, eingefangen.Man lo and behold, what he makes of the now totgespielten "Take Five"! Now for the content of this 5 CD-Box.Die oldest Albums "We got by" and "Glow" are quite simply phenomenal, they show the full range of this Ausnahmekünstlers.Die question whether that's still jazz or even pop, interesting considering the quality the Samaritans most Schubladendenker.Glatte 5 stars! The quality of the remaining three later albums then drops considerably but unfortunately ab.Sie are significantly less complex, the Jazz elements appear more and more into the background, everything seems increasingly Al Jarreau and smooth kommerzieller.Natürlich has not forgotten how to sing, but it covered now but increasingly vocal mannerisms auf.Auch the song material is weaker on the whole - or makes the good Al just less of it? Of course there are the 3 CDs also some really good tracks, but unfortunately also what I bland and cheesy finde.Es is still whining at relatively high levels, but more than a maximum of 4 stars I would not forgive here. The sound quality of all CDs is consistently good to very gut.Angesichts of ridicule price of less than 3 Euro per CD can only recommend the Box.
