Singer Al Jarreau hospitalized in France
July 23, 2010
Latest news — Grammy-award acceptable accompanist Al Jarreau was in accelerated affliction in a French hospital Friday afterwards adversity breath problems in the Alps, banishment him to abolish four concerts.
Jarreau’s manager, Joe Gordon, said the 70-year-old accompanist “is alive and he’s concerned” about missing concerts. When he said he capital to eat, the doctors did a little dance, Gordon said.
“He’s alone canceled one concert (due) to his bloom in his absolute career,” Gordon, who was at Jarreau’s side, told The Associated Press in New York. But he additionally said, “It was activity threatening” and “he’s accomplishing well, considering.”
Gordon said the Thursday concert at a applesauce anniversary in the French abundance boondocks of Barcelonnette, in the southern Alps was canceled in the average of his warmup routine.
“We canceled the concert as a anticipation because he wasn’t activity good,” the administrator said.
The administrator of the applesauce festival, Xavier Fribourg, told The AP that Jarreau was abandoned by helicopter aloof afore the alpha of the concert.
A agenda on Jarreau’s official Web armpit said the world-acclaimed accompanist was in “good spirits” and “looking advanced to accepting aback out on the road.” The agenda said he would accomplish in Nuremberg, Germany, abutting Thursday as scheduled.
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