Al Jarreau obituary

Award-winning American jazz, R&B and pop singer whose hits included the theme tune of the 1980s television series MoonlightingAl Jarreau, the acrobatically skilful, warmly soulful American singer, who has died aged 76, always seemed too generous an individual to get much pleasure out of proving knowalls wrong. But by the third decade of a career in which the jazz cognoscenti had often been snooty about his commercial leanings, and pop tastemakers about his jazz ones, he was getting plenty of