AL JARREAU & SINBAD With Everette Harp

For immediate release: 21 April 2008

AL JARREAU & SINBAD With Everette Harp

PHOENIX, AZ – The Sanderson Ford Lincoln Mercury Volvo Music Series presents an evening of laughter and music featuring 7-Time Grammy Award winner AL JARREAU and comedy’s big gun SINBAD at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 16th. The evening also stars special guest saxophonist EVERETTE HARP.

AL JARREAU’s Phoenix concert is one of a limited number of intimate engagements in support of his new album “Al Jarreau: Love Songs.” The project follows the recent success of his 2-time Grammy winning collaboration with George Benson titled “Givin’ It Up.” Jarreau is the only vocalist in history to win Grammy awards in three separate categories: jazz, pop, and R&B. And he won the aforementioned Grammys within a span of four consecutive decades — the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s. One of Jarreau's most successful albums is “Breakin’ Away” (1981), which includes the hit song "We're in This Love Together." He also wrote and performed the Grammy-nominated theme to the 1980s American television show Moonlighting.

The always clean, animated and hilariously funny SINBAD made his big screen debut in the 1991 comedy “Necessary Roughness.” Other motion picture credits include “First Kid,” “Houseguest,” “Jingle All The Way,” and “Homeward Bound II.” On television, he starred in HBO’s “Cherokee Kid,” and was the star and executive producer of his own Fox TV sitcom "The Sinbad Show" and HBO’s “Sinbad’s Summer Weekend II.” “Sinbad’s Summer Jam” won the prestigious NAACP Image Award consecutively for two years for "Most Outstanding Variety Series/Special." Recently, the actor publicly sided with Obama in the war over foreign policy credentials. Sinbad, along with singer Sheryl Crow, was on the 1996 trip to Bosnia that Clinton has described as a harrowing international experience. In an interview with the Washington Post, Sinbad said the "scariest" part of the trip was wondering where he'd eat next.

Funky, R&B-oriented saxophonist EVERETTE HARP has toured with such artists as Kenny Loggins and Anita Baker. His music can be heard nightly playing the theme song for Entertainment Tonight.

Tickets ($55, $75, and $100 – includes VIP reception) are on sale now at Celebrity Theatre or online at www.sandersonmusic.com. To charge by phone call 602-267-1600 ext.1. All tickets are subject to a surcharge. Celebrity Theatre is located at 440 N. 32nd St., in Phoenix.