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Breakin' Away (album)

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Charts and awards
Track listing
Personnel
Production
Notes

{{Infobox album|
| name = Breakin' Away
| type = Album
| artist = Al Jarreau
| cover = BreakinAway.jpg
| alt =
| released = June 30, 1981
| recorded = 1981
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Crossover jazz, rhythm and blues, funk
| length = 41:07
| label = Warner Bros.
| producer = Jay Graydon
| prev_title = This Time
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = Jarreau
| next_year = 1983
}}Breakin' Away is an album by Al Jarreau, released on June 30, 1981, through the Warner Bros. Records label. To quote Allmusic, "Breakin' Away became the standard bearer of the L.A. pop and R&B sound."^[1]

The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA.^[2]

Charts and awards

Breakin' Away remains Al Jarreau's most popular album. It spent two years on the Billboard 200 and peaked at #9.^[3] The album also hit #1 on both the Jazz and R&B charts.

Three single releases made the charts: "We're in This Love Together" (#15 pop, #6 AC, #6 R&B), "Breakin' Away" (#43 pop, #30 AC, #25 R&B), and "Teach Me Tonight" (#70 pop, #19 AC, #51 R&B).

At the Grammy Awards in 1982 the album was given the prize for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male, while "(Round, Round, Round) Blue Rondo à la Turk" received the award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male. The album was also nominated for Album of the Year.

Track listing

{{track listing
| collapsed = no
| title1 = Closer to Your Love
| writer1 = Tom Canning, Jay Graydon, Al Jarreau
| length1 = 3:54
| title2 = My Old Friend
| writer2 = Steve George, John Lang, Richard Page
| length2 = 4:26
| title3 = We're in This Love Together
| writer3 = Roger Murrah, Keith Stegall
| length3 = 3:44
| title4 = Easy
| writer4 = Tom Canning, Jay Graydon, Jarreau
| length4 = 5:23
| title5 = Our Love
| writer5 = Tom Canning, Jay Graydon, Jarreau
| length5 = 3:53
| title6 = Breakin' Away
| writer6 = Tom Canning, Jay Graydon, Jarreau
| length6 = 4:12
| title7 = Roof Garden
| writer7 = Tom Canning, Jay Graydon, Jarreau
| length7 = 6:19
| title8 = (Round, Round, Round) Blue Rondo à la Turk
| writer8 = Dave Brubeck
| length8 = 4:44
| title9 = Teach Me Tonight
| writer9 = Sammy Cahn, Gene De Paul
| length9 = 4:13
}}

Personnel

Al Jarreau – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 3-7, 9), rhythm arrangements (1-7, 9), vocal arrangements (8)
Jay Graydon – electric guitar (1-7, 9), synthesizer programming (1, 2), rhythm arrangements (1-7, 9), vocal arrangements (8)
Steve Lukather – electric guitar (2, 3)
Dean Parks – electric guitar (9)
Abraham Laboriel – bass guitar (1-5, 7, 8, 9)
Neil Stubenhaus – bass guitar (6)
Steve Gadd – drums (1-5, 7, 8, 9)
Jeff Porcaro – drums (6)
Bob Zimmitti – percussion (4)
Tom Canning – acoustic piano (1), Fender Rhodes (1, 4, 9), synthesizer (1-4, 8), rhythm arrangements (1-7, 9), vocal arrangements (8)
David Foster – acoustic piano (2, 5, 6), Fender Rhodes (2, 5, 6), synthesizer (2, 5, 6), string arrangements (5)
Michael Omartian – synthesizer (3), Fender Rhodes (3)
Michael Boddicker – synthesizer programming (2, 8), synthesizer (3-6, 8)
J. Peter Robinson – synthesizer (4)
Larry Williams – synthesizer solo (4)
George Duke – Fender Rhodes (7)
Milcho Leviev – acoustic piano (8), rhythm arrangements (8)
Billy Byers – string arrangements (9)
Frank DeCaro – string contractor (5, 9)
Tom Scott – horns (1)
Jerry Hey – flugelhorn (2), trumpet (6, 7), horn arrangements (6, 7)
Lon Price – alto saxophone (3, 9)
Chuck Findley – trumpet (6, 7)
Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (6, 7)
Richard Page – backing vocals (2, 5, 7)
Steve George – backing vocals (2, 5, 7)
Bill Champlin – backing vocals (7)

Production

Producer, Mixing – Jay Graydon
Associate Producer – Tom Canning
Engineer – Joe Bogan
Second Engineer – Debbie Thompson
Basic tracks recorded at Dawnbreaker Studios (San Fernando, CA).
Basic track recording for "Breakin' Away" by Larry Brown at Pasha Music (Hollywood, CA); Second Engineers – Mikey Davis and Csaba Petocz.
Strings recorded by Humberto Gatica at Sunset Sound (Hollywood, CA).
Overdubs and mixing at Garden Rake Studios (Studio City, CA).
Mastered by Bernie Grundman at A&M Studios (Hollywood, CA).
Art Direction and Design – Christine Sauers
Photography – Susan Jarreau

Notes

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/breakin-away-r24192/review |title=Allmusic review}}
2. ^{{cite web|accessdate=November 15, 2013|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=jarreau|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924151459/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=jarreau|dead-url=yes|archive-date=September 24, 2015|title=RIAA – Searchable Database: Al Jarreau}}
3. ^Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top Pop Albums 1955-1985, Record Research Inc., 1985, p. 183, 495.

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