JARREAU UPGRADED TO STABLE
Hospitalised jazz veteran AL JARREAU is making slow progress in his battl e with illness - his condition has been downgraded from critical to stabl e following his collapse on Thursday (22Jul10).
The Grammy Award winner, 70, was airlifted to a hospital in France afte r suffering breathing difficulties and fainting moments before he was due to perform at a music festival in Barcelonnette.
He was treated in the intensive care unit at a medical centre in Gap, s outh east France, but he had regained consciousness by Friday afternoon ( 23Jul10) and has been taken off the critical list.
Hospital spokesperson Pierre-Yvan Simonoviez says, "His condition stabi lised by late morning but remains worrying… He is conscious, awake but tired."
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