GOSHEN — Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling performs at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Goshen College Music Center. A baritone with a four-octave range, Elling consistently generates new vocal material by writing ...
Kurt Elling, the rare singer-songwriter in this genre whose long hair and soul patch make him look more appropriate for the blues, hails from the mannered side that emphasizes the cool and beautiful, ...
Kurt Elling’s first live concert album, “Live from Chicago,” ended up being more than a little prophetic. Elling recorded it in 1999 at the Green Mill, the venue that gave him a crucial early boost ...
“I keep moving all the time,” jazz singer and lyricist Kurt Elling said last week. Elling, the winner of two Grammy Awards and dozens more honors, was in Alexandria, Virginia, filming performances ...
On “Passion World,” jazz singer Kurt Elling expands his musical horizons way beyond his previous CD, “1619 Broadway-the Brill Building Project,” which focused on classic pop tunes by the songwriting ...
Multi-GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling and guitarist/producer Charlie Hunter released their new rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Black Crow.” The song is off their upcoming album SuperBlue: The ...
— Summoning such great jazz spirits as Joe Williams, Frank Sinatra and John Coltrane, jazz vocalist Kurt Elling hit Miller Auditorium Thursday night like a fireball. Elling has performed in Kalamazoo ...
Grammy winning vocalist Kurt Elling has released "Endless Lawns" the third single from his much talked about forthcoming album SuperBlue to be released October 8, 2021 via Edition Records. "Endless ...
Twelve years ago, jazz singer Kurt Elling left Chicago for New York. Three months ago, he returned. The move, says Elling, was prompted not by the pandemic, which has devastated New York, but by a ...
This weekend's shopping list is now clearly defined. Just released, Kurt Elling's fifth album grabs you by the heartstrings and just won't let go. It's a ballad album from the emotional jazz singer ...
He was known as “The Voice.” And Kurt Elling remembers how, when he was a child, those vocal cords stood out. Elling, the son of a high school band instructor, often listened to the music his parents ...
Jazz singer Kurt Elling has taken the brazen step of composing lyrics to fit Dexter Gordon's solo on his 1976 version of "Body and Soul." The lyric wisely mentions that the experiment could be a train ...