Kurt Elling plays the National Concert Hall, in Dublin, this evening, after a gruelling tour of Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands.
Last week, the jazz singer was battling a chest infection. "I was built to sing, physiologically, but the fatigue hasn't helped the challenge of fighting this virus," he ...read more…
Yes, jazz singer Kurt Elling is easy on the eye. But forget about all that for now, ladies... The American baritone with a four-octave range is one of the most innovative jazz singers to come along in years.
It's hard to picture him as a young boy singing motets ...read more…
OK, so you've given your copies of Rod's It Had To Be You and Robbie's Swing When You're Winning a few listens (released many, many years ago, the latter is still top of the iTunes jazz albums chart in a gazillion countries). You've memorised the ...read more…
Kurt Elling is in residence at Ronnie Scott's, though his reputation as one of jazz's all-time great vocalists means that only theft or bribery could now secure a ticket for anyone who has just woken up to it.
A singer of astonishing technique and meticulous craft, he has ...read more…
Kurt Elling is unmistakably a jazz singer; his subtle shifts of accent and time transform the most mundane lyrics into narratives steeped in the human condition. His current repertoire, based on his recent CD 1619 Broadway , celebrates the songwriters and music pluggers of Manhattan's Brill Building, whose output included, he ...read more…
Within 10 seconds of Kurt Elling's arrival on Ronnie Scott's stage, negligently yet somehow expensively elegant, one knew the only thing to do was to yield. Seduction is all about mastery, after all, and is there any more masterful singer on the planet right now? At one point he ...read more…
Kurt Elling just doesn't make a song his own. He dissects it, modifies it, examines it under a microscope then reassembles it in a way that reassures you of the song's origins but suggests, oh so subtly, that this is something new altogether.
The scatting baritone artfully commanded ...read more…
