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Apr 13, 2012
The Jazz Journalists Assocation nominates Kurt Elling as 2012 Male Singer of the Year
Kurt Elling has been nominated as Male Singer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA)! The other nominees in this category are Freddy Cole, Giacomo Gates, and Gregory Porter Kurt has won the JJA Jazz Award seven times in the past,...
Mar 24, 2012
Kurt Elling at the Metropole Orkest’s International Arrangers Workshop
From March 19-24, 2012 eight very talented young arrangers, chosen from about 200 applicants, participated in the 2012 Metropole Orkest's International Arrangers Workshop Vince Mendoza, conductor of the Metropole Orkest, declared, "Of the 15...
Feb 12, 2012
Kurt Elling on the Red Carpet at the Grammys
Again this year, Kurt was nominated for a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album -- this time for The Gate Every one of Kurt's recordings has been nominated, and he won two years ago for Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and...
Feb 11, 2012
Kurt Elling on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”
Just before the Grammy awards, Kurt was the celebrity guest on National Public Radio's Wait WaitDon't Tell Me! - The Oddly Informative News Quiz show He played "Not My Job," a three-question multiple-choice quiz Laugh-out-loud hilarity...
Feb 06, 2012
Kurt Elling on the 2012 Jazz Cruise
From January 29 to February 5, 2012, Kurt Elling joined with a stellar cast of 44 artists/groups playing all jazz all the time on The Jazz Cruise They sailed from Fort Lauderdale, FL, with stops in Aruba, Curaçao, and Half Moon Cay, and...
Dec 31, 2011
Kurt Elling in 2011: It was a very good year
It's been a very good year for Kurt Elling -- a very good year indeed! The Gate, Kurt's ninth album and the third on the Concord label, debuted in February to great acclaim and was #1 on the JazzWeek Jazz Chart for nine weeks JazzWeek later...
Nov 30, 2011
2011 GRAMMY Nomination for “The Gate”!
On November 30 when the 54th annual Grammy nominations were announced in Los Angeles, renowned jazz vocalist Kurt Elling was honored with his ninth Grammy nomination for The Gate in the Best Jazz Vocal category Every one of Kurt's albums has...
Oct 28, 2011
Kurt Elling & The Gate garners the 2011 Edison award for Vocal Jazz
The prestigious 2011 Edison award for Vocal Jazz has been awarded to Kurt Elling for The Gate The Edison is considered the Dutch Grammy The Edison is one of the oldest music awards in the world Only the Grammy is older by one year The first...
Oct 26, 2011
DownBeat’s Male Vocalist of the Year for 2011!
Once again, Kurt Elling has been named Male Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll and in its Readers Poll It's a clean sweep! The 76th Annual Readers Poll results were just announced and will be featured in the December 2011 issue...
Oct 21, 2011
Kurt Elling with the Klüvers Big Band
Kurt Elling hosts the Klüvers Big Band from Denmark on their first visit to the United States They're performing together in Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, and Boston from October 21 - November 2 Kurt says, I am very happy to have...
Oct 11, 2011
Kurt Elling gives voice to Kenneth Patchen’s poetry on “What Is The Beautiful?”
On October 11, Cuneiform Records released What Is The Beautiful by The Claudia Quintet +1 with special guests vocalists Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann "Soon it will/Be showtime again," recites Kurt Elling at the outset of The Claudia Quintet's...
Sep 30, 2011
Union League Club of Chicago honors Distinguished Musician Kurt Elling
On September 30, Kurt Elling and pianist and Ravinia Festival President/CEO Welz Kauffman were inducted as Distinguished Musicians by the Union League Club of Chicago, America's #1 City Club The Union League Club of Chicago established its...