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Oct 11, 2014
Kurt Elling takes us inside his “Passion World”
[Our resident music reviewer Donald sacrificed a night with his favorite TV show to see jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, and found it well worth the trade —the artblog editors] Typically, Sunday nights for me are known exclusively as The Good...
Oct 01, 2014
Kurt Elling plays Infinity Hall
Kurt Elling, the bold, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter who explores infinite variations on musical themes, presents his hip, edgy expressiveness as he performs at 8 pm on October 1 at Infinity Music Hall and Bistro at 32 Front Street Not only...
Sep 29, 2014
Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling in Hartford, CT
Grammy Award winning jazz musician Kurt Elling will perform at Hartford's Infinity Music Hall on Wednesday, Oct 1 The 46-year-old vocalist is a Chicago, Ill, native and is now living in New York with his family To date, Elling has released...
May 29, 2014
Interview: Kurt Elling moves jazz history into the future
When Kurt was in Sofia, Bulgaria to perform with the Bulgarian National Radio Big Band on May 28th, he also sat down with Jazz FM's afternoon host, Tanya Ivanova, for a short interview "I do feel like I'm trying at least to help the...
May 10, 2014
Kurt Elling: A Complete Musician
To cap off a stellar jazz season celebrating the 90th birthdays of Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington, the organizers at Koerner Hall managed to bring together two top male vocalists who excel at the top of their game The vocalists are fellow...
May 07, 2014
Kurt Elling at Cheltenham: A veritable masterclass in the art of jazz singing
Grammy-winning Chicago-born singer, Kurt Elling, is regarded by many critics as the finest male jazz vocalist working today and on the evidence of what can only be described as a captivating performance at Cheltenham's Town Hall venue...
May 04, 2014
“Passion World” at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
For Cheltenham he had contributed to Friday Night Is Music Night and had taken part in the late night jam session at Hotel du Vin, but this was a chance to spend an hour with Kurt and his band For his last project Elling had chosen to...
May 04, 2014
Kurt Elling’s “Passion World” at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
The organisers of Cheltenham Jazz Festival proved that they don't lie No, this wasn't through some bizarre test involving electrodes and quivering needles After they introduced American vocalist Kurt Elling as, "one of today's...
May 03, 2014
“Hoods, Horns & Hooch” at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
It's 1955, every town has it own ballroom, big-band and vocalists and swing's the thing Well no it isn't, actually Unless you're the producer of BBC Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night In which case you gather musical...
Mar 21, 2014
On the Beat: Kurt Elling & SNJO. February 2014.
I have an admission: I don't really like jazz singers There are exceptions – some, like Billie Holliday, are so emotional, so raw, that I find it hard to listen to them – but others – most, I reckon – are so anodyne...
Mar 20, 2014
Vocalist Kurt Elling explores the wide world of jazz — with a twist
Of all the exotic locales he could be in, has been in, will be in again quite soon, this one seems a little less so In fact, take a look at Kurt Elling's website, and not only are the jazz vocalist's travels well-documented in the...
Feb 26, 2014
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra on song with Kurt Elling at Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
Of all the illustrious guests SNJO has welcomed to Scotland, Kurt Elling seems to be the one who has made himself most at home This might be because the Chicagoan singer spent a year in Edinburgh as a student and used to catch the then regular...