Nov 30, 2016
Kurt Elling’s The Beautiful Day: Effervescent music making
If you run screaming from Christmas muzak that loops endlessly in the malls, then Kurt Elling's holiday album is for you In characteristically idiosyncratic fashion, the singer sets out to remake and explore the songs, and the spirit, of...
Nov 25, 2016
Kurt Elling Featured in Live From Lincoln Center: Lang Lang’s New York Rhapsody
On November 25, 2016, Live From Lincoln Center on PBS television presented the internationally acclaimed pianist Lang Lang and his love letter to New York, the city he considers his adoptive home, set to the music that helped make this city so...
Nov 12, 2016
Review: Kurt Elling at Ronnie Scott’s, 10th November 2016
The idea had been to bring Christmas to Ronnie Scott's a few weeks early, by playing pre-season material from Kurt Elling's new album, The Beautiful Day But a recent election result seemed to be weighing on his mind; as a result, a...
Nov 09, 2016
Kurt Elling at Ronnie Scott’s – inclusiveness, curiosity and warmth
Kurt Elling, the great American jazz singer, was a divinity student with a church-musician father – experiences that fuelled in him a philosophical intelligence and mistrust of dogma, alongside an affection for communal celebrations that...
Nov 08, 2016
Kurt Elling, Ronnie Scott’s, London – ‘Superb technique’
Christmas came early to Ronnie Scott's this year American singer Kurt Elling's latest release, The Beautiful Day, subtitled Kurt Elling Sings Christmas, reimagines more than a dozen seasonally themed songs as life-affirming...
Oct 30, 2016
Kurt Elling Presents: The Beautiful Day | On Tour 2016
The Kurt Elling Quintet, with Kurt Elling (voice), Stu Mindeman (piano), Clark Sommers (bass), John McLean (guitar), and Ulysses Owens (drums), takes The Beautiful Day: Kurt Elling Sings Christmas on tour, beginning with the CD Release...
Oct 28, 2016
The Beautiful Day: The holiday spirit in all of its wondrous complexity
A poetic and lyrical holiday-themed album, vocalist Kurt Elling's The Beautiful Day is much more than a seasonal production The album follows up his eclectic 2015 album, Passion World, and arrives on the heels of his collaboration with...
Oct 28, 2016
The Beautiful Day: Kurt Elling Sings Christmas
Kurt Elling's First Holiday Album, Released Worldwide October 28, 2016 on OKeh Records/Sony Music Masterworks Previews of The Beautiful Day Order on Amazon Order on iTunes Streaming on Spotify The Beautiful Day 2016 Tour Dates When Kurt...
Aug 17, 2016
Kurt Elling signs with OKeh/Sony Music Masterworks
GRAMMY-winning, world-renowned jazz singer Kurt Elling has just signed a recording contract with OKeh/Sony Music Masterworks His forthcoming album, The Beautiful Day, is set to release on October 28, 2016 It will be Elling's first release...
Aug 15, 2016
Melody in Motion
Saxophonist Branford Marsalis’ Quartet has an illustrious 20-year history spanning a series of 15 powerful albums that have tackled everything from John Coltrane's A Love Supreme in its entirety, to 2012's scorching Four MFs...
Aug 05, 2016
Upward Spiral: Sax and vocals intertwine
The first tableau in this vivid 12-song set is an upbeat croon through "There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' for New York" that launches acerbic stabs from Marsalis' soprano sax Later, sax and vocals intertwine romantically on "Blue...
Aug 04, 2016
Upward Spiral: Master saxophonist meets great jazz vocalist
Branford Marsalis has mastered most tricks of the sax-player's trade – traditional song-playing lyricism, an advanced post-Coltrane technique (lately coupled with a classical one), and long experience of playing with singers, notably...