Apr 11, 2016
Branford Marsalis Quartet, Kurt Elling bring ‘the thing’ to historic recording
Grammy-award-winning saxophone legend Branford Marsalis has always been about inclusion, opening those doors to everybody — not just the physics- and harmonics-minded jazz brainiacs out there unduly focused on chops and technical...
Apr 09, 2016
Blowing in from the Windy City: Pharez Whitted and Kurt Elling collaborate with Butler University jazz groups
Jazz has gone to school for decades, and while there is debate about how much institutionalization is good for the music, there's no doubt that more well-schooled musicians have been brought into its purview than since the Swing Era And...
Apr 07, 2016
Branford Marsalis To Release New Album with Kurt Elling on June 10
Things are looking up for saxophonist Branford Marsalis and vocalist Kurt Elling, who will add a shared title to their respective discographies The Branford Marsalis Quartet will release Upward Spiral, featuring Elling as a guest vocalist, on...
Apr 04, 2016
Kurt Elling Joins More Than 30 GRAMMY Winning and Nominated Artists to Perform at GRAMMY Park, Brooklyn, NY, May 5-8, 2016
GRAMMY Park, the first GRAMMY-branded, multiday live music experience, premieres May 5-8, 2016 in Brooklyn, NY! GRAMMY Park showcases and celebrates excellence in music across genres Live music performances will take place in two of...
Mar 30, 2016
Kurt Elling To Perform in the International Jazz Day 2016 All-Star Global Concert at The White House on April 30th!
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina Bokova and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock are pleased to announce the fifth annual International Jazz Day, which will be celebrated...
Mar 26, 2016
Review: Mark Murphy Memorial Concert Celebration
We don't often appreciate the impact of someone's life until it's over Many of late vocalist Mark Murphy's extended family and friends may have been meditating on this during the memorial for him at Saint Peter's (Mar...
Mar 13, 2016
Kurt Elling Remembers Mark Murphy 3.14.32 – 10.22.15
I first heard Mark Murphy sing at a little place in Minneapolis called the Artists' Quarter It was 1987 or '88 I don't know whose idea it was among us provincials to undertake hours of snow-driving from our little college in the...
Mar 07, 2016
Review & Bonus Interview: Kurt Elling at Stanford University
Kurt Elling is full of it — talent that is As a vocalist, performer and writer/poet, he is just, simply — off the charts His performance for Stanford Live at Bing Hall, at Stanford University in Palo Alto on Saturday, February 27...
Feb 21, 2016
A conversation with Kurt Elling
As arguably the most prominent male jazz vocalist of his Generation X era, Kurt Elling has a plethora of gigging and recoding outlets through which he can ply his commanding vocal delivery and four-octave range "I'm involved with a nice...
Feb 18, 2016
Jazz Singer Kurt Elling Shares What Makes a Good Song
Jazz singer Kurt Elling is an artist in constant forward motion A master vocalist with virtuoso chops and a deep appreciation of the genre, his career began in the jazz clubs of Chicago, where two of the scene's elder statesmen provided...
Feb 16, 2016
This Is Cabaret: Ann Hampton Callaway, Kurt Elling and Marilyn Maye
Who could be a better host for a radio program called This is Cabaret than the fabulous Ann Hampton Callaway Emanating from the Birdland Jazz Club in Times Square, the first two installments featured jazz singer extraordinaire, Kurt Elling and...
Feb 05, 2016
Spectrum review: Kurt Elling’s Passion World
Fred and Ginger, tomato and basil, gin and tonic: some pairings are such a natural fit as to seem inseparable Singer Kurt Elling and pianist Laurence Hobgood were such a match for 20 years, but now the party is apparently over (excepting...