Aug 06, 2015
Kurt Elling: Passion World
Globe-trotting romance was stylish and sexy in the '50s when Frank Sinatra hit the friendly skies with Come Fly With Me Kurt Elling works in that tradition here, though both the times and the flight plan have changed He's gathered up...
Jul 27, 2015
Kurt Elling: Passion World
Kurt Elling's latest, his second with bassist Clark Sommers, drummer Kendrick Scott and guitarist John McLean, is also his first without pianist and arranger Laurence Hobgood (Keyboardist Gary Versace now completes the ace quintet)...
Jul 13, 2015
Review: Kurt Elling At Nice Jazz Festival
In an ideal world Kurt Elling would be known beyond the jazz world, in many ways he reminds me of Michael Bublé with his stage presence and commanding voice and his ability to reinvent to any song He has been named Male Singer of the...
Jul 12, 2015
Kurt Elling: Passion World
"I always knew, I'd fall for the girl next door/To stay at home with love would be my great reward" Kurt Elling's Passion World begins on a note of raw and wistful melancholy that runs — sometimes breathlessly, sometimes...
Jul 10, 2015
Kurt Elling: Passion World
Constantly on the road, jazz singer Kurt Elling has harvested passions from around the world and channeled them into his eleventh studio album, Passion World Elling takes us through Scotland, France, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Cuba and Brazil,...
Jul 06, 2015
Kurt Elling’s magic carpet
The Malta Jazz Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer and a plethora of renowned local and foreign artists are taking to the stage to make this year's edition one of the most memorable yet Among those artists is Kurt Elling,...
Jun 30, 2015
The Jazz Singer Off Road: Kurt Elling
Jazz singers have always traveled To make a living as a jazz singer has always meant hitting the road Bessie Smith did it and literally died on the road after an automobile accident Billie Holiday did it; even more so after her cabaret card was...
Jun 29, 2015
‘Passion World’ Review: Kurt Elling takes a trip around the world on his latest album
For too long, those who think seriously about jazz have tended to organize the music in terms of a historical sequence of stylistic "begats": New Orleans begat Hot Jazz, which begat swing, which begat bebop, which in turn begat the postmodern...
Jun 26, 2015
What I Love: Where Nice Evenings Are Recalled By Kurt Elling
The note-bending, soul-patch-sporting, Grammy-winning jazz singer Kurt Elling lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their daughter, Luiza, in a two-bedroom rental on the Upper West Side The window in the eat-in kitchen offers a view of glorious...
Jun 26, 2015
Vocal minority: floating on top of the band
As the summer jazz festival season gears up, a glance at its sometimes crowded bills sees singers jostling for space Jazz is a predominantly instrumental tradition and it can be tough for vocalists to get a look in One of the exceptions is the...
Jun 25, 2015
Kurt Elling’s Passion World: Confessions of the Human Heart in Song
Album number 11 from Kurt Elling sees the singer casting his stylistic net far and wide, its eclectic song list drawing not only on Brazilian and Cuban music, but also on French chanson, Brahms, and traditional Scottish music With an impressive...
Jun 23, 2015
Jazz singer Kurt Elling expands musical horizons on new CD, ‘Passion World’
On "Passion World," jazz singer Kurt Elling expands his musical horizons way beyond his previous CD, "1619 Broadway-the Brill Building Project," which focused on classic pop tunes by the songwriting teams housed in a single Manhattan...