Mar 29, 2012
Jazz maestro Elling heading to NZ
Moving as fast he's been known to scat sing to jazz tunes, Kurt Elling is always doing so much it can be hard to keep up At just 44, his versatility is legendary The celebrated American jazz singer can approach Nature Boy, first made famous by...
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 24, 2012
Pinsky and Hobgood’s ‘POEMJAZZ’ collaboration steers clear of Beat trappings
SAN RAFAEL, Calif - "I'm of the generation when Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Quartet were the epitome of cool," says Robert Pinsky, 71, discussing the roots of his earliest creative ambitions Long before he thought of putting verse to paper,...
Feb 20, 2012
Kurt Elling Quintet: Passion World
In many ways the Kurt Elling Quintet was just the kind of performance you'd want to see on Valentine's Day at The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Along with special guests, Violinist Regina Carter and Clarinetist Anat Cohen, Elling paid tribute to...
Feb 17, 2012
Kurt Elling on the Grammys, confidence, the jazz lifestyle, his next album, and more
I've seen Kurt Elling perform countless times—seriously, so often I've lost track of the number—but I'd never interviewed him until Thursday, Feb 16, two days before his performance at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis On Saturday,...
Feb 14, 2012
Two Voices for Our Time: Kurt Elling and Lizz Wright at Orchestra Hall, February 18th
Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis hosts a double Valentine musical gala on Saturday, February 18th, with two of the hottest headliners in vocal music, Kurt Elling and Lizz Wright They perform back- to-back sets beginning at 8 pm, part of...
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
Jazz Singer Kurt Elling Plays Not My Job on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”
PETER SAGAL, HOST: And now, the game where people who have done a lot of great things do something else Kurt Elling is often called the greatest male jazz singer alive But for many years, he was the Susan Lucci of jazz (SOUNDBITE OF...
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 10, 2012
Gustavus graduate Kurt Elling up for another Grammy
When the annual Grammy Awards are held on Sunday, February 12, Gustavus Alumnus Kurt Elling '89 will be among the nominees for Best Jazz Vocal Album for his latest jazz album entitled The Gate For Elling, this is his eleventh Grammy...
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...