Jul 18, 2006
Legends of Jazz DVD available
Don't forget to pick up your copy of Legends of Jazz: Season 1, Volume 1 featuring Kurt Elling! The CD/DVD combo contains Kurt Elling's episode on the series, "The Jazz Singers" and his performances of "She's Funny That Way" and "Take Five"...
Jul 12, 2006
Kurt wins Downbeat Critics Poll
We are proud to announce Kurt's seventh consecutive win of the DownBeat Critics Poll Complete results are listed in the August edition of the magazine, on newsstands now Along with this month's edition comes an official ballot for the...
Jun 26, 2006
JazzWeek Award Winners Announced
For radio station program directors, record label representatives and jazz artists, the JazzWeek Awards recognize excellence in performance, promotion, marketing and artist relations Vocalist of the Year went to Kurt Elling who also recently...
Jun 24, 2006
The winner of the Jazz Journalists Association’s 10th annual Jazz Awards for Male Singer of the Year is
KURT ELLING Full list of winners here The Jazz Awards are presented in 41 categories, including Lifetime Achievement in Jazz and in Jazz Journalism, and also honor jazz advocates, activists, altruists, aiders and abettors in an "A Team"...
Jun 03, 2006
Elling, orchestra put on a dazzling Jazz Series show
Charleston-based touring drummer Quentin Baxter talks often about striving for "intensity, not volume" That theme was much in evidence Friday at Gaillard Auditorium when vocalist Kurt Elling and the 15-piece Chicago Jazz Orchestra romped...
May 18, 2006
JJA Nominations Announced
KE has been nominated as a finalist for a Jazz Journalists Association JazzAward, in the category of Male Singer of the Year The finalists in all 41 Jazz Awards categories are posted at wwwJazzJournalistsAwardscom The 10th annual gala...
May 16, 2006
Legends of Jazz Upcoming Appearance
Catch Kurt Elling appearing on Legends of Jazz, airing on local PBS stations The 13-week season features intimate conversations and original performances by some of the world's leading musicians To celebrate the show, Legends of Jazz released...
Apr 04, 2006
Kurt Elling: Bringing People New Information
It's been three years since the last Kurt Elling album was released, the masterful Man in the Air So when he called me two weeks ago from a hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania, the first thing I asked was when do we get to hear a new one He...
Apr 02, 2005
Kurt Elling: On the Wings of Song and Poetry, as City Lights Flicker
The singer Kurt Elling projects in strong, concentrated gusts: a half-second of inflation and then the word itself, drawn out and oversized He can sound like a horn, and works in long, free-ranging solos, sometimes making that process literal...
Mar 14, 2005
Did you always want to sing? Do you come from a musical family?
My Father was a church musician, and all of us were given instruments to play and lessons I don't remember a time before singing I am told I was making up parts and harmonies to the hymns in church, but this is probably apocryphal...
Mar 13, 2005
Did you always want to be a musician?
I did not even know any professional musicians, other than my father I did not play the pipe organ and did not want to lead a choir, so I didn't really consider singing professionally until I was leaving graduate school many years later By...
Mar 12, 2005
How did you first become interested in Jazz?
When I was in college, some cats down the hall were playing Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck, people like that It was just at the time that I was beginning to actively listen to things -- apart from classical music, which I was quite...