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Kurt Elling

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GRAMMY winner Kurt Elling is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He won the DownBeat Critics Poll for fourteen consecutive years and was named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association on eight occasions. An international jazz award winner, he has also been GRAMMY nominated a dozen times.

Elling's rich baritone spans four octaves and features both astonishing technical mastery and emotional depth. His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, scatting, spoken word and poetry.

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Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!

Label: Green Hill Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Paint It, Black – feat. Arturo Sandoval & Pedrito Martinez; Bennie and the Jets; Baby, I Love Your Way – feat. Peter Frampton; Tainted Love – feat. Kurt Elling (duet), Steve Jordan, John Clayton; Band On The Run; A Hard Day’s Night – feat. Monte Croft; Joy To The World – feat. Trombone Shorty (duet); Fly Like An Eagle – feat. Bill Frisell; Every Breath You Take – feat. George Coleman; Old Time Rock & Roll – feat. Wycliffe Gordon (duet) & Herlin Riley; Life’s Been Good – feat. Scotty Barnhart of The Count Basie Orchestra.

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Article: Album Review

Stefano Rielli: So Far

Read "So Far" reviewed by Neil Duggan


The aptly titled album So Far marks the debut of the Italian bassist Stefano Rielli, who leads a quartet inspired by Jimmy Smith's electric organ sound. Beyond his classical foundation, Rielli graduated in jazz double bass from the Parma Conservatory in 2015 before earning a master's degree in electric bass from the Matera Conservatory in 2017. ...

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Article: Live Review

Kurt Elling With Christian Sands at Miner Auditorium

Read "Kurt Elling With Christian Sands at Miner Auditorium" reviewed by Steven Roby


Kurt Elling With Christian Sands Miner Auditorium (SFJAZZ Center) San Francisco, California October 04, 2025 A spare duo becomes an engine--voice and piano reworking Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, theater, and rock into a present-tense argument for hope, empathy and the living tradition of jazz. They walked on together, and ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Homage to John Coltrane, Including the Album A Love Supreme Interpreted By Four Different Jazz Musicians

Read "Homage to John Coltrane, Including the Album A Love Supreme Interpreted By Four Different Jazz Musicians" reviewed by David W. Daniels


Our annual tribute to John Coltrane on the week of his birthday--His music as interpreted by Billy Bang, Bob Mintzer Big Band, Kenny Garrett, Larry Coryell and more. Includes a rendering of the album A Love Supreme with four different jazz artists performing each part of the four-part composition. Playlist John Coltrane “Giant Steps"--from ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sonhos, Pesadelos & An American Tune

Read "Sonhos, Pesadelos & An American Tune" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


Dreams and nightmares this week on Caminhos do Jazz, with a host of superb Brazilian performers, including singers Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Alaide Costa, Lenine and the MPB group Nação Zumbi. The set also includes a cut by the extraordinary Norwegian world-jazz ensemble Music for a While, featuring vocalist Tora Augestad, and one from the renowned ...

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Greg Little & Renderglow

RENDERGLOW is a dynamic, interactive musical group based out of Orlando, Florida that combines elements of funk, pop, reggae, latin, jazz and dance into an intoxicating brew that is funky and fresh. Founder Greg Little plays trumpet, sings and incorporates the rare EVI. (Electric Valve Instrument) Renderglow has built a compelling new sound. Since 2012, they have played to enthusiastic crowds at clubs, festivals and corporate gigs.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Remembering Sheila Jordan, New Releases By Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, Catina DeLuna, the Airmen Of Note, Richard Johnson, Jorge Garcia. Patricia Brennan & More

Read "Remembering Sheila Jordan, New Releases By Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, Catina DeLuna, the Airmen Of Note, Richard Johnson, Jorge Garcia. Patricia Brennan & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from the Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, Catina DeLuna and Otmaro Ruiz, the Airmen Of Note, Richard Johnson, Jorge Garcia plus a single from Patricia Brennan, with birthday shoutouts to lyricists Dorothy Parker and Carolyn Leigh, pianist Mal Waldron (100!), Nora Germain, Fostina Dixon, Anita Wardell, Naomi Moon Siegel, ...

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News: Music Industry

Barbara Brighton: A Quarter Century Of Blazing Trails For Female Jazz Producers

Barbara Brighton: A Quarter Century Of Blazing Trails For Female Jazz Producers

Reflecting upon her extraordinary 25-year career as one of Los Angeles’ premiere and most respected jazz producers, Barbara Brighton connects powerfully with—and continues to wholeheartedly embody—an insightful quote from four-time Grammy winner Orrin Keepnews, a transcendent figure in 20th century jazz who set standards as as producer, label owner and journalist/liner notes writer. “One of the ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Vocals? Sorta

Read "Vocals? Sorta" reviewed by Patrick Burnette


From time to time this august podcast discusses the jazz vocal arts and opinions are expressed. Heavy hitters like Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Vaughan, and Torme have all been inspected. For this episode, the boys venture to the odder corners of the jazz vocal realm, looking at projects where the vocalist isn't the only--or sometimes even the main--talent ...


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