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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kurt Elling
All About Jazz is celebrating Kurt Elling's birthday today! Kurt Elling is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He has been named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association on half a dozen occasions in the past ten years, and during the same interval has been the perennial winner of the DownBeat Critics ...
Kurt Elling To Perform At Montgomery County Community College (Blue Bell, PA) on December 3
Blue Bell, PA: The Lively Arts Series at Montgomery County Community College continues its Culture Speaks a Global Language Series with celebrated jazz vocalists Kurt Elling. The concert will take place at Science Center Theatre , 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell, PA on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 8PM. He will be performing selections from his ...
Jazz Singer Kurt Elling and Kluvers Big Band at Wilbur Theatre in Boston on November 2
Grammy Award-winning Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling is performing with the Kluvers Big Band from Denmark at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets range from $27-$37 and can be purchased online. Elling, who celebrates his birthday at the Wilbur Theatre performance, is considered this generation's premier jazz vocalist. The ...
Kurt Elling Joined By Denmark’s Kluvers Big Band & Special Guests -- October 25-30 At Birdland In Nyc
In what promises to be a special engagement, preeminent jazz vocalist Kurt Elling will perform a six-night residency featuring Denmark's renowned Klüvers Big Band at New York City's Birdland, from October 25-30. Different special guests—Miguel Zenon, Ravi Coltrane, Lew Tabackin, Robin Eubanks and Stefon Harris—will join Elling and the 18-piece ensemble each evening. The New York ...
Kurt Elling, Rudresh Mahanthappa and more on Reeds & Deeds II
Reeds and Deeds II presents its current line up! The jazz program is thrilled to announce two interviews and two in studio performance/interviews for the next coming weeks. The schedule is as follows: October 23: Kurt Elling Interviewed October 30: Rudresh Mahanthappa Interviewed November 6: The Jeremy De Jesus Quintet Interviewed with in studio performance November ...
The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?
by Troy Collins
Jazz and poetry have a longstanding relationship that precedes the postwar experiments of the Beats, dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. As with any artistic collaboration, the cooperative efforts of improvising musicians and poets have yielded mixed results over the years. One of the first artists to successfully explore this territory (with John Cage and Charles ...
On Second Thought: - Man in the Air (2003)
By Mark Saleski There's a single reason for me owning this disc: Kurt Elling's cover of Pat Metheny's “Minuano (Six Eight)," from Still Life (Talking). I thought it'd be interesting to hear vocals added to the song. But even after several listenings, I still didn't know what to make of Elling. See, it's a pretty unusual ...
John Coltrane Radio on SiriusXM, hosted by Carlos Santana
In celebration of the legendary jazz saxophonist and composer's 85th birthday, John Coltrane Radio airs on Real Jazz from Thursday, September 22, the day before Coltrane's 85th birthday, at 9 am ET through Sunday, September 25 on channel 67. John Coltrane Radio will be hosted by Grammy Award-winning musician and Coltrane aficionado, Carlos Santana, as well ...
Vocalist Dara Tucker Releases "Soul Said Yes"- Examines Common Threads of Soul in Jazz, Gospel and New Originals and Features 7-String Guitarist Charlie Hunter and Drummer Derrek Phillips
Jazz Vocalist and Songwriter Dara Tucker has released her second CD Soul Said Yes, a collection of music that examines the common thread of soul in Dara's gospel roots, jazz standards and in newer classics reworked in distinct arrangements. “Soul, to me, is an audible expression of the human experience," Tucker said. “As this album reflects ...
Eddie Jefferson: The Scientist of Vocalese
by Ed Hamilton
Detroit once had a reputation as the “Killer Kapital," but things have changed--Dave Bing, basketball Hall of Famer is Mayor and is striving to clean up the city. But 32 years ago, actress Brenda Vaccarro and altoist Richie Cole witnessed the drive-by shotgun slaying of the architect of Vocalese, Eddie Jefferson, at Bakers' Lounge. Jefferson was ...
