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Kurt Elling: Man In The Air
by Joshua Weiner
When recording songs written by other artists, the jazz musician faces a dilemma: how to pay homage to, and show respect for, the composer's vision, while at the same time bringing to the tune a fresh approach and original talent? On his new Blue Note record, Man In The Air, vocalist Kurt Elling walks this tightrope ...
Kurt Elling: Man in the Air
by Dan McClenaghan
It's often said of particular jazz singers: “He's (she's) really got a good set of pipes." And the compliment seems meant to denote the sheer God-given beauty of the vocal instument. The thirty-five year old Kurt Elling, who came to jazz singing relatively late in life – though his vocal beginnings can be traced back to ...
Kurt Elling: Don't Measure the Limbs
by R.J. DeLuke
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. --Pablo Picasso At a time when the music scene in the United States is in a funk, and the recording industry, ...
Lavina Jazzy
By Kurt Elling
Label: Lavina Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia); (Where Do I Begin) Love Story; You Do Something For Me; God Will; That Old Feeling; Fotografia; Blue Moon; You Don't Know What Love Is; Mas Que Nada; Walkin' My Baby Back Home; Summertime; Cry Me A River; Do Nothin' Till You Here From Me;
Jazz To Cover
By Kurt Elling
Label: EMI
Released: 2001
Track listing: I Can't Make You Love Me; Strawberry Fields Forever; Everytime We Say Goodbye; Fly Me To The Moon; I Can See Clearly Now; Pretty World; As; Crazy; Morning Has Broken; All The Way; Night & Day; My One & Only Love; 'Round Midnight; Time After Time; Hey Jude; Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You; The Continental; Eleanor Rigby; I Left My Heart In San Francisco; I Only Have Eyes For You; Autumn Leaves; My Romance; Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado); As Time Goes By; When I Fall In Love; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To;
Kurt Elling: Flirting With Twilight
by Jim Santella
This weekend's shopping list is now clearly defined. Just released, Kurt Elling's fifth album grabs you by the heartstrings and just won't let go. It's a ballad album from the emotional jazz singer based in Chicago. Emphasizing traditional harmony with unique inner voicing, Elling strolls with a superb horn trio and rhythm section. From a delicately ...
Kurt Elling: Flirting With Twilight
by Jim Santella
This weekend's shopping list is now clearly defined. Just released, Kurt Elling's fifth album grabs you by the heartstrings and just won't let go. It's a ballad album from the emotional jazz singer based in Chicago. Emphasizing traditional harmony with unique inner voicing, Elling strolls with a superb horn trio and rhythm section. From a delicately ...
Live In Chicago
By Kurt Elling
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Downtown; My Foolish Heart; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Oh My God; Night Dream; (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; spoken intro: (Esperanto); Esperanto; Don
Live in Chicago - Out Takes
By Kurt Elling
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2000
Track listing: Resolution; What I Meant To Say Was...; Moon and Sand (Inspired by Keith Jarrett); Dolores Dream (including An Extemporaneous Prolegomenon to Any Future Extraneous Thought on The Subject of Mirrors); Renaissance of the Resistance; Senor Blues 2000 (The Alien Version) (Studio Recording);
