Here is a Kurt Elling article! He is one of my favorite jazz vocalists.
on July 8, 2009 in musicians No Comments »I think Kurt Elling is one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time. Check out this article.
In conversation with kurt elling
By Ted Panken
Kurt Elling by Christian Lantry
Hardcore Manhattanites consider navigating Brooklyn a less daunting prospect than was the case some years ago. Nonetheless, on a rainy mid-June Monday, it was impressive to note that Kurt Elling, in Manhattan from Chicago on “creative sabbatical” for a year, opted to take the subway from a long rehearsal in Prospect Heights to a Fort Greene dinner appointment. Unprepared for the weather, Elling arrived soaking wet, precisely on schedule.
The rehearsal in question was for a four-night Birdland run in support of Elling’s recent release, Dedicated To You [Concord], on which the 41-year-old singer and his working trio (pianist/arranger Laurence Hobgood, bassist Clark Sommers, and drummer Ulysses Owens) plus guest tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts and the Ethel String quartet interpret the program navigated by tenor saxophone icon John Coltrane and baritone crooner Johnny Hartman on their classic, co-eponymously titled 1963 album, and on Coltrane’s companion album Ballads, from 1962. It’s …
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