Kurt Elling
Born: 2nd November 1967, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality: American
Artist's website: https://kurtelling.com/
Kurt Elling is an American jazz singer and songwriter.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Rockford, Elling became interested in music through his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. He sang in choirs and played musical instruments. He encountered jazz while a student at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. After college, he enrolled in the University of Chicago Divinity School, but he left one credit short of a degree to pursue a career as a jazz vocalist.
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Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter - SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree
20th Oct 2023
Elling and Hunter reprise their immaculate partnership for this funky elixir of an album, reigniting their untouchable groove as they showcase tunes from Joni Mitchell and Ornette Coleman.
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Big Band & Swing
Modal & Post Bop
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Special offer. The Messenger
Kurt Elling, Paul Wertico (drums), Rob Amster (upright bass), Orbert Davis (trumpet), Dave Onderdonk (guitar), Paul Wertico (percussion), Rob Amster (bass guitar), Jim Widlowski (drums), Eric Hochberg (upright bass), Eddie Johnson (tenor saxophone), Cassandra Wilson (additional vocals)
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Grammy Awards, 41st Awards (1998), Nominee: Best Jazz Vocal Performance
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Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman
Kurt Elling, Mary Rowell (violin), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Clark Sommers (double bass), Ernie Watts (tenor saxophone), Ulysses Owens (drums), Ralph Farris (viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello), Laurence Hobgood (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Jazz Vocal Performance
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Special offer. Man In The Air
Kurt Elling (vocalist), Rob Amster (bass), Frank Parker Jr. (drumkit, percussion), Stefon Harris (vibraphone), Jim Gailloreto (sopranosaxophone), Paul Wertico (drumkit), Brad Wheeler (sopranosaxophone), Laurence Hobgood (piano)
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Afro Blue - 10th Anniversary Edition
Harold Mabern (piano), Gregory Porter (leadvocalist), Norah Jones (leadvocalist), Jane Monheit (leadvocalist), Kurt Elling (leadvocalist, vocals), Alexis Cole (leadvocalist), Peter Bernstein (guitar)
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