Two-time Grammy winner Kurt Elling, a man who the New York Times called "the standout male jazz vocalist of our time," gave ...

Kurt Elling, the rare singer-songwriter in this genre whose long hair and soul patch make him look more appropriate for the blues, hails from the mannered side that emphasizes the cool and beautiful, ...

— Summoning such great jazz spirits as Joe Williams, Frank Sinatra and John Coltrane, jazz vocalist Kurt Elling hit Miller Auditorium Thursday night like a fireball. Elling has performed in Kalamazoo ...

“I keep moving all the time,” jazz singer and lyricist Kurt Elling said last week. Elling, the winner of two Grammy Awards and dozens more honors, was in Alexandria, Virginia, filming performances ...

Multi-GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling and guitarist/producer Charlie Hunter released their new rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Black Crow.” The song is off their upcoming album SuperBlue: The ...

Kurt Elling was one credit shy of graduating from the University of Chicago with a degree in divinity when he heard another calling. The estimated 400 attending Saturday night's Jazz Arts Group ...

In the 1960s, American pop music had an address: the Brill Building, 1619 Broadway, New York City. The office building, which started housing music publishers in the 1930s, became a nexus of the music ...

Twelve years ago, jazz singer Kurt Elling left Chicago for New York. Three months ago, he returned. The move, says Elling, was prompted not by the pandemic, which has devastated New York, but by a ...

The only limitations on the tradition are the limitations of artists that are currently trying to work it. "I feel like at this point in my career I don't have to prove that I can do fifteen different ...

He was known as “The Voice.” And Kurt Elling remembers how, when he was a child, those vocal cords stood out. Elling, the son of a high school band instructor, often listened to the music his parents ...

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. Elling's ...

Jazz singer Kurt Elling has taken the brazen step of composing lyrics to fit Dexter Gordon's solo on his 1976 version of "Body and Soul." The lyric wisely mentions that the experiment could be a train ...