Kurt Elling

Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz vocalist. Download high resolution version (1264x1380, 213 KB)Jazz singer Kurt Elling. ... Download high resolution version (1264x1380, 213 KB)Jazz singer Kurt Elling. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ...

Elling graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota in 1989. He then enrolled in The University of Chicago's Divinity School and remained a student there until January 1992, when he left school one credit short of graduation. Gustavus Adolphus College is a private liberal arts college founded in Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1862 by Eric Norelius and was originally named Minnesota Elementar Skola. ... Location in the state of Minnesota. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

In the last decade, Elling has released seven albums for the Blue Note label. He has also performed and recorded with many musicians, including David Amram, Bob Belden, Joanne Brackeen, Oscar Brown, Jr., Billy Corgan, Orbert Davis, George Freeman, Buddy Guy, Jon Hendricks, Charlie Hunter and Rex Richardson. In jazz and blues notes added to the major scale for expressive quality, loosely defined by musicians to be an alteration to a scale or chord that makes it sound like the blues. ... David Amram (born November 17, 1930 in Philadelphia) is an American composer, musician and writer. ... Joanne Brackeen (born July 26, 1938) is an American jazz pianist and music educator. ... Oscar Brown, Jr, (October 10, 1926 – May 29, 2005), was a singer, songwriter, playwright, poet and civil rights activist. ... William Patrick Billy Corgan, Jr. ... George Freeman (born 1951) is a Canadian comic book artist. ... George Buddy Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues and rock guitarist and singer. ... Jon Hendricks (born September 16, 1921 in Newark, Ohio) is a jazz lyricist and singer. ... Charlie Hunter Trio Charlie Hunter is a jazz, rock and fusion guitarist. ...

As of late 2005, Elling's current band includes Rob Amster on bass, Laurence Hobgood on piano, and Kobe Watkins on drums. He is regularly featured at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge at 4802 N. Broadway in Chicago. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The most famous bar in Uptown if not all of Chicago, the Green Mill is one of famous gangster Al Capones former speakeasies from the Prohibition-era roaring 20s (check out his photo on the baby grand behind the bar); it was also a fav of Charlie Chaplin and...

Elling has won the Down Beat and JazzTimes critics’ polls three years in a row in the Best Male Singer category. He is also Vice Chair of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the 17,000-member service organization that produces the annual Grammy Awards. Down Beat is an American magazine devoted to jazz. ... JazzTimes is a music magazine that covers jazz. ... The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is known variously as NARAS or The Recording Academy. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...

Discography

• 1995 - Close Your Eyes (Blue Note)
• 1997 - The Messenger (Blue Note)
• 1998 - This Time it's Love (Blue Note)
• 2000 - Live in Chicago (Blue Note)
• 2000 - Live in Chicago Out Takes (Blue Note)
• 2001 - Flirting with Twilight (Blue Note)
• 2003 - Man in the Air (Blue Note)
• 2007 - Nightmoves (Concord)

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External links

• KurtElling.com
• Kurt Elling at Blue Note Records.com