That's the question that hangs heaviest over The Questions. While vocalist Kurt Elling didn't come into this production with a theme in mind, he discovered a through line in the act of wrestling with ...

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 … ...

Kurt Elling. The Questions (OKeh) Press notes tell us that the questions of the title range from the existential “What is this life?” to the pertinent and political “Why is there such ...

Elling sang for the Branford Marsalis Quartet’s 2016 album, “Upward Spiral,” and Marsalis contributed to Elling’s Grammy-nominated 2018 album, “The Questions.” They hit the road ...

Kurt Elling’s first live concert album, “Live from Chicago,” ended up being more than a little prophetic. Elling recorded it in 1999 at the Green Mill, the venue that gave him a crucial ...

Grammy-winning US jazz vocalist Kurt Elling readily acknowledges there are plenty of societal and political ills in the world at the moment, and while he doesn’t profess to have the answers, he ...

In the mid-1990,s Elling met Hunter not long after they’d both been signed to Blue Note Records.Hunter and Elling were in their mid-20s and at the start of careers that would bring them in and ...

Talk to jazz vocalist Kurt Elling for a few minutes and he just might change your mind. For a man who has earned a Grammy nomination for eight of his nine albums (the ninth was released just this ...

Multi-GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling and guitarist/producer Charlie Hunter announced SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree, a new full-length album featuring drummer Corey Fonville and ...

Kurt Elling and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra The Village Vanguard Through June 11. In the middle of Kurt Elling’s early Thursday set at the Vanguard, he let the audience know just how he felt: “I’m so ...

Jazz album: “The Questions” by Kurt Elling, released in 2018 on Okeh. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz. All ... Kurt Elling: vocals; Stu Mindeman: piano, Hammond B-3 ...