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Kurt Elling

Born: November 2, 1967

GRAMMY winner Kurt Elling is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He won the DownBeat Critics Poll for fourteen consecutive years and was named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association on eight occasions. An international jazz award winner, he has also been GRAMMY nominated a dozen times.

Elling's rich baritone spans four octaves and features both astonishing technical mastery and emotional depth. His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, scatting, spoken word and poetry.

Behind the Voice

By Clarence Penn

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Send One Your Love; Come Talk to Me; Growing Trade; Sometimes It Snows in April; Everlong; The Heart of the Matter; Why Can't It Wait Till Morning; Human Nature; You Are.

Wildflowers Vol. 1

By Kurt Elling

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Paper Doll; A Memory of Enchantment; After the Storm; A Wish (Valentine) [feat. Cécile McLorin Salvant]; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Ana Maria.

The Hidden World Of Piloo

By Ada Rovatti

Label: Piloo Records and Productions LLC
Released: 2024
Track listing: Make Up Girl; Hey You (Scintilla Of Sonder) (Feat. Fay Claassen ); Painchiller; Life Must Go On ( feat. Alma Naidu); Grooveland; Take It Home (feat. Niki Haris); Simba's Samba; Red August; The Naked King; Done Deal (Feat. Niki Haris and Kurt Elling).

Band of Other Brothers, Laila Biali, Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O Deliver Holiday Releases, Plus Josie Falbo, Jacqui Dankworth, Sivan Arbel

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 9, 2024

This broadcast includes Grammy nominations part 2, holiday recordings from Band of Other Brothers, Laila Biali and Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O, new vocal releases from Josie Falbo, Jacqui Dankworth, Sivan Arbel with a single from Lauren White, with birthday shoutouts to Rebecca Coupe Franks, Cindy Blackman Santana, Ethel Ennis, Hayoung Lyou, Maria Schneider, and Billy Strayhorn. ...

Stefan Smulovitz, Marina Albero, Nubya Garcia, Wolfgang Muthspiel

by Cheryl K.
November 21, 2024

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, cuts from new releases by multi-instrumentalist Stefan Smulovitz, pianist Marina Albero, saxophonist Nubya Garcia, the Brazilian trio Caixa Cubo, a never-before-issued album co-led by pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Jon Batiste, and guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel. Playlist Jimmie Noone “Forevermore" from Apex ...

USAF Airmen of Note: Aim High/The 2024 Jazz Heritage Series

by Jack Bowers
November 15, 2024

Aim High, recorded as part of the 2024 Jazz Heritage Series, is the forty-sixth album by the U.S. armed services' premier jazz ensemble, the Airmen of Note, founded in 1950 to honor the tradition of Major Glenn Miller's Army Air Corps dance band, which entertained the troops during World War II until Miller's untimely death in ...

UNLV Jazz Ensemble, Kristin Korb, Jocelyn Gould, Elsa Nilsson and Kurt Elling New Releases

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 4, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from UNLV Jazz Ensemble, Kristin Korb, Jocelyn Gould, Elsa Nilsson and Kurt Elling, with birthday shoutouts to Dizzy Gillespie, Amanda Monaco, Emily Braden, Jane Bunnett, Brenda Earle Stokes, Jodi Proznick, and Jane Scheckter, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so ...

Monique Chao, Kit Downes, Kurt Elling, Ben Kono & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 2, 2024

Henry Hey, Kurt Elling and Kit Downes provide the thread of today's set, which also focuses on the large ensembles led by Monique Chao, Ben Kono and Rob Mazurek.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Monique Chao Jazz Orchestra “Chester Is Boss" Time Chamber (Da ...

Holly Channell, Anne Sajdera, Roxana Amed, Teri Parker, Michael Mayo, Nicole Mitchell & Ballake Sissoko, Nubya Garcia & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 14, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Holly Channell, Anne Sajdera, Roxana Amed, Teri Parker, Michael Mayo, Nicole Mitchell & Ballake Sissoko, Nubya Garcia plus a single from Laila Biali, with birthday shoutouts to Ann Richards, Basia, Hyuna Park, Patrice Rushen and Melissa Stylianou among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them ...