Features
Thursday, December 8 2011
The Best Jazz of 2011
Jazz is ready to go just about anywhere these days, and our list this year travels a good distance from free playing to fusion, controlled singing to daring solo piano.
Reviews
Tuesday, December 11 2012
Kurt Elling: 1619 Broadway, The Brill Building Project
Our most impressive jazz singer gets at a wide variety of songs from the '50s through the '70s, with massively mixed results.
Monday, March 14 2011
Kurt Elling: The Gate
The premiere male jazz vocalist, in his prime and handling both jazz and pop material with aplomb.
Wednesday, July 29 2009
Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You
Expressive vocals, brilliant instrumental solos and creative arrangements throughout, tight ensemble work, and the concept stays true to course.
Wednesday, March 30 2005
Fred Hersch / Kurt Elling / Kate McGarry: Leaves of Grass
On the eve of his 50th birthday Fred Hersch doesn't so much celebrate Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass -- or Whitman or even himself -- as indulge feelings alien to performing the text.
News
Friday, April 17 2009
Kurt Elling takes on a classic jazz album
Kurt Elling can't remember when he first heard "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman," the iconic 1963 album in which the exploratory saxophonist and bedroom balladeer…
