ALBUMGoin’ to Chicago (feat. Huntertones) - SingleKurt Elling & Charlie Hunter
Albums by Kurt Elling
ALBUMSuperBlue: The Iridescent SpreeKurt Elling & Charlie Hunter
ALBUMSuperBlue (feat. Charlie Hunter)Kurt Elling
ALBUMSecrets Are the Best Stories (feat. Danilo Perez)Kurt Elling
ALBUMThe Questions - LiveKurt Elling
ALBUMThe QuestionsKurt Elling
ALBUMThe Beautiful Day (Kurt Elling Sings Christmas)Kurt Elling
ALBUMPassion WorldKurt Elling
ALBUM1619 Broadway ‒ The Brill Building ProjectKurt Elling
ALBUMThe GateKurt Elling
ALBUMNightmovesKurt Elling
Kurt Elling's Popular Music Videos
American Tune
Kurt Elling
Lonely Avenue (feat. Charlie Hunter)
Kurt Elling
Star of Wonder (Yule Log Video)
Kurt Elling
Christmas Children (Yule Log Video)
Kurt Elling
Manic Panic Epiphanic (Live)
Kurt Elling
The Snow is Deep on the Ground / Snowfall (Yule Log Video)
Kurt Elling
Goin’ to Chicago (feat. Huntertones)
Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter & Superblue
Freeman Square
Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter
The Michigan Farm (Grieg: Opus 41/1) (Yule Log Video)
Kurt Elling
Artist Playlists
Kurt Elling Essentials
Curiosity and a sense of humor animate this modern jazz vocalist's style.
Artist Biography
Jazz singer Kurt Elling burst into view in the ’90s with a voice that could leap octaves with impunity and possessed an almost unnatural fluidity. Born in Chicago in 1967, he had a choirmaster father and grew up as a choir singer, but he had a love of jazz singing that charted his course. His 1995 debut album, Close Your Eyes, showed off his ability to croon, scat, or deliver dazzling vocalese as his muse dictated, and it earned Elling the first of his many Grammy nominations. Influenced by bop, beat poetry, classical music, and more, Elling has taken material by artists as varied as Bob Dylan, The Drifters, and King Crimson, and completely transformed it according to his mercurial vision. Partnering with Branford Marsalis, Charlie Hunter, and others, he has built a beguiling, constantly shifting body of work, winning two Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammys over his first three decades of recording.