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 ...

Important update on jazz singer Kurt Elling: The plant that Barack Obama gave him as a housewarming gift, before he became a U.S. Senator in 2005, is doing well. “It’s up to my shoulders at ...

Kurt Elling’s family used music as a vehicle to praise the divine. Elling even went to divinity school, but soon realized he could better acclaim the spiritual with his musical gifts rather than ...

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 ...

“I keep moving all the time,” jazz singer and lyricist Kurt Elling said last week. Elling, the winner of two Grammy Awards and dozens more honors, was in Alexandria, Virginia, filming ...

“I am the guy who sings pretty good most of the time,” Kurt Elling announced, rather modestly, halfway through his latest show at Birdland, in which he is collaborating with drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.

Lauded by the New York Times as the "standout male jazz vocalist of our time," Kurt Elling has been entertaining crowds since the mid 1990s with his impressive four-octave baritone range ...

Multi-GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling has released an a cappella interpretation of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,” featuring celebrated vocal group The Swingles. Released ...

Kurt Elling is discussing the genesis of his latest record, Flirting With Twilight. "I've made these roller coaster rides every time," says the Chicago-based jazz singer referring to his four ...

Kurt Elling is renowned worldwide for his unparalleled virtuosity and flair for trailblazing artistic exploration. From his stunning reinvention of timeless standards to his own captivating ...

With the poise of a World War II-era crooner, the patois of a Beat poet and the searching gaze of seminary student, jazz vocalist Kurt Elling isn’t likely to be confused for Mick Jagger any time ...

Kurt Elling's new Blue Note CD, "Man in the Air," features a handful of jazz classics to which Elling has written some formidable lyric lines. A rangy baritone capable of effective vocal trickery ...