Nightmoves

Performer: Kurt Elling
Producer: Joe Chiccarelli; Kurt Elling
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Kurt Elling (vocals). The Chicago jazz vocalist Kurt Elling shows his musical depth in this after-hours set, which features inspired re-workings of songs by a varied selection of artists, including Frank Sinatra, Irving Berlin, Betty Carter, and the Guess Who. In a further display of his wide-ranging artistry, Elling also performs musical settings of poems by Walt Whitman and Theodore Roethke, as well as adding his own lyrics to a version of "Body and Soul," and pairing lines by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi with a little-known Duke Ellington composition, "I Like the Sunrise."

Down Beat (p.56) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e's a risk taker, one of the few post-Baby Boom hardcore jazz artists who can live up to the term 'original.'" JazzTimes (p.91) - "[T]he sort of once-in-a-rare-moon creative explosion that happens when brains, guts and curiosity intersect."

Chicago singer Kurt Elling started out singing classical repertoire as a young man, but soon developed an interest in jazz. As a contemporary jazz vocalist, Elling incorporated the "vocalese" style of Jon Hendricks and James Moody, the hipster/beatnik slant of monologist/poets like Lord Buckley, and a progressive, visionary quality all his own. Every one of Elling's first six albums was nominated for a Grammy award, and he has consistently come out on top in jazz magazine polls, yet due to the uncompromising, left-of-center nature of his work, he continues to be a cult hero, existing outside the mainstream.

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