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Kurt Elling (1967, Chicago) is a classically trained jazz singer who mixes vocalese style with a hipster/beatnik slant and his own brand of progressivism. 

One of the few male jazz singers from around the baby boom generation, Kurt Elling is an anomaly simply by profession. Given the depth and broad vision of his recordings and performance style, Elling is in a league of his own. Planning a career in the academic world, he discovered jazz and took to it naturally. Deeply influenced by singer and poet Mark Murphy, Elling began to develop his idiosyncratic scat style in the smaller clubs of Chicago (primarily at the Green Mill, sharing the stage with legends Von Freeman and Ed Peterson) and then throughout the Midwest. An Elling show can contain ranting beat poetry, dramatic and poignant readings of Rilke, and hard-swinging scat.

Kurt Elling - 1619 Broadway - 2012
Kurt Elling - Close Your Eyes - 1995
Kurt Elling - Dedicated To You - 2009
Kurt Elling - Flirting With Twilight - 2001
Kurt Elling - Live In Chicago - 1999
Kurt Elling - Man In The Air - 2003
Kurt Elling - Nightmoves - 2007
Kurt Elling - Passion World - 2015
Kurt Elling - The Gate - 2011
Kurt Elling - The Messenger - 1997
Kurt Elling - This Time It's Love - 1998