Kurt Elling News

ROCKFORD -- Growing up in Rockford, Martha Elling knew her son Kurt had musical talent but little did she know he would go on to become a Grammy winning artist, an accomplishment she remembers in 2010.

Romance Language is very appropriate for Valentine's Day-the perfect background for a romantic evening.

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In one sense, of course, every day has elements of Valentine's Day for music fans: the vast majority of pop material including the Great American Songbook, which still supplies so much source material for jazz improvisers has always focused on love in all its glory and misery.

He was a blazing be-bopper one minute, an Indian sitar the next, a vocal acrobat in parts, and even ripped off a kind of Satchmo-meets-Native American chant.

The Chicago-based pianist Laurence Hobgood , best known as the long-time accompanist to singer Kurt Elling, is coming to St.

You just try to have an interesting life. If a door opens, you step through that door and you experiment and you take risks.