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Kurt Elling
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Thanksgiving News & December 2009 Touring Dates
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Kurt Elling Live at the White House!
Kurt Elling and Laurence Hobgood
had the great honor of performing at the White House State Dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur. The gala dinner was held Tuesday evening, November 24.
The President and the First Lady invited 338 guests for dinner in a beautiful, heated tent on the South Lawn. Tables for ten were adorned with deep purple flowers, plum
and fuchsia hydrangea, garden roses, and sweet peas, honoring the
famous Indian Peacock.
The evening's stellar entertainment featured Kurt Elling with Laurence Hobgood and the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, Oscar and Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson, Academy Award-winning Indian musician and composer A.R. Rahman, best known in the U.S. for the score of the hit film Slumdog Millionaire, and The President's Own United States Marine Band.
The White House preview of the menu, china, and entertainment is here.
The official guest list is here.
Photos are here and here.
There are no podcasts or recordings of this magical evening's entertainment. But you can get a taste of Kurt's bravo performance of "Nature Boy" from last year's concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the famed Sydney Opera House in Australia.
Same arrangement, different orchestra, same song, different stage -- and always cool and swingin'. Savor every moment here.
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Giving Thanks
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Thanks for your continuing enthusiasm and support. Thanks for being open to what we do - for sticking with us, really listening to us, for occasionally defending us and for really believing in what we're trying to do.
My hope is that each of you see more things in your own lives to be thankful for than you have time and energy to articulate -
essentially, that the gifts and blessings of your lives are overflowing.
My sincere thanks.
KE
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Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman
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Check out the Store page on Kurt's website for his book of lyrics, selected charts in Laurence's very own hand, the "Live in Chicago Out Takes" CD only available here, several signed Blue Note CDs, and more. |
Upcoming collaborations in 2010:
Monterey Jazz Festival All-Stars
Kurt tours with Kenny Barron, Regina Carter, and Russell Malone
February and April 2010
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Passion World
with French accordion star
Richard Galliano
and Laurence Hobgood
Lincoln Center, New York
May 2010
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Jazz Story
with the WDR Big Band
Germany
June 2010
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Smokin' Sinatra!
with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
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Kurt Elling and
The Laurence Hobgood Trio
Tanglewood Jazz Festival
September 2010
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| DECEMBER Gigs |
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December 2 - 5, 2009
Kurt Elling Sings
Dedicated To You (Coltrane/Hartman)
with special guest, Willie Atkins
Jazz at the Bistro
St. Louis, MO
December 6, 2009
KE Quartet
Murry's Jazz Club
Columbia, MO
December 8, 2009
Kurt Elling
West Coast, Left Coast:
A Night of the Beats
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA
Featured Artists:
Charles Lloyd New Quartet
Kurt Elling, poet performer
Michael McClure, poet performer
Exene Cervenka, poet performer
David Meltzer, poet performer
Alan Broadbent, piano
Christian McBride, bass
Peter Erskine, drums
John Handy, alto saxophone
Joshua Redman, saxophone
December 30 - January 3, 2010
KE Quartet with Ernie Watts
Umbria Jazz Winter #17
Orvieto, Italy
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Kurt & Laurence go into the studio in January with
some very special guests to record the next album. Watch for news
about a summer 2010 release.
GQ's Kurt Elling Live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue links to Kurt's earlier GQ interview where he told stories about President Obama and described the art of vocalese.
GQ says, "He also debuted an excerpt of a new song with the working title "Samaurai Hee-Haw" that, well... We think is irresistible as hell." Listen to the preview here. |
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