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Kurt Elling
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Jan-Feb 2010 Touring Dates ~ New Album coming in 2010!
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Expect Surprises ~ Long-Awaited New Album Coming in 2010!
Kurt, Laurence, the band, and special guests go into the studio in March to record their new album for Concord/Universal to be released in the summer of 2010.
Expect surprises -- something completely different than Dedicated To You. More of their usually unusual fare, this time with things by Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett, Earth Wind and Fire, and Stevie Wonder. A guitar thing with a backbeat -- but jazz guitar and a jazz backbeat!
All the sexy jazz people who've recently seen Kurt live have been buzzing about his lyric to "Samurai Hee Haw." It's his very hip vocalese of a Marc Johnson lick over a John Scofield solo about the life of the mind.
You can watch a sneak preview of this irresistible, mind-bending tune from Kurt's performance at Pizza Express in London last November.
As Kurt reminds us, it's time to be joyful again!
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The Monterey Jazz
Festival is pleased to announce Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour -- a nationwide,
thirty-six show, six-week tour
of the MJF/52 All-Stars in February and April.
Traveling
through thirty-three cities in seventeen
states, the band features the nine-time
Grammy-nominated and NEA Jazz Master Kenny
Barron on piano; Grammy-nominated
violinist Regina Carter;
Grammy-winning guitarist Russell
Malone; nine-time Grammy-nominated
vocalist Kurt Elling;
bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa, and
Grammy-nominated drummer Johnathan
Blake.
The East Coast run visits eleven states starting on February
5, 2010 at the University of Connecticut
in Storrs, and will finish on February 28
at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
The second leg of the tour begins on the
West Coast in Bellingham, Washington on April
14, 2010, and continues with an additional
sixteen shows in six states, ending in Detroit,
Michigan, on May 1, 2010.
Get your tickets soon, because these shows will sell out. (Scroll down for dates and ticket links.)
For a preview of Kurt and the All-Stars performing "When I Grow Too Old to Dream," click here.
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The 52nd GRAMMY Awards
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 Dedicated to You has been nominated for two GRAMMYS: Best Jazz Vocal Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist.
Jazz awards will be announced at the pre-telecast ceremony which will be streamed live on line Sunday, January 31, at 1:00 pm PT.
The gala 52nd GRAMMY Awards broadcast on CBS is Sunday, January 31, from 8:00-11:30 pm ET/PT.
This is Kurt's ninth Grammy nomination. Here's hoping!
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Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman
List Price:
$18.98
Our Price:
$14.99
Buy Now
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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. |
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| JANUARY and FEBRUARY Gigs |
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January 16, 2010
Kurt Elling Quartet
College of DuPage
Jazz at the MAC
Glen Ellyn, IL
February 2009
Kurt Elling with the Monterey Jazz Festival All-Stars
Feb.5-6 Storrs, CT
Feb. 8 Worcester, MA
Feb. 10 Portsmouth, NH
Feb. 11 Boston, MA
Feb. 12 Fairfield, CT
Feb. 13 Greenvale, NY
Feb. 14 Stony Brook, NY
Feb. 16 University Park, PA
Feb. 17 Princeton, NJ
Feb. 18 Red Bank, NJ
Feb. 19 North Bethesda, MD
Feb. 20 Bethlehem, PA
Feb. 21 Bloomburg, PA
Feb. 23 Richmond, VA
Feb. 24 Virginia Beach, VA
Feb. 25 Durham, NC
Feb. 26 Charlotte, NC
Feb. 27 Atlanta, GA
Feb. 28 Birmingham, AL
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Kurt's official website is chock full of music, lyrics, a great and active Forum, photos, projects, scripts, writing, Kurt's store, and other surprises. Come visit us often!
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