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Kurt Elling
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April 2010 ~ Touring Dates & News of the New Side!
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Hi and Happy Spring!
We've been tracking the new studio recording in New York. Some of the
tracks our faithful friends will have heard us warming up in concerts.
Everything is moving smoothly, and it's been a thrill and a gift to us
to have time with Don Was as a creative partner. We'll be mixing the
tracks in LA in May, once I am done with the second leg of the Monterey
Jazz All-Stars tour.
We have a great many special appearances
coming up meanwhile: - Passion World: Kurt Elling &
Richard Galliano, with Laurence Hobgood, for two nights at Jazz at
Lincoln Center (May 14-15)
- a tremendous night with the Count Basie
Orchestra at the San Francisco Jazz Festival (May 30)
- Laurence leads
his own sextet at the Green Mill (April 30-May 1)
- and I just found
out I'll be singing the"Seventh Inning Stretch" during the Crosstown
Classic at Wrigley Field in Chicago (June 11).
In the
summer, we'll be going to Europe with a band featuring Chicago guitar
hero John McLean. He'll be with us through the fall as the record comes
out & we're looking fwd to heaps of exciting gigs with him.
Thanks
once again for sticking with us. More to come!
KE
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(¸.· New album coming ~ don't you wonder what we'll hear?
Laurence says: OK, it's time to say at least this little bit:
we've finished the initial, main tracking for Kurt's next CD and I'm
pretty comfortable saying that this record is going to be amazing,
possibly the best work we've done yet. We recorded mid-March and the
cast included John Patitucci, Terreon Gully, Kobie Watkins, John McLean
as well as KE and myself, with Don Was producing.
Fans heard them live at the Green Mill just before the studio dates and raved about the shows both nights. The Mill was jammin'.
JazzSailor:
WOW!!!! I'd give you guys
the highlights, but every bit of the show was a highlight! They were in
top form...INCREDIBLE rhythm section...great to have Kobie back, and
playing with John Patitucci...WOW!!! the interplay between them was
stellar..and John Patitucci phenomenal...and John McLean on guitar..he
was often the guest during the Wednesday night shows...rounded out the
group. They opened up with Steppin' Out...Dedicated to You...Life
of the Mind...Norwegian Wood...huh, you say?? Nothing short of AWESOME! (more)
Shafi: Steppin' Out:
I heard this for the first time a year ago at the Mill and it has
become more refined and smoothed out with a stronger build-up musically
as the song progresses.
The interaction between Kobie Watkins, KE and Laurence Hobgood after
the piano instrumental on "Don't you
wonder what we'll find?" is almost like they were playing each
other into a corner playing their way out and meeting KE in the middle.
KE poses it as more of a question than Joe Jackson by dropping an
octave as required, and leads the audience on a ride to find the
answer.
(more)
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The Monterey Jazz
Festival is pleased to announce the West Coast leg of the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour -- a seventeen show, two and a half-week tour
of the MJF/52 All-Stars in April. The East Coast run was in February and got rave reviews.
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; Grammy winner and nine-time Grammy-nominated
vocalist Kurt Elling;
bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa, and
Grammy-nominated drummer Johnathan
Blake.
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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KE Interview on WTTW
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Kurt was Phil Ponce's guest on The Friday Night Show on WTTW in Chicago, April 2, 2010. Watch this terrific half hour interview here. Includes KE & LH performing They Say It's Wonderful and You Are Too Beautiful.
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April 2010
Kurt Elling with the Monterey Jazz Festival All-Stars
April 14 Bellingham, WA
April 15 Olympia, WA
April 16 KE not performing in SF
April 17 Napa, CA
April 18 Modesto, CA
April 19 Santa Cruz, CA (2 shows)
April 21 San Diego, CA
April 22 Los Angeles, CA
April 24 Costa Mesa, CA
April 25 Lancaster, CA
April 27 Tucson, AZ
April 29 Madison, WI
April 30 Naperville, IL
May 1 Detroit, MI
April 30-May 1 Laurence Hobgood Sextet (without KE), The Green Mill, Chicago, IL
May previews
May 14-15 Passion World: KE & Richard Galliano, with Laurence Hobgood, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York
May 30 KE with the Count Basie Orchestra, Sinatra-Basie Revisited, San Francisco Jazz Festival
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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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