Performance · Production
Kurt Elling
United States • b. 1967-11-02
Kurt Elling is credited on 119 releases across 69 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1991–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
119
Pressings credited
69
Albums
4
Decades active
3
In collections
Biography
Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz singer and songwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Rockford, Elling became interested in music through his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. He sang in choirs and played musical instruments. He encountered jazz while a student at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. After college, he enrolled in the University of Chicago Divinity School, but he left one credit short of a degree to pursue a career as a jazz vocalist. Elling began to perform around Chicago, scat singing and improvising his lyrics. He recorded a demo in the early 1990s and was signed by Blue Note. He has been nominated for seventeen Grammy Awards, winning Best Vocal Jazz Album for Dedicated to You (2009) and Secrets Are the Best Stories (2021). Elling often leads the Down Beat magazine Critics' Poll. He had a longtime collaboration with pianist Laurence Hobgood, leading a quartet that toured throughout the world.
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Credited work
119 releases · 69 albums · active 1991–2024
- Performance · 235
- Production · 39
- Other credits · 29
Studios: Chicago Recording Company · Capitol Studios · Green Mill · Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Pittsburgh
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Bob Mintzer Big Band
- Liquid Soul
- Charlie Hunter Quartet
- Cæcilie Norby
- Till Brönner
- Laurence Hobgood
- Joanne Brackeen
- Rhythm & Brass
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