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Kurt Elling

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Kurt Elling is an American jazz singer lauded for a soaring style and technical dynamism singing standards and his own lyrics with artists performing improvised versions of solos by classic jazz stars such as John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny. He has won and been nominated for many jazz awards and in 2017 he toured the world with the Branford Marsalis Quartet. The Chicago-born vocalist sang in church choirs as a boy and turned to jazz in the early 1990s. He has collaborated with many other top artists such as David Amram, Oscar Brown Jr., Buddy Guy and J...