Jazz at the Lincoln Center will entertain the Grammy winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling in the Allen Room on Friday, Oct. 12 and Saturday, Oct. 13. Elling will hold two shows a day at his tenure at the Lincoln Center with shows at 7:30 p.m. and then another at 9:30 p.m.
In these shows Kurt Elling will be joined by pianists Laurence Hobgood and guitarist John McLean. Clark Sommers will be on bass while Kendrick Scott will be the drummer. John Ellis will be the tenor saxophone and Brandon the trumpeter.
Kurt Elling hails from Chicago, Illinois and was raised around the Lutheran Church where his father was in charge of the church choir. Naturally Elling followed suit and sang in the choir.
Elling's journey to jazz came by the way of the Gustavus Adolphus College. He briefly attended the University of Chicago Divinity School but dropped out to follow the jazz scene in Chicago.
Elling has been active on the jazz circuit since 1995 playing the Chicago scat scene. In the 1990s Elling recorded a demo and after which he was signed by Blue Note Records where he has release seven albums under the label including his Grammy award winning "Dedicated to You," he came out with in 2009.
They say that I won't last too long on Broadway. I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home, they all say. But they're dead-wrong, I know they are...I won't quit til I'm a star...on Broadway, said Kurt Elling about the critics.
Kurt Elling- Burghausen 2011
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