“I keep moving all the time,” jazz singer and lyricist Kurt Elling said last week. Elling, the winner of two Grammy Awards and dozens more honors, was in Alexandria, Virginia, filming performances ...

“I am the guy who sings pretty good most of the time,” Kurt Elling announced, rather modestly, halfway through his latest show at Birdland, in which he is collaborating with drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.

The WMNF Song of the Day for December 29, 2025 is “The Modern Ark feat. Kurt Elling” by the JAKE MASON TRIO.

Kurt Elling – the two-time Grammy Award-winning performer and writer – will reinforce his status as a potent force in the arts world with a fall season encompassing an impressive range of projects, ...

This is a live collection recorded as a part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series, a creative homage to the now classic 1963 John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman recording. For this occasion a ...

Elling’s jazz reputation was partly built on extensive use of scat in great early recordings like Close Your Eyes, and his muscular vocal control is better suited to that kind of quasi-instrumental ...

Over a twenty-five year career of touring and recording, Elling has won three Prix du Jazz Vocal (France), two German Echo Awards, two Dutch Edison Awards, and has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award ...

A spare duo becomes an engine—voice and piano reworking Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, theater, and rock into a present-tense argument for hope, empathy and the living tradition of jazz. Elling's ...