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Kurt Elling

  • Hour 18 Dominant Singers Gregory Porter and Kurt Elling

    Dec 1st, 2020 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Branford Marsalis, Gary Versace, Gregory Porter, Keyon Harrold, Kurt Elling, Lawrence Hobgood, Marquis Hill, Sara Gazarek, Tivon Pennicott

    Gregory Porter Kurt Elling has been the dominant male vocalist in jazz for the past 20 years, winning the Down Beat Critics Poll from 2000–2013. Gregory Porter released his first record in 2010 and was recognized in the same poll as a rising star in 2013. He won the critics poll in five of the past […]

  • Hour 4: Bird at 100: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Joe Lovano, Vincent Herring, Gary Bartz, Bobby Watson

    Aug 25th, 2020 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bobby Watson, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden, Dave Holland, Gary Bartz, George Nazos, Harold Mabern, Jason Stein, Joe Lovano, Kenny Barron, Kurt Elling, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Tamuz Nissim, Vincent Herring

    Rudresh Mahanthappa Charlie Parker was born 100 years ago on August 29, 1920. Although he died at 34 years old in 1955, his legacy is so powerful that jazz would be a very different music if not for his contributions. In the intervening 65 years, Bird’s music has continued to influence and inspire, now, several […]

  • Jazz at 100 / The Jazz Messenger – The Porgy and Bess Show

    Dec 11th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Archie Shepp, Arkestra, Ben Webster, Bill Evans, Bill Frisell, Billie Holiday, Branford Marsalis, Cab Calloway, Coleman Hawkins, DuBose Heyward, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Free Bridge Quintet, George Gershwin, Gerald Wilson, Gil Evans, Herbie Hancock, Ira Gershwin, Jimmy Smith, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Joni Mitchell, Kurt Elling, Louis Armstrong, Mal Waldron, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, New Vision Sax Ensemble, Nina Simone, Patricia Barber, Porgy & Bess, Sammy Davis Jr., Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra

    Cab Calloway as Sportin’ Life In the mid-1930’s, George Gershwin acquired the rights to the play Porgy by DuBose Heyward, based on his own novel of 1925. Gershwin’s great American opera, Porgy and Bess debuted in 1935 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. For some period of time, the themes of domestic violence, […]

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