Kurt Elling - Man In The Air
Artist: Kurt Elling
Title: Man In The Air
Release Date Jul 22, 2003
Recording Date Jan 13, 2003 - Jan 17, 2003
Label Blue Note
Genre: Jazz
Style: Vocal Jazz, Contemporary Jazz Vocals
Number of Discs: 1
Source: Original CD
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TrackList:
1 - Minuano (7:55)
2 - In the Winelight (6:40)
3 - Resolution (6:53)
4 - Time to Say Goodbye (6:43)
5 - Uncertainty of the Poet (1:9)
6 - More I Have You (3:38)
7 - Man in the Air (5:32)
8 - Secret I (6:24)
9 - Higher Vibe (6:37)
10 - Hidden Jewel (5:45)
11 - Never My Love (3:42)
12 - All Is Quiet (6:28)
Personnel:
Kurt Elling: Vocals
Laurence Hobgood: Piano & Rhodes Electric Piano
Rob Amster: Bass
Frank Parker, Jr.: Drums & Percussion
Stefon Harris: Vibes
Jim Gailloreto: Soprano Saxophone
with Paul Wertico (Drums on Track 1) and Brad Wheeler (Soprano Saxophone on Track 1)
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Biography
Born: November 2, 1967 | Instrument: Vocal
Kurt Elling is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He has been named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association on half a dozen occasions in the past ten years, and during the same interval has been the perennial winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll. He is also a Grammy winner, and every record he has made has been Grammy nominated.
Elling’s rich baritone spans four octaves and features both astonishing technical mastery and emotional depth. His command of rhythm, texture, phrasing, and dynamics is more like a virtuoso jazz instrumentalist than a vocalist. His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, scatting, spoken word, and poetry.
Declared The New York Times, “Elling is the standout male vocalist of our time.” Said The Washington Post, “Since the mid-1990s, no singer in jazz has been as daring, dynamic or interesting as Kurt Elling. With his soaring vocal flights, his edgy lyrics and sense of being on a musical mission, he has come to embody the creative spirit in jazz.” He has been featured in profiles for CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, on Ramsey Lewis’s Legends of Jazz, and in hundreds of publications.
Elling has recorded and/or performed with an array of artists, including Terence Blanchard, Dave Brubeck, Jon Hendricks, Charlie Hunter, Al Jarreau, Christian McBride, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. He served as the Artist-in-Residence for the Singapore Music and Monterey Jazz Festivals. He has also written multi-disciplinary works for The Steppenwolf Theatre and the City of Chicago. The Obama Administration’s first state dinner featured Elling in a command performance.
Elling is a renowned artist of vocalese -- “the writing and performing of words over recorded improvised jazz solos. The natural heir to jazz pioneers Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure, and Jon Hendricks, Elling has set his own lyrics to the improvised solos of Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett, and Pat Metheny. He often incorporates images and references from writers such as Rilke, Rumi, Neruda, and Proust into his work. The late poet and Bollingen Prize winner Robert Creeley wrote, “Kurt Elling takes us into a world of sacred particulars. His words are informed by a powerful poetic spirit.”
In 2010 Elling completed an extensive tour with the Monterey Jazz Festival All-Stars and staged Passion World, a commissioned event for Jazz at Lincoln Center with French accordion virtuoso Richard Galliano, singing songs of love and loss in five languages.
THE GATE, Elling’s much anticipated new recording, opened 2011. Produced by the legendary Don Was (The Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan), Elling’s latest offering features inspired interpretations of songs by The Beatles, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and Stevie Wonder. Certainly among his strongest albums, THE GATE may well be the finest of his career.
Kurt Elling is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He has been named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association on half a dozen occasions in the past ten years, and during the same interval has been the perennial winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll. He is also a Grammy winner, and every record he has made has been Grammy nominated.
Elling’s rich baritone spans four octaves and features both astonishing technical mastery and emotional depth. His command of rhythm, texture, phrasing, and dynamics is more like a virtuoso jazz instrumentalist than a vocalist. His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, scatting, spoken word, and poetry.
Declared The New York Times, “Elling is the standout male vocalist of our time.” Said The Washington Post, “Since the mid-1990s, no singer in jazz has been as daring, dynamic or interesting as Kurt Elling. With his soaring vocal flights, his edgy lyrics and sense of being on a musical mission, he has come to embody the creative spirit in jazz.” He has been featured in profiles for CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, on Ramsey Lewis’s Legends of Jazz, and in hundreds of publications.
Elling has recorded and/or performed with an array of artists, including Terence Blanchard, Dave Brubeck, Jon Hendricks, Charlie Hunter, Al Jarreau, Christian McBride, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. He served as the Artist-in-Residence for the Singapore Music and Monterey Jazz Festivals. He has also written multi-disciplinary works for The Steppenwolf Theatre and the City of Chicago. The Obama Administration’s first state dinner featured Elling in a command performance.
Elling is a renowned artist of vocalese -- “the writing and performing of words over recorded improvised jazz solos. The natural heir to jazz pioneers Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure, and Jon ...
Grammy Awards:
* Best Jazz Vocal Album: Dedicated to You
Grammy Nominations:
* Best Jazz Vocal Album: Nightmoves
* Best Jazz Vocal Album: Man in the Air
* Best Jazz Vocal Album: Flirting With Twilight
* Best Jazz Vocal Album: Live in Chicago
* Best Jazz Vocal Performance: This Time It's Love
* Best Jazz Vocal Performance: The Messenger
* Best Jazz Vocal Performance: Close Your Eyes
* Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist
"Dedicated to You" from Dedicated to You
(Arrangement by Laurence Hobgood)
* Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist
"Easy Living" from Flirting With Twilight
(Arrangement by Kurt Elling and Laurence Hobgood)
review
It's often said of particular jazz singers: "He's (she's) really got a good set of pipes." And the compliment seems meant to denote the sheer God-given beauty of the vocal instument.
The thirty-five year old Kurt Elling, who came to jazz singing relatively late in life – though his vocal beginnings can be traced back to his boyhood, singing in the church choir – is a definite possesser of pipes. His has perhaps the most horn-like vocal approach out there: a baritone horn, under complete control.
For Man in the Air, Elling's sixth CD, the singer composed the vocal parts for ten of the twelve tracks, putting words to the melodies of Coltrane, Pat Metheny, Joe Zawinal, Bob Mintzer and Herbie Hancock, proving that his talent goes beyond the realm of pipes. It is an ambitious and highly successful effort.
Speaking of ambitious: Elling doesn't tackle just any Coltrane, but the towering "Resolution" from A Love Supreme. And he nails it, vocal power and control in conjunction with the a set of fitting words, spinning images of a world-spanning array of spiritual themes that at times take on the feel of an improvisational stream of consciouness. But they couldn't be off the cuff – the tempo is too urgent, notes (syllables) coming too fast. And oh, those pipes.
"The More I Have You" is an Elling composition, a hypnotic piece featuring some delicate piano lines and fluid scatting over a churning rhythm. "Never My Love," a tune originally recorded by a group called The Association, hit the top ten back in the late '60s. Their version was rather diluted and over-produced, saccharine. Elling gives the song a proper airing, very laid back, with the contained power of his vocal showcasing a beautiful melody.
"The Uncertainty of the Poet" is the only weak spot on the album. With lyrics (not Elling's) like "I am am a poet, I am very fond of bananas" and an almost doo-woppish atmosphere, this thankfully short bit of whimsey is an unecessary break in the more serious overall mood of the recording.
Of special note on Man in the Air is vibraphonist Stefon Harris' contribution. The brightness and bounce of the vibraphone counterpoints beautifully with Elling's low-resonance tone, especially on "Hidden Jewel" and "In the Winelight."
Man in the Air is a solid, cohesive piece of artistry and vocal virtuosity. Not Elling's seemingly inevitable masterpiece, but an inexorable step in that direction, and one of the finest vocal CDs of the year.
