Kurt Elling
USA
Born: 02 November 1967
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Vocal/Standards, Vocalese, Bop, Vocal Jazz
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One of the few male jazz singers from around the baby boom generation, Kurt Elling is an anomaly simply by profession. Given the depth and broad vision of his recordings and performance style, Elling is in a league of his own. Planning a career in the academic world, he discovered jazz and took to it naturally. Deeply influenced by singer and poet Mark Murphy, Elling began to develop his idiosyncratic scat style in the smaller clubs of Chicago (primarily at The Green Mill, sharing the stage with legends Von Freeman and Ed Peterson) and then thr...
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- Diana Krall (92)
- Patricia Barber (36)
- Holly Cole (30)
- Mark Murphy (6)
Influenced by
- Frank Sinatra (237)
- Chet Baker (134)
- John Coltrane (110)
- Charlie Haden (82)
- Joni Mitchell (60)
- Michael Franks (47)
- Wayne Shorter (23)
- Mose Allison (8)
- Andy Bey (6)
- Bob Dorough (6)
- Mark Murphy (6)
- Jon Hendricks (1)
- James Moody (1)
Followers
- Gretchen Parlato (4)
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