American - Musician | November 2, 1967 -
I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me time and again and said, 'Hey, young fella, you're one of us. Come with us.' That's a big deal when you're young and looking for your way in the world.
Kurt Elling
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You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.
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We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.
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Chicago has a burly, action-oriented but still self-assured and relaxed confidence to its stride. The city has a lot of wide-open space and all the possibilities that suggests. There's a lot of horizontal grandeur here.
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In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.
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Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.
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We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.
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Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.
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I've tried to learn as much as I can about the great jazz singers to understand what makes them important, vital artists, but there is always something more to learn.
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Why limit yourself to one discipline or field of study?
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Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides.
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My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable.
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