Multi-GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling has released an a cappella interpretation of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,” featuring celebrated vocal group The Swingles. Released via Kurt’s ...

“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 ...

American culture still produces great things. The Music Center at Strathmore, a gorgeous concert and arts venue just outside ...

Kurt Elling first appeared on The Third Story podcast in 2016—nearly ten years ago now. In some ways, it feels like a lifetime ago. Back then, he had moved from his native Chicago to New York and was ...

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 ...

Possessing a flexible, octave-skating baritone, Kurt Elling is among today’s most-talented jazz singers. The Chicago native consistently tops the jazz-mag polls and has earned Grammy nods for damned ...

The WMNF Song of the Day for December 29, 2025 is “The Modern Ark feat. Kurt Elling” by the JAKE MASON TRIO. Hammond organ soul-jazz is the speciality of the Jake Mason Trio, quickly becoming one of ...

Programming and musical performances will kick off April 1 and culminate in an April 30 concert at Chicago’s Lyric Opera House, starring dozens of artists from around the world.

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 ...