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 ...

The Chicago jazz musician has joined the Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning musical “Hadestown” as Hermes. “It's rejuvenating, and it can also be terrifying." The life of an artist can take many ...

Kurt Elling has been called the definitive male jazz singer of the modern era. His abundant technique, including an elastic, four octave range, ample sustain and vibrato, and blurry-fast scatting, is ...

Elling’s jazz reputation was partly built on extensive use of scat in great early recordings like Close Your Eyes, and his muscular vocal control is better suited to that kind of quasi-instrumental ...

Kurt Elling arrives at the 61st annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) I’ve been a fan of Elling’s for 20 years, and ...

Guarda Jack Wolfe, Morgan Dudley, Kurt Elling, Allison Russell e Paulo Szot fare i loro ultimi saluti in Hadestown, dopo la loro ultima esibizione di domenica 1 marzo. Wolfe (Orfeo), Dudley (Euridice) ...