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Music CD - Kurt Elling: Nightmoves
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Music CD: Nightmoves
Artist: Kurt Elling
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $10.17
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Manufacturer: Concord Records
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Tracks:
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1. Nightmoves
2. Tight
3. Medley: Change Partners/If You Never Come To Me
4. Undun
5. Where Are You?
6. And We Will Fly
7. The Waking
8. The Sleepers
9. Medley: Leaving Again/In The Wee Small Hours
10. Body And Soul
11. I Like The Sunrise
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0888072301382
Label: Concord Records
Manufacturer: Concord Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Concord Records
Release Date: 2007-04-03
Studio: Concord Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Wow
Comment: I heard this guy on my local cable music channel and I immediately leapt up to write down the name, and I'm glad I did.
I'm a sucker for balladeers like Frank and Nat and Gino Vannelli and Matt Dusk but this is so much closer to jazz, which makes it so much better ... more New York than Vegas.
And the cheesiness of Michael Bublé-types is absent from this album--you could never get this guy to sing at your wedding. He would politely decline.
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Summary: A different direction
Comment: Kurt has taken a different direction with this CD. It's a bit experimental, at least for him, not as jazz oriented, less concerned with categories. And We Will Fly is the biggest departure on the CD and I like it best. He tries a completely different singing approach, softer, more Brazilian, and I'm a fan of Brazilian singers such as Rosa Passos and Ivan Lins. I also love the artistry of the accompanying musicians on And We Will Fly. Those of you who are disappointed in this CD because it isn't just jazz, well, try one of his earlier more traditionally jazz CDs. But artists tend to listen to their own inner voice when making art. If that weren't true jazz would never have been created. People criticized the pioneers of jazz too.
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Summary: What are you people on?????
Comment: I am astonished at the caliber of singers that are being called great or top of the heap jazz vocalists these days. While I remain unmimpressed (and unmoved) by Diana Krall, bored to tears by Norah Jones, Elling is to my ears one of the worst "singers" I have heard in any genre, in years. If anything, he is the Michael Bolton of Jazz, not the preeminent new voice. Jazz may be at an all time low, but must the bar fall to this level?
Stars.... this garbage deserves an eclipse.
At least we know what the heap consists of....
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Summary: Astounding...I can't stop listening
Comment: I was introduced to Kurt Elling in November 2006 when my parents came to visit in Washington, DC and I wanted to fill in the weekend with some excellent entertainment. They always wanted to see the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and I found out that this musician, a guy named Kurt Elling, happened to be playing that weekend. When I called the Kennedy Center they said the show was sold out but I kept harrassing the ticket folks over the course of several days and they finally told me a last minute cancellation gave us a chance to see the show at a table...right in front of the stage!
When Kurt came onstage and opened his mouth a sound came out unlike anything I'd ever heard on this planet. Over the next 90 or so minutes I sat riveted, unable to even move my hand to the drink sitting on the table close by. I could have sworn I was experiencing the rapture. His voice filled the room, took it over, held the audience in his thrall. Those moments when he kind of sidelined himself (to his credit) to let his band take over the stage...Laurence, Rob and Willie showed themselves to be a tight, disciplined group who deserved to be playing with such a phenomenal talent. They deserve recognition and awards of their own.
After the show, I bought Man in the Air....very often, a performer who sounds great live can't measure up on a studio album. I was very happy to learn this wasn't the case. I can't listen to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme anymore without hearing Kurt's lyrics moving along to Resolution. As a fan of literature, the way Kurt plays with lyrics, especially on the title track, is astounding and reminiscent somewhat of Bob Dylan's occasional playfulness.
Like an earlier reviewer, I've since found that Kurt's earlier lyrical efforts, such as in The Messenger, occasionally lose control and, therefore, their message (though Tanya Jean and The Beauty of All Things very much shows the promise he will end up delivering in the future). But Nightmoves is steady and consistent throughout; the album was released back in early April and I still listen to it all the time. I have learned all the lyrics to A New Body and Soul, not by memorizing them in some tiresome fashion (remember how your high school English teacher made you memorize Hamlet's To Be or Not To Be speech?) but by the effortless desire to follow the song from its introduction to its conclusion. And I Like the Sunrise seems to me less like a tack-on than some intentional way to close a stunning, fantastic album.
One year, on our anniversary, my wife and I want to travel to Chicago to see Kurt play in his hometown.
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Summary: NIce, but too nice
Comment: I bought this CD on impulse. Kurt sang on radio one day as I was driving down a busy street and he did something with his voice that caught my ear and I thought: Mmm, nice. It was nice and the entire play list is nice, but it's too nice, safe and, ultimately, for my ears, boring. I thought Kurt might experiment a bit more, float a bit more, extend, go out on a limb, twist, turn, play, but he stayed safe. I own it now. I've played it now. I will give it away now.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Chicago vocalist Kurt Elling's limber and deep tenor voice is at home in a myriad of idioms, from straight-ahead, Latin, and pop, to poetry, and his wide artistic range is fully reflected in his Concord debut. As in his six previous recordings, his longtime pianist-arranger Laurence Hobgood is at the helm of his trio, with special guests including bassist Christian McBride, Yellowjackets saxophonist Bob Mintzer, and the Escher String Quartet. Building on Jon Hendricks's and Eddie Jefferson's scat-vocalese styles, Elling lyrically caresses and melodically illuminates Michael Franks' title track, jazz diva Betty Carter's angular "Tight," and the rarely-performed Duke Ellington number "I Like the Sunrise." The Guess Who's 1969 rock cut "Undun," surprisingly, comes off, as does the bossa nova "Change Partners/If You Never Come to Me," with its reference to Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Useless Landscape." The question is: what can't he sing? --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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