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Led by hometown hero Herbie Hancock, the show included an appearance by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a performance by Buddy Guy, a ...

Two-time GRAMMY Award winner Kurt Elling celebrates the jazz fusion band Weather Report with a new show at Birdland. The show opened last night, Thursday March 27, 2025, and continues tonight (Friday ...

“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 ...

Chicago is hosting the 15th International Jazz Day All-Star Global Concert on April 30, marking its debut as the event’s host ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chicago would seem to be a no-brainer to host International Jazz Day, a joint initiative of UNESCO and the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. The city is not only a global jazz capital but ...

Grammy-winning vocalist Kurt Elling returned to Birdland, playing two shows a night from Wednesday March 18 to Saturday March 21, 2026. He performed with the Future of Jazz Orchestra, a Jazz at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...