blue note's no more for kurt elling

[alocispepraluger102]

http://www.chicagoist.com/archives/2007/05...kurt_elling.php

[Ken Dryden]

Gee, Kurt Elling is no longer on Blue Note...

Instead, he has signed with Concord and recorded such lame songs as The Guess Who's "Undun" and also utilized boring smooth keyboardist/arranger Rob Mounsey (of "I Like the Orange Thing" fame) on his latest CD.

Yawn...

[Chuck Nessa]

Gee, Kurt Elling is no longer on Blue Note...

Instead, he has signed with Concord and recorded such lame songs as The Guess Who's "Undun" and also utilized boring smooth keyboardist/arranger Rob Mounsey (of "I Like the Orange Thing" fame) on his latest CD.

Yawn...

Kurt is a really nice guy and works hard at his version of the "art form". Not my "cup of tea" as he found out 15 years ago when I said something like "I don't do vocalists". Then he signed with BN - says something about my "commercial" vision.

Jazz vocal fans should check him out. Point of reference - I think Mark Murphy is silly.

[Dan Gould]

Jazz vocal fans should check him out. Point of reference - I think Mark Murphy is silly.

Does this mean that you do or you don't think Elling is equally silly?

[Chuck Nessa]

Jazz vocal fans should check him out. Point of reference - I think Mark Murphy is silly.

Does this mean that you do or you don't think Elling is equally silly?

See the rest of my post above.

[RDK]

I like "undun."

[Spontooneous]

"Undun" works a lot better than that Michael Franks tune at the beginning of the disc. Even Kurt sounds disgusted with that one.

[JSngry]

I like "undun."

Not at all a bad song. I'm surprised it's just now getting the "jazz treatment".

Anybody know offhand who played the flute solo on the original?

[Chuck Nessa]

I like "undun."

Not at all a bad song. I'm surprised it's just now getting the "jazz treatment".

Anybody know offhand who played the flute solo on the original?

Bjork?

[Dan Gould]

I like "undun."

Not at all a bad song. I'm surprised it's just now getting the "jazz treatment".

Anybody know offhand who played the flute solo on the original?

Bjork?

C'mon, everyone knows that was composer Randy Bachman on flute.

Actually, its Ian Anderson.

[JSngry]

Actually, according to AMG, it's Burton Cummings on flute.

All kinds of cliches & stereotypes come to mind about that...

I still like the song though.

[Bright Moments]

Jazz vocal fans should check him out.

i am a jazz vocal fan - i am not an elling fan. his stuff does nothing for me.

[alocispepraluger102]

kurt puts much thought and planning into his work, with generally positive, occasionally moving results. his craftsmanship i could not question.

as for spontaneity, that's another matter.

[GA Russell]

C'mon, everyone knows that was composer Randy Bachman on flute.

I was surprised to hear him pronounce his name on the radio some months ago. He had a weekly program on the CBC. He pronounces his name "Back-mun", not "Bach-mun".

[Chuck Nessa]

I was surprised to hear him pronounce his name on the radio some months ago. He had a weekly program on the CBC. He pronounces his name "Back-mun", not "Bach-mun".

You have no idea how much this means to me.

[Ken Dryden]

I didn't request a copy of Elling's new CD, as I recognized it for what it was. I had forgotten about the Michael Franks song, he is always one for writing forgettable songs.

"When the cookie jar is empty (Barf!)..."

[Soul Stream]

Jazz vocal fans should check him out. Point of reference - I think Mark Murphy is silly.

Does Mark Murphy still have a hideous mullet?

[Ken Dryden]

Murphy still had that ridiculous toupe on his dome when he sang at IAJE (2006?) with Kurt Elling, Jon Hendricks and Kevin Mahogany.

[Soulstation1]

[rpklich]

I recall Murphy & Elling sharing the same stage a few years back at the Chicago Jazz Festival. It was very amusing.

[etherbored]

i love this thread. more please.

mark's best work, by a mile, have been his two most recent recordings for verve europe ('onice to every heart' and 'love is what stays') produced and played on by german trumpeter till bronner.

by the way, is this cover a joke?

'mark murphy sings mostly dorothy fields...'

[B. Clugston]

Actually, according to AMG, it's Burton Cummings on flute.

All kinds of cliches & stereotypes come to mind about that...

I still like the song though.

Burton did play the flute.

[ValerieB]

Gee, Kurt Elling is no longer on Blue Note...

Instead, he has signed with Concord and recorded such lame songs as The Guess Who's "Undun" and also utilized boring smooth keyboardist/arranger Rob Mounsey (of "I Like the Orange Thing" fame) on his latest CD.

Yawn...

Kurt is a really nice guy and works hard at his version of the "art form". Not my "cup of tea" as he found out 15 years ago when I said something like "I don't do vocalists". Then he signed with BN - says something about my "commercial" vision.

Jazz vocal fans should check him out. Point of reference - I think Mark Murphy is silly.

he used to not be my "cup of tea" but i have warmed to him considerably since he changed his style in recent times. he really does seem like a nice guy even when under a lot of pressure as he was last year when i observed him at the monterey jazz festival over the entire weekend. he definitely kept his cool and his chops!

[Ken Dryden]

Elling wasn't bad as a part of Dave Brubeck's Cannery Row Suite, premiered at last year's Monterey Festival. I've just never warmed to his voice, though I think his choice of material and the presence of Rob Mounsey are serious drawbacks on his first Concord CD.

[ghost of miles]

Swimming against the tide of the thread here, but there are some very good things on this CD--the arrangements of "Leaving Again/In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" and "Change Partners/There's No You," as well as the setting of Roethke's "The Waking" and KE's take on "I Like the Sunrise." One of the better vocal releases this year IMO.