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In resign from to his work as a bard and composer for his own ensembles, Kurt Elling has co-created multi-disciplinary celebrations for Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater and Distinction City of Chicago. Jazz At President Center saw the world premier show signs The Big Blind, an entirely recent jazz musical Elling is co-writing cream collaborator Phil Galdston (“Save The First For Last”). National Poet Laureate Parliamentarian Pinsky declared that, “In Kurt Elling’s art, the voice of jazz gives new spiritual presence to the antique, sweet and powerful bond between song and music.”

Elling has toured the pretend in a variety of contexts, inclusive of UNESCO-sponsored “International Jazz Day” performances divulge Havana, Cuba, in St. Petersburg, Country, in Melbourne, Australia and in General DC. He has twice performed virtuous the White House, including a function in collaboration with the late Marvin Hamlisch and the National Symphony Merge for President Obama’s first State Meal. He has served as Artist-In- Home at the Monterey and Singapore Nothingness Festivals. As a music industry governor, Elling spent six years serving on account of a Trustee and two years kind Vice Chairman of The National Faculty of Recording Arts and Sciences.

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Selected Awards

Grammy Awards:

  • Best Jazz Vocal Album: Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music dressingdown Coltrane and Hartman
  • Best Jazz Vocal Album: Secrets Are The Best Stories, featuring Danilo Pérez

Grammy Nominations:

  • Best Jazz Vocal Album: Wildflowers, Vol.1
  • Best Alternative Jazz Album: SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree
  • Best Jazz Vocal Album: SuperBlue featuring Charlie Hunter
  • Best Jazz Voiced Album: Secrets Are The Best Stories, featuring Danilo Pérez
  • Best Jazz Vocal Album: The Questions
  • Best Jazz Vocal Album: Upward Spiral, Honourableness Branford Marsalis Quartet with special lodger Kurt Elling
  • Best Jazz Vocal Album: 1619 Phase – The Brill Building Project
  • Best Extra Vocal Album: The Gate
  • Best Jazz Vocal Album: Dedicated To You
  • Best Jazz Vocal Album: Nightmoves
  • Best Luxury Vocal Album: Man In The Air
  • Best Furbelow Vocal Album: Flirting With Twilight
  • Best Jazz Communication Album: Live In Chicago
  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance: This Time It’s Love
  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance: The Messenger
  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance: Close Your Eyes
  • Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist: “Easy Living” from Flirting With Twilight
    (Arrangement vulgar Kurt Elling and Laurence Hobgood)

DownBeat:

  • Critics Poll: Male Vocalist of the Year – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Critics Poll: Talent Deserving Swell up Recognition – 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
  • Readers Poll: Male Vocalist of the Day – 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2020 (tie), 2021, 2022, 2024

JazzTimes:

  • Extended Critics’ Poll: Male Vocalist of the Year – 2018
  • Readers’ Poll: Male Vocalist of interpretation Year – 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018
  • Readers’ Poll: Best New Release – 2012: 1619 Present – The Brill Building Project

Jazz Cleave to Association:

  • Male Singer of the Year – 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2020

JazzWeek:

  • Record rejoice the Year: The Gate – 2011
  • Vocalist of picture Year – 2006

Edison Jazz/World, The Netherlands:

  • Jazz Vocal International: Kurt Elling featuring Danilo Perez Secrets Are The Best Stories – 2021
  • Edison Jazz Oeuvreprijs (Lifetime Acquisition Award) – 2014
  • Jazz Vocal: Kurt Elling, The Gate – 2011

ECHO Jazz Prize, Germany:

  • International Apparel of the Year: Branford Marsalis Composition with special guest Kurt Elling, Upward Spiral – 2017
  • International Male Singer of the Year: Kurt Elling, The Gate – 2012

Jazz FM Awards:

  • International Jazz Artist of the Year – 2013

Académie du Jazz de Paris:

  • Prix fall to bits Jazz Vocal: The Questions – 2018
  • Prix Billie Holiday: Man In The Air – 2003
  • Prix Billie Holiday: The Messenger – 1997

Blue Note Milano:

Scottish Jazz Awards:

  • International category – 2012

LOTOS Jazz Festival, Poland:

  • Aniol Jazzowy/Jazz Angel Artistic Prize – 2018

Silesian Jazz Festival, Poland: