Kurt Elling's 'Nightmoves' set for April 3 release
Kurt Elling's newest, Nightmoves, will be released on April 3, 2007. Elling's first release for the Concord label, coming after ten years recording for Blue Note, features his working group of bassist Rob Amster, drummer Willie Jones III, and pianist Laurence Hobgood. Hobgood has been a collaborator of Elling's for many years.
Nightmoves is being billed as an introspective album, with seductive, late-night songs like Michael Franks' title track, Alan Pasqua's "And We Will Fly," a version of the Sinatra classic "In the Wee Small Hours," (merged with lyrics to a Keith Jarrett solo), Ellington's "I Like the Sunrise," and a vocalese interpretation of Body and Soul, with new lyrics. Poetry, which has served as inspiration for Elling in the past, is present in the Fred Hersch setting of a Walt Whitman poem ("The Sleepers")--Elling worked with Hersch on his setting of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"--as well as a take on Theodore Roethke's 1953 poem "The Waking."
The theme of the recording is a dusk-to-dawn journey through nightlife, and one's internal thoughts. Beginning with "Nightmoves" and ending with "I Like the Sunrise," the album is somewhat familiar territory for Elling. "The night really fascinates me" he says. "The things that happen int he night and the comfort that one can have being shrouded in darkness, in stillness, listening to music and pondering and considering...that has always intrigued me."
Watch for the April 3 release of Nightmoves and Jazzitude's full review.
--MIB--
Nightmoves is being billed as an introspective album, with seductive, late-night songs like Michael Franks' title track, Alan Pasqua's "And We Will Fly," a version of the Sinatra classic "In the Wee Small Hours," (merged with lyrics to a Keith Jarrett solo), Ellington's "I Like the Sunrise," and a vocalese interpretation of Body and Soul, with new lyrics. Poetry, which has served as inspiration for Elling in the past, is present in the Fred Hersch setting of a Walt Whitman poem ("The Sleepers")--Elling worked with Hersch on his setting of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"--as well as a take on Theodore Roethke's 1953 poem "The Waking."
The theme of the recording is a dusk-to-dawn journey through nightlife, and one's internal thoughts. Beginning with "Nightmoves" and ending with "I Like the Sunrise," the album is somewhat familiar territory for Elling. "The night really fascinates me" he says. "The things that happen int he night and the comfort that one can have being shrouded in darkness, in stillness, listening to music and pondering and considering...that has always intrigued me."
Watch for the April 3 release of Nightmoves and Jazzitude's full review.
--MIB--
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