Singer Kurt Elling refuses to take a song at face value or hear itin its usual narrow context; that's one of the traits that sets himapart. A singer with huge ears to go with his active intellect, hehears expansive possibilities in standards where other artists hearonly marks to toe. Few vocalists in the commercial realm, where the33-year-old Chicagoan has taken up residence as a perennial Grammynominee, give established songs a headier spin.
Elling may seem to be playing things close to the vest on his newCD, "Flirting with Twilight" (Blue Note), in stores today. Backingoff from his outlandish elements of style--the headlong scat, free-associative wordplay, and Beat …
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