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Kurt Elling is the most accomplished male jazz singer today. In a career spanning just ten years, thirty-eight year old Elling has risen to international prominence as a jazz artist and singer. Each of his six albums for Blue Note records have been nominated for a GRAMMY award and he will be releasing a new Blue Note recording in February 2007. His quartet, Laurence Hobgood piano, Rob Amster bass and Willie Jones drums, has toured the world, performing to critical acclaim in Europe, Japan, Canada, Israel, Australia and the U.S, including last performing in Victoria at JazzFest International 2004. He has topped the Down Beat Critics and Jazz Times Readers' polls every year since 2000 and he has won the Jazz Journalists' Association award for “Best Male Vocalist” twice and earned the “... more...