Beautiful...I can only imagine George Adams taking his sax solo

Terrific singer is Mr. Elling.

Extraordinaria interpretación, casi me hace llorar. Un gran abrazo desde El Salvador.

Gorgeous arrangement and performance of my favourite Mingus tune.

Beautiful interpretation of an incredible piece! Wonderful job Laura!

simply beautiful!!

Kurt.....you own the male jazz vocal world. respect.

Not the original lyrics. But total genius. Gorgeousness.

this is the sound of me loving it

Amazing so many negative comments about clearly excellent music

Nice solo from trumpet player Ruud Breuls

Kurt can do Mingus! Beautiful. Kevin Mahogany can do Mingus also. It takes great talent to tackle the genius of CHARLES MINGUS!

Boy I don't know, the original Mingus chords are so beautiful and really capture the essence of Duke Ellington. I'm just not a big fan of this reharmonization. Not knocking the performance at all.

Amazing!Laura, please, forgive the four idiots that put their thumbs down. Deaf people, insensitive people, ignorant people are everywhere...

Ever hear Jackie Paris on the recording by Mingus, who hand picked him for the track?

Brilliant stuff. Who wrote the alternative lyrics? They're good, but I still prefer the original ones ("I was young, and carefree ...") . Mind you, these new lyrics really suit Kurt's persona.

Why change the lyrics?

very nice

Did he change the lyrics??? I prefer Mingus original lyrics.

Interesting adaptation, though why change the lyrics? They're great as is lol

I prefer the original to this one. Sometimes making an already harmonically complex song even MORE complicated doesn't really bring life to the lyrics, and the lyrics are what a SONG is all about. Otherwise, it's an 'instrumental'. I love Kurt Elling; I just prefer the Jackie Paris/Charles Mingus version.

It's Metropole Orchestra

It is possible to have the lyrics of that song?

Doesn’t capture Mingus’s intent.

Bonita, mas muito longe do original com a interpretação de Jackie Paris, como também a magnífica versão instrumental.

He seems afraid of the song, both in how he introduces it and how he changes the melody and lyrics. (So many chromatic missteps.) Then marches like a soldier through the beautiful phrases that should soar up to the high notes. Intonation is bad when he comes back in. The new lyrics amount to a lecture to the listener, where Mingus's were a story of a young musician finding his voice, and talking about how the Duke's music (his 'sound of love') blew him away.

Step into the limelight dude

No, that is impossible.

don't like this singer's interpretation. The arrangement is interesting though. Still can't really beat Mingus himself of course. (I didn't care for Mingus's original lyrics, but these lyrics didn't bother me as much although it's not like a really pay much attention to the lyrics anyway....)

I don't like these lyrics, and all of the beauty of the composition is gone.

Kurt Boring, please stop “singing”.

pace toooo slow !!!! sounds dead

Horroroso

arrangiamento veramente orrendo che snatura completamente lo stile compositivo di Mingus e non aiuta minimamente il canto di Elling. Per la serie: come rovinare un capolavoro

orrible version