Oh yeah awesome! Please don't stop - whatever we "burn for" will have an impact...

10??/ shit... 100!!

Andreas 21 here

Andreas... very well said.... many thanks💋💞🍌👻🎶👍🏿🎶💯🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿💋💋💋💋

listened here Unli times... 💞🎶💋👂👂👂👂👂👂👍🏿

10? That's a rookie number! I've been listening to this since 2011. His musicality is just so special and so different.

@@dennistracy1535 You could be right, relatively. It's the song, but, as done by Carmen, Bill Evans, George Coleman, Eliane, etc.

love

Wow… it was tough to find good jazz in singapore! I was there from 2010 until 2017 … I’ve been to the Esplanade Theater a few times and I can on Y imagine what it would have been like to have heard his performance… lucky you!!

hmm fine

that’s my uncle!!

Great ! My favorite interpretation !

@@justinhobgood4312 Congrats Justin! Very sensitive and not over playing jazz pianist 👏❤️

@@justinhobgood4312 lucky genes! Are you also musical?

I really enjoy Kurt and Laurence Hobgood as a team. Fabulous.

the split is a sad news for al lof us ,fans of this great guys

They were very close and worked together for almost 20 years, maybe more. Friendship is not eternal..... :) Anyway, I do not know the real reasons of their split.

He's a wonderful singer, but let's not forget Johnny Hartman, Billy Eckstine and a few others. Billy Eckstine owns "Foolish Heart."

Bro he sounds more like a standard opera singer than a jazz singer

@@giocoso4576 maybe listen to Kurt's "Nature Boy" with Sydney Symphony Orchestra then and see if any opera singer could pull that off :)

Me too.🤞🏽❤

@@dennistracy1535 great contribution to the discussion there Dennis 👍🏻

i fully agree. his voice comes from a soul, not a throat

Codagon Hall 7th April :)

Ian Marks very accurate comment. I agree with you.

Ian Marks Amen ,WOW

Well over 40 so far. Lol. Simply magical. I've been dancing like a kid to the rhythm of it all day and I'm nearly 60. Lol

sorry, I meant a Gershwin song "AS WRITTEN...."

Peter Putnam Frank had an incredible instrument, but Elling can do so much more with his, and does. His range, his unbelievable breath control, his improvisational skill, and when he chooses to scat? Sorry, dooby dooby doo simply dooby dooby doesn't. Of course, we all have things we prefer, and who's to say there's any right or wrong, better or lesser. *shrug* I love them both, but Kurt offers a broader more inventive feast. In my opinion, of course. lol

Peter, I had to disagree with your comment. No one loves Sinatra and Cole more than I do but I have heard Elling sing a standard without all of the, let's say "pyrotechnics", that I think you're referring to in his case. Elling can flat-foot sing with the best of them. He has a glorious voice and an impressive range. He also is a master at the legato phrasing that Sinatra made so integral to his own arsenal. The difference is that I believe that Elling can hold a note even LONGER than Frank could! He certainly has listened to his share of Sinatra as evidenced by many of his choices when it comes to material. I believe that Frank Sinatra was probably the greatest singer of his era. During his youth no other singer even came near his ability to phrase and his beautiful tone. As much as I love Tony Bennett, his tone isn't quite as pretty {yet still masculine} as Sinatra's. Yet he compares nicely to Sinatra. That said, there are singers like Elling who compare nicely to Sinatra in my humble opinion.

***** Yeah, Elling's amazing, he kills me. I was maybe 8 feet from him a while ago and he did Foolish Heart, slayed . me, I was stunned, and he did House is Not a home by Bacharach and that too was wonderful, but he doesn't have the voice of a Vandross, nor the soul, who in my opinion owns that song. I thinkt it's important to remember the historic context in which a person first hears something. See, you've already heard Frank's thing, but you're young and your sensibilities are modern I suspect. I think people feel differently about Sinatra when they heard him long ago, especially in light of that musical context. Young cats who think Stevie Ray is everything, don't realize into what context Hendrix appeared; it was like he fell off of a star into our world. I'm having trouble making my point (if I even have one..), but it just hit me, I really just think Frank's tone is quite more resonant and beautiful; personally, I agree that Elling is a wunderkind in terms of technique, phrasing, control, obviously, but BUT, his tone, his voice can be an acquired taste, the tone of it. It can be a bit nasally and odd at times; that said I think he's easily the best jazz singer; well men, that is. Dianne Reeves is incomparable, the closest living thing to Ella. I opened for her twice in recent years and standing at the side stage my jaw dropped and stayed there...!!!

***** why do people constanly compare artists....each artist is unique. It's like saying yellow is prettier than blue...so stupid. Just sit back and enjoy the uniqueness you hear, people! I am a lifetelong Sinatra fanatic..but I love Kurt Elling too. Americans have to get over the "my dog is bigger than your dog complex...and grow up !