Kurt Elling joins forces with Germany’s WDR Big Band for the lush and swinging In the Brass Palace. Conducted by tenor saxophonist Bob Mintzer since 2016, WDR Big Band has a long history of showcasing guest performers. What’s particularly generous about the WDR approach is how much they cater to their guest artists; curating arrangements and song choices that both illuminate and expand upon a performer’s career.
Here, they collaborate with Elling, digging into a nice cross-section of beloved standards and unexpected covers that touch upon all of the acclaimed vocalese singer’s stylistic touchstones from driving post-bop jazz and burnished ballads to funk-infused numbers. Elling and Mintzer are longtime associates and fittingly,…

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