Kurt Elling - The Questions on CD

Description

This is Elling’s first new release with Sony Music Masterworks since his 2016 recording. The Questions includes interpretations of songs by some of music’s most influential composers including Bob Dylan and Leonard Bernstein. Also included are arrangements of instrumental compositions with Elling’s original lyrics – A Secret in Three Views (adapted from Jaco Pastorius’ Three Views of a Secret), Carla Bley’s Endless Lawns (originally titled Lawns), and Joey Calderazzo’s The Enchantress (originally called The Lonely Swan). The album rounds off with Hoagy Carmichael’s classic Skylark. The album includes acclaimed guest performers such as Branford Marsalis (soprano and tenor saxophones), Joey Calderazzo (piano), Marquis Hill (flugelhorn) and Jeff “Tain” Watts (drums).

TRACKS

A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall (Ft. Branford Marsalis & Jeff "Ta
A Happy Thought (Ft. Stu Mindeman)
American Tune
Washing of the Water
A Secret in Three Views (Ft. John Mclean & Stu Mindeman)
Lonely Town (Ft. Joey Calderazzo & Marquis Hill)
Endless Lawns (Ft. Marquis Hill)
I Have Dreamed (Ft. Branford Marsalis)
The Enchantress (Ft. Joey Calderazzo)
Skylark (Ft. Stu Mindeman)