"Kakki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Last night I was so happy to see my favorite vocalist (and old friend of >our Fred Simon) Kurt Elling and group perform here at the Jazz Bakery. The >legendary Bob Sheppard (of recent Joni and Steely Dan fame) sat in on sax. >It was a stunning concert and I don't think I've ever seen an audience >quite so rapt and somewhat swooning throughout. Elling began with a tribute >to the passing of George Harrison singing "Goodbye Clifford Brown." He went >on to sing a number of knock over gorgeous love songs from his latest album >"Flirting with Twilight" (on which Sheppard and Peter Erskine appear).
"Flirting with Twilight" is my favorite of Kurt's records so far, but I like them all. And I would feel this way even if he hadn't included a wonderful version of a song of mine that he wrote the lyric for, "While You Are Mine," on the album. He sounds so relaxed ... pure singing joy with absolutely nothing to prove. -Fred Simon
