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He's got the Beat // Kurt Elling proves a freewheeling `Messenger'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19970413
Author:LLOYD SACHS

An intriguing tension transports "The Messenger," the bold new album by young Chicago jazz singer Kurt Elling. More than any mainstream vocalist to come along in recent times, he thrives on free expression, building his hipster's persona upon four decidedly unsquare cornerstones: bebop, vocalese, scat and Beat-style riffing.

Gassed on free associations and "rants," "The Messenger" features Herbie Hancock crowding a stanza with Hermann Hesse, a cat named Clevenger buying it in a spoken film noir riff and random words ("Sea lions! Sea lions! And I-talian food!") flung like magnets against ...

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