Kurt Elling, jazz singer – portrait of the artist

'It's hard to read Heidegger, especially if you spent the night before sitting in with Chicago's jazz musicians'When did you discover jazz?By hearing people like Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee and Andy Williams. My folks liked to drive across the country to visit the grandparents. We'd be out in the desert, all the windows down, eating Velveeta cheese, with these guys on the radio. It wasn't full-on jazz, but a lot of it was really swinging.What was your big breakthrough?Dropping out of graduate schoo...

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