Kurt Elling | Jazz review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonIn his on-stage banter, the Chicago singer Kurt Elling can sound as if he's swallowed an instruction manual on the kind of cheery badinage the Fast Show's jazz critic would have relished. But the affectations only accentuate the impact of his dazzling hipness when he sings. Elling manages the remarkable double whammy of sounding as agile as an improvising instrumentalist (thus satisfying hardcore jazzers who don't like singers), yet intimately sensuous enough on the Great A...

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