Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter »SuperBlue«

Performers:

Kurt Elling, vocals
Charlie Hunter, guitar
Kenny Banks, keyboards
Marcus Finnie, drums

When jazz kisses funk
Jazz has a date with funk, soul brings flowers and swing sets the playlist: »SuperBlue« makes hearts beat faster. The quartet around Elling and Hunter makes the soul sing, the funk sparkle and the swing swing in every dance leg. Kurt Elling, known as the Shakespeare of jazz vocalists or »Sinatra with superpowers« (Guardian), improvises with wit, lyricism and scat. Charlie Hunter contributes bass, harmony and melody on his hybrid guitar. Together with Kenny Banks (keys) and Marcus Finnie (drums), a sparkling cocktail is created that allows grooves to collide like a big band –, sometimes bluesy, sometimes falsetto-fine, then again resolutely funky and bouncy. Surprising twists and turns and experimental flights of fancy promise pure joie de vivre for die-hard and newly enamoured jazz lovers alike.