Kurt Elling - Secrets Are The Best Stories (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 09-May-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

2021 Grammy Award Winner:
• Best Jazz Vocal Album: Secrets Are The Best Stories

Secrets Are The Best Stories is the album from acclaimed vocalist and Grammy-winning artist Kurt Elling featuring renowned pianist Danilo Pérez. Secrets Are The Best Stories is set to be a career-defining album for Kurt, confirming his trajectory on a new and evolving path of artistic excellence, and further exploring the passion and the messages, political, personal, that inspire him. Here, Elling adds evocative new lyrics to compositions by greats like Pérez's iconic collaborator Wayne Shorter, late fusion bass genius Jaco Pastorius, and visionary composer/arranger Vince Mendoza, and to pieces from Pérez's own catalogue. Along with his own compelling narratives, Elling adapts the works of contemporary poets Franz Wright and Robert Bly, the 19th century abolitionist poet Frances E.W. Harper and Nobel-winning author Toni Morrison.

Ever since Kurt Elling burst on to the global scene 25 years ago, he has been developing the sound and command of his vocal instrument into one of the most recognizable in the music. A combination of richness in intent, of soulfulness and of signature expression define him as an artist. Secrets Are The Best Stories translates an artistic vision of history, mystery, and storytelling into a musical message both singular and deep.

Side A:
The Fanfold Hawk (For Franz Wright)
A Certain Continuum
Stays
Gratitude (For Robert Bly)
Stage I
Side B:
Beloved (For Toni Morrison)
Stages II,III
Song Of The Rio Grande (For Oscar And Valeria Martinez-Ramirez)
Rabo De Nube
Esperanto
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