Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling brings his versatile baritone sound to Goshen College

GOSHEN — Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling performs at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Goshen College Music Center. A baritone with a four-octave range, Elling consistently generates new vocal material by writing and recording lyrics for the compositions of foundational jazz composers, including John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul.

Additionally, he has co-created multi-disciplinary performances for Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater and The City of Chicago.

Jazz At Lincoln Center saw the world premier of “The Big Blind,” an entirely new jazz musical-in-progress Elling is co-writing with collaborator Phil Galdston (“Save The Best For Last”).

Elling has twice won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, for 2009’s “Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman” and for 2020’s “Secrets Are The Best Stories, featuring Danilo Pérez.”

Since 2021, he has released four collaborations with guitarist Charlie Hunter under the title “SuperBlue”: “SuperBlue,” “SuperBlue: The London Sessions (Live),” “SuperBlue: Guilty Pleasures (feat. Nate Smith)” and “SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree.”

Tickets are $45-$30.

For more information, call 574-535-7566, visit goshen.edu/tickets or email [email protected].

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling performs at Goshen College