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CLOSE YOUR EYES

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Recorded at Tone Zone Recording, Chicago, Illinois. Close Your Eyes was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. An utterly unique performer, Chicago based vocalist Kurt Elling debuts with his bold, brash aesthetic fully formed on this 1994 outing for the venerable Blue Note label. While Elling's music falls into the jazz category, he often pushes his work into the spoken word/beat poetry realm on many of these 13 tracks. Like a soul patch sporting fusion of Frank Sinatra and Jack Kerouac, Elling launches into lyrically dense, lightly swinging tunes such as the cheeky "Hide the Salome" and the smooth "Never Say Goodbye for Jodi," making occasional madcap detours, as on the rambunctious "Married Blues," where he uses an odd accent over frenetic free jazz backing.

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Close Your Eyes

Dolores Dream

Ballad Of The Sad Young Men

Hide The Salome

Married Blues

Storyteller Experiencing Total Confusion

Never Say Goodbye (For Jodi)

Those Clouds Are Heavy, You Dig?

Wait 'Till You See Her

Hurricane

Now It Is Time That Gods Came Walking Out

Never Never Land

Remembering Veronica

Personnel: Edward Peterson, Von Freeman, Laurence Hobgood, Dave Onderdonk, Rob Amster, Eric Hochberg, Paul Wertico

Label:	CAPITOL
Number:	30645
Item Code:	21929
Format:	CD
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Dates:	(1994)
Price:	$17.00
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