SuperBlue: Guilty Pleasures Vol. 2 Kurt Elling Big Shoulders Records announces the return of two-time GRAMMY® winner Kurt Elling and guitarist Charlie Hunter with SuperBlue: Guilty Pleasures Vol. 2, the latest installment in their creative partnership. Out May 9, 2025, the album continues their offbeat approach to familiar songs, reinterpreted with grit, groove, and jazz-forward musicianship.
2023 release. SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree, the followup to the 2021 GRAMMY nominated album, by genre-bending trailblazers Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter see the pair reunited with Corey Fonville and DJ Harrison for a kaleidoscopic collection of new songs, surprising covers, and dynamic reinvention
2016 holiday release. Kurt Elling's first holiday album, The Beautiful Day, is truly beautiful and festive in a swinging way! Elling sings these classic Christmas and popular holiday songs with an ease and confidence proving once more that he is the best jazz singer of our time. The first track, "Sing a Christmas Carol", swings lightly and gets you into the feel of the album and puts you in a jazzy holiday mood. Elling's versions of "We Three Kings" and "Same Old Lang Syne" exude cool as he makes these Christmas favorites truly his own. "Beautiful Day" is the perfect ending for an album that s destined to be a holiday jazz classic. Grammy winner Kurt Elling is among the world's foremost jazz vocalists. He won the DownBeat Critics Poll for fourteen consecutive years and was named Male Singer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association on eight occasions. An international jazz award winner, the New York Times declared, "Elling is the standout male vocalist of our time." The Washington Post added, "Since the mid-1990s no singer in jazz has been as daring, dynamic or interesting as Kurt Elling. He has come to embody the creative spirit in jazz."
