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  Rockford Register Star

  Rockford's list of Grammy award-winning, nominated stars grows and grows

  Rockford, Illinois, can now celebrate six natives for being Grammy-nominated artists.

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  NY Daily News

  ‘Band of Gold’ singer Freda Payne on returning to her jazz roots, dishing dirt about her past love life in juicy new memoir

  There’s much more to Freda Payne than meets the ear. Although she gained international fame with the 1970 hit “Band of Gold,” the chanteuse is making new waves in the jazz genre — returning to her 1960s roots. The Detroit-born diva recently released the album, “Let There Be Love,” featuring collaborations with R&B balladeer Kenny Lattimore, jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, pop singer Johnny Mathis ...

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  Vocalist Kurt Elling to perform at Coltrane festival

  May 28—HIGH POINT — The winner of the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album will be the featured performer on day two of the 10th annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival on Sunday, Sept. 5. Kurt Elling's current win was for the album "Secrets Are the Best Stories." He has received 11 Grammy Award nominations, winning his first in 2007 for the live recording "Dedicated ...

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  Twin Cities Jazz Festival returns in June with shows at the Dakota and Crooners

  May 13—Tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi and his quartet and vocalist Kurt Elling are among the acts set to play the Twin Cities Jazz Festival in June. The festival, which runs June 24 through 27, typically takes place in St. Paul's Mears Park, but due to the pandemic, it's booked for the Dakota in downtown Minneapolis and the outdoor Belvedere stage and indoor main stage at Crooners Supper ...

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  C2C offering virtual concert series via St. Louis nonprofit

  Mar. 16—Joplin's Connect2Culture will partner with The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis to offer a virtual concert series, "Live From The Sheldon." The free monthly series, running through the end of May, is available entirely online and will spotlight artists from across the country. Each performance is produced by HEC Media, recorded live at The Sheldon in St. Louis and made available to ...

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  Associated Press

  Review: Brad Mehldau tests boundaries on 'Finding Gabriel'

  Brad Mehldau, "Finding Gabriel" (Nonesuch)

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  The Atlantic

  Track of the Day: ‘My Foolish Heart’ by Kurt Elling

  This song from jazz singer Kurt Elling “has been captivating me since I first heard it in 1999,” says reader Shana: I had heard a different Elling song on the radio, and I went out and bought his Live album, recorded at the Green Mill in Chicago. The album included “My Foolish Heart,” an old standard and what has become one of my very favorite Elling songs. But Kurt frequently changes standards, adds to them, reinvents them ... which is what he did with this one. When I heard his version, I had

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