by
Kurt Elling
- Record Label: Concord
- Release Date: Sep 25, 2012
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Dec 11, 2012Elling's individualist vocal reinterpretations are well worth hearing.
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MojoDec 11, 2012Only Pleasant Valley jars--the irony in Elling's voice is ladled on too heavily--but elsewhere marvel at a master at work. [Nov 2012, p.86]
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Dec 11, 2012Elling brings an enraptured frankness to You Send Me, and sings I Only Have Eyes for You in a kind of stunned daze.
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Dec 11, 2012What works best here works gorgeously.
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Dec 11, 2012Ultimately, though, it is just this diverse stylistic quality, both in the source material and Elling's arrangements, that make The Brill Building Project one of his most interesting albums.
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Dec 11, 2012On whole, 1619 Broadway is a mixed bag. The weak links, for me, are the least interesting things that Elling has recorded. But the highlights are transcendent. Good enough to make this recording essential in many ways.