1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project
by Kurt Elling
  • Record Label: Concord
  • Release Date: Sep 25, 2012
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. BBC Music
    Dec 11, 2012
    80
    Elling's individualist vocal reinterpretations are well worth hearing.
  2. Mojo
    Dec 11, 2012
    80
    Only 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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  3. The Guardian
    Dec 11, 2012
    80
    Elling brings an enraptured frankness to You Send Me, and sings I Only Have Eyes for You in a kind of stunned daze.
  5. The New York Times
    Dec 11, 2012
    70
    What works best here works gorgeously.
  6. AllMusic
    Dec 11, 2012
    70
    Ultimately, 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.
  7. PopMatters
    Dec 11, 2012
    70
    On 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.
  8. The Independent (UK)
    Dec 11, 2012
    50
    The big Brill concept doesn't work, Cahn, Cooke and Ellington not being song-factory writers.

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