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Formats and Editions
1. SuperBlue
2. Sassy
3. Manic Panic Epiphanic
4. Where To Find It
5. Can't Make it With Your Brain
6. The Seed
7. Dharma Bums
8. Circus
9. Endless Lawns
10. This Is How We Do
More Info:
After scoring his second Grammy Award (and 14th nomination) in March 2021, protean vocalist Kurt Elling hangs an unexpected left turn with SuperBlue for Edition Records. It's a torrent of roisterous funk, indelible beats and all-too-current lyrics that boasts the talents of producer-guitarist Charlie Hunter and two stars of the hip-hop generation: drummer Corey Fonville and bassist-keyboardist DJ Harrison (both of the genre-hopping band Butcher Brown). Elling has always been a master of grooves, ranging from bebop to pure pop and progressive jazz to neo-soul, but he's never filled an album with grooves quite like these. Thanks to newly sprung melody and lyrics from Elling, along with Hunter & Co.'s fresh grooves, SuperBlue features all-new songs, innovative takes on compositions from jazz lions Wayne Shorter and Freddie Hubbard, and a raw and stripped-down treatment of "The Seed," a still-dynamic, decades-old riff on immortality written by Cody Chestnutt. There is even a slamming new version of a Tom Waits tune.
