Kurt Elling and the Klüvers Big Band at Birdland

Sunday October 30, 2011

From The Ottawa Citizen

Kurt Elling and the Klüvers Big Band at Birdland
By: Allen Panzeri

With the schedule Kurt Elling keeps and the energy he expends on stage, you have to wonder how he does it. He takes your breath away. It’s almost scary the way he leaves it all out there.

As you watch him, you’re happy you’re at the 8:30 p.m. show because it doesn’t look like he’ll have anything left for 11.

That’s the way he was at the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival in June, in what might have been the performance of the festival, and it’s the way he was on Friday night at Birdland.

Backed by the 15-piece Klüvers Big Band, with Jens Klüver as the conductor-artistic director, Elling churned through eight numbers in a high-energy 90 minutes, delivering highlight after highlight.

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