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Kurt Elling's 1619 Broadway - Out Today!
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Tuesday September 25, 2012
From All About Jazz
Kurt Elling: 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project (2012)
By: C. Michael Bailey
Where female jazz vocalists are plentiful, male jazz vocals exist in vast minority. With Mark Murphy in twilight, Kurt Elling has few peers in the realm of male jazz vocals where sheer inventiveness and muscularity are concerned. Elling’s facility is one so great and his musical vision so clear that, at least for the time being, no one can touch him. He further establishes himself as the preeminent vocalist with the ambitious and successful 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project.
Elling opens the recording with the quintessential Brill Building composition, “On Broadway.” Its story is a bit interesting in that it was not originally a Brill Building product. The song was first composed by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil at Aldon Music, located at 1650 Broadway, down the street from the Brill Building. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller noted that the Drifters had booked some studio time and were one song short. “On Broadway” was considered but the pair thought it needed work, so they joined Mann and Weil for some fine tuning. The result was the Drifters’ 1963 Atlantic Records, with Phil Spector playing lead guitar. Guitarist/vocalist George Benson later covered the piece to great acclaim.
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