Kurt Elling
This goo was worth a point in September 2024.
publication date: Friday, September 6, 2024 (part of September 2024)
category: 
Music
clue: This Chicagoan spent a lot of time riding the El to his early jazz-club performances before winning Grammys in collaborations (of a sort) with John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, and Danilo Pérez.
explanation: Elling has won two Grammys for Best Jazz Vocal Album, one for 2009's Dedicated to You in which he performed the works of Coltrane and Hartman, and one for 2021's Secrets are the Best Stories which featured Pérez. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Denise Sawicki
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