Kurt Elling - Secrets Are the Best Stories (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

“There’s a mystery,” Kurt Elling sings softly. “An enigma.” Then, gathering momentum: “There’s a memory oh so slight.”

His words come near the opening of “A Certain Continuum,” the first single from Secrets Are The Best Stories, which Edition Records will release on April 3. For this album, Elling partnered for the first time with Panamanian pianist Danilo Pérez, whose dark-hued chords sharpen the uncertainty of the lyric.

Joining this reverie, in a steady accumulation, are percussionists Román Díaz and Rocério Boccato, drummer Johnathan Blake, and bassist Clark Sommers. Their 12/8 Afro-Cuban polyrhythm creates a slow churn over which Elling continues his reflective musing. “Questions about love,” he sings, “Are as old as everything that’s ever been / Questions linger on until the end.”

Elling, whose previous album was titled The Questions, is clearly extending a line of inquiry with the track, which premieres here.

TRACKLIST

1. Kurt Elling - The Fanfold Hawk (For Franz Wright)
2. Kurt Elling - A Certain Continuum
3. Kurt Elling - Stays
4. Kurt Elling - Gratitude (For Robert Bly)
5. Kurt Elling - Stage I
6. Kurt Elling - Beloved (For Toni Morrison)
7. Kurt Elling - Stages II, III
8. Kurt Elling - Song of the Rio Grande (For Oscar and Valeria Martinez-Ramirez)
9. Kurt Elling - Rabo de Nube
10. Kurt Elling - Esperanto
11. Kurt Elling - Epílogo



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