''1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project'' is a 2012 album by

Kurt Elling Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz singer and songwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Rockford, Illinois, Rockford, Elling became interested in music through his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran chur ...

, recorded as a tribute to the songwriters of the

Brill Building The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and further uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood. It was built in 1931 as t ...

in New York City. At the

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, Elling was nominated for the

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works (songs or albums) in the vocal jazz ...

for his performance on this album, losing to ''

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'' by

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Track listing

Kurt Elling and Laurence Hobgood arranged tracks 1 and 8-11, track 2 together with John McLean, and track 5 with Clark Sommers. Laurence Hobgood provided arrangements for tracks 2, 4, and 6, and wrote all horn section arrangements.

Personnel

Performance *

- voice * Laurence Hobgood - piano, electric piano (tracks 3, 9), organ (5, 7) *Clark Sommers - bass (exc. 10) *

Kendrick Scott Kendrick Scott (born July 8, 1980 in Houston, Texas, United States) is an American jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer. He is the founder of the record label World Culture Music. Biography Kendrick A.D. Scott was born and raised in Houston. ...

- drums (exc. 4, 10), congas (5, 9) *John McLean - guitar (1, 3, 6, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (8) *Tom Luer - tenor saxophone (2, 4, 11), alto saxophone (11) *

Kye Palmer Kye Palmer is a trumpet player who is a Los Angeles studio musician, most notable as a former member of The Tonight Show Band from 2006 to 2009. On April 10, 2006, Palmer replaced Lee Thornburg in The Tonight Show Band and was there for the last ...

- flugelhorn (2, 4, 11), trumpet (11) *

Joel Frahm Joel Frahm (born 1970) is an American jazz saxophonist. Early life Frahm was born in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1970.

- tenor saxophone (4, 7) *

Ernie Watts Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's ...

- tenor saxophone (5, 8) *

Christian McBride Christian McBride (born May 31, 1972) is an American jazz bassist, composer and arranger. He has appeared on more than 300 recordings as a sideman, and is an eight-time Grammy Award winner. McBride has performed and recorded with a number of j ...

- voice (7) Production *Chris Dunn, Kurt Elling, and Laurence Hobgood - producers *Darryl Pitt - co-producer, artist management *Chris Allen - recording engineer (at Sear Sound, NY) *Ted Tuthill - assistant engineer *Kevin Harper, Owen Mulholland - assistants *Seth Presant - engineer for additional recordings, and mixing (at The Village Studios, LA) *Paul Blakemore - mastering *Mary Hogan - A&R administration *Phil Galdston - A&R consultant *Larissa Collins - art direction *Neal Ashby - package design *Neil Tesser - liner notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1619 Broadway - The Brill Building Project Tribute albums to music-related organizations Kurt Elling albums 2012 albums Concord Records albums