In October 2011 The Claudia Quintet, with guest vocalists Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann, released an album on Cuneiform Records of Patchen's poetry set to music written by Claudia leader John Hollenbeck.

In 2011, Grammy-winning, Chicago based jazz singer Kurt Elling covered " Steppin ' Out " on his album The Gate.

* Kurt Elling wrote a vocalese song called " Esperanto " based on the Vince Mendoza composition " Esperança ".

In 2006, a well-received 13-episode Legends of Jazz television series hosted by Lewis was broadcast on public TV nationwide and featured live performances by a variety of jazz artists including Larry Gray, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Joey Defrancesco, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Kurt Elling, Benny Golson, Pat Metheny and Tony Bennett.

Kurt Elling was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 2, 1967 to Henry and Martha Elling.

During his middle school years, Elling remembers watching Tony Bennett and the Woody Herman band on television and imagining what it would be like to sing with a band.

Elling recalls: " By day I was reading Kant and Schleiermacher, trying to get a handle on that, and at night I was sitting-in in clubs, and, of course, you can't do both and be effective.

Two months later, Elling was signed to Blue Note, and the songs on the demo became the Grammy nominated label debut, Close your Eyes ( 1995 ).

In 2006, Elling performed on the television program Legends of Jazz, in the episode " The Jazz Singers ".

Elling sang " She's Funny That Way " and performed a duet with Al Jarreau on " Take Five ".

On January 31, 2010, Elling won his first Grammy Award in the category of Best Jazz Vocal Album for the album Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman on the Concord Jazz label.

One of them, Elling Villand, who also was sentenced to give away his farm, was freed less than half a year later, and sat on his farm until he died.

Hulme appeared in a play called Elling, put on by the Sydney Theatre Company in 2009.

* Hut on Novaya Zemlya used by Willem Barentsz's expedition is found by Norwegian seal hunter Elling Carlsen.

Shot mostly in and around the Norwegian capital Oslo, the film, which was released in 2001, is primarily based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen's novel Brødre i blodet (" Blood brothers ", 1996 ), one of a series of four featuring the Elling character – the others are Utsikt til paradiset (" A view of paradise ", 1993 ), Fugledansen (" The bird dance ", 1995 ), and Elsk meg i morgen (" Love me tomorrow ", 1999 ).

The film was followed by an original prequel not based on any of the novels, Mors Elling ( 2003 ), and a sequel, Elsk meg i morgen ( 2005 ) based on the fourth and last book in the series.

* The Messenger ( Kurt Elling album )

Recently he has recorded a new Quartet West album with Charlie Haden, and also works with vocalist Kurt Elling, whose album Dedicated To You, featuring Watts, won a Grammy in 2010 for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

In August of the same year, Elling signed a new record contract with Concord Jazz, and his first album with the label, Nightmoves, was released in 2007.

Man in the Air is a jazz album by vocalist Kurt Elling, released by Blue Note Records in 2003.

On 07 February 2011, Kurt Elling released his so far latest album, The Gate, with a version of " Matte Kudasai " as the opening track.

In 1997, " Time of the Season " was recorded by Kurt Elling and Cassandra Wilson for Elling's second album The Messenger.

* Nightmoves, a 2007 album by Kurt Elling

Elling became known in Chicago from his weekly gigs at the Green Mill Jazz Club, where he first met pianist Laurence Hobgood through saxophonist Ed Petersen

After graduating from Gustavus Adolphus in 1989, Elling enrolled in graduate school at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he studied for his master's degree in philosophy of religion.

Elling began playing jazz gigs once a week during graduate school, with one of his first shows at Milt Trenier's, a basement club in Chicago ( now defunct ).

In Chicago, Elling held day jobs to survive, working as a bartender and even a mover.

While living in Chicago in 1995, Elling decided he was ready to record.

Close Your Eyes was followed several years later by The Messenger ( 1997 ), with Elling releasing a total of seven albums for the Blue Note label.

* Kurt Elling at Blue Note Records. com

Other performers known for vocalese include Bob Dorough, Giacomo Gates, Kurt Elling, Al Jarreau, Mark Murphy, Roger Miller, New York Voices, and The Manhattan Transfer, whose Grammy-winning version of Weather Report's " Birdland " featured lyrics by Jon Hendricks.

In 2007 and 2012, Circumstantial Productions published two editions of Lyrics: Kurt Elling, collections of Elling's vocalese lyrics, edited by Richard Connolly.

Twelve years prior to Tollund Man's discovery, another bog body, Elling Woman was discovered in the same bog

* 1903: A Norwegian, Ægidius Elling, was able to build the first gas turbine that was able to produce more power than needed to run its own components, which was considered an achievement in a time when knowledge about aerodynamics was limited.

The wooden lodge where Barentsz ' crew sheltered was found undisturbed by Norwegian seal hunter Elling Carlsen in 1871.

Brødre i blodet (" Blood brothers ") was turned into a successful movie, entitled Elling, which received an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category in 2001.

Elling often leads the Down Beat critics poll, and he was awarded the Prix Billie Holiday from the Académie du Jazz.

At Rockford Lutheran High School, in Rockford, IL, Elling continued to sing in the choir: " When it was undeniably uncool and geeky and all that, to be in the choir, I did it anyway, because it was reliably beautiful, and it was rewarding, and it gave me gifts of experience and friendships.

Elling earned little money at these gigs, but Karl Johnson, the house pianist, was his mentor and teacher.

Elling convinced Hobgood that he was ready to go into the studio, and they came out with nine solid songs.

In 1999, Elling became a National Trustee for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and in 2003, he was elected Vice Chair and served two terms.