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2016 holiday . Kurt Elling's first holiday album, The Beautiful Day, is truly beautiful and festive in a swinging way! Elling sings these classic Christmas and popular holiday songs with an ease and confidence proving once more that he is the best jazz singer of our time. The first track, InchSing a Christmas CarolInch, swings lightly and gets you into the feel of the album and puts you in a jazzy holiday mood. Elling's versions of InchWe Three KingsInch and InchSame Old Lang SyneInch exude cool as he makes these Christmas favorites truly his own. InchBeautiful DayInch is the perfect ending for an album that s destined to be a holiday jazz classic. Grammy winner Kurt Elling is among the world's foremost jazz vocalists. He won the DownBeat Critics Poll for fourteen consecutive years and was named Male Singer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association on eight occasions. An international jazz award winner, the New York Times declared, InchElling is the standout male vocalist of our time.Inch The Washington Post added, InchSince the mid-1990s no singer in jazz has been as daring, dynamic or interesting as Kurt Elling. He has come to embody the creative spirit in jazz.Inch Album Tracks 1. Sing a Christmas Carol 2. Wenceslaus (Image I) 3. Star of Wonder 4. We Three Kings 5. Christmas Children 6. Wenceslaus (Image II) 7. Some Children See Him 8. Little Drummer Boy 9. Wenceslaus (Image III) 10. The Michigan Farm (Cradle Song, Op. 41/1) 11. The Snow Is Deep on the Ground / Snowfall 12. Same Old Lang Syne 13. This Christmas 14. The Beautiful Day
