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World Service,14 Nov 2012,18 mins

Kurt Elling

The Strand

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Everyone of his 9 albums has been Grammy nominated, and his latest is made up of songs written by the composers who worked out of New York’s Brill Building in the '50s and '60s. Jazz singer Kurt Elling talks about the skill of these tunesmiths. Photo: Eva Hambach/AFP/GettyImages.

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