Kurt Elling at Barbican Centre

Kurt Elling has massed a growing international reputation as the outstanding male jazz singer of his generation.

A tremendous live performer, his London performances over the past few years have drawn ecstatic responses from the media and audiences alike. He returns in a double bill with celebrated French accordionist Richard Galliano.

Galliano is an exceptionally versatile musician, able to make his mark in all kinds of musical contexts, from solo appearances (like the Paris Concert from the Châtelet, which came out in 2009), to playing with a big band like the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, in 2008...

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Kurt Elling has massed a growing international reputation as the outstanding male jazz singer of his generation.

A tremendous live performer, his London performances over the past few years have drawn ecstatic responses from the media and audiences alike. He returns in a double bill with celebrated French accordionist Richard Galliano.

Galliano is an exceptionally versatile musician, able to make his mark in all kinds of musical contexts, from solo appearances (like the Paris Concert from the Châtelet, which came out in 2009), to playing with a big band like the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, in 2008. His exceptional abilities as a soloist are well-recognized, and he continues to explore a vast range of music, without ever losing that lyrical quality that infuses the ballads on Love Day that he recorded with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Charlie Haden and Mino Cinelu, or the French Touch which allowed him to make the link between Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, with the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

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