06/11/2006 Quotes: KURT ELLING

Look – if Frank Sinatra were alive, none of us would have any work. In jazz, there always has been a dialectic between people who are playing more inside (the mainstream) and people who are reaching out, and many of us refer to the same canon of tunes.(Listeners) who are curious and interested in digging deeper have a place to go.
(Houston Chronicle, 2004)