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The Strand is a daily 18 minute programme highlighting the best of what's going in the arts. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, The Strand reflects the artistic response to the BBC's news agenda. Presented by Harriett Gilbert and friends, it features discussions, reviews, big-name interviews and location reports as well as live studio performances and Hollywood, Bollywood gossip.

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The Strand Archive: Kurt Elling

Kurt Elling

14/11/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Kurt Elling

Jazz singer Kurt Elling on the tunesmiths who worked in New York’s Brill Building.

Jazz singer Kurt Elling talks about the skill of the tunesmiths  who worked out of New York’s Brill Building in the '50s and '60s.

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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