Freeman NewsLocal news for Freeman, MO continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.JAZZTOWN Kurt Elling's got no complaints- December 13, 2007 "I was perfectly raw ... but for whatever reason, musicians who knew what they were doing were always gracious and welcomed me." Kurt Elling is in the top ranks of jazz singers today. But he remembers a time about 15 years back when he was trying to get out of 'loserville.''I was living in a basement room for a hundred bucks a month, moving furniture for a living,' he says. 'But all I was thinking about was music.'Things are a little different now. His latest CD is Grammy-nominated (in the...http://www.topix.net/city/freeman-mo/2007/12/jazztown-kurt-ellings-got-no-complaints?fromr... |