Don't wait for next month's London Jazz Festival. Kurt Elling, having stolen that show last year, hasn't been invited back.

Instead, the Chicagoan vocalist has muscled into this Soho club and is in scintillating form. His opening set contained some of the finest jazz heard in London this year.

Superbly supported by bassist Rob Amster, ace pianist-arranger Laurence Hobgood and new drummer Willie Jones III, a capture from trumpeter Roy Hargrove, Elling eased his rich baritone through its four-octave range with rare creativity and finesse.

His lustrous reading of My Foolish Heart contained ancient verses inserted by an Iraqi poetess "whose name I can't pronounce, but who gives us our little global-unity moment for tonight".

Betty Carter's classic Hold Tight then triggered some entirely appropriate scatsinging choruses before Elling cleverly dovetailed two ballads of initially similar chord structure, Change Partners and If You Never Come to Me.

His lyrics to pianist Alan Pasqua's latest distinctive theme, And We Will Fly, featured a counterpoint line that every doublebassist will want to learn. And his set-closer, an extended lyric to tenorist Dexter Gordon's classic Body and Soul solo, with Giant Steps variations, was stunning. Don't miss.

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