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March 25, 2007 - For jazz singer Kurt Elling, seven times is a charm.

The baritone has seven Grammy nominations and seven albums with Blue Note Records. His latest CD, Nightmoves, is his first for the Concord Jazz label.

He's consistently ranked among the best male vocalists in jazz by polls in music magazines.

In addition to lending his pipes to standards by Frank Sinatra, Betty Carter and Duke Ellington, he has written lyrics for the improvised instrumental solos of such artists as Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Dexter Gordon.

Nightmoves takes the listener on a journey from twilight to dawn and contains distinctive takes on classics — including a hybrid of Frank Sinatra's "Wee Small Hours" and Keith Jarrett's "Leaving Again."

Elling tells Liane Hansen that the lyrics he wrote for the jazz classic "Body and Soul" were inspired by his seventeen-month-old daughter.