Secrets are the best stories

"Fortunately, there's some absolutely blazing stuff from Pérez and drummer Johnathan Blake, who seems to be everywhere these days. Elling himself has been hailed as the male jazz vocalist of the age, with a voice in a million. All this was more than enough to keep me listening".

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"This month's best vocal album (...) impeccably balances the singer's natural gift for storytelling with envelope-pushing vocal ingenuity and keen emotional intelligence".

"Secrets Are The Best Stories has a little secret of its own. Do Kurt Elling's opaquely metaphysical lyrics actually mean anything? Combined with the music of Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter and collaborator/pianist Danilo Pérez, the result is one of his more challenging projects ... The passion is earnest and pitch perfect. Now, if only I understood exactly what he was singing about".