Kurt Elling returns with Passion World, his fifth album on Concord, and eleventh album overall.

Featuring a small battalion of guest collaborators working in tandem with the singer’s much-traveled quintet (keyboardist Gary Versace, guitarist John McLean, bassist Clark Sommers, drummer Kendrick Scott). The guests include the brilliant veteran trumpeter Cuban émigré Arturo Sandoval; the widely lauded young vocalist Sara Gazarek; German trumpet star Till Brönner; French accordion virtuoso Richard Galliano; the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and its founder-leader, saxophone savant Tommy Smith; and the world-renowned WDR Big Band and Orchestra from Germany, featuring pianist Frank Chastenier.

Track listing:

1. The Verse

2. After The Door

3. Loch Tay Boat Song

4. Si Te Contara

5. La Vie En Rose

6. Bonita Cuba

7. Where The Streets Have No Name

8. The Tangled Road

9. Você Já Foi à Bahia?

10. Nicht Wandle, Mein Licht (Liebeslieder Walzer Op. 52, No. 17)

11. Who Is It (Carry My Joy On The Left, Carry My Pain On The Right)

12. Where Love Is