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Close Your Eyes is the debut studio album by Kurt Elling, released in 1995.

At the 38th Grammy Awards Elling was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for Close Your Eyes.

Track listing:
“Close Your Eyes” (Bernice Petkere) – 6:06
“Dolores Dream” (Wayne Shorter, Kurt Elling) – 6:32
“Ballad of the Sad Young Men” (Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman) – 6:17
“(Hide the) Salomé” (Elling, Laurence Hobgood) – 6:59
“Married Blues” (Hobgood, Eric Hochberg, Paul Wertico, Kenneth Rexroth) – 1:29
“Storyteller Experiencing Total Confusion” (Edward Petersen, Elling, Jim Heynen) – 6:15
“Never Say Goodbye” (Elling, Hobgood) – 5:30
“Those Clouds Are Heavy, You Dig?” (Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Elling) – 3:07
“Wait till You See Her” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:57
“Hurricane” (Herbie Hancock, Elling) – 4:50
“Now It Is Time That Gods Came Walking Out” (Hobgood, Hochberg, Wertico, Rainer Maria Rilke) – 2:03
“Never Never Land” (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 5:00
“Remembering Veronica” (Elling, Hobgood) – 4:16

Personnel:
Kurt Elling – vocals, arrangements
Laurence Hobgood – piano (on all tracks except 8), synthesizer (tracks 7, 12, 13), arrangements
Eric Hochberg – double bass (exc. 3, 6-9)
Rob Amster – double bass (6, 8), electric bass (7, 12)
Paul Wertico – drums (exc. 3, 8, 9), percussion (12)
Von Freeman – tenor saxophone (4)
Edward Petersen – tenor saxophone (6, 10)
David Onderdonk – acoustic and electric guitar (7)

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Released: 1995
Recorded: February 14–November 2, 1994
Length: 62:21
Label: Blue Note