Kendra Shank Quartet - Birthday Celebration at Jazz at Kitano

Vocalist KENDRA SHANK returns to Jazz at Kitano with a group of longtime collaborators to celebrate her birthday. Her association with pianist FRANK KIMBROUGH began in 1992 when jazz legend Shirley Horn presented them at the Village Vanguard. Since then they've collaborated on four CDs, three of which also feature bassist DEAN JOHNSON who joined Shank's quartet in 1999. Saxophonist and percussionist BILLY DREWES, also a frequent bandmate, appears on two of Shank's CDs and weaves contrapuntal lines with the vocalist whose concept embraces organic fluidity and conversational group interplay. Kendra Shank combines modern jazz, re-imagined standards, world, folk, and open improvisation in an adventurous, genre-bending style that THE NEW YORKER's Steve Futterman calls "imaginative and daring."...

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Vocalist KENDRA SHANK returns to Jazz at Kitano with a group of longtime collaborators to celebrate her birthday. Her association with pianist FRANK KIMBROUGH began in 1992 when jazz legend Shirley Horn presented them at the Village Vanguard. Since then they've collaborated on four CDs, three of which also feature bassist DEAN JOHNSON who joined Shank's quartet in 1999. Saxophonist and percussionist BILLY DREWES, also a frequent bandmate, appears on two of Shank's CDs and weaves contrapuntal lines with the vocalist whose concept embraces organic fluidity and conversational group interplay. Kendra Shank combines modern jazz, re-imagined standards, world, folk, and open improvisation in an adventurous, genre-bending style that THE NEW YORKER's Steve Futterman calls "imaginative and daring."

"This vocalist makes lyrics believable, invents like an instrumentalist, and has an ear second to none for little-known and unknown tunes." -Bob Blumenthal, BOSTON GLOBE

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