Kendra Shank - Frank Kimbrough - Dean Johnson at Mezzrow Jazz Club

7:30 & 9:00 pm shows. "A combination of power and perfume." -Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader

KENDRA SHANK's seven CDs have won numerous “Best of the Year” citations, a New York Times Critic’s Choice, Downbeat poll recognition, and accolades for her “delectable voice” (Terry Teachout, Time magazine) and "breathtakingly original concept" (Andrew Gilbert, Boston Globe). This Mezzrow performance features her longtime collaborators, pianist FRANK KIMBROUGH (Maria Schneider, Dewey Redman) and bassist DEAN JOHNSON (Gerry Mulligan, Joe Lovano). With a “practically telepathic integration” (Lawrence Brazier, Jazz Now) and interplay, the trio creates in-the-moment music that The New Yorker's Steve Futterman dubbed "imaginative and daring." Shank's association with Frank Kimbrough began in 1992 when jazz legend Shirley Horn presented them at the Village Vanguard...

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7:30 & 9:00 pm shows. "A combination of power and perfume." -Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader

KENDRA SHANK's seven CDs have won numerous “Best of the Year” citations, a New York Times Critic’s Choice, Downbeat poll recognition, and accolades for her “delectable voice” (Terry Teachout, Time magazine) and "breathtakingly original concept" (Andrew Gilbert, Boston Globe). This Mezzrow performance features her longtime collaborators, pianist FRANK KIMBROUGH (Maria Schneider, Dewey Redman) and bassist DEAN JOHNSON (Gerry Mulligan, Joe Lovano). With a “practically telepathic integration” (Lawrence Brazier, Jazz Now) and interplay, the trio creates in-the-moment music that The New Yorker's Steve Futterman dubbed "imaginative and daring." Shank's association with Frank Kimbrough began in 1992 when jazz legend Shirley Horn presented them at the Village Vanguard. Since then they've collaborated on four critically-acclaimed CDs, three of which also feature Dean Johnson who joined Shank's group in 1999. They will play selections from their CDs along with new material, including songs by Frank Kimbrough, Renee Rosnes, Fred Hersch, Billy Drewes, Sidney Bechet, James Taylor, Abbey Lincoln, re-imagined standards, and Shank’s poetry, all unified by her soulful storytelling, inventive phrasing.

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