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Kendra Shank Quartet

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Date(s) - 09/16/2017
8:00 PM - 11:15 PM

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Jazz at Kitano

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Vocalist Kendra Shank returns to Jazz at Kitano with longtime collaborators Frank Kimbrough — piano and Dean Johnson — bass plus special guest drummer Allison Miller. 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 CDs, three of which also feature Dean Johnson who joined Shank’s quartet in 1999, performing multiple club and festival dates nationwide. Shank recently discovered a musical simpatico with drummer Allison Miller whose sonic palette enriches the group’s sound-painting and ensemble interplay. Kendra Shank combines modern jazz, re-imagined standards, world music, folk/pop songs, and open improvisation in an adventurous, genre-bending style that The New Yorker’s Steve Futterman calls “imaginative and daring.”

Kendra Shank’s seven CDs have received numerous “Best of the Year” citations, a New York Times “Critics’ Choice,” and Down Beat poll recognition, with accolades for her “delectable voice” (Time magazine) and “breathtakingly original concept” (Boston Globe). Since her 1992 debut at the Village Vanguard with Shirley Horn, Shank has become a mainstay on New York’s jazz scene and has headlined at top venues and festivals in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Canada, and across the U.S. She has appeared on NPR’s “JazzSet” and Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz,” was guest guitarist on Abbey Lincoln’s “Over The Years CD,” and has performed and/or recorded as a vocalist with Frank Kimbrough, Fred Hersch, Geoffrey Keezer, Bruce Barth, Larry Willis, Joe Locke, Jay Clayton, Bob Dorough, Ben Monder, John Stowell, Gene Bertoncini, Gary Bartz, Steve Wilson, Victor Lewis, Matt Wilson, and many more. (Time quote by Terry Teachout; Boston Globe by Andrew Gilbert)

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