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

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). The trio's “practically telepathic integration” (Lawrence Brazier, Jazz Now) and conversational group interplay create 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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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). The trio's “practically telepathic integration” (Lawrence Brazier, Jazz Now) and conversational group interplay create 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 Shank’s seven CDs along with new material, including songs by Frank Kimbrough, Renee Rosnes, Fred Hersch, Bob Dorough, Sidney Bechet, James Taylor, Abbey Lincoln, re-imagined standards, and improvisations with Shank’s poems, all unified by her soulful storytelling and inventive phrasing.

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