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Kendra Shank Quartet - Birthday Celebration at Jazz at Kitano

Courtesy of Kendra Shank | Posted on April 2, 2018

Where

Jazz at Kitano
66 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Map
212-885-7125

When

Sat, April 21, 2018
10:00 pm

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Musicians

Billy Drewes
saxophone
Dean Johnson
bass, acoustic

About

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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