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Mosaic

Kendra Shank

Mosaic

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917327922
Catnr: CR 73279
Release date: 27 March 2009
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Challenge Records
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0608917327922
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CR 73279
Release date
27 March 2009
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Kendra Shank: voice | Frank Kimbrough: piano | Dean Johnson: bass | Tony Moreno: drums | Billy Drewes: soprano & tenor saxophones, clarinet | Ben Monder: guitar

This is Kendra Shank’s fourth collaboration with co-producer Andrew Rowan: the results, as well as the process, just keep getting better. With MOSAIC, they return to their non-formula formula: just play songs they love.
The band is familiar but never complacent. Since 1999, Kendra’s collaboration with Frank Kimbrough, Dean Johnson and Tony Moreno has become magical. The plus two – Billy Drewes and Ben Monder – are frequent guests, and this stellar ensemble eschews set-in-stone arrangements in favor of an organic unfolding of the songs that often brings to mind the approach of the fabled Bill Evans trios. Says Kendra, “I wanted to capture the joy and spontaneity that this band has when performing together live.”
At the heart of a successful vocal jazz project, however, is repertoire. The songs chosen encompass a wide range of sources, yet they cohere as Kendra pinpoints each one’s emotional core. She reinvents these songs with her singular vision, reshaping them and making them her own in creative, collaborative arrangements with her band. Folk, country, and world music influences inform the jazz context with a rich variety of instrumentation, compelling improvised solos and intuitive group interplay. This album will appeal to both vocal and instrumental fans and features some of New York’s top jazz musicians. Listening carefully, however, throughout the session, it becomes clear that Kendra is revealing more of her inner self than ever, the emotion is unguarded and intimate.

Kendra Shank's zweite CD bei Challenge zeigt sie erneut in allerbester Form. Der Vorg�nger 'A Spirit Free' war eine Hommage an Abbey Lincoln und erntete international reichlich Lob. Mit ihrem seit 10 Jahren bestehenden Trio und zwei G�sten hat sie nun ein neues Album eingespielt, auf dem sie beweist, dass sie sich Songs mit ihrer hoch emotionalen Stimme und ihrer au�ergew�hnlichen Phrasierung zu eigen machen kann. Ob es nun Standards sind oder der Carole King-Titel 'So Far Away' oder eigene St�cke der Band: die ganze CD unterstreicht Abbey Lincolns Urteil: 'Kendra Shank is an original. A singer with a sound.'

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Kendra Shank

Recognized as 'one of the top jazz singers around today' (Scott Yanow, L.A. Jazz Scene), Kendra Shank’s warm voice and subtle improvising style have drawn enthusiastic response from fans and the media. Her adventurous, genre-bending approach is influenced in part by her early roots as a folksinger-guitarist, a residency in Paris, and studies with pioneering vocalist Jay Clayton. Shank’s critically-acclaimed debut CD, Afterglow (Mapleshade, 1994), was co-produced by jazz legend Shirley Horn. This was followed by Wish (Jazz Focus, 1998), which charted on jazz radio, was named “Top 10 of the Year” in Jazziz magazine, and put Ms. Shank among 'Talent Deserving Wider Recognition' in the Down Beat International Critics Poll. In 1999 Shank formed her current New York ensemble...
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Recognized as "one of the top jazz singers around today" (Scott Yanow, L.A. Jazz Scene), Kendra Shank’s warm voice and subtle improvising style have drawn enthusiastic response from fans and the media. Her adventurous, genre-bending approach is influenced in part by her early roots as a folksinger-guitarist, a residency in Paris, and studies with pioneering vocalist Jay Clayton. Shank’s critically-acclaimed debut CD, Afterglow (Mapleshade, 1994), was co-produced by jazz legend Shirley Horn. This was followed by Wish (Jazz Focus, 1998), which charted on jazz radio, was named “Top 10 of the Year” in Jazziz magazine, and put Ms. Shank among "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" in the Down Beat International Critics Poll. In 1999 Shank formed her current New York ensemble and featured them on her radio-charting CD Reflections (Jazz Focus, 2000) which made “Top 10 of the Year” lists in The Boston Globe and Newsday. This ensemble is also featured on her previous release, A Spirit Free: Abbey Lincoln Songbook (Challenge Records CR73253, 2007). Shank has appeared on NPR's JazzSet and Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz and performs internationally in clubs and festivals. She was guest guitarist on Abbey Lincoln's CD Over The Years (Verve, 2000) and has been a vocal guest with Bob Dorough, Jay Clayton, and Peter Leitch.

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Kendra Shank Quartet live at Iridium Jazz Club, NY City

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