Jazz at Pearl's Presents Jaw-Dropping Vocalist Kenny Washington
Jazz at Pearl's (San Francisco, CA)
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New Orleans native Kenny Washington has jazz, blues and gospel in his blood. With an expressive voice and remarkable scat-singing ability, he's sung around the world with U.S Navy Band, served as featuring vocalist at the Top of the Mark in the Mark Hopkins Hotel for eight years, and is in constant demand as a performer around the Bay Area.
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- "The Superman of the Bay Area jazz scene, a vocalist with an exuberantly supple tenor that glides effortlessly into the stratosphere." --San Francisco Chronicle
- "If you have never heard Kenny Washington sing before, get ready for a jaw dropping experience. Kenny is a jazz vocalist virtuoso. Emulating the classic styles of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn, infusing colors of Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, Kenny’s free, playful approach...is awe inspiring." --AllaboutJazz.com
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If you have never heard this New Orleans native sing before, get ready for a jaw dropping experience. Kenny is a jazz vocalist virtuoso. Emulating the classic styles of Johnny Hartman and Billy Eckstine, infusing colors of Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, Kenny’s freedom • play approach, with over a four-octave range is awe inspiring. His tone on ballads is liquid, his scat is so rapid-fire, passionate, melodious and inventive that subsequent saxophone solos often pale, and his intonation is so precise that it becomes noticeable if the piano wasn’t tuned that day. His range seems limitless. With a childhood background singing in gospel, Kenny is at home with the Blues as well as Jazz.