Closing act
With jazz musicians as venerable as 82-year-old Lou Donaldson and 75-year-old Cedar Walton already announced as stalwarts in next season’s Art of Jazz series at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, this season ends this weekend with a rare double bill of a couple of much-lionized and universally respected jazz fiftysomethings: singer Kendra Shank and pianist Frank Kimbrough. It won’t be Kimbrough’s first performance in the Albright-Knox series. He was part of the orchestra Maria Schneider brought to town that completely enraptured everyone at the concert. He also played the Albright-Knox with the late Dewey Redman. He is one of the more artful current jazz pianists. His last disc was a beautiful solo piano outing called “Air” that was obviously derived a bit from Keith Jarrett but was eccentric enough to include Duke Ellington’s great composition “Wig Wise.” Shank (see the Disc review on Page 22 for more on her) is one of the most praised female singers in all of current jazz. There are few jazz singers of more beautiful or purer tone anywhere and, right from her career’s beginnings in Seattle, she has had a partiality to the familiar folk music repertoire of the ’60s and ’70s. Shank and Kimbrough come to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery auditorium at 8 p. m. Saturday. Tickets are $18 for gallery members, $22 for nonmembers. —Jeff Simon
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