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Contact & Booking: Jazz Cat Productions, Inc. 206 West 104 Street, Suite 66 New York, NY 10025 917-488-2094 ken.greves@gmail.com www.KenGreves.com What People Are Saying About Ken Greves... A prolific interpreter of American standards, singer Ken Greves transports audiences back to the Golden Years of jazz and champagne music with his latest album, The Face Of My Love. – Susan Frances Jazz Times” Ken Greves is a passionate interpretor of the Great American Songbook and the songs of contemporary jazz and popular composers. He is a specialist in the music, work and careers of Harold Arlen and Billy Strayhorn. Performing with some of the best musicians from the New York jazz scene, Ken presents music both well known and rare by such legendary composers as Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Richard Rogers, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Stephen Sondheim, Dave Frisberg, Sammy Cohn, Tommy Wolf, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Alec Wilder. Ken’s original arrangements and distinctive vocal interpretations make every performance memorable and special. Audiences love his sense of swing and the way he delivers each lyric as if it were his own. Ken sings from the heart straight to the heart of his audience. Ken’s concert programs are suited to a wide range of venues, from jazz clubs, nightclubs, and cabarets to corporate events, private parties, hotels, resorts, art galleries, embassies, colleges and universities, and fundraisers. Combining a wealth of information about American popular classics with a talent for storytelling, Ken also offers lecture-performances and seminars. Classically trained in theater, voice and dance, Ken Greves made his solo debut as a vocalist in April, 2000, at Don’t Tell Mama with his program, Who The Hell Is Harold Arlen?! Shortly thereafter, he encountered Trudi Mann and her open jazz mic and immersed himself in the world of jazz. In April, 2006, Ken launched a new program, Last Night When We Were Young — Aspects of Arlen, at Danny’s Skylight Room in New York City. Accompanied by the Tedd Firth quartet, this popular show comprises songs from Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley, and explores the many facets of Arlen’s extraordinary contribution to the Great American Songbook. Ken recently released NIGHT PEOPLE in the spring of 2015 at Cafe Noctambulo in NYC. He is currently at work with more Arlen material anda new show entitled SO IT'S SPRING! Ken currently has three CD's available on iTunes, CDBaby and Amazon. The performance of the ensemble is first rate, responsive in every way and, if anything even more remarkable is the work of the vocalist, Ken Greves, displaying an exceptional expressive range of tone and dynamic. –Raul da Gama “Night People” For Ken Greves, the lyrics are the jewel for which the music provides the beautiful setting. This is not to say that sheer musicality does not play a major part in this music. Ken’s approach in both the arrangements and the manner in which he blends his superb vocal artistry with his musicians is of the highest order, fully conceived within the concept of synergy that is essential to the greatest tradition of jazz. - Night People review Where Ken Greves gets to brightly shine is with the gems that he's dusting off, such as Arlen and Ralph Blaine's "I Love a New Yorker"and "Cocoanut Sweet" (from Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's Jamaica). -Andy Propst, Theatremania
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Contact & Booking:
Jazz Cat Productions, Inc.206 West 104 Street, Suite 66
New York, NY 10025
917-488-2094
www.KenGreves.com
What People Are Saying About Ken Greves...A prolific interpreter of American standards, singer Ken Greves transports audiences back to the Golden Years of jazz and champagne music with his latest album, The Face Of My Love. – Susan Frances Jazz Times”
Ken Greves is a passionate interpretor of the Great American Songbook and the songs of contemporary jazz and popular composers. He is a specialist in the music, work and careers of Harold Arlen and Billy Strayhorn.
Performing with some of the best musicians from the New York jazz scene, Ken presents music both well known and rare by such legendary composers as Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Richard Rogers, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Stephen Sondheim, Dave Frisberg, Sammy Cohn, Tommy Wolf, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Alec Wilder.
Ken’s original arrangements and distinctive vocal interpretations make every performance memorable and special. Audiences love his sense of swing and the way he delivers each lyric as if it were his own. Ken sings from the heart straight to the heart of his audience.
Ken’s concert programs are suited to a wide range of venues, from jazz clubs, nightclubs, and cabarets to corporate events, private parties, hotels, resorts, art galleries, embassies, colleges and universities, and fundraisers.
Combining a wealth of information about American popular classics with a talent for storytelling, Ken also offers lecture-performances and seminars.
Classically trained in theater, voice and dance, Ken Greves made his solo debut as a vocalist in April, 2000, at Don’t Tell Mama with his program, Who The Hell Is Harold Arlen?! Shortly thereafter, he encountered Trudi Mann and her open jazz mic and immersed himself in the world of jazz.
In April, 2006, Ken launched a new program, Last Night When We Were Young — Aspects of Arlen, at Danny’s Skylight Room in New York City. Accompanied by the Tedd Firth quartet, this popular show comprises songs from Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley, and explores the many facets of Arlen’s extraordinary contribution to the Great American Songbook.
Ken recently released NIGHT PEOPLE in the spring of 2015 at Cafe Noctambulo in NYC. He is currently at work with more Arlen material anda new show entitled SO IT'S SPRING!
Ken currently has three CD's available on iTunes, CDBaby and Amazon.
The performance of the ensemble is first rate, responsive in every way and, if anything even more remarkable is the work of the
vocalist, Ken Greves,
displaying an exceptional expressive range of tone and dynamic.
–Raul da Gama “Night People”
For Ken Greves, the lyrics are the jewel for which the music provides the beautiful setting. This is not to say that sheer musicality does not play a major part in this music. Ken’s approach in both the arrangements and the manner in which he blends his superb vocal artistry with his musicians is of the highest order, fully conceived within the concept of synergy that is essential to the greatest tradition of jazz.-Night People review
Where Ken Greves gets to brightly shine is with the gems that he's dusting off, such as Arlen and Ralph Blaine's "I Love a New Yorker"and "Cocoanut Sweet" (from Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's Jamaica).-Andy Propst, Theatremania
