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Pianist/composer Frank Kimbrough has been active on the New York jazz scene for more than 30 years. He is currently a Palmetto recording artist, having previously recorded as a leader for OmniTone, Soul Note, Igmod, and Mapleshade. Frank was a founding member and composer-in-residence of the Jazz Composers Collective (1992 - 2005), and during the Collective's existence played in nearly twenty of its associated groups. He continues to perform solo concerts and with his trio, and is otherwise in demand as a sideman. Frank’s playing has been recognized by his inclusion in the Downbeat Critics Poll each year since 2001, and his recordings are often included in jazz critics' year's-end top-ten lists.
In February 2016, Frank's first LP, Meantime will be released by the Newvelle label. Newvelle is a new, audiophile LP-only label based in France, and is the brainchild of pianist/composer/producer Elan Mehler, who was a student of Kimbrough's in the late '90's. Frank is honored to have this recording released as the first of Newvelle's projects. It features a program of Kimbrough originals and tunes by Kurt Weill, Andrew Hill, and Harold Arlen. Frank is joined here by tenor saxophonist Andrew Zimmerman, trumpeter Riley Mulherker, bassist Chris Van Voorst Van Beest, and drummer R.J. Miller.
QUARTET, Frank's latest CD on the Palmetto label, features Steve Wilson on alto and soprano saxophones, Jay Anderson on double-bass, and Lewis Nash on drums. It includes seven of Kimbrough's original tunes, with Kurt Weill's "Trouble Man", John Lewis' "Afternoon in Paris", and the Rodgers and Hart standard "it Never Entered My Mind" rounding out the program.
Frank's most recent trio CD is Live at Kitano, with bassist Jay Anderson and Drummer Matt Wilson. Other trio recordings on Palmetto include Rumors, with bassist Masa Kamaguchi and drummer Jeff Hirshfield, Play, with Masa Kamaguchi and Paul Motian, Lullabluebye, with bassist Ben Allison and drummer Matt Wilson, and Chant, with Ben Allison and Jeff Ballard.
In February 2016, Frank's first LP, Meantime will be released by the Newvelle label. Newvelle is a new, audiophile LP-only label based in France, and is the brainchild of pianist/composer/producer Elan Mehler, who was a student of Kimbrough's in the late '90's. Frank is honored to have this recording released as the first of Newvelle's projects. It features a program of Kimbrough originals and tunes by Kurt Weill, Andrew Hill, and Harold Arlen. Frank is joined here by tenor saxophonist Andrew Zimmerman, trumpeter Riley Mulherker, bassist Chris Van Voorst Van Beest, and drummer R.J. Miller.
QUARTET, Frank's latest CD on the Palmetto label, features Steve Wilson on alto and soprano saxophones, Jay Anderson on double-bass, and Lewis Nash on drums. It includes seven of Kimbrough's original tunes, with Kurt Weill's "Trouble Man", John Lewis' "Afternoon in Paris", and the Rodgers and Hart standard "it Never Entered My Mind" rounding out the program.
Frank's most recent trio CD is Live at Kitano, with bassist Jay Anderson and Drummer Matt Wilson. Other trio recordings on Palmetto include Rumors, with bassist Masa Kamaguchi and drummer Jeff Hirshfield, Play, with Masa Kamaguchi and Paul Motian, Lullabluebye, with bassist Ben Allison and drummer Matt Wilson, and Chant, with Ben Allison and Jeff Ballard.
