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News: Award / Grant

Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz

Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz

= winner Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball ...

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Less is More... Nothing is Everything

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Let's Face the Music; You're My Thrill; Just What I Needed; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Caminhos Cruzados; You Don't Have To Cry; The Priest; Flor De Lis; I Carry Your Heart; Man of God.

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #51: Kate McGarry

The Jazz Session #51: Kate McGarry

Jason Crane interviews vocalist Kate McGarry. Her new album, If Less Is More... Nothing Is Everything (Palmetto, 2008), explores everything from spirituality to The Cars in McGarry’s typically atypical style. McGarry is joined on the record by guitarist Keith Ganz, organist Gary Versace, bassist Reuben Rogers, drummer Clarence Penn, saxophonist Donny McCaslin, percussionist James Shipp, and ...

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Article: Album Review

Kate McGarry: Less is More... Nothing is Everything

Read "Less is More... Nothing is Everything" reviewed by Blaine Fallis


Coming across Kate McGarry's If Less is More... Nothing is Everything on an iPod in shuffle mode, it's possible that “Man of God," might be followed by “The Priest" and “Just What I Needed;" a couple of spiritual songs followed by a slow acoustic version of the hit song by The Cars. Listeners might at first ...

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News: Event

Kate McGarry Quartet, KJ Denhert, Howard Fishman at "Summer on the Hudson"

Kate McGarry Quartet, KJ Denhert, Howard Fishman at "Summer on the Hudson"

Summer On the Hudson, one of New York City's largest free summer festivals, continues its eighth season with a summer of unique contemporary music events at Riverside Park South, including the Kate McGarry Quartet, KJ Denhert and Howard Fishman's Biting Fish Brass Band on its July 13-August 24 “Acoustic Sundays" series. Summer On The Hudson is ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Kate McGarry Headlines La's Jazz Bakery on June 17t

Kate McGarry Headlines La's Jazz Bakery on June 17t

Kate McGarry, hailed by Downbeat as one of the top female vocalists of 2007, will bring her inspired repertoire of standard and not-so-standard fare to LA's Jazz Bakery on June 17th. A singer who's also a favorite among singers, McGarry, who has not performed in the LA area in over a year, will preview tracks from ...

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The Target

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Meaning of the Blues; No Wonder; It Might As Well Be Spring; Nobody Else But Me; Blue In Green; The Target (Miracles Like These); The Heather on the Hill; Sister Moon; The Lamp is Low; Do Something; She Always Will; New Love Song.

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Article: Interview

Kate McGarry: The Turtle, The Paradox, and The Big Yes

Read "Kate McGarry:  The Turtle, The Paradox, and The Big Yes" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


It's a busy time for singer Kate McGarry, with European and U.S. tours, CD release festivities, imminent professoring at the New York Manhattan School of Music, and recording with the new vocal group, Moss. Her newest CD, The Target (Palmetto, 2007), hit Jazz Week at #37 and rose to #18 barely two weeks later; it's also ...

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Article: Album Review

Kate McGarry: The Target

Read "The Target" reviewed by Suzanne Lorge


Kate McGarry makes full use of her lilting, pitch- perfect voice on The Target, her third release for Palmetto Records. Like many jazz singers today, McGarry culls some of her musical ideas from non-jazz idioms like pop and folk; in McGarry's case, this hybridization of influences expands rather than limits her individual vocal expression. According to ...

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Article: Album Review

Kate McGarry: The Target

Read "The Target" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


There's a whole lot of nonsense in Vocal Land these days, since it's so easy for the earnest but talent-challenged to produce a CD and hire a publicist. There are occasional gems in the mud, for sure, but the field is crowded with wannabes. And the majors don't help when they push faux sexuality, or turn ...


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