MP3 Just 4 Kicks - Kick In The Pants
This zany A Cappella vocal jazz quartet covers the whole spectrum, and ALL without a band...they ARE the band.
12 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, JAZZ: Bebop
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"Just 4 Kicks is an a cappella vocal jazz quartet." That''s kind of like saying the Empire State Building is a skyscraper. Its true, but it doesn''t begin to describe the experience of hearing this amazing wacky, virtuoso vocal jazz ensemble for the first time.
Four uniquely talented and musically successful vocalists from the West Coast, each with independent careers in the music industry, were thrust together at several Northwest jazz festivals in 1993, and a quartet emerged! Just 4 Kicks'' Kirby Shaw, from Ashland, Oregon, is one of the most well known choral and vocal jazz composer/arrangers of our time. Randy Crenshaw is among the first-call studio singers and arrangers in Los Angeles. Four Freshmen alumnus Kirk Marcy, directs the internationally-acclaimed vocal jazz ensemble Soundsation, at Edmonds Community College, just north of Seattle. Vijay Singh, widely known for his versatility as a composer, arranger, soloist, and director of the vocal jazz program at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, rounds out the quartet.
Just 4 Kicks began as a diversion from these active careers in a spirit of fun and spontaneous musicality. Now, to their great surprise and delight, this talented group finds themselves in demand at jazz festivals and clinics throughout the United States and Canada. With the release of their third CD, entitled "KICK IN THE PANTS," Just 4 Kicks stands poised to take new listeners by storm with a collection of exquisitely-sung new arrangements, as written by the four of them. With all four singers doing scat solos, vocalese, tight harmonies and impersonations of various instruments, this is one a cappella vocal group where the listener never "misses the band!"