Kate McGarry Quintet with special guest: Fred Hersch: Mercy Streets CD release featuring: Steve Cardenas, Keith Ganz, Sean Smith and Kenny Wollesen

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Jazz songwriter/vocalist Kate McGarry's 'The Target' (Palmetto Records) showcases McGarry's colorful phrasing, strong spiritual connection and boundless musical curiosity. 'The Target' features a collection of expressive original compositions and arrangements, along with personal interpretations from a diverse repertoire of standard and not-so-standard fare. Critics are calling McGarry "the best of a new breed of jazz vocalists" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) with a "sure-footed musicality" (The New York Times) and "the pure untrammeled voice of an ingénue who finds wonder in the simplest things" (DownBeat, 4 stars). DownBeat ranked McGarry the #6 rising female vocalist in the 2007 Critics Poll.

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