Ken Shepherd

Ken Shepherd: Worth The Wait

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2000

In his debut recording on Philadelphia's home-grown jazz label, Encounter Records, vocalist-or maybe more appropriately vocalesist-Ken Shepherd proves that scat singing isn't exclusively the domain of relatively few male singers such as Jon Hendricks or Kurt Elling. Au contraire. One needs only to attend some of the IAJE vocal performances and/or clinics to realize that interest in jazz singing is budding, and in many cases blossoming, throughout the country.

Ken Shepherd is in full bloom as he finally gets the ...