WATCH KEN'S DEMO VIDEO AND LISTEN TO AUDIO CLIPS FROM CDs AND LIVE PERFORMANCES! Video
1. Ken entertains audiences everywhere from large concert halls and swanky nightclubs to intimate hotel lounges and outdoor festivals. Click here to watch a four-and-a-half minute demo video that demonstrates his versatility. | watch |
2. Ken is a frequent guest on San Antonio TV shows. Here is his interview on Sonny Side SA, hostedby nationally renowned broadcaster Sonny Melendrez. Following the interview, Ken sings "Come Rain or Come Shine." (Featuring the late Joe Piscatelle on piano and Chuck Moses on bass. This was filmed during the trio's year-long run at San Antonio's Omni Hotel.) Click on this link to access the video.
3. Ken's new cabaret show, Just You, Just Me, debuted at the historic Church Bistro & Theatre in 2006. It helped him earn the distinction of "Readers' Pick: Best Musician 2006" in The San Antonio Current. The program showcased his many musical influences, including classic jazz and pop, country/western and Spanish-language favorites. Here's a slideshow taken from the program, spotlighting his short tribute to '50s and '60s superstar Connie Francis. The soundtrack is Ken's bluesy rendition of Connie's mega-hit from 1958, "Who's Sorry Now?" (Featuring Morris Nelms on piano, Chuck Moses on bass and Eddie Torres on drums.) |Watch slideshow.|
4. Here's another slide show, set to "The Song is You," from Ken's 2001 CD of the same name. Visuals are from a live performance at Luna in San Antonio. (Featuring Andy Langham on piano, Chuck Moses on bass, Steve Glaeser on drums and Mike Berglund on trumpet.) |Watch slideshow.|
5. San Antonio videographer Christopher Palmer created this special video to promote Ken's new CD and posted it on YouTube. He is very talented. See more of his work at http://www.mrmoonphotosa.com:
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1. There's nothing like a friendly audience to bring out the best in a singer. Listen to Ken perform the timeless Hoagy Carmichael classic "The Nearness of You", recorded live during the debut of Just You, Just Me. (Featuring Morris Nelms on piano, Chuck Moses on bass and Eddie Torres on drums.) | listen |
2. Here's a live version of "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To," recorded at Trinity University's Ruth Taylor Concert Hall during Oscar and Tony and Ken, Oh My! -- when Ken was the special guest of the Alamo City Men's Chorale. (Featuring Andy Langham on piano and Chuck Moses on bass.) | listen |
3. Ken has produced four professional albums of jazz and pop classics. Here he sings "Fever" on his second album, Tender is the Night (1996) -- a project created by Ken to raise money for the San Antonio AIDS Foundation. This cut received extensive airplay in San Antonio and other U.S. markets and earned him his first favorable national music review. (Featuring Small World's Kyle Keener on drums, Darrel Tidaback on bass and a hauntingly hip jazz flute solo by Rene Saenz.) | listen |
4. Ken's newest CD, I'll Take Romance, features 16 classic jazz and pop songs, sung in his unique style. Produced by Barry Brake of The Jazz Protagonists, this may be his best recording yet. Here is opening track, "Thoughts of Your Smile," written and arranged by Brake -- and set to the melody of the classic Brazilian bossa nova song, "Manha de Carnaval."
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