I believe this is the most comprehensive and accurate discography in one place produced for Kendra Shank. There still may be omissions and errors. Please help if you can by sending any information to steve@jazzdiscography.com.
Compiled by Steve Albin
First published – November 2005
Discography Links:
- Kendra Shank Session-Based Discography
- Index of Songs Recorded by Kendra Shank
- Index of Composers of Songs Recorded by Kendra Shank
- Index of Personnel that Recorded with Kendra Shank
- Index of Releases with Performances by Kendra Shank
Discography Sources:
- Bruyninckx, Walter & Domi Truffandier: Jazz discography; 85 years of recorded jazz
- Jim Pepper discography by Bill Siegel
- Pony Boy Records website
- Kendra Shank
Special thanks to Noal Cohen, Mike Fitzgerald and Kendra Shank for their contributions.
For more information about Kendra Shank, visit her website.

“The only conclusion I can come up with is that Kendra is Kendra, and there’s no one else quite like her. She has that soft, sweet sound that I associate with the best in folk singing, but with the stronger intonation, dynamics, and more varied tonal colors that are unique to jazz. And she swings. Hard. I was tempted to say it’s a gentle swing, again perhaps to distinguish Shank from those overdone blues shouters of a decade ago, who thought all there was to swinging was to sledgehammer the beat.“
Will Friedwald, June 4 – 10, 2003
— Village Voice Jazz Supplement
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