Sixth Wave and 4 Kicks Sang Their Sox off Tuesday Night

But alas, there was no video because this show was  SOLD OUT!

It is good to know that all of you guys are helping out by coming out to these LIVE SHOWS happening at The Coffee Gallery Backstage.  Those of you who missed out by not making your reservations soon enough, well maybe they will be back in the future. 

Sixth Wave...Los Angeles' own six-voice, a cappella, jazz, pop, rock group is a nationally acclaimed, award-winning 6-voice vocal collective. What is a vocal collective? It is what happens when you bring a group of singers together who all have extensive resumes ranging in everything from opera to rock and roll, from jazz clubs in NYC to recording studios in LA. All of these elements come together to form the creative soup that is Sixth Wave.

 "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! 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 (not the golfer!), 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. 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!"