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Broadway's Trent Armand Kendall and Brass ILLUSION Drop New CD Today

By: Dec. 20, 2016
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Broadway's renaissance man, vocalist Trent Armand Kendall's latest CD, backed by the horn-powered, 10-member Brass ILLUSION orchestra, is now released!

Trent Armand Kendall + Brass ILLUSION (Onemoe Music) is available at all major online outlets, including iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, and Spotify.

This CD is a culmination and tribute of sorts to Kendall's "blood, sweat and tears," and exciting collaboration with Brass ILLUSION in 2016. The songs, recorded in a live party atmosphere at New York City's The Cutting Room, are a retrospective full of swagger, swinging Jazz, gritty Blues, soulful R&B, contemporary Pop and playful Broadway hits with new, inventive arrangements.

Titles include Hold On I'm Coming, Superstar / Love The One You're With, When Love Comes To Town, Is You Is / Love Me or Leave Me, I Hope You Dance, a soul stirring rendition of A Change Is Gonna Come and Brass ILLUSION's sizzling take on The Approaching Storm.

2016 has been a very diversified year for Trent; starring in The Marx Brothers 4 Star romp THE COCOANUTS at the highly acclaimed Guthrie Theater, PICTURE INCOMPLETE by Kendall and Michael Polese produced internationally, hosting season 1 of Trent Armand Kendall's BROADWAY DOWNLOAD (co-hosted by Richard E. Waits, City World Radio), his international headliner act This CRAZY Love (Don Casino Productions), US tour dates of LOUIS-AND-ELLA! by Trent Armand Kendall starring Kendall as Louis Armstrong and Broadway's NaTasha Yvette Williams as Ella Fitzgerald, directed by Jeff Whiting.

Mr. Kendall's past credits include: INTO THE WOODS (Revival), HAIR (All Star Concert), THE COLOR PURPLE, BAT BOY the Musical, SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE', THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, CATS, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE and HEY, MR. PRODUCER.

Kendall + Brass ILLUSION kick off the new year January 28, 2017 in a SPEAKEASY presented by the Montclair Food & Wine Festival at the famous Wellmont Theater, Montclair New Jersey. In February LOUIS-AND-ELLA! plays the Clarence Muse Cafe Theater Dallas,TX 2/2-2/4, the Algonquin Arts Theatre Manasquan, NJ 2/12, and the recently added Strauss Theater, Sanibel Island Florida 2/17-2/28, presented by Onemoe Music and Big Arts.

For more information, go to www.trentkendall.com.




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