Musical Style: Jazz Vocals

Jenna McLean is an accomplished modern jazz vocalist with a penchant for celebrating timeless standards with improvisational prowess, swing and simplicity that feels familiar yet contemporary. Her diversity of skill in many genres contributes to her songwriting style and inspires her to continue investigating ways to honor the jazz tradition and still push forward in time.

This show celebrates the release of her latest album, “For Your Love”—a collection of her original songs and arrangements of lesser-done tunes from the Great American Songbook. She is joined by the same band members that collaborated on the album, who have each been major figures in the Denver Jazz community for many years.

Jenna was a semi-finalist in the 2023 American Traditions Vocal Competition, the 2019 winner of the Downbeat Student Music Awards Graduate Vocal Soloist Category, and a 2019 recent recipient of the Pathways to Jazz Grant. She has performed at renowned venues nationwide including Dazzle Denver, Nocturne Denver, Black Cat, The 1905, Rudy's Jazz Room, The Jazz Station, and has performed and presented multiple times at the Jazz Education Network conference and the Five Points Jazz Festival in Denver.

"A young jazz vocalist delightfully blowing off the bullshit of the modern world leads with her old school soul and delivers the goods. Whether scatting on Gershwin or giving good reading to Joni Mitchell, her pure performance is a welcome tonic to jaded ears that just want it true and direct." - Chris Spector, Midwest Record

Jenna McLean - vocals

Jack McManaman - guitar

Tom Amend - piano

Matt Smiley - bass

Chris Smith - drums

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