Ken Skinner

{{Infobox musical artist | name = Ken Skinner | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = Kenneth Skinner Jr. | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|6|28}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | origin = | death_date =  | death_place = | genre = Jazz | occupation = Pianist | instrument = | years_active =  | label = | website =  }} '''Kenneth Skinner Jr.''' is a jazz pianist, head of the group ''Ken Skinner and the jazzmongers!''.<ref name=Star/>

Ken Skinner and the ''jazzmongers!'' recordings have showcased jazz players such as Bob Mover, Kirk MacDonald, Kevin Turcotte, Jake Wilkinson and Duncan Hopkins. Also, Skinner has sat in at jam sessions with the likes of Wynton Marsalis. His jazz material can be found on 2 CDs on the Village Jazz label.<ref name=Star/> ''One Lucky Piano'' features 16 of Canada's pianists all recorded on the piano formerly housed in the famed "Montreal Bistro" in Toronto.<ref name=Star/>

Skinner's music has been included in 3 feature-length films, 2 videos, with numerous appearances on television and radio. Of those films is "''Pitch''" produced by Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice, also known as "Kenny and Spenny". During a period of activity in 1996, he worked with prima ballerina Kimberley Glasco, of the National Ballet of Canada, on two projects, one of those being a Bravo! video for "''Jombo Memsahb''" found on the ''jazzmongers!'' first release ''Stirling Silver''.<ref name=Star/> A second video, also for the Bravo! network, "Maroon" is the title track of the ''jazzmongers!'' second release, earning Ken the title of Bravo! artist of the week.<ref name=Star/>

==Discography== *''Live: Stirling Theatre'' (Village Jazz 9901, 1995)<ref>{{cite book|last=Lord|first=Tom|title=The jazz discography|publisher=Lord Music Reference|year=1998|volume=20|isbn=978-1-881993-19-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jAtIAAAAMAAJ&q=%22jazzmongers%22&dq=%22jazzmongers%22&cd=2}}</ref> *''Maroon'' (Village Jazz 9902, 1997) *''Kin of Kensington'' (Global Sync Media, 1999) *''One Lucky Piano'' (Timely Manor, 2007)

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Star"> "Local pianist Ken Skinner proves himself at home", ''Toronto Star'', 2000, web: [https://archive.today/20130131161112/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/426910261.html?did=426910261&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Aug+10,+2000&author=Geoff+Chapman&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Local+pianist+Ken+Skinner+proves+himself+at+home+;+Ken+Skinner+has+resisted+the+urge+to+tour+abroad PQ42]. </ref> }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Skinner, Ken}} Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Montreal Category:Canadian jazz pianists Category:21st-century Canadian pianists