Kim Kaskiw is an accomplished musician and jazz vocalist who has just produced her debut solo CD ‘Shades of Love’.  One listen and you’ll agree that her voice elevates the world of jazz and simply needs to be heard, to be believed. 

The CD features the likes of Juno Award winner Guido Basso on flugelhorn and trumpet, as well as John MacMurchy on Saxophone and Clarinet and J.P. Allain on piano.

Kim has achieved her extensive vocal range, beautiful tone and her ‘hornlike phrasing’ from her background as a professional tuba player.  That’s right, tuba.  It’s thanks to that big horn that we’re privileged to enjoy such a big voice. 

On all thirteen tracks of this phenomenal debut CD Kim’s intonation and phrasing are superlative, yet musical.  She delivers the story like the great vocalists of the 1940’s, but she does it with her own unique sound.  There are not many singers who can scat along with the great Guido Basso on one song and the very next, deliver a ballad with such incredible sensitivity, even the hardest of hearts are sure to soften.

Kim is also a gifted composer and arranger.  As a temptation of what’s in store for her next CD, she has included a recording of her composition ‘Here And Now’.   The final cut ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’ is the most unique of all thirteen tracks.  It’s here that her voice and her tuba combine to create one swingin’ misbehavin’ sound!