Prudence Johnson & the Halcyon Jazz Quartet

Jazz with an Understated Vibe

Versatility can be rewarding but some music just feels like home. Vocalist Prudence Johnson returns to a jazz repertoire in the debut of the Halcyon Jazz Quartet, featuring vibraphonist Dave Hagedorn, percussionist Joe Pulice and bassist Kevin Clements. Together they take the “less is more” approach and reach for the emotional and musical depths of a song with a controlled intensity. Beautiful sounds to warm your heart.

Prudence Johnson: Voice

Dave Hagedorn: Vibraphone

Kevin Clements: Bass

Joe Pulice: Drums

Prudence Johnson is well known to Crooners audiences, appearing with Lush Country, with Rio Nido, in duos with Dan Chouinard, Tim Sparks or Dean Magraw, in shows featuring the music of Leonard Bernstein and Randy Newman, singing in French and Italian, or with Latin-jazz sensation Yazmin. But her reputation as a jazz singer lives on, and, in a new venture, she joins forces with three of the region’s finest instrumentalists to form the Halcyon Jazz Quartet.

“(Johnson’s) lush, precise, expressive voice, with its pearls of vibrato, is best unadorned.” Pamela Espeland, MinnPost