Jazz Articles about Cecile McLorin Salvant

Artemis: Artemis

by Mike Jurkovic
September 10, 2020

It's truly exhilarating yet sadly mundane and reductive that a recording as vital and victorious as Artemis will be universally hailed as a first from an all-female supergroup. That it cuts across all generational, cultural, international, and ethnic planes. That Blue Note Records has expanded its ever legendary ranks to include, well, you know, a female group. It's like the more we think we've gotten past these worn, tired types of qualifiers we realize all the more we really haven't. ...

Salvant, Skonberg, Aldana And More At Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
March 30, 2019

Cecile McLorin Salvant, Bria Skonberg, Melissa Aldana, Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura and Jamison Ross Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Monterey Jazz Festival On TourPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania March 23, 2019 While some jazz festivals sponsor tours that highlight their more seasoned icons, Monterey was different in featuring recently matured millennial musicians at the center of newer but still mainstream developments in jazz. They performed as an ensemble specifically for this ...

Cecile McLorin Salvant: The Window

by Chris Mosey
September 21, 2018

Cécile McLorin Salvant has one of the most powerful voices in jazz. Which doesn't make her always easy to listen to. Sometimes she instills new meaning to an old lyric, other times she tries too hard and goes over the top. Still, at least she tries. She comes from Miami, daughter of a Haitian father and a French mother. Aware of the power of her voice from an early age, she trained in classical music, but then ...

Notable Songs by 21st Century Women

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 25, 2018

In this episode of A Broad Spectrum we feature some gorgeous new releases and we give birthday shout outs to Louis Armstrong, Jeri Southern, Hank Jones, Kevin Mahogany, Josh Nelson, Tony Bennett, Connie Converse, Kat Edmonson, KJ Denhart, Terri Lyne Carrington, Aaron Weinstein, and Baby Jane Dexter among others, focusing on some notable songs written by 21st Century Women. Playlist Five Play “Struttin' With Some Barbeque" from Live at the Deer Head inn (Deer Head Jazz) 00:00 Louis Armstrong “I'm ...

Cecile McLorin Salvant at Blue Note in Milan

by Roberto Cifarelli
June 6, 2018

April 2018: Cécile McLorin Salvant, Binker and Moses, Yazz Ahmed.

by Patrick Burnette
April 28, 2018

Episode 137 looks at recordings by Sophie Milman, Rene Marie, Monica Zetterlund, and Cécile McLorin Salvant. We discuss the jazz content in each release, the vocal approach of each singer, and the elusive concept of sultriness. Female jazz singers are often packaged and sold as sex objects. Some are more comfortable expressing their sensual sides than others. Where do you draw the line between self-expression and exploitation? What to make of singers like Salvant, who question the paradigm of the ...

Cecile McLorin Salvant: Dreams and Daggers

by Angelo Leonardi
March 12, 2018

È un disco importante questo di Cécile McLorin Salvant. Il disco della piena maturità, quello che segna la consacrazione della giovane vocalist nell'olimpo del canto jazz. Dopo tre lavori in studio (l'ultimo dei quali vincitore di un Grammy) Cécile dimostra con questo doppio live di non essere solo la voce afro-americana più avvincente del presente ma un'artista che porta avanti la discendenza delle grandi interpreti. In lei ritroviamo la grazia, la leggerezza e la perfetta intonazione di Ella Fitzgerald, la ...