Jazz Articles about Cecile McLorin Salvant

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 ...

Cecile McLorin Salvant with the Aaron Diehl Trio at Dazzle

by Geoff Anderson
November 18, 2017

Cecile McLorin Salvant with the Aaron Diehl Trio Dazzle Denver, CO November 10, 2017 Cecile McLorin Salvant with the Aaron Diehl Trio. Two acts for the price of one? Two different artists welded together for the sake of a concert? Hardly. Salvant has been performing with Diehl and his trio for some time, not only in concert, but in the recording studio as well. Friday night at Dazzle, they played as one cohesive unit; a ...

Five Women IX – Bianca Rossini; Cécile McLorin Salvant; Barbora Kabátkova; Alexis Cole; Suzanne Lorge

by C. Michael Bailey
October 14, 2017

Bianca Rossini Vento do Norte Apaixonada Music & BDM Records 2017 Rio de Janeiro-native singer Bianca Rossini follows her successful releases of Meu Amor (Apaixonada Music, 2012) and Kiss of Brazil (Apaixonada Music, 2011) with the present Vento Do Norte, another collection of original Bossa Novas that further cement Rossini's reputation as a foremost composer of Brazilian music. Rossini is a welcome presence because of both her seamless knowledge and talent composing in a ...