Results for "Cecile McLorin Salvant"

BenQ treVolo: Wireless Bluetooth Portable Electrostatic Speaker

by Dan Bilawsky
February 20, 2016

It would be wrong to say that there's a burgeoning Bluetooth speaker market. That ship has sailed, and at this point, the technology is omnipresent. It seems like every company in the sound game has multiple models to offer, catering to nearly every listener demographic. But that doesn't mean there aren't developments to be found in ...

Independent Labels Won Big At 2016 Grammy Awards

February 18, 2016

Independent labels scored well at the Grammys this year. Anti, ATO, Big Machine, Concord, Concord Jazz, Curb, eOne, Loma Vista, Mack Avenue, Motema Music, Naxos, Rounder, Southeastern Records and Thirty Tigers all notched Grammy wins in 2016. Mack Avenue Records won two awards: Best Improvised Jazz Solo (Christian McBride's “Cherokee") & Best Jazz Vocal Album (Cécile ...

Grammy Winners 2016 - The Jazz List

February 17, 2016

The 58th Annual Grammy Awards have named their jazz list of 2016 Grammy winners. Improvised Jazz Solo WINNER: “Cherokee," Christian McBride “Giant Steps," Joey Alexander “Arbiters if Evolution," Donny McCaslin “Friend or Foe," Joshua Redman “Past Present," John Scofield Jazz Vocal Album WINNER: For One to Love, Cécile McLorin Salvant ...

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's 2015 Mixtape

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 31, 2015

The narrator of Jean-Jacques Schuhl's 2002 novel Ingrid Caven muses, “I like the connection, the splice, not the things themselves; what's between them, their rapport. Two ideas, images, the bridge between two harmonies for the jazz musician..." It's an interesting esthetic statement regarding jazz: that part of the music's appeal lies not in its components, but ...

For One To Love

By Cecile McLorin Salvant

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2015

Grammy Nominees 2016 - The Jazz List

December 8, 2015

The 58th Annual Grammy Awards have named their jazz list of 2016 Grammy nominees.  And the nominees are... Improvised Jazz Solo “Giant Steps," Joey Alexander “Cherokee," Christian McBride “Arbiters if Evolution," Donny McCaslin “Friend or Foe," Joshua Redman “Past Present," John Scofield Jazz Vocal Album Many a New ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Big Band Holidays

by Jack Bowers
November 19, 2015

The holiday season has its ups and downs on Big Band Holidays, recorded live over two Decembers (2013-14) by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which is without a doubt one of the finest big bands money can buy. Even though the most recent number on the album ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") was recorded ...

Blue Engine Records Celebrates the Holidays with BIG BAND HOLIDAYS: New release from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis features guest vocalists René Marie, Cécile McLorin Salvant and Gregory Porter

November 4, 2015

CD streets October 30, 2015; limited edition 180g vinyl coming soon Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records celebrates the most wonderful time of the year with the release of Big Band Holidays, a compilation of holiday classics performed live by the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Special guests on Big Band ...

Look At Me

Featuring the music of Cecile McLorin Salvant
Duration: 3:05
September 12, 2015

Newport Jazz Festival 2015: Day 2

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
August 18, 2015

Newport Jazz Festival Fort Adams State Park Newport, RI Saturday, August 1, 2015 Miles Davis' earliest memory was a flickering blue flame, and a similar flame, one of passion and remembrance, was clearly evident at the 2015 installment of the Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management.