FEB 10-15 | Week of Love
Feb 10 - Feb 13, 2022
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
Three-time GRAMMY Winner Cécile McLorin Salvant is the “finest jazz singer to emerge in the last decade” (The New York Times). She returns with her quartet to perform music from her forthcoming Nonesuch release, Ghost Song, featuring a diverse mix of seven originals and five interpretations on the themes of ghosts, nostalgia, and yearning.
Salvant says, “It’s unlike anything I’ve done before—it’s getting closer to reflecting my personality as an eclectic curator. I’m embracing my weirdness!”
Possessing a deep, velvety voice, rhythmic poise, and a sublime feel for the blues, Salvant combines conservatory-honed technique with a beguiling gift for lyrical interpretation — a singular, inimitable talent that won her the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Vocals Competition and drew the attention of early collaborators Jacky Terrasson and Wynton Marsalis. Her 2013 American debut album, the GRAMMY-nominated WomanChild, was the first real opportunity for American audiences to hear why Salvant had become a European sensation, and since then, her profile has taken a meteoric course around the world. For these dates, she performs with a phenomenal new quartet including pianist Sullivan Fortner, who partnered with Salvant on the duo release The Window.
With a repertoire full of lesser-known jazz and blues gems and a sly gift for lyrical re-interpretation through her contemporary sensibility, Salvant brings theatrical intensity to every song she sings.
3-time GRAMMY-winning vocalist performs music from her forthcoming album 'Ghost Song', featuring a diverse mix of originals and interpretations on the themes of ghosts, nostalgia, and yearning.
CONCERT SPONSORS
The Three Vernas
Cécile McLorin Salvant Quintet with Sullivan Fortner is brought to you in part by the generosity of The Bernard Osher Foundation.
If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three - Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald - it is this virtuoso...
The New York Times
If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three - Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald - it is this virtuoso...
The New York Times
Personnel
Cécile McLorin Salvant vocals
Sullivan Fortner piano
Keita Ogawa percussion
Alexa Tarantino flute, piccolo, alto flute
It seems safe to posit that Cécile McLorin Salvant is not only the most successful female jazz singer to emerge since the turn of the millennium but also the most dynamically skilled.
JazzTimes
Personnel
Cécile McLorin Salvant vocals
Sullivan Fortner piano
Keita Ogawa percussion
Alexa Tarantino flute, piccolo, alto flute
It seems safe to posit that Cécile McLorin Salvant is not only the most successful female jazz singer to emerge since the turn of the millennium but also the most dynamically skilled.
JazzTimes
Watch & Listen
Cécile McLorin Salvant
You're Getting to Be A Habit With Me
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Stepsister's Lament
Cécile McLorin Salvant
You're Getting to Be A Habit With Me
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Stepsister's Lament