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About Cecile McLorin Salvant

Instrument: Vocals

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Musician

Cécile McLorin Salvant was born and raised in Miami, Florida of a French mother and a Haitian father. She started classical piano studies at 5, and began singing in the Miami Choral Society at 8. Early on, she developed an interest in classical voice, began studying with private instructors, and later with Edward Walker, vocal teacher at the University of Miami. In 2007, Cécile moved to Aix-en-Provence, France, to study law as well as classical and baroque voice at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory. It was in Aix-en-Provence, with reedist and teacher Jean-François Bonnel, that she started learning about improvisation, instrumental and vocal repertoire ranging from the 1910s on, and sang with her first band

Album

Wildflowers Vol. 1

By Kurt Elling

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Paper Doll; A Memory of Enchantment; After the Storm; A Wish (Valentine) [feat. Cécile McLorin Salvant]; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Ana Maria.

Album

Blues Blood

By Immanuel Wilkins

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Matte Glaze; Funmi; Motion; Everything; Air (Interlude); Dark Eyes Smile; Apparition; Assembly (Interlude); Afterlife Residence Time; Mosphit; Set! (Interlude); If That Blood Runs East; Your Memory (Interlude); Blues Blood.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Band of Other Brothers, Laila Biali, Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O Deliver Holiday Releases, Plus Josie Falbo, Jacqui Dankworth, Sivan Arbel

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 9, 2024

This broadcast includes Grammy nominations part 2, holiday recordings from Band of Other Brothers, Laila Biali and Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O, new vocal releases from Josie Falbo, Jacqui Dankworth, Sivan Arbel with a single from Lauren White, with birthday shoutouts to Rebecca Coupe Franks, Cindy Blackman Santana, Ethel Ennis, Hayoung Lyou, Maria Schneider, and Billy Strayhorn. ...

Article: Live Review

Bologna Jazz Festival 2024

by Libero Farnè
November 22, 2024

Varie sedi Bologna Jazz Festival 2024 Bologna e Ferrara 23 ottobre--17 novembre 2024 Per l'ampiezza della sua durata il Bologna Jazz Festival 2024 potrebbe essere definito un festival fiume, con le caratteristiche più di una rassegna che di un festival concentrato. Per la varietà delle proposte si è qualificato invece come ...

Article: Live Review

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024

by Thomas Conrad
November 18, 2024

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024 Dom Omladine Beograda, MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 24-28, 2024 It is possible that, of all the major cities of Europe, the least understood in the Western world is jny: Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990's, when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were raging, Serbia was a ...

Article: Live Review

Cecile McLorin Salvant At Richardson Auditorium

by Elizabeth Millar
October 30, 2024

Cécilee Mclorin Salvant Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University The Book of Ayers Princeton, NJOctober 7, 2024 Eclectic composer, vocalist, visual artist and Grammy award nominee Cecile Mclorin Salvant returned to Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium a year after she and pianist Sullivan Fortner had participated in the Performances Up Close ...

Article: Live Review

Cécile McLorin Salvant at Skopje Jazz Festival

by Nenad Georgievski
October 26, 2024

Cécile McLorin SalvantSkopje Jazz Festival Skopje, Macedonia October 17, 2024 Cécile McLorin Salvant, a vocalist celebrated as one of the finest talents in contemporary jazz, brought an air of enchantment to the opening night of the Skopje Jazz Festival. With her effortless blend of jazz, blues and theatrical storytelling, the Grammy-winning ...

Article: Interview

Imani-Grace Cooper and Her Vocal Art

by K. Shackelford
October 12, 2024

Imani-Grace Cooper is a vividly impressive vocal talent. Although she lends her voice to diverse musical genres, she has an ethereal execution of jazz that charmingly raises the eyebrow and puts a pleasurable smirk on her listener's face. Musicians dig her a lot. You can see them smiling when she's singing---she understands the idiom of jazz, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Mary Halvorson and Jason Robinson

by Hobart Taylor
October 2, 2024

Music from Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Mary Halvorson and Jason Robinson. Playlist Bill Frisell Kit Downes Andrew Cyrille “Este a Székelyeknél" from Breaking The Shell (Red Hook) 0:00 María Grand “Canto Manta “ from Reciprocity (Biophilia) 3:55 SML “Feed The Birds" from Small Medium Large (International Anthem) 7:44 Terry Gibbs “ Softly as in a ...