Dreams and Daggers by #CécileMcLorinSalvant

Dreams and Daggers by Cécile McLorin Salvant
🎶 https://t.co/qnjbDkVTSR
Available Now on #AppleMusic#Vocal #Jazz #Music #News @cecilesalvant pic.twitter.com/8QSvHPJbAK

— MC News (@MClassifyNews) October 4, 2017

Cécile McLorin Salvant & the Aaron Diehl Trio

Published on Jun 11, 2017
Cécile McLorin Salvant - Vocals
Aaron Diehl - Piano
Paul Sikivie - Bass
Lawrence Leathers - Drums

"The Murder Ballad" (Jelly Roll Morton)
The Appel Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center 5/19/2017 - 1st Set

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Cécile McLorin Salvant

Cécile McLorin Salvant shows where the new jazz generation is headed https://t.co/LzSb8EsCMS #RandyWeston pic.twitter.com/CJUaSlFoEC

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Cécile McLorin Salvant ....

Cécile McLorin Salvant

appearing Friday, August 23rd  

@  The Stage @ Rockwells

Cécile McLorin Salvant (v)
Aaron Diehl (p)
Paul Sikivie (b)
Rodney Green (d)
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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. In 2009, after a series of concerts in Paris, she recorded her first album "Cécile", with Jean-François Bonnel's Paris Quintet. A year later, she won the Thelonious Monk competition in Washington D.C.

Cécile performs unique interpretations of unknown and scarcely recorded jazz and blues compositions. She focuses on a theatrical portrayal of the jazz standard and composes music and lyrics which she also sings in French, her native language as well as in Spanish. She enjoys popularity in Europe and in the United States, performing in clubs, concert halls, and festivals accompanied by renowned musicians like Jean-Francois Bonnel, Rodney Whitaker, Aaron Diehl, Dan Nimmer, Sadao Watanabe, Jacky Terrasson (with an a noted collaboration in his "Gouache" Universal CD), Archie Shepp, and Jonathan Batiste.  She sings for the 2nd consecutive year for the Chanel’s « Chance » ad campaign. In August 2012, Cécile recorded at the Avatar Studios a CD to be released early next year for the Mack Avenue Label with Aaron Diehl, Rodney Whitaker, Herlin Riley and James Chirillo.

Cécile has performed at numerous festivals such as Jazz à Vienne, Ascona, Whitley Bay, Montauban, Foix, with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in New York’s Lincoln Center and Chicago’s Symphony Center and with her own band at the Kennedy Center, the Spoleto Jazz Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival and other venues.

Ben Ratliff writes in The New York Times “she sings clearly, with her full pitch range, from a pronounced low end to full and distinct high notes, used sparingly — like the one I heard a few weeks ago at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on the last word of “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” the spire in a magnificent set. Her voice clamps into each song, performing careful variations on pitch, stretching words but generally not scatting; her face conveys meaning, representing sorrow or serenity like a silent-movie actor. She also presents a lot of jazz history, and other things…”
From: Jazz Promo Services
Press Contact: Jim Eigo, jim@jazzpromoservices.com

Cécile McLorin Salvant Wins Monk Competition

Image © Stephan Salvant

Cécile McLorin Salvant, 21, won this year's Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, the finals of which were held on October 4th in Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center. Salvant was born in Miami, Florida, but currently lives in France, where she studies at the Aix-en-Provence Conservatory of Music.

You can hear clips on Salvant's myspace page, or learn more on her website.
Ben Ratliff of the New York Times has a review of the competition performances, as does Lee Mergner at JazzTimes.
From: http://jazz.about.com/b/2010/10/06/cecile-mclorin-salvant-wins-monk-competition.htm


European Saxophone Quartet -- Cécile McLorin Salvant -- JazzAscona 2008- When Lights Are Low
Marc Richard alto sax/clarinete
Matthias Seuffert tenor sax/clarinete
Jean-François Bonnel alto sax/trumpet
Nicolas Montier tenor sax
Thilo Wagner piano
Michael Schöneich bass
Gregor Beck drums