Cécile McLorin Salvant
Once again, here was the shock in Cécile McLorin Savant’s subversive conceptual daring.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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To some degree, everything fit under the resilient umbrella that the late George Wein raised at the edge of Newport Harbor.
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There’s a pleasing variety in this collection, which serves up valuable music that might not have otherwise been heard.
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To hear this performance properly. you must do a bit more work than you might do ordinarily . . . but great art deserves such work.
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The disc mixes classics and originals in a set of tunes perfect for late-night reveries or for anytime sojourns to a place of unhurried passion.
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The recital of this remarkably self-aware singer was a series of highly literate and musically satisfying mini-dramas.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant understands that she is heroic.
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When it comes to jazz, you can be pretty confident that when you put excellent players together — whether they know each other or not — something very good will happen. And it did.
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Jazz Album Review/Commentary: “Don Quixote’s Adventures in the World of Jazz” — Is Jazz Intrinsically Quixotic?
It’s hard to think of music that is more foolishly impractical than jazz, even with its pursuit of lofty ideals.
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