Cécile McLorin Salvant

Concert Review: Jazz Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant — Falling in Love Again

February 14, 2024
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Once again, here was the shock in Cécile McLorin Savant’s subversive conceptual daring.

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October Short Fuses — Materia Critica

October 1, 2023
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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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Jazz Album Review/Commentary: “Don Quixote’s Adventures in the World of Jazz” — Is Jazz Intrinsically Quixotic?

March 31, 2023
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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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Festival Review: 2022 Newport Jazz Festival — A Relaxed Musical Vibe, Communal and Diverse

August 3, 2022
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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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Jazz Album Review: “Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musicians’ Emergency Fund”

August 18, 2021
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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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Jazz Performance Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner at Home

May 17, 2021
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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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Jazz Album Review: Jimmy Heath’s Final “Love Letter”

August 7, 2020
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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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Jazz Concert Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Aaron Diehl — A Remarkable Collaboration

February 8, 2020
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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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Jazz Preview and Appreciation: Cécile McLorin Salvant Is Coming to Jordan Hall

January 23, 2020
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Cécile McLorin Salvant understands that she is heroic.

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Jazz Concert Review: Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour — at the Berklee Performance Center

March 19, 2019
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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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