CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT WITH SULLIVAN FORTNER (new date!) USA

Dear ticket holder!

Originally scheduled for April 24, 2020, at 18:00 at Vaba Lava, the concert by Cecile McLorin Salvant (USA) will take place on November 30, 2023, at the Alexela Concert Hall as part of the Christmas Jazz festival. Salvant will perform material from her latest, historically, emotionally, and musically diverse album “Mélusine” (2023) at Christmas Jazz. More information www.jazzkaar.ee

Please inform the concert organizer by October 7, 2023, whether the new concert date works for you or if you wish to request a ticket refund by filling out the form HERE. If you choose to attend the concert on November 30th, a new ticket of similar value will be sent to your email within 7 working days. Refunded ticket amounts will be credited to the ticket purchaser’s account within 14 working days.

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We are happy to welcome in Estonia for the first time Cécile McLorin Salvant, a new-generation star who has received three Grammy Awards. Her powerful character combines an intimate and soulful style of expression with an interplay of elegance, sensuality and depth in her voice. Cécile McLorin Salvant is one of the most dazzling artists in contemporary vocal jazz, whose art is admired for its powerful vocal qualities, impeccable intonation and subtle sense of rhythm.

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 a children’s choir at 8 years old. Early on, she developed an interest in classical voice.

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 jazz, 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 2014, her second album, WomanChild (Mack Avenue Records) was nominated for a Grammy. Her third and fourth albums (For One To Love and Dreams and Daggers) both won Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

Cécile frequently makes music with Aaron Diehl, Paul Sikivie, Lawrence Leathers, Kyle Poole, and Sullivan Fortner. She has collaborated with Archie Shepp, Wynton Marsalis, John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton, Renee Rosnes, Bill Charlap, Fred Hersch, Jacky Terrasson, Darcy James Argue.

She sings vaudeville, country blues, broadway songs, rarities, and her own compositions. An audience member once described her as a “postmodern cabaret singer”.
She does some illustration and textile work, and is interested in the decorative arts.

Her latest album, released in fall of 2018, The Window, was recorded duo with Sullivan Fortner (piano), featuring Melissa Aldana (tenor saxophone).