{"id":5422,"date":"2015-09-06T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T19:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2015-09-06T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T19:14:24","slug":"cecile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/06\/cecile\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e9cile McLorin Salvant Makes Me Care Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5440\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/files\/2015\/09\/PJ-CD212_salvan_P_20150902183634.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5440 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/files\/2015\/09\/PJ-CD212_salvan_P_20150902183634-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"PJ-CD212_salvan_P_20150902183634\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Mark Fitton<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI don\u2019t care much for jazz singing these days\u2014precisely because I love jazz singing, and since too many vocalists seem as if beating dead horses or faking things with great competence.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get me wrong. Dee Dee Bridgewater, at 65, is her riveting and blues-drenched self, backed by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra on the new CD \u201cDee Dee\u2019s Feathers\u201d (OKeh). Cassandra Wilson, 59, honored Billie Holiday\u2019s centennial with subtlety and invention on last year\u2019s \u201cComing Forth By Day\u201d (Legacy). And on \u201cSpeaking in Tongues\u201d (Sunnyside, due Sept. 18), Luciana Souza, 49, works as an equal improvising partner alongside stellar instrumentalists, singing wordlessly for the most part.<br \/>\nStill, it\u2019s been rare to hear a young female singer find her stride without sagging from the weight of inherited legacy or wandering aimlessly for lack of clear intent. Along came C\u00e9cile McLorin Salvant,<!--more--> who first suggested herself as an exception in 2010 when she arrived mostly as an unknown at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, flashed exceptional talent, and won. On her debut CD, \u201cWomanChild,\u201d in 2013, she lent surprising currency to songs mostly written during the first three decades of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. At Jazz at Lincoln Center\u2019s Rose Theater last year, before an audience drawn mostly by a then-new collective quartet of established jazz stars such as drummer Jack DeJohnette and tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, Ms. Salvant stole the night with her opening set.<br \/>\nI shared my enthusiasm for Salvant&#8217;s singing after that show <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/2014\/03\/how-i-fell-for-cecile\/\">here.<\/a><br \/>\nNow 25, Ms. Salvant delivers yet further on this promise with \u201cFor One to Love\u201d (Mack Avenue).<br \/>\nFor my full review of Salvant&#8217;s new CD, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/for-one-to-love-by-cecile-mclorin-salvant-review-1441235654\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I don\u2019t care much for jazz singing these days\u2014precisely because I love jazz singing, and since too many vocalists seem as if beating dead horses or faking things with great competence. Don\u2019t get me wrong. Dee Dee Bridgewater, at 65, is her riveting and blues-drenched self, backed by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/06\/cecile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;C\u00e9cile McLorin Salvant Makes Me Care Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}