Salvant’s new album For One To Love on Mack Records
Of Cécile McLorin Salvant Wynton Marsalis writes, “She has poise, elegance, soul, humor, sensuality, power, virtuosity, range, insight, intelligence, depth and grace.”
Cécile McLorin Salvant has earned more honors more quickly than any other jazz singer in recent memory.
Salvant first gained notoriety from her success at the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Her debut album WomanChild earned a Grammy nomination and selection as Jazz Album of the Year by the DownBeat International Critics Poll.
DownBeat also honored Salvant in three other categories including Best Female Jazz Vocalist. And the Jazz Journalists Association selected McLorin Salvant as Up-and-Coming Jazz Artist of the Year as well as Top Female Vocalist. NPR also recognized her talent by honoring WomanChild as the Best Jazz Vocal Album of the Year in its annual critics poll.
I have not heard it yet, but JazzTimes describes her brand new album For One To Love as a “more intimate and confessional project that reveals new dimensions of this young vocalist’s artistry.” Salvant says in an interview, “I’m not playing anyone else here but myself. I can look at many of these songs, and see that this is an event that really happened, or a feeling I’ve lived through myself. That’s what makes it so difficult to share. It’s almost like a diary entry.”
Here’s a video of her performing the track “Look at Me”:
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