Cecile Mclorin Salvant Featuring Sullivan Fortner at Scullers Jazz Club

Cécile McLorin Salvant, who recently won her first GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, is the shimmering young star of the jazz world. “Ms. Salvant has it all,” raved The New York Times. “If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three — Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald — it is this virtuoso.”

Salvant makes an electric connection with live audiences. "Resoundingly eloquent, whether growling the blues or barely breathing, Salvant has inbuilt swing, an actor’s stagecraft, an instrumentalist’s precision of nuance, and an appetite for dusting off rarely performed songs," declared The Guardian. In the mold of her idols, Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln, McLorin Salvant makes every song utterly her own. Cecile returns to Scullers this time with gifted New Orleans pianist Sullivan Fortner, winner of the prestigous American PIanists Association's 2015 Cole Porter Fellowship Award. Fortner has also performed with Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Gary Bartz and The Marsalis Famiy, among others....

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Cécile McLorin Salvant, who recently won her first GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, is the shimmering young star of the jazz world. “Ms. Salvant has it all,” raved The New York Times. “If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three — Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald — it is this virtuoso.”

Salvant makes an electric connection with live audiences. "Resoundingly eloquent, whether growling the blues or barely breathing, Salvant has inbuilt swing, an actor’s stagecraft, an instrumentalist’s precision of nuance, and an appetite for dusting off rarely performed songs," declared The Guardian. In the mold of her idols, Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln, McLorin Salvant makes every song utterly her own. Cecile returns to Scullers this time with gifted New Orleans pianist Sullivan Fortner, winner of the prestigous American PIanists Association's 2015 Cole Porter Fellowship Award. Fortner has also performed with Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Gary Bartz and The Marsalis Famiy, among others.

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