Cécile Mclorin Salvant & Sullivan Fortner at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

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The world first learned of the incredible vocal artistry of Cécile McLorin Salvant when she won the prestigious 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. In just under the span of a decade she has evolved from a darling of jazz critics and fans, to a multi-Grammy Award winner, to a prescient and fearless voice in music today. Her newest release, The Window – a Grammy-winning album of duets with pianist Sullivan Fortner – explores and extends the tradition of the piano-vocal duo and its expressive possibilities. With Fortner’s deft accompaniment to support McLorin Salvant, the two are free to improvise and rhapsodize, to play freely with time, harmony, melody, and phrasing.