![]() But given the immensity-the breadth and depth-of her artistic vision, that would have been equivalent to aesthetic perjury. She is, without a doubt, her generation’s most accomplished jazz vocalist, and easily could have continued along the trajectory of performing and recording standards, punctuated by her own and other compositions both within and outside the borders of the genre. ![]() And her own vocal sounds are never merely “beautiful.” Her music always urges us to apprehend complexity and contradiction-that which can be simultaneously beautiful and a reminder that historical promises of expanding freedoms often reside within what has been marginalized as bizarre or even evil. She never wants us to luxuriate in sound that is only beautiful. Davis offers her thoughts on Salvant and the new album.Ĭécile McLorin Salvant sometimes seems reluctant to reveal what she might think of as a voice that is too perfect-so exquisite that it might bar access to the perversities that also inevitably shape our lives. ![]() ![]() They tell the folk tale of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s new album, Mélusine, is a mix of originals and interpretations of songs dating as far back as the 12th century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl. ![]()
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