★★★★★
Track Listing: St. Louis Gal; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Nobody; WomanChild; Le
Front Cache Sur Tes Genoux; Prelude - There's A Lull In My Life; You
Bring Out The Savage In Me; Baby Have Pity On Me; John Henry; Jitterbug
Waltz; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; Deep Dark Blue. Personnel: Cécile McLorin Salvant: vocals, piano (10); Aaron Diehl: piano; Rodney
Whitaker: double bass; Herlin Riley: drums; James Chirillo: guitar,
banjo (1, 8). Record Label: Mack Avenue Records Style: Beyond Jazz
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-02-19
★★★★★
"You sound and act as if you've been here before," an elder might say to some precocious youngster who exhibited the traits of a much older person. That's a sentiment that could also be applied to the remarkable 24 year-old jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant, who sounds as if she was reincarnated from a different era...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-08-11
★★★★★
When, nearly three years ago, Cécile McLorin Salvant emerged as the unexpected, and largely unknown, winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, her victory ignited the sort of hoopla that was far more common in the thriving jazz record industry of the 1990s. She was immediately signed by manager Ed Arrendell, whose client Wynton Marsalis praised her "poise, elegance, soul, humor, sensuality, power, virtuosity, range, insight, intelligence, depth and grace." Whew...
- jazztimes.com
2013-06-18
★★★★★
I think there is an inverse rule of proportionality regarding song remakes. This inverse rule reigns supreme when the covers in question come from the Great American Songbook or the classic soul genres. And the songs most likely to be remade are the songs that need to be covered the least - if at all. So we get scores of remakes of "The Shadow of Your Smile" and "My Girl." Artists remake these songs for genuine personal and artistic reasons and for cynical commercial reasons...
- www.soultracks.com
2013-05-27
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