Quando Cécile McLorin Salvant entrou no Kennedy Center em Washington para competir nas finais do Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition 2010, ela não era apenas a finalista mais nova, mas também uma incógnita com o histórico menos comum de todos os participantes. Quando saiu com o primeiro lugar do concurso de jazz mais prestigiado do mundo, tornou-se logo uma estrela!

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The Window Is Nonpareil Jazz Singer Cecile McLorin Salvant's Follow-Up to Dreams and Daggers: Piano-Vocal Duets Studio Album on 180g 2LP Features Otherworldly Phrasing, Audiophile Sound
Cecile McLorin Salvant's The Window, an album of duets with the pianist Sullivan Fortner, explores and extends the tradition of the piano-vocal duo and its expressive possibilities. With just 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.

Each new recording by McLorin Salvant reveals new aspects of her artistry. WomanChild and For One to Love established her style, her command, and interpretive range. Dreams and Daggers is a work that highlights her fresh and fearless approach to art that transcends the conventional – live and in the studio, with a trio and with a string quartet, standards and original compositions – held together by a vocal delivery that cuts against the grain, ever deepening, intensifying, and nuancing the lyrics.

Thematically, The Window is a meditative cycle of songs about the mercurial nature of love. The duo explores the theme across a wide repertory that includes Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim, the inner-visionary Stevie Wonder, gems of French cabaret, and early Rhythm and Blues, alongside McLorin Salvant's brilliant, original compositions. Just as a window frames a view – revealing as much as it hides, connecting as much as it separates – each song on the album offers a shifting and discerning perspective on love's emotional complexity. McLorin Salvant sings of anticipation and joy, obsession and madness, torment and longing, tactics and coyness. The Window traverses love's wide universe, from the pleasure of a lover's touch with its feelings of human communion, to the invisible masks we wear to hide from others and from ourselves.

Her gifts as an artist are rooted in her intensive study of the history of American music and her uncanny ability to curate its treasures for her audience. Her albums are explorations of the immense repository of experience and feeling that abound in popular song. She understands the special role of the musician to find and share the emotions and messages in music that speak to our past, present and future. "I am not interested in the idea of relevance," she explains. "I am interested in the idea of presence. I want to communicate across time, through time, play with time."

Onstage, her persona is often compared to that of an actress. But, as McLorin Salvant notes, "jazz would not be what it is without its theatrical origins, vaudeville, and minstrel shows." Through her selection of repertory and brilliant interpretations, she "plays with time," making the musical past speak to our contemporary world. Historically, her unflinching performance of songs from the minstrel tradition challenge us to think harder about race in America today. Her ironic, even sinister, rendition of songs explore the complex intertwining of sex, gender, and power. Her blues numbers are bawdy and vibrant, melancholic and forlorn, insistent and emancipatory.

She sings of the ecstasy and agony of love, of jubilation and dejection, of desire and being desired, of fearlessness and fragility. "I want to get as close to the center of the song as I can," McLorin Salvant explains. "When I find something, beautiful and touching I try to get close to it and share that with the audience." Immersed in the song and yet completely in control, McLorin Salvant brings her immense personality to the music – daring, witty, playful, honest, and mischievous.

All of McLorin Salvant's study, training, creativity, intelligence, and artistry come together in her voice on The Window. The sound of her voice covers the gamut from breathy to bold, deep and husky to high and resonant, limpid to bluesy, with a clarity and richness that is nearly unparalleled. When she first burst onto the jazz scene, many listeners were struck by her ability to recall the sound of Bessie Smith, Sarah Vaughan, or Betty Carter. Yet with each new album, McLorin Salvant's voice has become more her own, more singular. While conjuring the spirits of the ancestors, her references are controlled, focused, and purposeful. Her remarkable vocal technique never overshadows her rich interpretations of songs both familiar and obscure.

Touched at every moment by Cécile McLorin Salvant's brilliance, The Window is a dazzling new release from an artist who is surely, to quote Duke Ellington, "beyond category."

Músicos:

Cécile McLorin Salvant, voz
Sullivan Fortner, piano, orgão

Lista de Faixas:

01. Visions
02. One Step
03. By Myself
04. The Sweetest Sounds
05. Ever Since The One I Love's Been Gone
06. A Clef
07. Obsession
08. Wild Is Love
09. J'ai L'Cafard
10. Somewhere
11. The Gentleman Is A Dope
12. Trouble Is A Man
13. Were Thine That Special Face
14. I've Got Your Number
15. Tell Me Why
16. Everything I've Got Belongs To You
17. The Peacocks

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