Cécile McLorin Salvant Performs Live In-Studio
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Don't tell me not to live, just sit and putter. Life's candy and my son's a ball of butter.
Cecile McLaurin Salvant is a jazz singer and she's one of the top singers around today. somewhat on the level of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. But Salvan's repertoire and her approach to music are completely her own. A standard from the American songbook might be followed by a tune from hundreds of years ago and across an ocean. I once went to see her expecting, you know, how high the moon, but the first thing out of her was a century old murder ballad, and it lasted
about a half an hour long. Winton Marcellus called her the kind of talent who comes along only once in a generation or two. Cecile McLaurin Salvant is performing at jazz festivals all over the country this summer. I got a chance to talk with her last summer, and she came to perform at our studio at WNYC. Sir Ooh, life is juicy, juicy and you see, I've gotta take my bite, sir.
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