Cécile McLorin Salvant’s "Ghost Song" - Drops Today

 One of my absolute favorite artists:

Wall Street Journal ~ Larry Blumenfeld: 

“Ghost Song” is her bold­est act yet. Here, Ms. Sal­vant dis­plays yet more sonic range and nu­ance—soar­ing through in­ter­vals, mov­ing nim­bly through tricky rhythms, and rev­el­ing in pithy turns of phrase. Her voice is sin­gu­larly ar­rest­ing, yet it is never a sin­gle sound. It’s play­ful, nearly giddy, on “Op­ti­mistic Voices” (from “The Wiz­ard of Oz”), and then sul­try when that song segues into Gre­gory Porter’s “No Love Dy­ing.” It’s a blues holler to start the ti­tle track, one of seven orig­i­nal com­po­si­tions, and nearly soft as a whis­per to be­gin Sting’s “Un­til.”

Ms. Cécile McLorin Salvant plays the Rose Theater in May 2022.