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Grammy-Winning Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Partners With Miyu Productions For Animated Fairytale ‘Ogresse’ (EXCLUSIVE)
- Three-time Grammy winner Cécile McLorin Salvant will team with French studio Miyu Productions and Belgian animator Lia Bertels on “Ogresse,” a wry and irreverent fairytale inspired by a narrative performance piece the musician has toured since 2019. Described as a murder ballad set to a jazz tempo, the animated musical will hit tragicomic notes as […]
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Cecile McLorin Salvant, Kronos Quartet and St. Paul's Zeitgeist among acts to play the Walker Art Center
Nov. 24—Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant, contemporary classical favorites Kronos Quartet and St. Paul new music quartet Zeitgeist are among the acts booked for the Walker Art Center's winter/spring performing arts season. The season includes live contemporary dance, music and performance, with seven new Walker commissions and three world premieres. For more information or ...
- EntertainmentVariety
Jon Batiste Debuts Lead Track From ‘Relief,’ All-Star Benefit Album for Jazz Foundation of America (EXCLUSIVE)
Recent Oscar winner and late-night star Jon Batiste is premiering a new track, “Sweet Loraine,” that serves as the leadoff single from an upcoming benefit album, “Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musicians Relief Fund.” Variety has the song’s exclusive debut, below. The album comes out on all formats — digital, CD […]
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Hollywood’s Ford Theater Season to Include Shows by Father John Misty With the LA Phil, Patti Smith, Moses Sumney
Two weeks after the L.A. Philharmonic Association announced the schedule for the Hollywood Bowl’s summer season, the org has done the same for the Bowl’s more modest cousin across the canyon, the Ford (formerly known as the John Anson Ford Theater). The 1,200-seat amphitheater will boast shows by, among others, Patti Smith, Moses Sumney, Rodrigo […]
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Two ‘Genius Grant’ winners come out of Miami and each gets a $625,000 fellowship
This year’s MacArthur Fellows — recipients of the popularly known “Genius Grant” — feature two winners from Miami that really sing.
- EntertainmentLA Times
Larissa FastHorse, a playwright of indigenous stories, wins a MacArthur grant
"The Thanksgiving Play" writer is still absorbing news of her $625,000 award. She is one of 21 winners in the arts, education, science, media and law.
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Grammy Award-Winning Jazz Drummer Lawrence Leathers Found Dead at 37 in Building Stairwell
Jazz Drummer Lawrence Leathers Found Dead at 37
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Album Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s ‘The Window’
If you love Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Betty Carter and you live in the 2010s, you have a pretty clear choice about what to do with your buying choices: keep picking up reissues of Vaughan, Fitzgerald, Holliday, Smith and Carter. Hold on and check that, though — we now have […]
- EntertainmentRolling Stone
Review: Cecile McLorin Salvant Transcends Nostalgia on Radically Spare ‘The Window’
The Grammy-winning jazz singer's duets with pianist Sullivan Fortner tease out the Great American Songbook's tougher truths
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Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant on Finding Beauty in the ‘Grotesque’
The songwriter is nominated for best jazz vocal album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday.
