Cécile McLorin Salvant vocals
Sullivan Fortner piano
Yasushi Nakamura double bass
Kyle Poole drums
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Bastien Stil direction
Darcy James Argue arrangements
American jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant serves up swing and timeless classics.
Dates
Coward l’ll See You Again
Ellington Sophisticated Lady
Sondheim Send in the Clowns
Strayhorn Lush Life
McLorin Salvant Left Over
Weill Barbara Song
Coleman With Every Breath I Take
Sondheim Being Alive
Legrand Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Johnson Ever Since the One I Love’s Been Gone
About
As a classically-trained American musician who is also steeped in jazz, blues, folk and musical theatre, Cécile McLorin Salvant boasts a huge repertoire which she constantly expands through her work with other musicians. Tonight, this singer, composer and winner of the three Grammy Awards and two Victoires du Jazz, brings together her usual accompanists and the musicians of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris for some great American standards by Sondheim, Coleman and Ellington. An evening of swing in the big band style.
Production Théâtre des Champs-Élysées