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Cecile McLorin Salvant Will Perform at Boston’s Jordan Hall Friday Night

Kevin C. Peterson
3 min readFeb 5, 2020

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Cecile McLorin Salvant appears at Jordan Hall as the event’s solo headliner, Friday, Febraury 7th in Boston.

By Kevin C. Peterson

There is an undeniable quality and gorgeously extended gracefulness heard in the supple voicings of Cecile McLorin Salvant, a jazz songtress who now is among those who control the direction and content of a music she has mastered.

Salvant is barely in her 30s, yet she channels ideas and ideals much older than she — those which speak poignantly to such human conditions as the timelessness of romance and spiritual integrity, of clear-eyed philosophies of loss and redemption, of love and revelation, of valor and moral obsequiousness, of grief and human recovery.

Her voice can carry blades of rejoicing as well as melocholy. There is the type of radiance present in her arching resonance that can call those — those who are attentive — to certain stages of wisdom and understanding. Few artists, within any given generation, can equal the verve and balance Salvant plainly possesses. Few are called to hear melody and tune as she does and then be endowed with the magnificent gift to translate it for those who have a willing ear to listen.

Salvant, a Grammy winner in 2016 for her album, For One to Love, brings her winsome talent to The New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall as a headliner as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston…

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Kevin C. Peterson
Kevin C. Peterson

Written by Kevin C. Peterson

Kevin Peterson is founder of the New Democracy Coalition and Convener of the Fanueil Hall Race and Reconciliation Project. He is a social and cultural critic.

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