Music / jazz

For one to love


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Summary: Cecile McLorin Salvant's second album is a personal affair that comes across like a live performance. She is superbly supported in her vision by world-class musicians that share her values and vision in making each track a statement.

Reviews (4)


AllMusic

2015

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Matt Collar

2015

"A brilliantly realized follow-up to [Salvant's] Grammy-nominated 2013 effort, WomanChild, (...) For One to Love is at its core a small-group jazz album featuring a thoughtfully curated set of standards and originals. However, with Salvant at the mike, backed here with nuanced skill by pianist Aaron Diehl, bassist Paul Sikivie, and drummer Lawrence Leathers, it's also a series of virtuoso performances, each one seemingly more engaging and emotionally resonant than the last. Conceptually centered around notions of romantic love (...) the album finds Salvant further demonstrating the poetic compositional skills and feminist themes that helped make WomanChild so much more than just a solid album from an accomplished jazz vocalist ... Heartbreaking and beautiful".


The guardian

d. 3. Sep. 2015

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John Lewis

d. 3. Sep. 2015

"At only 25, this half-Haitian, half-Guadeloupean vocalist is winning every jazz award going, despite rejecting the usual tricks of the jazz virtuoso. On her second LP, there's no scatting or replicating horn solos. This is more like heightened music-theatre, enunciated with authority and polished with elaborate sonic costume changes. Salvant can warble in French and growl her way through old blues belters, but she's even better at recasting standards. On Wives and Lovers, she turns Hal David's simpering lyric into a demented psychodrama, with pianist Aaron Diehl's scribbly accompaniment sounding like a cartoon soundtrack".


Salt peanuts

d. 3. Sep. 2015

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Jan Granlie

d. 3. Sep. 2015

"En fin plate, hvor vi slipper alle de litt slitne standardene, med unntak av bl.a. en flott versjon av Hal David og Burt Bacharachs «Wives and Lovers», som gjøres i en original versjon hvor stemmen står i fokus. Og det er nettopp stemmen som gjør denne platen til en perle. Hun har en fantastisk fin timing og et originalt foredrag, som det ikke finnes mange av i dagens moderne jazz. Stemmen er klar som glass, og med såpass fine omgivelser som hun her omgir seg med, så er det blitt en strålende plate".


Jazz special

Nr. 149 (2016)

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Benedicta Pécseli

Nr. 149 (2016)

"Hun synger, så stjernerne stråler. Hendes intonation er ren, hun springer ubesværet mellem tonelejer. Hun er generøs i sine udtryk, fra foredrag over snerren til mørk eller lys tsemme, som melodien måtte indbyde til ... Hendes fortolkning er pesonlig og vedkommende; vi får stadig lov at synge med, men hun giver melodierne nye twist, så vi opdager dem på ny ... Kombinationen af standards og originals [er] vellykket ... Hun besøgte Koncerthuset i København i november 2015; da blev hun kaldt en kommende stjerne. For mig er hun det allerede".