Presented as part of the Ertegun Jazz Concert Series, three-time Grammy Award-winner and MacArthur Fellow, Cécile McLorin Salvant returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center with the New York City debut of her new album Ghost Song on Thursday, May 12 and Friday, May 13 at 8:00 PM in Rose Theater. She will be joined by Sullivan Fortner (piano), Keita Ogawa (percussion), Marvin Sewell (guitar), Alexa Tarantino (flute) and Yasushi Nakamura (bass).
Salvant conceived Ghost Song during the early period of the pandemic and recorded it in the necessarily patchwork way creative projects happened under lockdown. Ghost Song situates Salvant’s originals alongside radical reimaginings of songs by Kate Bush, Gregory Porter, Sting, Harold Arlen and Kurt Weill. Each of the pieces describes a different type of engagement with unquiet spirits, and each dwells within a detailed, specific musical atmosphere. The stylistic range travels through brooding minor-key torch songs to argumentative Sondheim-style music theater dialogs to ancient folk melodies and harmonically complex jazz meditations.
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Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose Hall is located on Broadway at 60th Street in New York, New York.
