Cécile McLorin Salvant

In the organizer's words:

"The best jazz singer of the last decade" (New York Times) returns to the German live stage in 2024!

Cécile McLorin Salvant - Vocals

Sullivan Fortner - piano

Yasushi Nakama - double bass

Kyle Poole - drums

An old soul with futuristic ambitions and a voice so contemporary that it can transcend space and time - that's Cécile McLorin Salvant. Blessed with hymns of praise, top places in competitions and on critics' lists, Grammys and money-spinning prizes, the 34-year-old singer was regarded by Der Spiegel as the "heiress of Billie Holiday" and for the New York Times was simply "the best jazz singer of the last decade".

Especially in concert, Cécile McLorin Salvant casts a spell over the audience - sometimes exuberant, the next moment sensually gentle. She shines on festival stages with her sensitive power band or barefoot, unamplified and a cappella in the Elbphilharmonie - always with that disarmingly honest mixture of suffering and feelings of happiness that characterizes Cécile McLorin Salvant. No one who experiences her live remains untouched.

With her top-class band, often with pianist Sullivan Fortner or percussionist Weedie Braimah at her side, she wins over audiences all over the world. Only recently, when she performed at the Edinburgh Festival, one critic wrote: "This will be a short review. In fact, I'm tempted to write the word 'sensational' and leave it at that."