Kind of New

Fred Kaplan’s excellent profile of the outstanding Cécile McLorin Salvant in The New Yorker:

In its sixty years as a jazz club, the Vanguard has headlined few women and fewer singers of either gender. But Salvant, virtually unknown two years earlier, had built an avid following, winning a Grammy and several awards from critics, who praised her singing as “singularly arresting” and “artistry of the highest class.”