Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Loves MF Doom and Wuthering Heights

Cécile McLorin Salvant has been busy since the release of her last album, 2018’s Grammy-winning The Window. Later that year she premiered Ogresse, a “musical fable in the form of a cantata” that begins: “There’s a woman / lived in the woods on the outskirts of town / her skin was chocolate brown / upon her head she wore a crown / of bones, human bones.” (The woman goes on to devour her lover.) The piece, which she premiered to a packed audience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium and went on to tour across the… Read Full Article