Cécile McLorin Salvant
speaker
63 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Tell me not to live, just sit and putter. Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter.
once, right, sir? Ooh, life is juicy, juicy, and you see, I've got to take my bite, sir. Get ready for me, love, because I'm a comer. I've simply got to march. My heart's a drummer. Don't bring around the clattering. cone should bang. One throw, that bell will go clang. Eye on the target and wham. One shot, one gunshot and bam. Hey, Mr. Ford. I'm fanned out. Your turn at bat, sir.
At least I didn't fake it. Hat, sir. I guess I didn't make it. Get ready for me, love, cause I'm a comer. I've simply gotta march. My heart's a drummer. Nobody, no, nobody is gonna rain on my
I don't know what I did there. Wow.
It's very nice to hear you say that you're surprised because that's my first priority, I think. I just love to be surprised in life in general by people, by the musicians I play with, by myself. That's huge for me when I'm looking for songs or listening to songs. And even just as a fan of art and artists.
Yeah, I did.
It was a half an hour long blues called Murder Ballad that Jelly Roll Morton did for Library of Congress years ago.
Let me tell you one of the things that I've said.
This woman who murders her boyfriend's lover and then goes to prison. And there's a lot of profanity. And I had always wanted to sing it. So I sat on it for 10 years thinking, where could I ever possibly do it and who would I do it with? And then I had a Valentine's Day concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center. And I thought, wouldn't that be for date night? Wouldn't that just be...
Great.
Yeah.
I grew up in Miami, Florida.
I was listening to whatever my mom was listening to, and she loves everything. Cesaria Evora from Cape Verde. We were listening to Yusun Dour from Senegal. We were listening to Los Tres Paraguayos, which is like Paraguayan folk music. We were listening to French music. We were listening to some jazz, mostly Sarah Vaughan, a little bit of Nancy Wilson, but Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin.
We were listening to folk music, some bluegrass. I could go on and on, actually. A lot of Brazilian music.
She has a huge, wide ear and she traveled a lot in her childhood. And I think she brought back those travels in some way or that traveling sort of feeling.
She grew up in Tunisia. She lived throughout Africa. She lived in Senegal. She lived in Cuba. She lived in Dominican Republic. She lived in Honduras, in Haiti.
Franca. It was franca. It was French. It was French at home.
Not so much when I was a kid. It was more after high school. I really didn't know what to do. And there was this political science prep school in this small town in France. My cousin was going. They had a law option, like first year law.
In Aix-en-Provence. And so I said, oh, why not?
It was a great deal. My cousin was there. I've always liked school.
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