Jess Gillam with... Cecile McLorin Salvant
Jess Gillam meets jazz singer C\xe9cile McLorin Salvant to swap some of their favourite music.\nC\xe9cile is a 3 time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer and her music shows off her passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, jazz, baroque and folkloric music. She spoke to Jess ahead of her show at London Jazz Festival 2023 and picked some of her favourite voices from Maria Callas singing Puccini to flamenco star Camar\xf3n de la Isla and an air de cour by Gabriel Bataille.
Jess brought along a string quartet by Caroline Shaw, a Hollywood inflected Concerto by Korngold and the most beautiful of songs by Aretha Franklin
PLAYLIST:
GABRIEL BATAILLE: Sort\xe9s soupirs t\xe9moins de mon m\xe1rtire [Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Annie Dufresne (soprano)]\nCAROLINE SHAW: Plan & Elevation \u2013 v. The Beech Tree [Attacca Quartet]\nWANDA JACKSON: Funnel of Love\nKORNGOLD: Violin Concerto, op.35 \u2013 1st mvt [James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (cond)]\nARETHA FRANKLIN: Ain\u2019t No Way\nPUCCINI: La boh\xe8me, Act 4 \u201cSono andati\u201d [Maria Callas (soprano), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor), La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Antonino Votto (cond)]\nPOULENC: Stabat Mater \u2013 i. Stabat Mater dolorosa [Cappella Amsterdam, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Estonian National SO, Daniel Reuss (cond)]\nCAMARON DE LA ISLA: Yo vivo enamorao (Tangos) [Camaron De La Isla (singer), Paco De Luc\xeda (guitar)]