Sullivan Fortner
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Ghost Song
RecommendedCécile McLorin Salvant (creative director, piano), Ben Tousley (designer), Paul Sikivie (electric bass, synthesizer, bass), Sullivan Fortner (piano, fender rhodes keyboards, background vocals), James Chirillo (banjo), Keita Ogawa (percussion), Alexa Tarantino (flute), Marvin Sewell (guitar), Burniss...
This set features everything from theatrical and folk elements to the kind of rapid-fire Sprechstimme pithiness associated with Garfunkel and Oates (search YouTube), yet its overall themes –... —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, March 2022
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Downbeat, Editor's Pick, April 2022
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Jazz Choice
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee: Best Jazz Vocal Album
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Ghost Song
RecommendedCécile McLorin Salvant (creative director, piano), Ben Tousley (designer), Paul Sikivie (electric bass, synthesizer, bass), Sullivan Fortner (piano, fender rhodes keyboards, background vocals), James Chirillo (banjo), Keita Ogawa (percussion), Alexa Tarantino (flute), Marvin Sewell (guitar), Burniss...
This set features everything from theatrical and folk elements to the kind of rapid-fire Sprechstimme pithiness associated with Garfunkel and Oates (search YouTube), yet its overall themes –... —
Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, March 2022
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Downbeat, Editor's Pick, April 2022
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Jazz Choice
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee: Best Jazz Vocal Album
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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New. With Every Breath I Take
Cécile McLorin Salvant (vocals), David Wong (bass), Kush Abadey (drums), Sullivan Fortner (piano), Metropole Orkest, Jules Buckley
Jazz tends to reinvent such material to suit its own musical conventions, so allowing its dramatic function to reassert itself makes for engaging listening (as does the occasional vocal equivalent... —
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This album sees her fronting her current quintet and tends toward personal and general introspection, ref lecting as it does the events of the past couple of years. Aldana never confuses introspection... —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, March 2022
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th March 2022
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This album sees her fronting her current quintet and tends toward personal and general introspection, reflecting as it does the events of the past couple of years. Aldana never confuses introspection... —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, March 2022
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th March 2022
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A Joyful Holiday
Samara Joy (vocalist), Sullivan Fortner (piano, hammondb3), David Wong (doublebass), Kenny Washington (drumkit), Pasquale Grasso (guitar), The McLendon Family, Antonio McLendon (vocalist), Goldwire McLendon (vocalist), Laurone McLendon (vocalist), Tiera Lovell Rowe (vocalist), Alana Alexander (vocalist),...
Xmas platters are often cheap cash-ins or malodorous cheese-fests ,but not in this case. A Joyful Holiday is a triumph: the playing is perfectly judged, and the singing richly sensual, honeyed... —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, December 2023/January 2024
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Anyone who thinks they know the full extent of Cécile McLorin Salvant's artistry should listen to Mélusine without delay. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Xmas platters are often cheap cash-ins or malodorous cheese-fests ,but not in this case. A Joyful Holiday is a triumph: the playing is perfectly judged, and the singing richly sensual, honeyed... —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, December 2023/January 2024
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