The iconography of jazz usually features smoky images of coolly wasted-looking individuals in natty hats blowing saxophones. But if saxes and trumpets have seemed like the quintessential jazz ...
Cécile McLorin Salvant was born in Miami, Fla., to a French mother and a Haitian father. She began her classical piano studies at age 5, and soon added voice to her musical training. In 2007, Salvant ...