Cecile McLorin Salvant – Marcus Garvey Park – August 24, 2013
This was day 2 of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, so it was a bit of a tossup how I would title it, but Cecile was the real draw for me, getting me down to Harlem plenty early and sitting in the hot sun for over an hour to get a primo seat. Not that the other bands, and there were three of them, were slouches by any means. I got all of the players for the Jaleel Shaw group, and the Kimberly Thompson combo as well. But for Cecile I broke out the watercolors and let the rest of her band slide. By Kenny Garrett’s set, I was played after two days of mad action sketching, so I just took what I could get. Sketches here are in chronological order.
Jaleel Shaw & Boris Kozlov
Johnathan Blake & Lawrence Fields
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Kimberly Thompson
Courtney Bryan & Aaron Burnett
Nick Woziak
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Cecile McLorin Salvant
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Kenny Garrett
Corcoran Holt
Rudy Bird