15 March Great Hall Auckland Town Hall

CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT & THE TRIO CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT

Cécile McLorin Salvant was born and 2015 with Aaron Diehl (piano), Paul Sikivie raised in Miami, Florida, of a French (bass) and Lawrence Leathers (drums). mother and a Haitian father. She started In 2016, For One To Love won the Grammy classical piano studies at five, and began Award for Best Jazz Vocal . singing in the Miami Choral Society at Her fourth album, , eight. Early on, she developed an interest (for Mack Avenue Records), was recorded in classical voice, began studying with in part live at the Village Vanguard in 2016 private instructors, and later with Edward with Aaron Diehl (piano), Paul Sikivie Walker, vocal teacher at the University of (bass) and Lawrence Leathers (drums), Miami. The Catalyst Quartet and Sullivan Fortner. In 2007, Cécile moved to Aix-en-Provence, In 2018, she became a double Grammy France, to study law as well as classical Award winner with Dreams and Daggers and baroque voice at the Darius Milhaud also winning Best Jazz Vocal Album. Conservatory. It was in Aix-en-Provence, Ben Ratliff writes in The New York with reedist and teacher Jean-François Times, “she sings clearly, with her full Bonnel, that she started learning about pitch range, from a pronounced low jazz, and sang with her first band. In end to full and distinct high notes, used 2009, after a series of concerts in Paris, sparingly [...] Her voice clamps into each she recorded her first album Cécile, with song, performing careful variations on Jean-François Bonnel’s Paris Quintet. pitch, stretching words but generally A year later, she won the Thelonious not scatting; her face conveys meaning, Monk competition in Washington D.C. representing sorrow or serenity like a Over the years, she has developed a silent-movie actor.” curiosity for the history of American Jazz journalist Fred Kaplan, who profiled music, and the connections between Salvant in The New Yorker, believes that jazz, vaudeville, blues and folk music. she has a masterly grasp on exhibiting a Cécile carefully chooses her repertoire, wide emotional range in her music. “Her oftentimes unearthing rarely recorded, blues are blue. Her swings swing,” Kaplan forgotten songs, with strong stories. says. “She has vast, almost operatic She enjoys popularity in Europe and in range.” He also says that Salvant digs into PERFORMERS the United States, performing in clubs, a lyric like an actress. “She finds things in 1hr 30mins no interval concert halls and festivals. In 2014, her a lyric that other jazz singers kind of glide photography: mark fitton second album, WomanChild (Mack Avenue by,” he says. “’’ – if you Vocals The Aaron Diehl Trio Records), was nominated for a Grammy. just looked at the lyrics, you’d think this is Cécile McLorin Salvant Aaron Diehl (Piano) sponsored by really a song written by a crazy person. Or Her third album, For One To Love (for a song narrated by a crazy person. And she Paul Sikivie (Bass) Mack Avenue Records), was recorded in Kyle Poole (Drums) gets into that. It is a mad song.” THE AARON DIEHL TRIO aaf.co.nz

PAUL SIKIVIE (bass) moved to New York City Auckland Arts Festival is a place for ambitious ideas by storytellers, CONTACT provocateurs and creators. in 2007 from Florida, seeking training from +64 (0)9 309 0101 the masters of America’s musical art, jazz. His The Festival reflects our contemporary, cosmopolitan city with its many communities. [email protected] search took him through the classroom and It challenges artists and audiences to be bold and take a risk. Through the work of Level 5, Wellesley Centre onto stages across the city and world. artists from Aotearoa and across the world, we aim to unify, uplift, enlighten and 44-52 Wellesley Street inspire the people of T¯amaki Makaurau and our many visitors. Auckland City 1010 Paul has enjoyed and benefitted from playing AARON DIEHL (piano) is the 2011 Cole with some great musicians: Matt Wilson, Ted Taking place annually in March, 2018 marks the 10th Auckland Arts Festival. PO Box 5419 Porter Fellow in Jazz of the American Pianists Nash, Johnny O’Neal, Frank Kimbrough, Benny This year more than 200,000 people are expected to attend the Festival, which Wellesley Street comprises more than 50 events taking place in all corners of the Auckland region Association. His distinctive interpretations of Green, Wycliffe Gordon, Chico Hamilton, Wes Auckland 1141, NZ and many of which are free. the music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Art Anderson, Aaron Diehl, Marc Devine and Tatum, Duke Ellington, and other masters pays a host of others. He received a M.M. from homage to the tradition while establishing his Juilliard in 2009, having completed his B.M at own original voice. Diehl has performed with the University of North Florida in 2006. FESTIVAL PEOPLE the Septet, the Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Patron Chief Executive Creative Learning & Head of Sound Orchestra, , Hank Jones, Wycliffe The Governor General, David Inns Community Engagement Sandy Gunn KYLE POOLE (drums) hailed by Jazz Speaks Her Excellency Assistant Gordon, Victor Goines, Wessell Anderson and as a “young prodigious drummer,” Los Angeles The Right Honourable Artistic Director Natasha Lay Head of AV Loren Schoenberg, and has been featured on Dame Patsy Reddy, Jonathan Bielski Simon Baker native Kyle Poole has been residing in New GNZM, QSO Programme Administrator Marian McPartland’s NPR radio show Piano York City since 2011 and continues to impress Business & Helen Winskill Marketing & Board of Trustees Finance Director Communications Director Jazz. His international touring has included wherever his drums take him next. Along with John Judge (Chair) Shona Roberts Project Coordinator, Wha¯nui Thierry Pannetier Noma Sio-Faiumu major European jazz festivals as well as his band of fellow New York jazz upstarts aptly Angela Clatworthy Accounts & Payroll Marketing Contractor Rick Carlyon performances in South America and Asia. In titled Poole & the Gang, Kyle has performed in Administrators Wha¯nui Project Assistant Sally Woodfield Evan Davies Suzanne Watt Amo Ieriko addition to the Mozart Jazz trio album, he has New York’s most esteemed jazz clubs, notably Sarah Judkins Mirena Tomas Content Editor recently released Live at Caramoor, from his Tarun Kanji Technical Manager Tim Wong Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola & SMOKE Jazz, Margaret Kawharu MNZM Executive Assistant Nick Tomlin solo performance at the prestigious festival in culminating in a weekly residency at Small’s Jim Moser Josie Maskell Campaign Executive Ben Taufua Technical Administrator Alistair Kwun the summer of 2008. Jazz Club lasting nearly three years. One of Fred Ward Office Manager Catherine Hart Media & PR Manager Poole’s chief missions, is to expand jazz’s Donna Lynskey His latest trio CD is entitled Live at the Players. Founding Friends Artist Liaison & Siobhan Waterhouse Adrian Burr Head of Programming Logistics Manager audience by incorporating all dance styles of Media & PR Assistant A native of Columbus, OH, Diehl is a graduate Graeme Edwards Dolina Wehipeihana Megan Andrews Josephine Granese music, reaching back to ragtime and bebop, Friedlander Foundation of The Juilliard School where his teachers Senior Programme Manager Artist Liaison Assistant while forging ahead all the way to funk, hip- Dame Jenny Gibbs included , and Oxana Tama Waipara Sophie Williams Marketing Intern hop and beyond. With the constant fluctuation Sir Chris & Lady Dayle Mace Ellie Tapsell Yablonskaya. His honours include Lincoln Programme Manager Production Manager Official Suppliers of genre, rhythm and harmony, Poole & the Angela Green Vicki Cooksley Sponsorship Executive Center’s prestigious Martin E. Segal award in ABE’s Bagels Jessie Congalton Gang connects these musical dots in a uniquely 2004, winner of the 2003 Jazz Arts Group Delmaine Fine Foods Programme Assistant Festival Playground improvised fashion, while audiences worldwide Mojo Tanya Muagututi’a Operations Managers Sponsorship Assistant Hank Marr Jazz Competition, and Outstanding PwC Charlotte Crone Gill Saker are delighted to simply, “go with the flow.” Russell McVeagh Producer’s Assistant Gareth Baston (Boris) Soloist at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2002 Aroha Rawson Designer Essentially Ellington Competition. Immediately Head of Staging Barny Bewick Creative Learning & Andrew Gibson following graduation from high school he Community Engagement Ticketing Manager toured with the Wynton Marsalis Septet. Diehl Manager Head of Lighting Karen Cartwright Tracey Marama Lloydd Andrew Meadows currently resides in Manhattan where he Ticketing Assistant Laura Aldis serves as pianist for St. Joseph of the Holy Family Church in Harlem. photography: john abbott (aaron diehl) A STANDING OVATION FOR ALL THE FUNDERS, SPONSORS, PATRONS, AND SUPPORTERS WHOSE AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL THANK YOU GENEROSITY LETS US BRING THE WORK OF GREAT ARTISTS TO THIS WONDERFUL CITY.

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All roads at the Auckland In the centre of the Arts Festival lead back to Aotea Arts Precinct, this the iHeartRadio FESTIVAL comfortable and upbeat CLUB at the Aotea Centre, pop-up club is your place a hangout space and music to gather before and after stage for audiences, artists a show, grab a delicious and the creative community meal from a bespoke to meet, mix and celebrate. menu, enjoy live music from instrumentalists and Food and drink FESTIVAL CLUB DJs, or unwind over the curated by designed by ArtDego Angus Muir long summer nights with a special Festival cocktail.