Cecile McLorin Salvant at New Jersey Performing Arts Center

One of the jazz world's brightest new stars - powerhouse vocalist, songwriter, and two-time GRAMMY winner Cécile McLorin Salvant - arrives with Ogresse, her new song cycle commissioned by NJPAC. "A woman lived in the woods on the outskirts of town. Her skin was chocolate brown. Upon her head she wore a crown of bones . . ." So begins Cécile McLorin Salvant's Ogresse, an original song cycle on which she collaborates with arranger and conductor Darcy James Argue. This latest project from the two-time GRAMMY winner (for her acclaimed albums, For One to Love and Dreams and Daggers) is a work both musical and narrative, a fairytale-like musical journey about a female ogre who falls in love with a man - and in the end, devours him...

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One of the jazz world's brightest new stars - powerhouse vocalist, songwriter, and two-time GRAMMY winner Cécile McLorin Salvant - arrives with Ogresse, her new song cycle commissioned by NJPAC. "A woman lived in the woods on the outskirts of town. Her skin was chocolate brown. Upon her head she wore a crown of bones . . ." So begins Cécile McLorin Salvant's Ogresse, an original song cycle on which she collaborates with arranger and conductor Darcy James Argue. This latest project from the two-time GRAMMY winner (for her acclaimed albums, For One to Love and Dreams and Daggers) is a work both musical and narrative, a fairytale-like musical journey about a female ogre who falls in love with a man - and in the end, devours him.

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