Why isn’t this being shown on TV?
That’s the question I found myself asking after watching a recent performance by the great jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant at the gorgeous Strathmore Music Center just outside Washington, D.C. Strathmore is the place where I recently enjoyed and interviewed another jazz great, Kurt Elling. With Elling, as with Salvant, I couldn’t help but wonder why these greats are not known to most Americans the way the names Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, and Dinah Washington once were—and, among the culturally literate, still are.
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