Cyrille Aimée

Cyrille Aimée is billed for a November 5 appearance at Birdland. The available event information does not name accompanying musicians or confirm whether she will perform solo or with an ensemble, so the night’s formation remains unannounced. What is clear is a set from the French-born jazz vocalist, whose work moves through song interpretation and a repertoire informed by jazz, pop and Caribbean dance rhythms.

Aimée grew up in Samois-sur-Seine, France, in a multilingual household shaped in part by her mother’s Dominican heritage. Her jazz-based music has been described as blending gypsy swing, Brazilian bossa nova and Latin rhythms, and Birdland has called her a “matchless interpreter of song.” She has performed and recorded with Roy Hargrove, worked with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and appeared as a featured artist with Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Her Sondheim project Move On included “Marry Me a Little,” nominated for a 2019 GRAMMY. The Wall Street Journal called her “one of the most promising jazz singers of her generation,” while the New York Times described her as a “rising star in the galaxy of jazz singers.”