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tarting with her out-of-now-here triumph at the 2010 Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition and continuing with the release of four albums including three Grammy winners, Cécile McLorin Salvant, still just 32, has been raising eyebrows and neck hairs for a dozen years. She reigns as the supreme jazz singer of our time, ranking among the best of time. More remarkable, she keeps getting better, and, rarer still, she keeps evolving, expanding her repertoire of styles—which

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