Rotterdam’s ‘ BIRD’ is a club, café and restaurant with a live music programme that's deeply rooted in jazz, and also branches out towards soul, funk, hip-hop and electronic music as well. Its name ‘BIRD’ refers to the nickname of the legendary New York jazz saxophonist, bebop co-founder Charlie Parker (1920-1955). BIRD serves Neapolitan pizzas, good wines, no-nonsense beers and an all-round metropolitan rawness. Since 2014, this urban jazz club and DJAZZ.tv have been collaborating for a series of music programmes: ‘BIRD.tv’, allowing you to experience the best BIRD concerts and interviews as from a first row seat! This episode features a rising star on the jazz scene: within the last few years, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant (*1989) has risen to international acclaim at lightning speed. An innovative singer with extraordinary soul, intuition, and deep character, Cécile McLorin Salvant has been hailed as the next great jazz vocalist in the lineage of Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, and Dianne Reeves.