Surely one of the most exhilarating talents in contemporary vocal jazz, Cécile McLorin Salvant was back again at the EFG London Jazz Festival, this time at the (underrated) Queen Elizabeth Hall. The Grammy-winning musician, of Haitian and French ancestry, had the audience eating out of the palm of her hand from her opening number, a playful, sardonic ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’. Her set spanned an astonishingly broad repertoire: Covers of Sting (‘Until’) and Burt Bacharach (‘Wives and Lovers’), French war poetry, and the 17th century composer John Dowland’s ‘Flow Not So Fast, Ye Fountains’. Supported by an utterly in-sync band (without a single piece of sheet music to be seen), Salvant sung with formidable intelligence and meticulous phrasing, with darting highs, plunging lows, and a gliding mixed register. Mastering the frenetic cadences of Bob Dorough’s ‘Nothing Like You’ and then the haunting exactness of Rhiannon Giddens’ ‘Build a House’ (delivered a cappella), Salvant can do it all.