Cécile McLorin Salvant has shared "Left Over," a new track, written by Salvant, from her upcoming album With Every Breath I Take, due June 26 on Nonesuch. On the album, her first with orchestra, Salvant and Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley perform timeless songs newly arranged by composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue. You can watch a video for “Left Over,” filmed during the recording session, here.

Congratulations to Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Mary Halvorson, all of whom have won JJA Jazz Awards. Salvant has won Female Vocalist of the Year and, with pianist Sullivan Fortner, Duo of the Year; Akinmusire Trumpeter of the Year; and Halvorson Guitarist of the Year. All three have new albums out this month: Salvant's orchestral album With Every Breath I Take on June 26 and Akinmusire and Halvorson's duo album Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings on June 12.

Cécile McLorin Salvant has released the video for the title track to her upcoming debut orchestral album, With Every Breath I Take. The video captures the recording of the song, written by Cy Coleman and David Zippel and arranged by Darcy James Argue, with The Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley in December 2025, filmed by Ward Brandsma, plus footage of Salvant by Ebru Yildiz. You can watch it here.

Cécile McLorin Salvant’s album With Every Breath I Take, her first with orchestra, featuring The Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley, is due June 26. Salvant and the ensemble perform timeless songs—by Cy Coleman, Noël Coward, Duke Ellington, Stephen Sondheim, Billy Strayhorn, and Salvant—newly arranged by composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue. “It is a rare opportunity to be able to make an album at this scale, which has been a dream of mine for many years,” she says. “Darcy James Argue wrote stunning arrangements and the Metropole Orkest, conducted by the extraordinary Jules Buckley, gave these stories a cinematic dimension ... I am so incredibly proud to share it."

Congratulations to Mary Halvorson, Ambrose Akinmusire, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and Darcy James Argue on their JJA Jazz Association's 2026 JJA Jazz Awards nominations: Halvorson for Jazz Musician of the Year, Composer of the Year, Guitarist of the Year, Midsize Ensemble of the Year (Amaryllis), and Duo of the Year (with Sylvie Courvoisier); Akinmusire for Record of the Year (honey from a winter stone) and Trumpeter of the Year; Salvant for Female Vocalist of the Year and Duo of the Year (with Sullivan Fortner); and Argue for Arranger of the Year.

Congratulations to Ambrose Akinmusire and Cécile McLorin Salvant, who have both been nominated for Jazz FM Awards for Album of the Year for their latest releases, honey from a winter stone and Oh Snap, respectively. This is a public vote category, so head to jazzfmawards.com now to have your say. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at Koko in London on April 16.

The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll results have arrived. Mary Halvorson's About Ghosts tops the list of New Jazz Albums, which also includes Ambrose Akinmusire's honey from a winter stone and Cecile McLorin Salvant's Oh Snap, which is also No. 1 on the list of Vocal Jazz Albums. Congratulations, all!

"I have seen this woman perform live a number of times, and one of the great thrills of watching her has been beholding what she has discovered, what she has unearthed in music that other artists wrote," Wesley Morris says of Cécile McLorin Salvant, his guest on the New York Times' Cannonball. "Their songs become hers, and to a listener, they mean something deeper than the original and often sound completely new." The episode is focused on the art of the cover song—a phrase Salvant doesn't use—and opens with a list of Morris's all-time favorites, on which he includes Salvant's take on Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights," from her 2022 Nonesuch debut album, Ghost Song. Hear the episode here.

Cécile McLorin Salvant has released a lyric video for "I am a volcano," the opening track to her new album, Oh Snap. You can watch it here. It comes on the heels of a six-part Q&A series in which she reveals, among other things, a discomfort with frogs, such as those featured in the new video.

Cécile McLorin Salvant sat down for a Nonesuch Q&A about her new album, Oh Snap, covering a wide range of topics, including her songwriting process, working on the project in secret, AutoTune, bodily fluids, frogs, and embracing weirdness. You can see what she had to say in the six-part series filmed by Matthew Edginton here.

"I am so happy to be here on the Big Ears podcast today, speaking with the wonderful, extraordinarily talented Cécile McLorin Salvant," music critic Natalie Weiner says of her guest on the Knoxville festival's podcast. "She really does embody the Big Ears mission of stretching beyond whatever genre is. And she kind of came out into the jazz world, took it by storm, but very quickly stretched beyond that. But also, while still being in it, I don't know. You know, using words to describe the kind of magic that she creates on stage feels pretty futile." You can hear their conversation here.

Cécile McLorin Salvant’s new album, Oh Snap, is out now. It comprises 12 very personal songs by the singer/composer (plus a cover of a verse from the Commodores’ 1977 hit “Brick House”) mostly recorded outside of a traditional studio environment. The songs showcase her genre-spanning tastes and influences from her 1990s childhood in Miami—from boy bands to grunge to classical to folk—and include party tracks with beats, samba grooves, and quiet folk songs. Salvant wrote the intimate songs as part of a creative quest: To place spontaneity and joy at the center of her writing process. The album features longtime collaborators Sullivan Fortner, Yasushi Nakamura, and Kyle Poole, plus cameos from singers June McDoom and Kate Davis.