Cécile McLorin Salvant: With Every Breath I Take (2LP)

Cécile McLorin Salvant’s album *With Every Breath I Take*, her first with an orchestra, features the Dutch Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. Salvant and the ensemble perform timeless songs—by Cy Coleman, Noël Coward, Duke Ellington, Stephen Sondheim, Billy Strayhorn, and Salvant herself—in new arrangements by composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue. “It’s a rare opportunity to realize an album on this scale, something I’ve dreamed of for many years,” she says. “Darcy James Argue has written breathtaking arrangements, and the Metropole Orkest, conducted by the extraordinary Jules Buckley, has given these stories a cinematic dimension… I am incredibly proud to present it.”