Left Over
Context
"Left Over" is the only piece written by Cécile McLorin Salvant among the ten tracks of With Every Breath I Take, which otherwise include works by Cy Coleman, Ellington, Sondheim, Weill, Legrand, Coward, and Strayhorn. It is her first album with orchestra: the Metropole Orkest, conducted by Jules Buckley, plays arrangements by Darcy James Argue. Nonesuch releases it on June 26, 2026.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide). Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).