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Anyone who says jazz is dead has not spent enough time listening to Cécile McLorin Salvant. The singer's chops are unparalleled, but she's never been content to apply them traditionally. Across 15 years and, now, eight albums, Salvant has constantly stretched the borders of her genre—embarking on endless stylistic adventures but never abandoning her roots outright. The 13 tracks of Oh Snap were written and initially recorded in solitude, personal experiments never meant for public consumption. After years spent burdened with the responsibility to "do [music] in a certain way and do [it] well," she decided to approach these private songs the way she approaches drawing, a medium in which she has no formal training but which has brought her tremendous joy over the years. This new, wide-eyed method required the use of new tools: digital audio workstations like GarageBand and Logic Pro, MIDI plugins, even Auto-Tune. The songs that appear on the final version of Oh Snap have been rejiggered to feature a live band of Salvant's close collaborators Sullivan Fortner (keys), Yasushi Nakamura (bass), and Kyle Poole (drums), but the playful exploration of the demos peeks through the professional polish. Here, one can find latter-day standards ("Anything but now," "What does blue mean to you?," "Expanse") and sumptuous neo-soul supernovas ("I am a volcano," "Oh Snap," "Second guessing"), but also a breathtaking folk-country ballad ("Take this stone"), a turn-of-the-2010s club bop ("A little bit more"), a 27-second a capella cover of The Commodores' "Brick House," and slow, amorphous entities that feel less like hybrids than singularities. These tracks, jarringly punctuated mid-run by "A little bit more," make up Oh Snap's final section. Most transcendent of all is "Nun," which sees Salvant's sublime singing set against a buoyant drum machine and sunburst synths. But album closer "A frog jumps in" pops our dream bubble with a dissonant vibraphone and an eerie synth haze, reminding us never to sink too deeply into our comfort zones.