Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist and songwriter Douyé announces Stay With Me (out now via via Rhombus Records), her forthcoming sixth album and the first of her jazz albums to include original songs. Arriving June 26th, 2026, the 13-track album places three new songs by Douyé and Rufus Bordal among 10 Great American Songbook standards arranged and largely co-produced by pianist George Cables.

Recorded in two complementary settings — standards arranged by Cables at Sear Sound in New York and originals arranged by pianist/arranger Mina Choi at The Village Studios in Los Angeles — Stay With Me frames Douyé’s songwriting inside the classic language she has spent years making her own.

For Douyé, the originals mark a decisive step. She wanted the new pieces to sit naturally beside the Great American Songbook standards around them, carrying the same melodic directness, lyrical clarity, and emotional purpose.

“I’ve always written,” Douyé says. “Before I came into the jazz world, I used to do R&B and classic soul, but this is my first time adding originals to one of my jazz albums. I wrote about 10 songs and chose three. I wanted to see if they could blend with the rest of the album, so someone might hear one of them and think, ‘Is that one of those jazz standards I didn’t know?’ That was important to me.”

Douyé had never worked with Cables before but trusted his ear from the beginning. He arranged and co-produced those tracks, played piano on ten of the songs, helped assemble the New York band, and gave the songs room to breathe.

For the standards, Cables appears with bassist Sean Conly and drummer Jerome Jennings, joined on select tracks by saxophonist Craig Handy and trumpeters Joe Magnarelli and John Bailey. When Douyé brought Cables a pool of possible material, they independently gravitated toward many of the same choices.

1. Autumn in New York
2. It’s a Lovely Day
3. Love You Madly
4. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
5. Days Of Wine and Roses
6. Stay With Me
7. I’ve Never Been In Love Before
8. Give Me That Simple Life
9. In My Solitude
10. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
11. Where To Be
12. You Go To My Head
13. Day to Day

The Nigerian-born vocalist, composer and bandleader, Douyé opens her new recording on the emotive Autumn in New York and the smooth textures of It’s a Lovely Day and they are followed by the affecting Love You Madly, the luxuriant Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most and then come the low slung foot tapper Days Of Wine and Roses and the rousing title track Stay With Me.

Along next is the all-embracing beauty of I’ve Never Been In Love Before and the upright bass-led magnificence of Give Me That Simple Life, and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the demurely elegant In My Solitude, the gently regally regimented Polka Dots and Moonbeams, the upbeat and forthright Where To Be, the set rounding out on the decadent You Go To My Head, coming to a close on the sumptuous Day to Day.

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