For One to Love sees Cécile McLorin Salvant take her audience on another engrossing journey of discovery. If her critically acclaimed WomanChild deliberately eschewed songs about love, this follow-up basks in it, while sharing the earlier album's fascinatingly different choice of repertoire. Penning five of the album's 12 songs, McLorin Salvant's album opener ‘Fog’ seems almost painterly, and hearing the singer's endlessly sustained opening words (‘Love appeared’) you're struck anew by the timbral richness of her voice. Having studied the entire recorded output of the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith, still clearly looms large in McLorin Salvant's aesthetic orbit, and her take on ‘What's The Matter Now?’ strikes you with a visceral force. Elsewhere, the melancholy song of lost love, ‘Le Mal De Vivre’, Bacharach and David's ‘Wives and Lovers’, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's ‘Stepsisters’ Lament' collectively illustrate McLorin Salvant's startling versatility and her capacity for confounding expectations. Like a tableau of constantly shifting scenes, the brilliant arrangement of ‘Something's Coming’ (from West Side Story) showcases the stunning musicianship of pianist Aaron Diehl, bassist Paul Sikivie and drummer Lawrence Leathers.