2X Grammy -winning vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Nicole Zuraitis releases a cinematic, five-part concept album

The Devil I Knew is the seventh album from 2X GRAMMY-winning vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Nicole Zuraitis — a cinematic, five-part concept album exploring self-reckoning, accountability, and emotional agency through the lens of a collapsing love story. Blending jazz virtuosity with literary inspiration and deeply personal songwriting, the album unfolds across five thematic movements — The Mirror, The Martyr, The Malediction, The Reckoning, and The Requiem — each connected through poetry by iconic female writers including Dorothy Parker, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Francis Ellen Watkins Harper. Recorded at EastSide Sound in New York City and mastered by Bernie Grundman, the project features a world-class ensemble including Christian McBride, Gilad Hekselman, Donny McCaslin, and Larry Goldings, with horn arrangements by Jerry Hey and string arrangements by Vince Mendoza, including the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Produced by Larry Klein and Zuraitis, with Executive Producer Susan Bloomberg, the album positions Zuraitis within a burgeoning New Romanticism in jazz — music that is lush, literary, emotionally expansive, and unapologetically human in an age that keeps asking us to be smaller, quieter, and easier to process. The Devil I Knew is out July 17, 2026 on La Reserve Records.