CYRILLE AIMÉE IS MOVING ON

STANDING ON THE STOOP OF HER THREE-STORY APARTMENT BUILDING IN SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN, on a warm, late August day, Cyrille Aimée is grinning. She is all Gallic charm, with her flowing mane of brown curls, her floral-print sundress and her open, inviting smile. When she speaks in softly accented English, she’s like a whiff of France in the middle of working-class Brooklyn.

She’s talking fondly about the not-yet-gentrified neighborhood, her primary residence until recently, and about her latest album, Move On, her fourth for the Mack Avenue label. The title could hardly be more appropriate: The 34-year-old French-born jazz singer has, in fact, moved on, in every way possible, and she seems relaxed and happy about it.

For one thing, after a decade spent forging a jazz career in New York, she made the move to her new favorite city, New Orleans, two years ago. (She keeps the Sunset Park apartment for when she visits her old stomping grounds, renting it out when she’s not there.)

At the same time, she ended an intense romantic relationship. In Move On’s liner notes, she thanks the man in question “for making me feel all these intense emotions of love, heartbreak, hope, pain and happiness, without which I would never have been able to create this album.”

And she has moved on professionally. Her highly acclaimed quintet, after five years together, playing countless dates at clubs and jazz festivals around the world, disbanded last year, leaving her free to embrace the biggest challenge of her young career: tackling the music and lyrics is subtitled “A Sondheim Adventure.”