How to execute multi attribute selection jq command on a external json file from windows cmder

I'm attempting to use windows cmder to execute jq commands for command-line JSON processor to transform and output existing JSON files I have saved.

Given the the sample json

[  {"firstName": "Doug","accountNumber": "123456","language": "en_US","brand": "Tide","country": "US","branch": "MIA","city": "Miami","state": "FL","zipCode": "33133"  }]

While I am able to output the files for simple filter output such the following:

cat sample.json | jq .[] --color-output

jq .[] sample.json --color-output

or a filter on a single attribute like country (any nested items within whenever present with dot notation)

jq .[].country sample.json --color-output

Unfortunately, I am unable to perform any of the more complex actions such as extracting specific attributes or filtering for specific using online resources like jqplay which allow me to use

.[] | {accountNumber:.accountNumber, brand:.brand, city:.city, state:.state}

When I try to perform this same type of command that worked on jqplay within cmder to transform the sample json data to display with only certain fields, I receive the following error.

jq '.[] | {accountNumber:.accountNumber, brand:.brand, city:.city, state:.state}' sample.json

error message: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

I looked through a few jq documentation resources such as the jq manual and jq cheatsheet and while I saw examples of how it suggest extracting attributes, I have not been able to get such filtering/transforming to work when referring to any of my sample JSON files like this but the files read in fine for the single attribute selection example I illustrated earlier. I imagine if I've written incorrect syntax for cmder reading local or remote JSON files it will be easy for someone here to identify and help correct. I really want to be able to this on windows cmder like most things and not powershell or anything like that.