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There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.
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I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
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I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
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I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
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The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
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Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
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I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.
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Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.
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It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
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My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
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Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
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Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
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