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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 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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I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.
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It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
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My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
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Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
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