I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
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I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
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If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
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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'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 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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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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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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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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