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I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

I'm not a jazz singer.

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.