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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Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's people who would hear what I do and say, 'Is it jazz? I don't know...' Whatever it is, it really comes down to creating music that makes people feel something.
I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
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