If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.
That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think.
I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.
I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Jazz is about being in the moment.
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