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


"When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else."


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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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