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

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.

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.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.