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"I don't consider myself a jazz singer at all," she said recently by phone from her Hollywood home. "I see the two fields as quite different. Being a cabaret singer means concentrating on the lyric rather than the melody. Jazz comes from the music first; the lyric is not as important. Cabaret comes from the words." Jazz vocalists, she noted, sometimes distort the words beyond understanding in their attempt to develop the musical side of a song. "That's fine; I understand it and enjoy it, but it's not my metier," she said. "I'm not an improviser. But people also like the clean lines of cabaret singing; they like the song to be sung the way it was written. People have heard standards sung so often in the jazz style that when I go back to the original melody, they think I'm singing a new song."

- Andrea Marcovicci in the Los Angeles Times