Jazz thrives on happenstance.
Her album preceded by a year Cassandra Wilson's similarly groundbreaking Blue Light 'Til Dawn disc. I do feel like a post-modern pioneer. Soon after, all music was viewed as viable material for jazz vocalists and instrumentalists. The old repertoire distinctions between popular music and jazz began to fall away. An essential hurdle was convincing listeners that there was life for the genre after the deaths of such iconic singers as Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Ella Fitzgerald.