I find it possible to sing anything right now. I think that is why I like to be called a stylist. It merely indicates that I can cross the line musically just about anywhere with the exception of opera and scat singing. I've never been dumb enough to try to scat sing because there was Ella Fitzgerald and you wouldn't dare. Any cabaret singer has got to have some feeling for jazz or it just isn't going to work.
Jazz is part of the whole hoopla of going out at night and having drinks and whooping it up.
The Carlyle has wonderful intimacy going for it. And one can get by with a few mistakes. I think the large hall is demanding in that one is really playing to a more or less sober audience. You're really on exhibition there. In the beginning of my career, I did what all singers do, we hang around the melody.