Rita Coolidge

Found 11 thoughts of Rita Coolidge

There were times we were recording three tracks a day. With pop records, they don't move along quite as quickly.

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

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

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

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

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.

I've always loved jazz.

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.