Amy and a song visit each other like long-lost best friends. Instantly together again they know each other’s rhythms, ways, habits, and nuances. Like good friends, they know each other’s secrets too. Good times and bad, sad, melancholy, happiness, and adventures taken together. True friends protect each other and know how to be there when a time comes or goes. Amy romances the cherished sweetness of the qualities of friendship, and she does this spiritedly with the song.
About a song’s melody, Amy has said this: “Melody is one of the things I like about the jazz repertoire, which a lot of jazz singers don’t love,… If you’re going to change the melody even a little bit you still should be keeping the soul of the song intact.” Respect for the soul of a song, that’s very much a definite trademark signature.
Amy may lend personality, but it is the integrity of the music that is her paramount, and it is that integrity that is the listener’s experience.