Exclusive Sally Night Q 'n' A

24-06-2008 15:10

Sally Night is a jazz singer determined to revive all the old classics and bring the beauty of jazz music into everyone’s lives, regardless of their age.FemaleFirst caught up with the singer to find out about her upcoming album, Phases of Love, as well as how she feels being compared to the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.

You are about to release your new album ‘Phases of Love,’ what can we expect from it?

It’s a standard album with the great jazz composers and it basically places the progression and development of a love affair from its inception through to the euphoric stage and then to the relationship breakdown and a bit of soul-searching and then eventually into what I like to think of as a new beginning.

So is that the meaning behind the album name, Phases of Love?

Yes exactly, it is focusing on the different phases of love. It is based on my live show which is basically a journey through the many phases of love and the up’s and down’s we all encounter.

You have a very Jazz-based sound, where did your interest in this style of music come from?

It has been an interest of mine from an early age, my father used to sing jazz as a hobby and sometimes in public, so we were always singing jazz songs around the house, even when we were little, even though I was trained to go into classical music.

Your album contains well-known songs such as The Nearness of You; how did you decide which songs made it onto the record?

It was very difficult because there were so many beautiful melodies and lyrics by these composers. It was based on the live shows so there was already a structure there for my live performance to tell the story and those standards were in there already, but whittling it down is always difficult and I did include 14 tracks because I really couldn’t cut it down to 12. Everyone kept saying; “No, 14 tracks is too long.” but I don’t think it is and they are necessary to tell the story and I like all those tracks so they have to stay in.

Do you have a favourite?

I love singing all of them. I think possibly the most touching one is In My Solitude which is actually an Ellington tune. But I love all of them as they all have different tempos and different feelings.