Tokyo Jukebox 3 is part of an ongoing series. How did you go about choosing the covers for this one?
It was a long process! I try to demo the songs I like before I even ask for permission to release them. That way I can see whether I can make it cool. Just because you like a song doesn’t mean you can definitely take it somewhere good. Some songs should be left the way they are. After making the demos, I would know if I could really make the melody sing.
The way you bend into the right notes has always been a big part of your identity, almost similar to Jeff Beck in ways...
I don’t what to say, to be compared with someone as fantastic as that is a wonderful honour. What I find with JeffBeck is that the content is brought out by the phrasing. It might be a very simple motif but what drags you into it is the phrasing and delivery. In my case, it’s a lot of bending – the way I bend from one note to the next or just hang on one for a while. That’s what drags people in, but the idea itself is often quite simple. You have to sing it. The greatest vocal songs usually have a singer who can suck people in – you won’t sit there thinking that’s a C, G, A and E. You hear the melody and the words. If you were to analyse it, you might think it’s no big deal, just a straightforward melody. But then you listen to it being performed and it’s the interpretation dragging you in, not the sheet music notation.
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