“I love improvising on the melody and scatting. I try to use the melody in
new ways without losing its integrity.” Dot’s influences include
Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln.

“Jazz is the one medium where I can be myself. I sing what’s in my head,
taking the standards and making them my own. I don’t feel the constraints
that I feel with other types of music. I can be my most creative in this form.”

Dot Wilder