Being a swing singer is having the ability to combine the value of precise diction and conversational delivery. Knowing that the beat shouldn't always necessarily fall where the rhyme does. David may be an intuitive musician, but he is also an analytical singer. He knows exactly how to inflect a word or a phrase whilst shifting the rhythm and maintaining the sincerity of a lyric - and yet at the same time, paying lavish attention to every melodic phrase.

Ira Gitler - Jazz historian and journalist.