Following a tour with Lyle Lovett, Jones enlisted David Was to helm her first album of jazz covers - a direction she had forged for rock artistts but had never recorded. Many singers had followed her lead and for those who did not realize her devotion to jazz in her performances on stage they would have thought her just another rock pop singer doing jazz. Her producer chose an innovative approach and she agreed, thus the Argentinian flavored "Pop Pop", set the pace for what would become a habit with Miss Jones - innovation, defiance, mixing styles of jazz and pop and not staying in one genre for a whole recording. Tin Pan Alley to Jimi Hendrix's "Up from the Skies". The album, released in September 1991, was a hit on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums, peaking at No. 8, but became her least commercially successful record yet, reaching No. 121 on the Billboard 200.