Some Other Time

'Some Other Time' is a recording of songs by jazz artists whom Diane Schuur first discovered via her parents during her childhood and adolescent years. The album features songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Rogers and Hammerstein and more. The set also includes a surprisingly mature-sounding rendition of "September in the Rain," recorded at the Holiday Inn in Tacoma in 1964 when Schuur was only ten years old.

This album is, among other things, Schuur's celebration of the music of her parents' generation, and a tribute to her late mother on the fortieth anniversary of her death at the young age of 31. "This is a celebration of the music she introduced to me when I was growing up," says Schuur. "After enough time goes by, everything your parents ever told you, everything they ever tried to teach you, starts to make sense. You find out how they grew up and how they looked at the world in the context of their generation and their times."

Long regarded - and sometimes criticized - as an artist who has walked a tightrope between jazz and pop, Schuur sees 'Some Other Time' as an unwavering statement about her commitment to the jazz tradition and its influence on her artistic sensibilities. "This album really is about coming back to the basics of my jazz roots," she says. "Not that I really completely left them, but there were a few detours along the way."

Diane Schuur is simply a legend. She has been nominated for five and received two Grammy Awards for "Best Jazz Vocalist," as well as head-lined many of the world's most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall.

Schuur has toured the world and has performed with such greats as Stan Getz, B.B. King, Maynard Ferguson, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and Quincy Jones. She has performed countless times on The Tonight Show, has performed at The Grammys and at the White House.