Track Listing

1. Nice Work If You Can Get It
2. I've Got Beginner's Luck
3. They Say It's Wonderful
4. Some Other Time
5. Blue Skies
6. Without a Song
7. It's Magic
8. Taking a Chance on Love
9. Good Life
10. If Someone Had Told Me
11. My Favorite Things
12. September in the Rain
13. Danny Boy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64252 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
"Some Other Time," vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur's February 2008 Concord release, is a recording of songs by jazz artists whom she first discovered via her parents during her childhood and adolescent years. The album features songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Rodgers 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.

"Some Other Time" 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.

From the Artist
"This recording is a celebration of the fortieth anniversary of my mother's death," says Schuur, whose mother died at age 31 in January 1967, when the aspiring young vocalist and musician was only 13 years old. "This is a celebration of the music she introduced to me when I was growing up. 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."

About the Artist
Born in Tacoma, Washington, in December 1953, vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur was blind from birth. She grew up in nearby Auburn, Washington, where her father was a police captain. Nicknamed Deedles at a young age, Schuur discovered the world of jazz via her father, a piano player, and her mother, who kept a formidable collection of Duke Ellington and Dinah Washington records in the house.

She was still a toddler when she learned to sing the Dinah Washington signature song, "What a Difference a Day Makes." Armed with the rare gift of perfect pitch, Schuur taught herself piano by ear and developed a rich, resonant vocal style early on, as evidenced in a recording of her first public performance at a Holiday Inn in Tacoma when she was ten years old. She received formal piano training at the Washington State School for the Blind, which she attended until age 11. By her early teens, she had amassed her own collection of Washington's records and looked to the legendary vocalist as her primary inspiration.

Schuur made her first record in 1971, a country single entitled "Dear Mommy and Daddy," produced by Jimmy Wakely. After high school, she focused on jazz and gigged around the northwest. In 1975, an informal audition with trumpeter Doc Severinson (then the leader of the Tonight Show band) led to a gig with Tonight Show drummer Ed Shaughnessy's group at the Monterey Jazz Festival. She sang a gospel suite with Shaughnessy's band in front of a festival audience that included jazz tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, who in turn invited her to participate in a talent showcase at the White House. A subsequent return performance at the White House led to a record deal with GRP, which released Schuur's debut album, Deedles, in 1984.

Over the next 13 years, Schuur recorded 11 albums on GRP, including two Grammy winners: Timeless (1986) and Diane Schuur and the Count Basie Orchestra (1987). The recording with the Basie Orchestra spent 33 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard jazz charts. In 1991, Pure Schuur made the number-one slot on the Contemporary Jazz charts, and Heart To Heart - a 1994 collaborative recording with B.B. King - entered the Billboard charts at No. 1.

After one album on Atlantic records in 1999 - Music is My Life, produced by Ahmet Ertegun - Schuur joined the Concord label with the 2000 release of Friends For Schuur. The move to Concord marked the beginning of a series of highly successful collaborative projects: Swingin' For Schuur (2001), a set of finely crafted duets with trumpeter Maynard Ferguson; Midnight (2003), Schuur's unique interpretations of thirteen songs (mostly new material) written or co-written by Barry Manilow; and Schuur Fire (2005), a decidedly Latin-flavored album featuring the Caribbean Jazz Project.

Customer Reviews

One of her best records to date.
This is an album to savour for jazz enthusiasts, given that it showcases some popular jazz songs Diane grew up listening to.
It's clear from the outset that Diane Schuur is enjoying the opportunity to revisit such past favourites and there's a warmth and glow to many of the tracks that's difficult to resist - especially in the best known material.
This is a celebration of the jazz form that's equally capable of appealing to long-term fans of the genre as it is to newcomers. Hence, timeless tracks by George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein are delivered with such verve and panache that you'll probably find your head nodding along in appreciation in spite of yourself.
Diane brings maturity, class and no considerable amount of good humour to most of the recordings and ensures that the mix is reflective of the genre as a whole, rather than just the obvious classics.
Diane Schuur's new contribution to the ever-growing number of albums devoted to the Great American Songbook is mostly notable for what it lacks: vocal fireworks.
She handles the challenging material with grace, showcasing her impressive abilities, but never at the expense of the melody.
Her voice is pure, strong and flexible, her band,­ centred on the versatile piano of Randy Porter, the muscular but sensitive bass playing of Scott Steed, the intelligently judged guitar of Dan Balmer, plus Reggie Jackson on drums, ­is discreet and sensitive but vigorous and exuberant where appropriate, and the songs constitute Diane's one of strongest recorded set to date.
Needless to say, "Some Other Time" (her Concord Jazz debut) shines brightest when operating on most familiar territory.
It is an engaging listen and provides also perfect laidback Sunday afternoon listening even for people who wouldn't otherwise consider the genre.
Standout tracks : "September in the Rain", which Schuur made when she was 10 years old and a voice-and-guitar arrangement of "Danny Boy".

Like fine wine....
Just like a fine wine, Diane continues to grow and mature. Certainly her best effort to date. Her fifth release on Concord since 2000, this partnership is certainly helping her to develop to her full potential.
The track of her as a youngster is heart warming and gives a hint of her future abilities and range.

If you are a fan..........this album is a MUST for your collection. If you are not yet a fan, it will convert you!!!

JRR

Excellent recording
Diane does it again with another great recording with good song selection. Pure Schuur is still my favorite, and Midnight is quite good as well. If you are buying Diane for the first time, then I would recommend Pure Schuur, but this is a great disc to round out a collection.