Timeless (Diane Schuur album)

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Timeless
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Live album by
Released1986
Recorded1986
Genre Jazz
Length48:28
Label GRP Records
Producer Dave Grusin, Larry Rosen
Diane Schuur chronology
Schuur Thing
(1985)
Timeless
(1986)
Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra
(1987)
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Timeless is a 1986 album by Diane Schuur, accompanied by a big band, arranged by Billy May, Johnny Mandel, Patrick Williams and Jeremy Lubbock. [2]

Contents

At the Grammy Awards of 1987, for her performance on Timeless, Schuur won her first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female. [3]

Track listing

  1. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:25
  2. "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 2:57
  3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:57
  4. "How About Me?" (Irving Berlin) – 4:30
  5. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 3:41
  6. "A Time for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 5:43
  7. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me" (Clarence Gaskill, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:31
  8. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:50
  9. "Impossible" (Steve Allen) – 4:51
  10. "Travellin' Blues" (Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, Lerner) – 3:56
  11. "Too Late Now" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 4:13
  12. "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Arlen, Truman Capote) – 3:55

Personnel

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