Thanks for the info, Muzikat, about WCLK. I checked out their Web site as you suggested, and was pleasantly surprised to see Diane Schuur's picture on their home page.
Diane, affectionately known to her friends and family as Deedles, is a hometown Seattle product (technically, she's from Auburn, about 30 miles south of Seattle). I have very fond memories of an evening some 15 or so years ago, when I wandered into Bud's Jazz Records in Seattle. A good friend of mine, now deceased, worked part-time at Bud's, and the evening I went to visit him at work, Diane Schuur was sitting at the small counter at the front of the store. My friend, David, was chatting with Diane, playing her newest recording on the store's stereo system, as Deedles sang along with the record. There were just the four of us -- Bud Young (the owner of the store), David, me, and Diane -- and we spent two delightful hours talking with her, and listening to that amazing voice of hers at a distance of about 3-5 feet.
Although Diane is blind, she was kind enough to autograph the cover of her album for me. I still have the LP and jacket, along with some 25 other albums I've gotten autographed by some of the great jazz artists of the past 30 years.
Diane, affectionately known to her friends and family as Deedles, is a hometown Seattle product (technically, she's from Auburn, about 30 miles south of Seattle). I have very fond memories of an evening some 15 or so years ago, when I wandered into Bud's Jazz Records in Seattle. A good friend of mine, now deceased, worked part-time at Bud's, and the evening I went to visit him at work, Diane Schuur was sitting at the small counter at the front of the store. My friend, David, was chatting with Diane, playing her newest recording on the store's stereo system, as Deedles sang along with the record. There were just the four of us -- Bud Young (the owner of the store), David, me, and Diane -- and we spent two delightful hours talking with her, and listening to that amazing voice of hers at a distance of about 3-5 feet.
Although Diane is blind, she was kind enough to autograph the cover of her album for me. I still have the LP and jacket, along with some 25 other albums I've gotten autographed by some of the great jazz artists of the past 30 years.