Now and Then (Ernestine Anderson album)

Now and Then is an album by the American musician Ernestine Anderson, released in 1993. It was her first album for Quincy Jones's Qwest Records; Jones had been her high school classmate. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female". Now and Then peaked in the top 10 of Billboard's Jazz Albums chart. Anderson supported it with a North American tour.

Production
The album was produced by Stix Hooper. "Monte Carlo Nights" is a duet with Arnold McCuller. Anderson wrote "Wrong Number" and "Ain't No Easy Way". "A Night in Tunisia" is a version of the Dizzy Gillespie composition. Jim Keltner played drums on the album.

Critical reception
Billboard called Anderson "an expressive, natural, and never overbearing stylist." USA Today considered the album to be one of 1993's biggest disappointments, writing that "it's a bewildering kitchen-sink jumble of jazz, blues and bad-sounding pop." The Rocket opined that "Anderson is just too damn good for this bland stuff."

Will Friedwald, in A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, labeled the album "a well-crafted [exercise] in acoustic funk."