Ernestine Anderson Avoids Foreclose

Jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson's home has been saved from foreclosure — for now, thanks, in part, to music legend Quincy Jones and contemporary jazz artist Diane Schuur.

More than $43,000 poured in — including donations from Mr. Jones and Ms. Schuur — after recent news stories about the Seattle jazz legend's financial woes, Carmen Gayton, a friend of Ms. Anderson's family, said.

The money to stop the foreclosure was delivered Monday, Ms. Gayton added. She declined to say how much Mr. Jones and Ms. Schuur had donated.

But Ms. Gayton said Ms. Anderson, 79, needs more money in order to be able to decrease the monthly payments on her principal loan balance of nearly $460,000. Ms. Gayton added that a financial manager is working pro bono to look for ways to restructure Ms. Anderson's loan, which has monthly payments of more than $4,400.

Ms. Anderson, who once sang with the likes of Jones and Ray Charles, was more than $30,000 in arrears in payments and penalties last week.

After 30 albums and four Grammy nominations, Ms. Anderson is one of Seattle's most respected names in music, part of a jazz scene that flourished in the city well before grunge and alternative rock took the stage.