 In the 1990s Laws resumed his career, playing on the 1991 "Spirituals in Concert" recording by opera singers Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman.His albums on the Music Masters Jazz label—"My Time Will Come" in 1990 and, more particularly, "Storm Then Calm" in 1994—are regarded by critics as a return to the form he exhibited on his early 1970s albums.He also recorded a tribute album to jazz pianist and pop-music vocalist Nat King Cole, "Hubert Laws Remembers the Unforgettable Nat King Cole", which received critical accolades.