Norah Jones

By noreply@blogger.com (Michael K. Willis) Willie comes to life during the two duets…”If I Had You” with Diana Krall and “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with Norah Jones…and though it doesn’t have the spark it might have reached for, American Classic is still a good addition to his other collections of classic songs.

This latest collection features jazz club standards sung by Willie and duets with Diana Krall and labelmate Norah Jones. Last year Nelson collaborated with Wynton Marsalis on the widely acclaimed New Orleans-flavored album 'Two Men With the Blues. ...

 China She is regarded as highly as Lisa Ono and Norah Jones in China with her sexy, powerful voice and her mature understanding of music. But the independent girl can get annoyed with the demands of her album company. A few days ago she said, ...

 NY He wrote all of the songs, except for one, Norah Jones' "Don't Know Why." Very little seems to have changed from that Top 10 list. "I write about love," Robinson says. "Love is everlasting. Everything else, as far as I'm concerned, is trendy. ...

 Australia THIS decade has seen a wave of elegant, sophisticated, jazz and jazz-inflected female singers, and a large audience eager to devour them. The CD sales of Diana Krall, Norah Jones and, to a lesser extent, Madeleine Peyroux tell the story. ...

 UK TYPE OF MUSIC: A fusion of Pop, Jazz & Country. Somewhere between Duffy and Norah Jones. LINE UP: Just me. I am a solo singer-songwriter. WHERE ARE YOU FROM?: I live in Shortlands, Bromley but I am originally from Hamburg in Germany. ...

 NY She is far less palatable than some of the more crossover ready artists that have come along in her wake, such as Norah Jones or even the Billy Holiday imitator Madeline Peyroux, but unlike Jones, in particular, Krall is far more steeped in Jazz ...

 AR BY ELLIS WIDNER Norah Jones' jazz-imbued music, with its elements of blues, pop and country, quickly found an audience for the singersongwriter, propelling her 2002 album Come Away With Me (Blue Note) to the top of the charts. ...

She arrived when Norah Jones was the closest model--they shared the sincerity, the calmness, the photogenic looks--but in some musical universes five years can be a long time. "Pictures" captures Melua veering toward proven pop styles and away from ...

 NC I got married, and we came down to the University of North Texas where I received my master's in jazz. Since then, I've played with Alanis Morissette, Norah Jones and Joel Williams. My music sort of evolved from there. I started to work more, ...

 DC She's the popular Grammy-winning American chanteuse Norah Jones, Anoushka Shankar's older half-sister. That's a long and sometimes painful story the family declines to talk much about. But happily, Miss Jones and Miss Shankar have become good friends ...

 CA - Jean Bartlett, Jean Bartlett He has recorded and/or shared the stage with such folks as Norah Jones, Peter Rowan, Lyle Lovett, Los Lobos and Bela Fleck. Henry Salvia said his job is to stay out of the way. However further investigation reveals he is the piano player for the Johnny ...

 India It is also wonderful to see the close relationship Anoushka has with her sister Norah Jones and how fond Sukanya is of her. Ravi ji too has a warm rapport with Norah and is obviously proud of her achievements and the fact that she has made it on her ...

 Canada She crooned Don't Know Why, by Norah Jones and Ryckman's ears perked up. "He told me my performance was pretty good but it needed some work. I went to one more practice, was told to work on a few things and then later (I was) invited to the tryouts," ...

 New Zealand I felt that way when I first saw Norah Jones. Her phenomenally successful debut album was boring but I had this feeling, when sent along to review her show, that it might be a ripper. She might have a slick jazz backing unit and the songs might come ...

 NY Jones also plays small, usually packed gigs with her country band, The Little Willies. Of Anglo-American and Indian-Bengali descent, Jones was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar in Brooklyn on March 30, 1979. She is related to two sitar virtuosos, ...

 IL “Magpie to the Morning” has no quirks, but ends up sounding more or less like a Norah Jones song. Jones, like Case, has a great voice and is astoundingly good looking, yet much of her musical output classifies as underwhelming: It’s quiet, pleasing and ...

 UK If Worrisome Heart deservedly won over members of the Norah Jones fan club, her latest, again pitched between jazz, blues and pop, is the work of an artist growing in confidence and range. Gardot may only be in her early twenties, but there is a ...

 NY - Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Norah Jones Saturday night used her smoky, sultry voice to sing songs by Wilco, Buck Owens and Johnny Cash as she and ...

New York Times  TX Dallas-raised Norah Jones then walked onstage sporting a strapless dress to duet with Nelson on "You Are My Sunshine," played almost unrecognizably with a Latinesque beat. Jones seemed quite at ease belting this standard - gone was her ballads' usual ...

 United States - This was a fine idea made finer by the inclusion of Norah Jones, whose style can suggest a well-tended middle ground between the home bases of Mr. Marsalis ... Aftermath: Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis and Norah Jones at Jazz ... Houston Press all 5 news articles

The rapper is nominated for "The Eminem Show" but loses to Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me." The latter ties Hill's record for five wins by a female solo artist in one night. If Hill's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" pulled from R&B and soul as much ...

By LindaLee Willie Nelson with Asleep at the Wheel www.livedaily.com Willie Nelson is continuing his non-stop touring ways well into 2009, with a new leg of US dates that stretch into late March. The hard-charging country legend is set to kick off the New Year Friday (1/9) in West Wendover, NV, and spen...

By dukeofstraw@gmail.com (Duke of Straw) If Jessie Baylin is a twangier Norah Jones, than Sonya Kitchell is Jessie’s jazzy sister. Sonya’s 2008 release The Storm was a reviewed by Blogcritics and they did a better job than I ever could. Listen: Sonya Kitchell ∞ For Every Drop More: Guilty Pleasures Week More: Guilty Pleasures

By dukeofstraw@gmail.com (Duke of Straw) If Erin McCarley is Sheryl Crowe then Jessie Baylin’s a twangier Norah Jones. Jessie’s album “Firesite” was a collaborative effort with Jones’ best songwriter Jesse Harris. It includes help from other “it” men like Brett Dennen and Carry Brothers. Listen: Jessie Baylin ∞ Was I On Your Mind

By thedailyrecord Above: Norah Jones strolls through Wilco’s “Jesus, Etc.” at the 2008 Bridge School Benefit concert. When Beyonce sang “a diva is a female version of a hustler” she probably wasn’t thinking of Norah Jones. “Any Other Day” with Wyclef Jean, from “The Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant”

I think Keith Richards is a pretty enjoyable rhythm guitarist and songwriter but as a singer he's hard to listen to over a whole album. Contrary to what the bible of  rock and roll cool makes out, Heroin addiction isn't very good for vocal delivery, let alone the liver, sense of ethics or bank...

By Jess It takes a lot of, um, guts, to name your first single “Ji– in My Pants.” But that’s the plan for the unabashedly raunchy debut album from Lonely Island, the three-man musical wrecking crew led by “Saturday Night Live” It Boy Andy Samberg and his writing buddies, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Scha...

It takes a lot of, um, guts, to name your first single "Ji-- in My Pants." But that's the plan for the unabashedly raunchy debut album from Lonely Island, the three-man musical wrecking crew led by "Saturday Night Live" It Boy Andy Samberg and his writing buddies, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Sch...

Rolling Stone, who recently gave the album four stars, calls Mediocre “one of the strongest debuts from a female singer-songwriter since Norah Jones' Come Away With Me.” I’ll go further. Sariñana's music is better than Norah Jones – not ...

By dukeofstraw@gmail.com (Duke of Straw) Jenny Scheinman plays the violin. She has played the violin in the jazz world for years. Her string strumming has been featured on albums by Norah Jones, Bill Frisell and Leni Stern, to name a few. Only recently has she traded in trading fours for singing folk songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Luc...

By NewBeats(newbeatsmag@yahoo.com) Beth Rowley’s jazz-inflected vocals and eclectic musical approach will inevitably draw comparisons to Norah Jones. While that maybe true, there are also a few characteristics showcased on this wonderful that make this English singer stand out from her American counterpart. For one th...

Norah Jones: "Thinking About You". Disc Two • David Gilmour: "On an Island" • The Good, the Bad & the Queen: "Nature Springs" • The Kooks: "Naïve" • Gnarls Barkley: "Smiley Faces" • The Goo Goo Dolls: "Iris" ...

Confirmed guests of 'Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...' episodes to tape in September at Harlem's world famous Apollo Theater in New York City are: iconic American singer-songwriter James Taylor; jazz legend and winner of this year's Grammy Award for Album of the Year Herbie Hancock; on...

 Australia - Singer Norah Jones plays a young woman who handles romantic trauma by leaving New York to work in diners and bars throughout the country. ... Film review - My Blueberry Nights Melbourne Herald Sun ABC Online all 3 news articles

 Australia - Singer Norah Jones actually acquits herself quite well in playing Elizabeth, an itinerant waitress who embarks on a whistle-stop tour of American eateries ... My Blueberry Nights ABC Online all 2 news articles

By celievamp Music: “I’ve got to see you again” by Norah Jones from the album “Come Away with Me.” Rating: MILD. Word Count: 1703. Summary: Neither truly want to be here yet neither could resist the chance that they might just see each other again. ...

By Tony Dayoub Wong Kar Wai's films live in the space between romantic daydreaming and obsessive longing. His films dwell in the ether that hangs over nostalgia for an ex-lover, where one idealizes all of that person's qualities and flaws fade away. ...

 OH - Conceived as a vehicle for singer Norah Jones after Wong had enjoyed a meeting with her, it is a reworking of one of his short films. ...

By gdaysunshine Monday, February 11, 2008 Norah Jones Splurges on Her Friends photo courtesy of PR Photos/www.prphotos.com Although Norah Jones doesn't really live extravagantly, she does splurge on her friends who struggle with money with gourmet meals and holidays. She said: "I don't really have a ma...

By berg Here's someone I initially dismissed as a Norah Jones clone... but how wrong was I! If you listen to her debut single "Raincoat" which features Dave Koz on saxophone, you'll probably make the same judgment. I did like that song, and Kelly Sweet's voice pleased me so much that I decided to hunt do...

By Zach Freeman With breakout hits such as Norah Jones’ ”Don’t Know Why” and Los Lonely Boys’ “Heaven” playing along with singles from long lines of hits, like Eric Clapton’s “Change the World” and Madonna’s “Ray of Light,” the compilers have managed a ...

By address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid () Multiple Grammy winner, owner of many other respectful awards, legendary jazz pianist and experimentator Herbie Hancock was born in 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. Being a talented kid he started playing the piano at age 7, and being 11 he already played Mozart with the Chicago Symphony at co...

By Pico Whether it's for gigging with Joshua Redman, opening for Steely Dan, sessioning with Norah Jones or forging a new approach to the jazz organ, Sam Yahel deserves your notice. Find out what sets Yahel apart from other Hammond B-3 players and get his insights on why his just-released CD Truth...

Concert Review: Norah Jones proves why she's a top-seller  TX - Norah Jones hit the pop music world five years ago without a lot of fanfare, with a lot of buzz, but not a lot of fanfare. That's the way the pianist/singer ... Norah Jones, M. Ward Austin 360 (subscription) all 2 news articles

By Eric Wilson Tuesday • Norah Jones/M. Ward – pop/vocal/singer-songwriter | 7:30 p.m.at Jones Hall • Beppe Gambetta – folk | 8 p.m. at Mucky Duck • Maserati/*Sharks and Sailors/My Education – rock | 8 p.m. at Walter's on Washington

By Jen Carlson New York singer/songwriter Jesse Harris might be known for his songs performed by others, in 2003 he won the Grammy for Norah Jones’s “Don’t Know Why," and he's also written songs for Willie Nelson, Bright Eyes, Feist, M Ward, and many others. Tonight, however, he'll be belting out his own...

By Eric Wilson Tuesday • Darden Smith – folk/pop | 8 p.m. at the Mucky Duck • Drama for the Masses/Second String Rivals/Another Run/The Lion of Wall-Street/The Midnight Pilots – alternative | 8 p.m. at Walter’s on Washington • Moses Mayfield/Luxurata/Sun Machine – rock | 9 p.m. at the Meridian

It's not as if Norah Jones had never written a song before. On her blockbuster debut, "Come Away With Me," the alluring singer penned three tunes, two of which she wrote all on her own. But it was her interpretation of others' music that really drew listeners — her breakthrough Grammy-winnin...

By Anna Creech Here's an e-card for The Basement's self-titled EP, as well as the song "Do You Think You're Moving." Check out the third installment in the Norah Jones Not Too Late video podcast.