Norah Jones

Norah Jones Born: March 30, 1979 in New York, NY
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Torrid vocalist and pianist Norah Jones improved her unequaled conflate of jazz and time-honoured voiced pop with hints of bluesy country-bred and present-day folk due in king-size part to her incomparable raising. Born March 30, 1979, in New York City, the daughter of Ravi Shankar restfully grew up in Texas with her overprotect. While she e'er recovered the euphony of Billie Holiday and Bill Evans both provocative and consolatory, she didn't rattling explore jazz until ministrant Dallas' Booker T. Washington High Schoolhouse for the Playacting and Ocular Arts. During high schooling, Jones won the Down Beat Educatee Euphony Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist and Best Avant-garde Composing in 1996, and merited a endorse Best Jazz Vocalist laurels in 1997. Putt her voiced talents on the back burner, Jones worked toward earning a arcdegree in jazz pianissimo at the University of Northwest Texas for two years earlier acceptive a admirer's propose of a summery sublease in Greenwich Hamlet during the summery of 1999. Tho' she amply well-meaning to riposte to college that fall, the lure of the folk coffeehouses and jazz clubs proven too hobnail and she soon became inspired to publish her own songs. Jones appeared regularly with the trip-hop-electronica band Wax Poetical and accumulated her own aggroup approximately songwriters Jesse Harris (guitar) and Lee Alexanders (bass), with Dan Rieser on drums.
In October of 2000, the aggroup registered a fistful of demos for Blue Note Records and on the forcefulness of these recordings, Jones sign-language to the jazz marque in beforehand 2001. Stalking an appearing on Charlie Huntsman's Songs from the Linear Playground, Jones worn-out much of 2001 playacting live with Huntsman's communal and impermanent on corporeal for her unveiling. Come Away with Me, canned by Craig Street (Cassandra Wilson, Manhattan Transference, k.d. lang) and fabled manufacturer Arif Mardin (Aretha Franklin, Soiled Springfield, the Bee Gees), was discharged in primeval 2002 and garnered much unrestricted tending. The compounding of her hitting looker and the fact that she was the daughter of an internationally notable instrumentalist situated Jones in the clunky locating of defensive her euphony from those who pink-slipped her as added pretty face (the same contestation used by those conflicting to Diana Krall) and/or additional equitation the coattails of her philharmonic crowned heritage (see Natalie Cole, Miki Coltrane, Corey Parker). Tho' not by any debase a "jazz" album (the marque chose to call it "jazz-informed"), it featured jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and seance drummer Brian Blade, and indicated a new counseling for Blue Note polysynthetic jazz esthetics and endowment with a pop sensitiveness. Come Away with Me eventually went multiple-pmultiple, merchandising 18000000 copies comprehensive and fetching Jones octad Grammy awards.
In 2004, Norah Jones discharged her extremely hoped-for adopt-uadopt album, Feels Like Home. Coupling once again with manufacturer Arif Mardin, Jones pursued a akin overture to Come Away with Me, commixture '70s vocalist/vocalist-svocalist tracks with megrims, nonclassical, and her own easygoing take on forte-piano jazz. In 2003, Norah Jones played in a grouping called the Littlest Willies along with Lee Alexanders (bass), Richard Julian (guitar/vocals), Dan Rieser (drums), and Jim Campilongo (guitar), playacting covers of classic American euphony like Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. This one-off functioning ultimately revolved into scattered shows at the venue whenever their unshared schedules would countenance, lento incorporating underived songs into their set along the way. In time, the Elfin Willies began considering the liberation of a live album, but alternatively offend up documenting their well-grounded in the recording studio. Milking Bull Records issued the resulting self-titled album in March 2006. Late in the year the unwedded "Thinking Roughly You" proclaimed her recurrence to her solo career. It landed on the album Not Too Late, discharged in primaeval 2007.

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