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Norah Jones Biography
Sultry vocalist and pianist Norah Jones developed her unique
blend of jazz and traditional vocal pop with hints of bluesy country
and contemporary folk due in large part to her unique upbringing. Born
March 30, 1979, in New York City, the daughter of Ravi Shankar quietly
grew up in Texas with her mother. While she always found the music of
Billie Holiday and Bill Evans both intriguing and comforting, she
didn't really explore jazz until attending Dallas' Booker T. Washington
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. During high school,
Jones won the Down Beat Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist and
Best Original Composition in 1996, and earned a second Best Jazz
Vocalist award in 1997. Putting her vocal talents on the back burner,
Jones worked toward earning a degree in jazz piano at the University of
North Texas for two years before accepting a friend's offer of a summer
sublet in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1999. Although she
fully intended to return to college that fall, the lure of the folk
coffeehouses and jazz clubs proved too strong and she soon became
inspired to write her own songs. Jones appeared regularly with the
trip-hop-electronica band Wax Poetic and assembled her own group around
songwriters Jesse Harris (guitar) and Lee Alexander (bass), with Dan
Rieser on drums.
In October of 2000, the group recorded a handful of demos for Blue Note
Records and on the strength of these recordings, Jones signed to the
jazz label in early 2001. Following an appearance on Charlie Hunter's
Songs from the Analog Playground, Jones spent much of 2001 performing
live with Hunter's group and working on material for her debut. Come
Away with Me, recorded by Craig Street (Cassandra Wilson, Manhattan
Transfer, k.d. lang) and legendary producer Arif Mardin (Aretha
Franklin, Dusty Springfield, the Bee Gees), was released in early 2002
and garnered much public attention. The combination of her striking
beauty and the fact that she was the daughter of an internationally
renowned musician placed Jones in the awkward position of defending her
music from those who dismissed her as another pretty face (the same
argument used by those opposed to Diana Krall) and/or another riding
the coattails of her musical royal heritage (see Natalie Cole, Miki
Coltrane, Corey Parker). Although not by any stretch a jazz album
(the label chose to call it jazz-informed ), it featured jazz
guitarist Bill Frisell and session drummer Brian Blade, and indicated a
new direction for Blue Note combining jazz aesthetics and talent with a
pop sensibility. Come Away with Me eventually went multi-platinum,
selling 18 million copies worldwide and winning Jones eight Grammy
awards.
In 2004, Jones released her highly anticipated follow-up album, Feels
Like Home. Pairing once again with producer Arif Mardin, Jones pursued
a similar approach to Come Away with Me, mixing '70s
singer/songwriter-style tracks with blues, country, and her own mellow
take on piano jazz. In 2003, Jones played in a group called the Little
Willies along with Lee Alexander (bass), Richard Julian
(guitar/vocals), Dan Rieser (drums), and Jim Campilongo (guitar),
playing covers of classic American music like Hank Williams, Willie
Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. This one-off performance ultimately
turned into sporadic shows at the venue whenever their individual
schedules would allow, slowly incorporating original songs into their
set along the way. In time, the Little Willies began considering the
release of a live album, but instead wound up documenting their sound
in the recording studio. Milking Bull Records issued the resultant
self-titled album in March 2006. Late in the year the single Thinking
About You announced her return to her solo career. It landed on the
album Not Too Late, released in early 2007. ~ Zac Johnson, All Music
Guide
Written by Zac Johnson