Norah Jones appeared destined for stardom even from her toddlerhood onwards; singing in church choirs, taking piano lessons and even dabbling with alto sax were just part of her repertoire.
After two years at the University of North Texas, Norah took her talents to New York City. Her debut album Come Away With Me sent shockwaves through the music world with its combination of acoustic pop, jazz and country influences.
Her earliest musical influences
Norah Jones grew up exposed to various genres of music thanks to her parents: American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. Norah attributes this broad musical repertoire to her mother’s record collection for shaping her unique tastes.
Jones made her debut album debut with Come Away With Me in 2002 – an acoustic pop record featuring talented New York musicians that showcased her abilities as an accomplished singer, pianist, and composer. This record showcased Jones’ abilities as both composer and vocalist.
Norah would often start working on songs with her collaborators — bassist Lee Alexander, drummer Dan Rieser and guitarists Jesse Harris and Adam Levy — starting from nothing and jamming garage band-style until dense harmonies emerged.
Her debut album Come Away With Me
Come Away With Me was Norah Jones’ debut record to reach gold status, featuring soft jazz notes to keep listeners intrigued. Piano and voice serve as Norah Jones’ primary instruments on this album.
This deluxe edition of Norah Jones’ 2002 classic comes as four-LP and three-CD set with exclusive session photos and liner notes from her herself, along with 180-gram analogue vinyl pressing that sounds wonderful.
This release offers fans a fresh new perspective of the classic album that helped Norah win eight Grammy awards and become a household name. Her gentle vocals and soothing ballads have never sounded better!
Her second album The Fall
Jones followed her debut – which won eight Grammy awards – with more engaging releases such as Feels Like Home and The Fall; each time, however, whispers began circulating about what some critics perceived to be limited artistic potential in her efforts.
Her signature jazzy voice made her an instantaneous success, yet the albums she created never succumbed to formulaic commercialism.
With her second album, she explored new styles and assembled an international team of collaborators to expand her repertoire. She hired Ryan Adams and Okkervil River’s Will Sheff as songwriters, producers Jacquire King (known for working with Modest Mouse, Kings of Leon and Tom Waits) and engineer Jesse Harris (who had also collaborated on her previous record) while engineer Jesse Harris helped produce an accomplished album that stood apart from its predecessors. The result was an accomplished record that marked an exciting departure.
Her third album Day Breaks
Norah Jones had already explored various genres – hazy indie pop, country and rock – on her albums since Come Away With Me became a smash hit sophistipop hit, so this set from Eli Wolf marks a return to original material with reduced ballads featuring Wayne Shorter and Lonnie Smith adding subtle musicianship that showcased Norah’s melancholic calm voice.
The album‘s emotive lyrics evoke jet streams, Saturn’s rings and uncharted worlds; with repeated lyrical elements and smoke-wreathed crooning helping songs resonate lyrically and emotionally – producing an intimate record with soothing yet profound songs that were an overwhelming commercial and critical success.
Her fourth album Little Broken Hearts
Norah Jones is an accomplished classically trained pianist with an elegant voice and passion for music, who has won multiple awards. She has appeared in movies such as Titanic and is also an accomplished singer/songwriter.
Little Broken Hearts, her latest album, is an eclectic blend of styles; including country, jazz and pop music. It explores various emotions with songs about life’s ups and downs like ‘That’s Life’ which addresses moving on after an emotionally taxing period in her life – it ends on an upbeat note featuring just piano and vocals for closure.
Her fifth album Foreverly
Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones found themselves in an unusual position in 2013. Both artists enjoyed massively successful careers outside of mainstream pop music – yet both still possessed that distinctive Americana aesthetic in their songs.
Their collaboration, Foreverly, is a track-by-track tribute to The Everly Brothers that pays due respect, though may become repetitive by album‘s end.
There are some standout tracks on this album, like ‘Roving Gambler’ with its lively beat and retro freestyling harmonica riffs – this will definitely appeal to fans of both artists, while possibly opening up the Everlys to an entirely new audience.