But early this year, she decided to take another listen to the literally dozens of discarded tracks laid down in the studio. Eventually, they were collected as the EP Begin Again, released in 2019. But not necessarily in an album format the individual songs would be released digitally every few months or so throughout the year. In 2018 Jones went into the studio to record a series of one-off “singles” of sorts she wanted to record a variety of material, and with a variety of backup group scenarios. Each featured only Jones’ piano and her voice, and they really highlighted her remarkable vocal range and excellent piano playing - making me almost wish the bulk of the songs had been more representative of this style.
Jones represents kind of a love/hate situation for me while I actually liked the first couple of albums, I actually really liked the closing tunes on each album, which were covers of Duke Ellington and Hoagy Charmichael tunes.
The core performers on her first few albums were guitarist Jesse Harris and bassist Lee Alexander, who also wrote or co-wrote most of the songs, and gave those albums a very enjoyable vibe. Anyway, the record sold over 27 million copies worldwide, and laid the groundwork for all of her successive albums. Though on the Blue Note label, it wasn’t really jazz, but most of the poppish tunes had something of a jazzy sensibility. Norah Jones surprised a lot of people when she first burst onto the scene in 2002, sweeping most of the Grammy awards with her debut album, Come Away With Me.
0 kommentar(er)
