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Brooklyn-based artist Norah Jones has sung and played piano professionally since her teens; Come Away With Me reveals her estimable skills as a songwriter and arranger. Norah Jones was born March 30, 1979 in New York City. Jones moved to the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, Texas when she was four; she began singing in church choirs at the age of five, commenced piano lessons two years later, and briefly played saxophone in junior high. When Jones was 15, she enrolled in Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. (Soul singer Erykah Badu and trumpeter Roy Hargrove are also Washington alumni). While still in high school, she won the Down Beat Student Music Awards for ?Best Jazz Vocalist? and ?Best Original Composition? in 1996, and earned a second SMA for ?Best Jazz Vocalist? in 1997. After graduation, Jones entered the University of North Texas--nationally renowned for its music programs--where she majored in jazz piano. She also sang with a band call Laszlo, playing what she describes as ?dark, jazzy rock.? In 1999, Jones moved to New York City and appeared regularly with the funk-fusion band Wax Poetic (now signed to Atlantic). But she soon assembled her own group with Jesse Harris Lee Alexander and Dan Rieser. In October 2000 this lineup recorded a selection of demos for Blue Note Records, which signed her in January 2001. Jones sang two songs (Roxy Music?s ?More Than This? and ?Day Is Done? by Nick Drake) on guitarist Charlie Hunter?s Blue Note album Songs from the Analog Playground, and has frequently performed live with Hunter?s group. Come Away With Me blends jazz, soul, country and folk-pop. Jones, on vocals, piano and Wurlitzer electric piano, is backed by a skilled supporting cast: Bassist Lee Alexander, drummer Dan Rieser, and guitarist Jesse Harris and Adam Levy are among the New York musicians with whom Jones has been playing live since fall 2000. Her special guests on Come Away With Me include Bill Frisell (guitar), Kevin Breit (Guitar), Brian Blade (drums) Jenny Scheinman (violin), Rob Burger (accordion), Sam Yahel (Hammond B-3 organ) and Kenny Wollesen (drums).

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Smart. Pretty. Talented. did I say TALENT.. hard to find that in ANY genre nowadays since if you sound like shit they can always remaster it in the studio so you sound wonderful. Which is another conspiracy against concert goers, since you expect some of these musicians to actually SOUND good and they don't. Anyway back to Norah.. just download ONE song.. I'm sure you will have heard worse somewhere.

Big Rob

i downloded some songs - VERY nice - i might even BUY her cd - MIGHT...