2002 - USA
Jazz Pop, Vocal Jazz
How sweet. I know Norah Jones for years, more than a decade probably, and yet I never took the time to listen to her debut album, almost her most famous and most awarded, Come Away With Me out in 2002. Despite being her most famous work, I don’t think it’s her greatest record but… there’s something to it that makes it absolutely addicting and instantly lovely. Norah Jones gave birth to a wind of fresh air on the vocal jazz scene, opening the 20st century with her mellow voice, more reminiscent of Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone than powerful jazz divas like Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James and Aretha Franklin.
Vocal jazz that feels like a blanket only made of cotton. It’s tender to your ears, always, all along. 14 songs is quite a lot for a vocal jazz album but they all feel so honest that you won’t get bored anytime. With the two greatest songs Don’t Know Why and Come Away With Me, her tone moves us like a sweet kiss of music. The instrumentation is refined and always remain somewhere behind her voice, so Norah Jones can take the entire place under the spotlight. And it makes no doubt she deserves that. When the last song, The Nearness of You, ends, Norah Jones’ voice is now a part of your life. It’s not a surprise to see her featured in many hip hop songs (with OutKast, Q-Tip, Logic, etc.), because only her can create than feeling of sweet bliss. Only her, and that’s why I won’t ever stop listening to her music as long as my life goes on.
Vocal jazz that feels like a blanket only made of cotton. It’s tender to your ears, always, all along. 14 songs is quite a lot for a vocal jazz album but they all feel so honest that you won’t get bored anytime. With the two greatest songs Don’t Know Why and Come Away With Me, her tone moves us like a sweet kiss of music. The instrumentation is refined and always remain somewhere behind her voice, so Norah Jones can take the entire place under the spotlight. And it makes no doubt she deserves that. When the last song, The Nearness of You, ends, Norah Jones’ voice is now a part of your life. It’s not a surprise to see her featured in many hip hop songs (with OutKast, Q-Tip, Logic, etc.), because only her can create than feeling of sweet bliss. Only her, and that’s why I won’t ever stop listening to her music as long as my life goes on.