Home » Search Center » Results: Norah Jones
Results for "Norah Jones"
Martin Taylor/Andreas Varady: Belfast, Ireland, November 4, 2011
by Ian Patterson
Martin Taylor/Andreas VaradyBlack BoxBelfast, IrelandNovember 4, 2011 It was a mouth-watering prospect and no mistake; Martin Taylor, the guitarist's guitarist, paired with 14-year-old, six-string sensation Andreas Varady, the youngest ever headliner at London's Ronnie Scott's. Taylor--of whom Jeff Beck said: “he out-shreds us all"--came to prominence when he began an 11-year ...
Bridge School Lineup Changes
JENNY LEWIS & DIANA KRALL OUT, NORAH JONES, DEVENDRA BANHART, JIMMY FALLON IN Jenny Lewis, of Jenny and Johnny fame, is out of the lineup, and all of her fall dates, due to a family emergency and Diana Krall won't be able to perform due to a torn ACL. However, comic and late-night TV host Jimmy ...
The Little Willies: Fall Dates, New Album January 2012
BAND PLANS SHOWS AT BROOKLYN'S BELL HOUSE (10/26) & WORLD CAFE LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA (10/28) The Little Willies have reconvened to record For The Good Times, the rousing follow-up to their eponymous 2006 debut, which will be released by EMI's Milking Bull Records in January 2012. The band will be previewing songs from the new album ...
Take Five With Laura Ainsworth
by AAJ Staff
Meet Laura Ainsworth: I was born in Los Angeles but came to Dallas as a tot when my dad, jazz sax/clarinetist Billy Ainsworth, relocated to become a part of the growing commercial recording industry. Came up in the music biz (details to follow!). Graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Radio-TV-Film. ...
Vocalist Dara Tucker Releases "Soul Said Yes"- Examines Common Threads of Soul in Jazz, Gospel and New Originals and Features 7-String Guitarist Charlie Hunter and Drummer Derrek Phillips
Jazz Vocalist and Songwriter Dara Tucker has released her second CD Soul Said Yes, a collection of music that examines the common thread of soul in Dara's gospel roots, jazz standards and in newer classics reworked in distinct arrangements. “Soul, to me, is an audible expression of the human experience," Tucker said. “As this album reflects ...
Sam Yahel: From Sun to Sun
by Dan McClenaghan
Sam Yahel made his name in jazz as an organist, notably on the excellent Truth and Beauty (Origin Records, 2009). In addition to a handful of well-received CDs under his own name, Yahel has worked his B3 Hammond magic on recordings by vocalist Norah Jones and saxophonist Joshua Redman. So it was something of a risk ...
Hoagy Carmichael's Music This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band welcomes piano legend Dick Hyman and vocalist Stephanie Nakasian for a concert of Hoagy Carmichael's music, recorded live at the historic Filoli Gardens near San Francisco. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk ...
Quentin Moore: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Chris M. Slawecki
Much has been recently written about the “graying" of jazz and the audience who listens to it, young musicians seem to continually discover (and rediscover) its enduring value--and not just the value of jazz as its own standalone genre, but the benefit of incorporating aspects of jazz, such as improvisation and arrangement, into music of every ...
Hope Waits' Debut Album Available July 26 on Spann Records
Introducing Hope Waits—the debut release from enigmatic singer/songwriter Hope Waits—was released digitally July 26th on Spann Records. The debut recording from the Louisiana native brews up a sonic gumbo that will satisfy audiences' appetites for impassioned and beautifully handcrafted jazz-tinged blues music. In addition to the physical album's 12 tracks produced by Peter Malick (Norah Jones), ...
Guilty Pleasures: Norah Jones - Feels Like Home (2004)
By Mark Saleski Smack in the middle of the initial Norah Jones explosion (remember? When it seemed like the radio was tryin' to brainwash you by playing “Don't Know Why" every 20 minutes or so ... and you kept thinkin' “gee, aren't there any other songs on that CD?) it was pretty easy to pick up ...
