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Norah Jones to Release "The Fall" on Blue Note Records
Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will release The Fall, her fourth studio album on Blue Note Records on November 17, 2009. Jones wrote nearly all of the songs in the past two years since completing tours in support of her 2007 global chart-topping, U.S. double-platinum album Not Too Late. ...
Norah Jones New CD November
Sometimes a change can do you good. So thinks Norah Jones. The as-yet-untitled fourth studio album promises to be guitar-driven, roots-rocky (collaborators include Ryan Adams and Will Sheff of Okkervil River) and maybe a bit rougher than her previous velvety fare. Similarly promising change is John Mayer, whose new “Battle Studies," also set for November, will ...
The Jazz Session #80: Sam Yahel
Listen Sam Yahel is best known as an organist who has performed and recorded with Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Lizz Wright, Ryan Kisor, Madeleine Peyroux and many others. He started as a pianist, though, a side he showcases on his new album, Hometown (Posi-Tone, 2009). In this interview, Yahel talks about his decision to ...
Norah Jones New Album w/ Ryan Adams, Okkervil and Harris
NORAH JONES TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ON BLUE NOTE RECORDS IN NOVEMBER 2009 Album Features New Band Members and Songwriting Collaborations with Ryan Adams, Okkervil River's Will Sheff, and Jesse Harris Norah Jones Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will release her fourth studio album on Blue Note Records this ...
Leonisa Ardizzone: A Constellation in the East
by C. Michael Bailey
"For unto whomsoever much is given, of her shall be much required..." Renaissance men and women still exist. For example, the intrepid Dr. Leonisa Ardizzone is the executive director of The Salvadore Center, a non-profit educational organization centered in New York city dedicated to educating young students and their teachers about architecture, structural engineering and urban ...
Take Five With Guitares Cinematiques
by AAJ Staff
Meet Guitares Cinématiques: Studied physics, classical guitar, and foreign languages in college. I was always a huge fan of the group Oregon. Instrument(s):Classical guitar.Teachers and/or influences?My early guitar teachers were Gene Watson and Mario Abril. I attended the FSU School of Music and studied with Bruce ...
Sam Yahel: Hometown
by J Hunter
Sam Yahel has made the grade. His signature Hammond B3 sound--appearing on both his own work and on recordings by Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, and Norah Jones--has identified him as one of the players that will take Jimmy Smith's favorite instrument deep into the 21st century. So what does Yahel do on Hometown, his fifth disc ...
Willie Nelson to Release "American Classic"
On August 25, 2009, legendary singer Willie Nelson will be releasing American Classic, his first album of standards since his landmark 1978 masterpiece 'Stardust', and his solo debut for Blue Note Records. Produced by Tommy LiPuma, American Classic features special guest appearances by Norah Jones and Diana Krall, string arrangements by Johnny Mandel, and a top ...
Two Views of Beth McDonald
by C. Michael Bailey
With singer/songwriter Beth McDonald, music is intensely personal. All aspects of music--performance, composition, arrangement, song choice and delivery--are branded with McDonald's vision. Her liner notes are full of mention of her family, motherhood and love. Her style is 1920s-1940s standards waxing nostalgic (yet still freshly modern) of the simpler, more wholesome things in life. This feeling ...
Blue Note at 70
by Joel Roberts
No label in jazz can match the history and legacy of Blue Note Records. Since its founding in New York in 1939 by German emigre Alfred Lion, Blue Note has been associated with an amazing assortment of jazz luminaries including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, ...
