Come Away With Me - Norah Jones

I am a bit of a fan of female singers, but there are not many that grab my attention these days, but when I heard Norah Jones on VH1, I did like the sound of her husky vocals, even though I had only heard “Don’t Know Why”, after that I kept meaning to buy her album but for some reason it took me ages to get around to it, so when I seen her album “Come Away With Me” in the 3 for £20 offer at HMV, I did indulge. Last weekend was the first time I actually had a proper chance to listen to it and as a result I cannot stop playing it. It’s easy to see how, following it’s release in February 2003, it has notched up a ...  Read the complete review

Norah Jones - Come away with me This album cost me a princely sum of 50p from Barnsley Sunday Market. The album, released in 2002 is still riding high in the jazz charts, and the only track I had heard prior to buying this album was 'Don't know why' which is certainly in the jazz style of ballads, and she has a jazzy voice to match. Five Grammy's, twenty million plus sales, this has gotta be a cracking album right? Coupled with the fact that she is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and sister of Anoushka I was counting my blessings, so it was with some excitement I parted with my 50p. I am a strange bod sometimes and ...  Read the complete review

I have great difficulty finding contemporary female singers that I like. I find they are either teenage Barbie dolls like Brittney spears and Christina Aguillera (sp) or how many notes can I put in one word wonders such as Celine Dion and Whitney Houston. I tend to listen to older sixties singers such as Dusty Springfield , Aretha Franklin and Carole King. Imagine my delight whilst listening to BBC Radio 2 to hear the song ?Don?t Know Why? by Norah Jones. I was instantly transfixed by her smooth, smoky laid back vocals. Yes here was a new talent to be reckoned with and a modern female vocalist I actually liked. Her album Come Away With Me was on the top of my ...  Read the complete review

It’s all over television and the press: Norah Jones (daughter of Ravi Shankar, for those “in the know”) is THE new star. I am sure you will have heard/seen the ad for her debut album and you might now be a little intrigued. WHO IS THIS GIRL? Well, at just 23, she is no stranger to performing. She played her first gig on her 16th birthday at her local coffeehouse. While still in high school, she won awards for her composition and vocal skills. She then studied jazz piano at the University of North Texas. Back then she used to perform with a band called “Laszlo”. Afterwards she began singing with a band called ...  Read the complete review

Every now and again, an album comes along that everyone has to have or seems to own. When I was first really getting into music "Brothers in Arms" was one such album and through school there were two or three more. Even afterwards, away from peer pressure, they still appeared from time to time. You know the ones - Guns and Roses' first album, Automatic for the People by R.E.M. or Play by Moby to name a few. 'Come Away with Me' by Norah Jones is another such album, and despite being bought as a present for my parents, it's something I play myself quite often. Norah Jones was born on 30th March 1979 and is the daughter of sitar ...  Read the complete review