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What does a shrug sound like? On "Don't Know Why,” the opening track of her debut effort, Norah Jones suggests a few possibilities. The first time she sings the title phrase, she gives it a touch of indifference, the classic tossed-off movie-star shrug. Her tone shifts slightly when she hits the chorus, to convey twinges of sadness; here the casual phrasing could be an attempt to shake off a sharp memory. Later, she shrugs in a way that conveys resignation, possibly regret—she's replaying a scene, trying to understand what happened.
Those shrugs and shadings, tools deployed by every jazz vocalist of the 1950s, are inescapable throughout Come Away With Me—in part because everything surrounding Jones' voice is so chill. There's room for her to emote, and room for gently cresting piano and organ chords. Unlike so many of her contemporaries, Jones knows instinctively how much (or how little!) singer the song needs. The secret of this record, which came out when Jones was 22, is its almost defiant approachability: It is calm, and open, and gentle, music for a lazy afternoon in a porch swing. As transfixing covers of Hank Williams' "Cold Cold Heart” and Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You” make clear, Jones thinks about contours and shadows when she sings; her storytelling depends as much on the scene and the atmosphere as the narrative.
And Jones applies the same understatement to the original songs here, which weave together elements of country, pop, jazz and torch balladry in inventive ways. It's one thing to render an old tune with modern cleverness, a skill Jones had honed as a solo pianist/singer before she was discovered. It's quite another to transform an original tune, like Jesse Harris' "Don't Know Why,” into something that sounds ageless and eternal, like a standard. Jones does that, over and over, using just shrugs and implications, rarely raising her voice much above a whisper. © Tom Moon/Qobuz
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Arif Mardin, Producer - Jay Newland, Producer - Jesse Harris, ComposerLyricist, AcousticGuitar - Norah Jones, Producer, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Dan Rieser, DrumKit - Lee Alexander, BassVocalist
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Jay Newland, Producer, MixingEngineer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Engineer - Norah Jones, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist - Lee Alexander, ComposerLyricist, BassVocalist - Kevin Breit, AcousticGuitar - Craig Street, Producer - Brandon Mason, RecordingSecondEngineer - Todd Parker, MixingSecondEngineer - Brian Blade, DrumKit
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Arif Mardin, Producer, MixingEngineer - Hank Williams, Composer - Jay Newland, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Lee Alexander, BassVocalist - Adam Levy, ElectricGuitar - Todd Parker, MixingSecondEngineer - Dick Kondas, RecordingSecondEngineer
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Jay Newland, Producer, MixingEngineer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Engineer - Norah Jones, Producer, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Lee Alexander, ComposerLyricist, BassVocalist - Kevin Breit, AcousticGuitar, ElectricGuitar - Craig Street, Producer - Brandon Mason, RecordingSecondEngineer - Todd Parker, MixingSecondEngineer - Brian Blade, DrumKit
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Arif Mardin, Producer, MixingEngineer - Jay Newland, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Jesse Harris, AcousticGuitar - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Dan Rieser, DrumKit - Lee Alexander, BassVocalist - Adam Levy, ElectricGuitar - Dick Kondas, RecordingSecondEngineer
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Arif Mardin, Producer, MixingEngineer - Jay Newland, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Jesse Harris, ComposerLyricist, AcousticGuitar - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Lee Alexander, BassVocalist - Adam Levy, ElectricGuitar - Dick Kondas, RecordingSecondEngineer - Brian Blade, DrumKit - Sam Yahel, HammondB3
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
John D. Loudermilk, Composer - Arif Mardin, Producer - Jay Newland, Producer - Adam Rogers, Guitar - Norah Jones, Producer, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Mark Birkey, RecordingSecondEngineer - Dan Rieser, DrumKit - Lee Alexander, BassVocalist - Sam Yahel, HammondB3
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Arif Mardin, Producer, MixingEngineer - Jay Newland, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Norah Jones, Vocalist, MainArtist - Lee Alexander, ComposerLyricist, BassVocalist - Rob Burger, Organ - Adam Levy, AcousticGuitar - Dick Kondas, RecordingSecondEngineer - Brian Blade, DrumKit - Tony Scherr, Guitar, AcousticGuitar
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Arif Mardin, Producer, MixingEngineer - Jay Newland, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Jesse Harris, ComposerLyricist, AcousticGuitar - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Lee Alexander, BassVocalist - Adam Levy, ElectricGuitar - Dick Kondas, RecordingSecondEngineer - Brian Blade, Percussion, DrumKit - Jenny Scheinman, Violin
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Arif Mardin, Producer, MixingEngineer - Jay Newland, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Lee Alexander, ComposerLyricist, BassVocalist - Rob Burger, Accordion - Adam Levy, AcousticGuitar - Dick Kondas, RecordingSecondEngineer - Brian Blade, DrumKit - J.C. Hopkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Arif Mardin, Producer, MixingEngineer, StringArranger - Jay Newland, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Jesse Harris, ComposerLyricist, AcousticGuitar - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Dan Rieser, DrumKit - Lee Alexander, BassVocalist - Adam Levy, ElectricGuitar - Todd Parker, MixingSecondEngineer - Dick Kondas, RecordingSecondEngineer - Sam Yahel, HammondB3 - Jenny Scheinman, Violin
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Arif Mardin, Producer, MixingEngineer - Jay Newland, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Jesse Harris, AcousticGuitar - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Lee Alexander, BassVocalist - Adam Levy, ElectricGuitar - Todd Parker, MixingSecondEngineer - Dick Kondas, RecordingSecondEngineer - Brian Blade, DrumKit
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Jay Newland, Producer, MixingEngineer - Jesse Harris, Composer, AcousticGuitar - S. Husky Hoskulds, Engineer - Norah Jones, Composer, Producer, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Lee Alexander, BassVocalist - Kevin Breit, ElectricGuitar - Craig Street, Producer - Brandon Mason, RecordingSecondEngineer - Todd Parker, MixingSecondEngineer - Bill Frisell, ElectricGuitar - Kenny Wollensen, DrumKit
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Arif Mardin, Producer, MixingEngineer - Ned Washington, Composer - HOAGY CARMICHAEL, Composer - Jay Newland, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist - Todd Parker, MixingSecondEngineer - Dick Kondas, RecordingSecondEngineer
℗ 2012 Capitol Records LLC
Album review
What does a shrug sound like? On "Don't Know Why,” the opening track of her debut effort, Norah Jones suggests a few possibilities. The first time she sings the title phrase, she gives it a touch of indifference, the classic tossed-off movie-star shrug. Her tone shifts slightly when she hits the chorus, to convey twinges of sadness; here the casual phrasing could be an attempt to shake off a sharp memory. Later, she shrugs in a way that conveys resignation, possibly regret—she's replaying a scene, trying to understand what happened.
Those shrugs and shadings, tools deployed by every jazz vocalist of the 1950s, are inescapable throughout Come Away With Me—in part because everything surrounding Jones' voice is so chill. There's room for her to emote, and room for gently cresting piano and organ chords. Unlike so many of her contemporaries, Jones knows instinctively how much (or how little!) singer the song needs. The secret of this record, which came out when Jones was 22, is its almost defiant approachability: It is calm, and open, and gentle, music for a lazy afternoon in a porch swing. As transfixing covers of Hank Williams' "Cold Cold Heart” and Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You” make clear, Jones thinks about contours and shadows when she sings; her storytelling depends as much on the scene and the atmosphere as the narrative.
And Jones applies the same understatement to the original songs here, which weave together elements of country, pop, jazz and torch balladry in inventive ways. It's one thing to render an old tune with modern cleverness, a skill Jones had honed as a solo pianist/singer before she was discovered. It's quite another to transform an original tune, like Jesse Harris' "Don't Know Why,” into something that sounds ageless and eternal, like a standard. Jones does that, over and over, using just shrugs and implications, rarely raising her voice much above a whisper. © Tom Moon/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:06
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Norah Jones
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Blue Note Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2012 Capitol Records, LLC
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