Product Description

Debut album by the Texan pianist whose music encompasses aspects of jazz, soul, blues and folk. Original compositions are featured alongside cover versions of material by artists such as Hank Williams and Hoagy Carmichael. The single, 'Don't Know Why', is included.

Track Listing

1. I Don't Know Why
2. Seven Years
3. Cold Cold Heart
4. Feelin' The Same Way
5. Come Away With Me
6. Shoot The Moon
7. Turn Me On
8. Lonestar
9. I've Got To See You Again
10. If I Were A Painter
11. One Flight Down
12. Nightingale
13. The Long Day Is Over
14. The Nearness Of You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #622 in Music
• Released on: 2002-03-04
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
In Come Away with Me, it is not just the timbre of Norah Jones's voice that is mature beyond her years. Her assured phrasing and precise time are more often found in older singers as well. She is instantly recognisable, blending intimations of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone without sounding like anyone but herself. Any way you slice it, she is a singer to be reckoned with. Her readings of the Hank Williams classic, "Cold Cold Heart" and Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You" are worth the price of the CD. Jones's own material, while not bad, pales a bit next to masterpieces such as these. They might have fared better had she and producer Arif Mardin opted for some livelier arrangements, taking better advantage of brilliant sidemen such as Bill Frisell, Kevin Breit and Brian Blade; or if the tunes had simply been given less laconic performances. Jones has all the tools; what will come with experience, and some careful listening to artists like JJ Cale and Shirley Horn, is the knack of remaining low-key without being sleepy--sometimes less is not, in fact, more. --Michael Ross

Customer Reviews

Nightingale!!!
Well, I have just worked my way through 70 reviews of this wonderful album, and did not see a single mention of what, to me, is the best track on here, so I thought I would try to redress the balance.
The song in question is the magnificent Nightingale, one of Norah's own compositions. I can remember the first time I listened to this album, it was on in the background whilst we were cooking or something, and the album slipped by beautifully in the background, but when it came to Nightingale, my ears really pricked up and I had to go back and listen to it again.
To me, everything about the song is fantastic, from the vocals to the unusual drumming to the absolute highlight of the song - the guitar solo. I am a bit of a guitar solo nut, and enjoy all genres of music from the heaviest metal, to jazz to country and plain old rock, and to me, the solo in this song is as good as any I have heard. The tone of the guitar is amazing, and the solo is composed beautifully, perfectly fitting into the song, which is what a good solo should do.
Anyway, I am glad I have got that off my chest now.
The rest of the album is marvellous, too, especially Come Away With Me, one of the most relaxing songs ever.

Seduction on a silver platter
Norah has the most seductive vocal delivery I have ever heard in all my years of buying recorded music. The first time I noticed such things was when I heard the Supremes, led by the voluptuously skinny Dianna Ross, doing "Baby Love" on TOTP half a century ago. Since then, I have moved on to Julie London, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson and sundry other sultries but none of them is a patch on Norah in the seductivenesss stakes. Female crooning just doesn't come any more breathily appealing than this.

I'm listening to the album right now and I'm going to sign off so I can immerse myself in her version of Hoagy Carmichael's superb "Nearness of You" again. Although he wrote it seventy years ago, it now belongs to Norah... and to me and to every other bloke on the planet who cares to give it a listen. I'm sure that would include Hoagy as well, if he were still around to hear it.

this album is absolutely fantastic
I don't usually listen to laid-back-take-it-easy music like this,but I have to say this cd is wonderful.Its classy mix of country,pop and jazz are a powerful cocktail and highly addictive.By the time Norah got to the title track Come Away with Me I found myself thinking "just tell me where we're going honey!" By the time the next track Shoot the Moon arrived I felt as though I could.For me this album is summed up by The Nearness of You.But it's Norah who's near:you really feel that she's singing to you.