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Posts Tagged Norah Jones

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May 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 247 – Norah Jones, Wellington, 2019

I had seen Norah Jones live twice – and not been all that impressed – but something happened last year. Well, it had been building over the last few years, the last decade even. I interviewed Jones – around the time that she released her fourth album; the first that I really loved. And then […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, Frontier Touring, Gig Review, Mel Bracewell, Norah Jones, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 247, Stubs: # 247 – Norah Jones, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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April 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Kandace Springs: The Women Who Raised Me

Kandace Springs The Women Who Raised Me Blue Note Records / Capitol Records, LLC Kandace Springs here pays tribute to the female voices that “raised” her; the influences. It’s an immaculate set of choices – some big, big songs (Strange Fruit) and big shoes to try to fill (from Nina Simone to Diana Krall and […]
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January 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Anoushka Shankar: Reflections

Anoushka Shankar Reflections Deutsche Grammophon We maybe don’t think much about the Greatest Hits album anymore – you grab what you need from wherever you are online; someone’s made a playlist if you haven’t. A YouTube run is easy enough – grab a few bites and move on.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Anoushka Shankar, Anoushka Shankar: Reflections, Compilation, Deutsche Grammophon, Greatest Hits, Karsh Kale, Norah Jones, Ravi Shankar, Reflections, Sitar, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Puss N Boots: Dear Santa…

Puss N Boots Dear Santa… Blue Note The team of Catherine Popper, Norah Jones and Sasha Dobson reunite as Puss N Boots to deliver an EP of Christmas cheer. It works.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blue Note, Catherine Popper, Christmas, Christmas Music, Dear Santa..., EP, Norah Jones, Puss N Boots, Puss N Boots: Dear Santa..., Sasha Dobson, Xmas, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Norah Jones (April 24, Wgtn)

Norah Jones TSB Bank Arena; Wellington Wednesday, April 24 Listening to a Norah Jones album and attending a Norah Jones concert…they used to be a very similar experience. I know this because I saw Jones on her first two tours of New Zealand. Back then she was shy and the demure, deer-in-headlights thing was a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 24, April, Begin Again, Frontier, Frontier Touring, Gig Review, Gig Review: Norah Jones (April 24, Live, Live Gig, Melanie Bracewell, Norah Jones, TSB Bank Arena, Wednesday, Wellington, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Joni 75 – A Birthday Celebration 

Various Artists:   Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration  Decca  Like most tributes – and as all tributes should be I guess – Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration is most certainly well-meaning. And for the most part it gets the tick. Of course it’s a little safe, focussing, as it does, on the most mainstream success (1971-1974) of Joni’s output…but there are little glimpses of utter magic, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Birthday Celebration, Album Review, Brandi Carlile, Chaka Khan, Diana Krall, Emmylou Harris, Glen Hansard, Graham Nash, https://www.amazon.com/Joni-75-Celebration-Various-Artists/dp/B07MHQ5F5T, James Taylor, Joni 75, Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration, Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, La Marisoul, Los Lobos, Norah Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Seal, V/A, V/A: Joni 75 - A Birthday Celebration, Various Artists, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Norah Jones: Begin Again

Norah Jones Begin Again Blue Note Somehow Norah Jones has survived. That might seem a funny thing to say for someone that burst on to the scene with one of the biggest surprise debut hits of the modern era. And has been in favour almost ever since and always…but it took a few years for Jones to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Begin Again, Blue Note, Brian Blade, Jeff Tweedy, Norah Jones, Norah Jones: Begin Again, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Swing Out Sister: Almost Persuaded

Swing Out Sister Almost Persuaded Miso Here’s the tenth studio album by British pop duo Swing Out Sister – and their first in a decade. You remember them best from their breakout hit of 1986, er, “Breakout”. And since then it’s been a refinement of that approach really, they call the new music – and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1980s, Album Review, Almost Persuaded, Andy Connell, Breakout, Corinne Drewery, Duo, Miso, Norah Jones, Pop, Swing Out Sister, Swing Out Sister: Almost Persuaded, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Puss N Boots: No Fools, No Fun

Puss N Boots No Fools, No Fun Blue Note Norah Jones has always liked to hide – in those early shows after she became a superstar you could imagine her hoping the piano might swallow her whole, then she was allowed to go a bit country and then the first recognised side-project, The Little Willies. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Catherine Popper, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Jack White, No Fools No Fun, Norah Jones, Puss N Boots, Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, Sasha Dobson ·

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August 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jim Campilongo: Dream Dictionary

Jim Campilongo Dream Dictionary Blue Hen Records Jim Campilongo has been showing off his angular jazz lines and non-flashy but sonically startling guitar work across ten solo albums and a career as sideman and cameo artist – including his work with Norah Jones in the side-project, The Little Willies. His latest album, Dream Dictionary, is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Frisell, Ceramic Dog, Dream Dictionary, Guitar, Jim Campilongo, Jimi Hendrix, Les Paul, Marc Ribot, Norah Jones, Sonny Sharrock, The Little Willies ·

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May 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Dawn Landes: Bluebird

Dawn Landes Bluebird Western Vinyl Dawn Landes has released a half-dozen albums and EPs but this is her finest. It’s also her most personal – the album a direct result, a reflection on her divorce from fellow musician Josh Ritter. Well, he’s already had his turn at documenting the disintegration of their union, so now […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bluebird, Dawn Landes, Josh Ritter, Norah Jones, Western Vinyl ·

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January 30, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Billie Joe + Norah: Foreverly

Billie Joe + Norah Foreverly Reprise/Warner Here the Billie Joe is he of Green Day, the Norah is she of Jones – Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, when the press release was doing the rounds a few people assumed it a joke. The finished product – Foreverly, a tribute album to The Everlys, in […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Billie Joe + Norah, Billie Joe Armstrong, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Dawn McCarthy, Everly Brothers, Foreverly, Green Day, Norah Jones, The Everly Brothers, What The Brothers Sang ·
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