Norah Jones - 2020 Home Concert Series, New York, NY - 2020-10-22 to 12-24 - Later Sessions

Norah Jones

2020 Home Concert Series, New York, NY
Later Sessions, 2020-10-22 to 2020-12-24
Webcast recordings of live solo home performances
Mp3 @ 320 kbps

Here's the follow-up post to the previous Home Concert Series post for Norah Jones (See previous post for details). This consists of the later (and final) set of Home Concert shows Norah posted to Youtube throughout the 2020 pandemic, covering from 10-22-2020 to 12-24-2020. These home concert shows feature very intimate and informal performances from Norah, with just her and her and the piano (or sometimes guitar), and present a unque look at at her music and artistry. Appropriately for the Christmas season, this set concludes with a couple Christmas songs. Notably, Norah's latest album is a Christmas album, I Dream of Christmas (2021) released just a couple months. So the Christmas songs included here seem to be a prelude to that album, and one of the songs here, Blue Christmas, is included on the new album (in a similar style). So, this makes a nice conclusion to these Norah Jones posts, as well as this series of featured female vocalists, to round out the year. So, once again, Merry Christmas everyone, and a Happy New year to all as well. 

Later Sessions - 10-22 to 12-24
Tracklist:
01. Picture in a Frame
02. talk
03. Just a Little Bit
04. Blue Bayou
05. talk
06. My Dear Country
07. Man of the Hour
08. Down by the River
09. Rosie's Lullaby
10. Sleep Won't Come
11. talk
12. Hands on the Wheel
13. You Are Not Alone
14. Until the End
15. Don’t Know What It Means
16. What a Difference a Day Makes
17. [Talk to Me Of] Mendocino
18. Hurts to Be Alone
19. Space Captain
20. talk
21. I'll Fly Away
22. Blue Christmas
23. talk
24. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Norah Jones_2020 Home Concerts_Later Sessions.rar

Thanks to Paul at Albums That Should Exist for collecting and compiling the audio recordings for these shows originally broadcast as Youtube videos. 

Norah Jones - 2020 Home Concert Series, New York City - 2020-03-26 to 2020-04-23 - Early Sessions

Norah Jones
2020 Home Concert Series, New York, NY
Early Sessions, 2020-03-26 to 2020-04-23
Webcast recordings of live solo home performances
Mp3 @ 320 kbps

Continuing with recent performances from singer-songwriter Norah Jones, here's something a bit different. During the lockdown phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Spring 2020, Norah began  a regular series of short very informal concerts from her home (just her and piano or guitar) and making them available on Youtube. Many other artists also did this sort of thing to help themselves and others get through the pandemic and lack of live music performances. I previously posted a compilation of songs Jackson Browne recorded from home from like this. However, Norah took this approach to another level. She regularly posted (every week or so) a video of intimate solo performances (usually containing four different songs each time, 15-20 minutes of music), just her at her piano at home (or sometimes with guitar instead), and she continued this throughout the entire rest of the year (last one posted on Christmas Eve 2020). Over the course of the year, this amounted to a total of over 10 hrs of music, and more than 170 songs performed, quite a monumental undertaking. Our blogger friend Paul over at Albums That Should Exist dutifully made audio recordings of each of her home concert videos (as he also did for several other artists making home concert videos) and compiled them into a series of 14 'albums' each containing about 45 minutes of music from these shows. Songs performed range from all throughout her career, but as intimate informal solo versions, as well as numerous covers of songs not performed anywhere else, including songs she grew up playing, some of her personal favorites, and her family's favorites. It presents a very interesting and unique look into her music and life. Now, it would be way too much for me to post this whole series here (but you can get all of them at albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com if you like). For this blog, I have compiled the first several performances (March to April 2020) into one concert-length set (about 80 minutes), and then I have another concluding set (also about 80 Minutes)  taken from the final series of shows (From October to December 2020). This should give a broad range of songs and a good sense of what she did, without trying to include everything. So, here is the first set, covering the Early sessions (From 03/26 to 4/23 2020). Again, huge thanks to Norah for putting these shows out there for all to enjoy, and thanks to Paul for recording these and making them available. It is a wonderful depiction of Norah as an artist and person, as well as documentation of the times we were living and the only way to hear new 'almost live' music throughout 2020. The set of Later sessions will follow shortly.

Early Sessions - 03-26 to 04-23
Tracklist:
01. talk
02. Turn Me On
03. talk
04. Joey
05. talk
06. I'm Alive
07. talk
08. Humble Me
09. Come Away with Me
10. talk
11. Lucky
12. talk
13. I Remember Clifford [Instrumental]
14. talk
15. Lonestar
16. That’s the Way that the World Goes Round
17. talk
18. Waiting
19. Travelin' On
20. talk
21. Painter Song
22. Long Way Home
23. talk
24. How I Weep
25. talk
26. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
27. The Long Day Is Over
28. Wake Me Up
29. talk
30. Angel Dream
31. talk
32. It Was You
33. talk
34. Sunrise

Tracks 1-8, Home Concert - 2020-03-26
Tracks 9-15, Home Concert - 2020-04-02
Tracks 16-21, Home Concert - 2020-04-11
Tracks 22-27, Home Concert - 2020-04-17
Tracks 28-34, Home Concert - 2020-04-23

Norah Jones_2020 Home Concerts_Early Sessions.rar

'Album' Picture taken from Albums That Should Exist home concert series artwork (taken from video). Thanks again, Paul.

Merry Christmas 2021! And reminder of all the previous Christmas & Holiday music available here

 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

In the mood for Christmas music yet? Or maybe you need some Christmas music to try to get you in the mood for for Christmas. Although I do not have a new Christmas Music Collection this year (I usually do them every other year, in even number years), there are still plenty of Christmas, Holiday, and Winter themed music and posts available here, including all my previous unique Christmas-related collections. So, if you haven't previously checked out my delightful and eclectic Christmas collections, I invite you to do so now (links to those pages below). In addition, there are several other Christmas-related shows and compilations that have been posted previously. To see all the Christmas-related posts check here. As I've said before, personally, I love Christmas music of all types, classical, rock, pop, jazz, etc., from the traditional to the outrageous, the serious to the silly, the classics to the newest ditties, and these compilations contain some of my favorites. Enjoy the season while it lasts. 

BB Chronicles Collections:

BB Chronicles 2020 Christmas Collection - A Coping with Covid Christmas

BB's Christmas Collection 2018 - New, Old, and Revived


BB's Chronicles Christmas Collections 2016 (featuring 2 full collections - Bright and Blue)


BB's Christmas Chronicle 2014 - Tiny Tree Christmas


BB Chronicles Holiday Sampler 2012 - No Rest for Ye Merry Gentlemen


BB Chronicles Echlectic Christmas Chollection 2010


Other Christmas posts:

Aimee Mann and Ted Leo Christmas Shows: 2014 - Boston ; 2015 - Boston ; 2019 - Los Angeles

A Celtic Christmas Sojourn - 2015-Boston

Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets - Nick Lowe’s Quality Holiday Review - 2015-Los Angeles

Bruce Springsteen Live Christmas compilations

Chicago - 1998 Christmas show

Bill Kirchen's Honky Tonk Holiday Party - 2010 - Northampton, MA 

All links recently updated! Enjoy!.

Norah Jones - 2019-08-03 - Bear Tooth Theatre, Anchorage, AK

Norah Jones

2019-08-03
Bear Tooth Theatre, Anchorage, AK
Audience recording, very good quality
Available in both Lossless (FLAC) and Mp3 (320 kbps) versions
Recorded by Steve Hagar, mastered by Dennis Orr

Continuing with more from Norah Jones, moving up to more recent years. After several years exploring different genres and musical styles, for her 2016 album, Day Breaks, Norah returned to the more jazz-oriented piano and vocal style of her early albums, and all the songs were recorded live in the studio without overdubbing.  But Jones continued working in various musical styles, and in 2019 released Begin Again, a compilation album of various singles and collaborations from recorded from 2018-2019, including songs done with Jeff Tweedy and Michael Bartlett. For her next solo album, Pick Me Up Off the Floor (2020), Norah changed things up a bit more, with an eclectic album of jazz pop, orchestral pop, blues, and jazz folk, with elements of gospel, country, funk  and hip hop.  Norah's latest release is a Christmas album, I Dream of Christmas (2021), released a couple months ago for the current Christmas season and receiving very favorable reviews.  The show featured today is from 2019, and features songs from throughout her career, This is an audience recording from Anchorage, Alaska, pretty good quality (but not like the previous high quality radio shows), but does have quite a bit of audience noise (mostly between songs). This is the second night of a three night set of shows at the Bear Tooth Theatre, which apparently is a movie theater that occasionally also hosts concerts. So, check out this example of one of Norah's more recent shows. 

Tracklist: (1:39:33)
01 Just A Little Bit
02 I've Got To See You Again
03 It Was You
04 Begin Again
05 Chat
06 Wintertime (1)
07 Nightingale (1)
08 Sinkin' Soon
09 Chasing Pirates (2)
10 Chat
11 Angel Dream (3)
12 Don't Know what It Means (Hey You) (4)
13 Band Intros
14 Come Away With Me (4)
15 Sunrise (3)
16 After The Fall
17 The Nearness Of You (5)
18 Little Broken Hearts
19 Don't Know Why
20 Flipside
21 Band Intros & Chat
22 Hands On The Wheel
23 Encore Break
- Encore -
24 My Heart Is Full
25 Chat
26 Don't Be Denied

(1) Pete - bass, Josh - guitar
(2) Josh - guitar
(3) Norah - acoustic guitar, Pete - piano
(4) Norah - electric guitar, Pete - piano
(5) Norah - solo, on piano

Norah Jones - lead vocals, piano, acoustic & electric guitars
Josh Lattanzi - bass, guitar, & backing vocals
Pete Remm - organ, piano, bass, & backing vocals
Greg Wieczorek - drums, percussion, & backing vocals

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Norah Jones - 2012-04-20 - Studio 105 Maison de la Radio, Paris, France

Norah Jones

2012-04-20
Studio 105 Maison de la radio, Paris, France
FM broadcast recording, very good quality
Available in both Lossless (FLAC) and Mp3 (320 kbps) versions

Picking up where we left off with the wonderful singer-songwriter-musician Norah Jones: After her 2007 album, Not Too Late, Norah continued to expand and develop her sound and style, with more personal, emotional songs and more soul and rock influences on her next album, The Fall (2009). Around this time, Norah also collaborated with many other artists on various projects. A compilation album of some of these other artist collaborations, ...Featuring Norah Jones was released in 2010, and included tracks with Foo Fighters, Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, and many others. Her country band, The Little Willies released their second album, For the Good Times in 2011. After working with producer Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) on his album Rome (2011), Norah and Danger Mouse started working together on her next album, Little Broken Hearts (2012), which was basically a break-up album filled with raw, emotional songs and stark, electronic-embellished  accompaniment, further departing from Jones' familiar sound, different from anything done previously. Jones then collaborated with Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day) on an album of duets on Everly Brothers songs titled Foreverly (2013), and her alt-country trio (with Sasha Jobson and Catherine Popper), Puss n Boots released their first full album, No Fools, No Fun in 2014. So, a very busy time for Norah. The show featured today is from early in her 2012 tour in support of Little Broken Hearts, where she plays the entire album in sequence (first 12 songs played) to start the show. And this was actually before the album had officially released, so these were all brand new songs to the audience, never heard before. After the new album, Norah plays some more familiar songs and hits. So this gives a good update of the changes in her songs at this time, as well as some classics. This is an FM radio broadcast from France, with very good sound, but does have a French DJ translating Norah's comments between songs, but fortunately does not intrude much on the actual songs.

Tracklist:
01. Good Morning
02. Say Goodbye
03. Little Broken Hearts
04. She's 22
05. Take It Back
06. After The Fall
07. Four Broken Hearts
08. Travelin' On
09. Out On The Road
10. Happy Pills
11. Miriam
12. All A Dream

13. Nearness of You
14. Don't Know Why
15. Waiting
16. Sunrise
17. Chasing Pirates
18. Bessie Smith (for Levon Helm)
19. Come away with me
20. Black
21. Stuck
22. outro (talks and audience)

Tracks 1-12; Complete album Little Broken Hearts, start to finish. 
 

Norah Jones - vocals, piano, guitar
Jason Roberts - guitar, backing vocals
Josh Lattanzi - bass, backing vocals
Pete Remm - keyboards, piano
Greg Wieczorek - drums, backing vocals

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New Links! Updated 07/25/24 

Norah Jones - 2004-06-27 - Althorp Park, Northamptonshire, UK

Norah Jones

2004-06-27
Althorp Park, Northamptonshire, UK
FM Broadcast Recording, excellent quality
Available in both Lossless (FLAC) and Mp3 (320 kbps) versions

To wrap up this current string of posts featuring great female vocalists, here is (one that it is quite surprising that I have not posted anything by previously, because she is fantastic), singer-songwriter-musician Norah Jones. Norah has that great voice and soothing, sultry style that is just so wonderful to listen to. Norah Jones (full birth name: Geethali Norah Jones Shankar) is the daughter of American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian musician (and famed sitarist) Ravi Shankar, was born in New York, but raised primarily by her mother in Texas. She began singing and playing the piano at an early age, and gravitated towards the music of jazz pianist Bill Evans and singer Billy Holiday. After college (University of North Texas, majored in Jazz piano), she headed to New York and performed with various jazz bands (1999-2001). She signed with Blue Note Records as a solo act and her first album, Come Away With Me (2002), featuring an intriguing mix of acoustic pop, jazz, soul, blues, and country, was a huge success. The album went to No.1, as did the first single 'Don't Know Why', and the album won 8 Grammy awards in 2003 (Jones herself winning 5), including Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Best New Artist, and has gone on to sell over 27 million copies over the years - a phenomenal debut. Her follow-up, Feels Like Home (2004), was also very successful, going to No.1 and multi-platinum. For her next album, Not Too Late (2007), Jones wrote or co-wrote all the songs, with an overall darker tone, showing her growth, but still retaining the familiar qualities people enjoyed. With subsequent albums, Jones would go in more different styles and directions, as well as having numerous different collaborations and side projects showing different sides of her music (including her alt-country band, Little Willies, country female trio Puss n Boots, and collaborations with Foo Fighters, Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson, Dirt Dozen Brass band, Ray Charles, Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, and even Seth MacFarlane, among many others). But for this first post, we go back to those earlier days. This is a show from 2004, around the time of the release of Feels Like Home. It is an excellent, pristine FM broadcast recording of Norah with her band at that time, which included guitarist Robbie McIntosh (The Pretenders, Roger Daltrey, Paul McCartney, Jerry Harrison). A great introduction to her songs and style at that time.   

Tracklist:
01. Introduction
02. Turn Me On
03. Nightingale
04. In Your Eyes
05. She (Gram Parsons)
06. In the Morning
07. The Long Way Home
08. Don't Know Why
09. Creepin' In
10. Above Ground
11. Sunrise
12. Come Away With Me
13. Band Introduction>Seven Years
14. The Long Day is Over

Band:
Norah Jones: piano, vocals
Adam levy: guitars
Robbie Macintosh: guitars
Lee Alexander: bass
Andrew Borger: drums, percussion
Daru Oda: backround vocals, flute

FLAC - Norah Jones_2004-06-27_Northamptonshire_FLAC.rar

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