the miraculous debut album by Norah Jones
On February 26, 2002 “Come away with me” was released, a debut album that would sell about twenty-five million copies and would reveal to the world a new star in the firmament of music: Norah Jones. A record with the colors of jazz (above all), but also of folk, soul and blues, which would have been the first of eight, the last of which, “I dream of Christmas”, dated October 2021, dedicated to Christmas .
But let’s go back to February 2002 when 22-year-old Norah Jones made her debut. This is our review of the time. Recording a debut album for Blue Note, the historic Jazz label of the Capitol group, is certainly a guarantee. Norah Jones, however, is not a jazz singer, although she has collaborated with the group of guitarist Charlie Hunter (another Blue Note house).
It is not in the traditional sense of the term: in this “Come away with me” you will not find reinterpreted standards, as happens in records of “colleagues” very fashionable lately (see Diana Krall). Or rather, you won’t find only those. The album closes with “The nearness of you” by Carmichael/Washington, reinterpreted for piano and voice, the only true “standard” of an album that owes a lot to jazz, but at least as much as to blues and folk.
