Norah Jones

Since she first emerged in 2002, Norah Jones has sold a collective 36 million albums worldwide. Her first three studio albums, 2002’s eight-time Grammy Award-winning Come Away With Me, 2004’s Feels Like Home, and 2007’s Not Too Late have each topped the Billboard top 200 album charts in the U.S. and gone to No. 1 around the world. All three have been certified multi-platinum, while Come Away With Me has been certified diamond.

Since 2007, Jones has collaborated with a number of artists, including Herbie Hancock, Talib Kweli, Willie Nelson, Q-Tip, Irma Thomas, and Andy Samberg’s comedy troupe The Lonely Island. She has also contributed to various soundtracks, including Ken Burns’ The War, Ethan Hawke’s The Hottest State, and Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights in which she also starred opposite Jude Law.

Jones’ new album The Fall finds her experimenting with a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, and Modest Mouse among others. Jones also enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partner Jesse Harris, as well as a new group of musicians to perform on the album, including drummers Joey Waronker and James Gadson, keyboardist James Poyser, and guitarists Marc Ribot and Smokey Hormel.

Added: Fri Nov 13 18:31:24 UTC 2009

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