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Few are the career artists who can create music over the long haul that continually sounds fresh and contemporary without seeming faddish or desperate. Across eight solo studio albums, Norah Jones has effortlessly embraced the here-and-now, followed her muse and allowed her assured sense of self to carry her forward without any embarrassing missteps. Jones wanted to explore darkness on 2020's Pick Me Off the Floor, her most recent studio album, so she flipped the switch. Two years later she swerved to record Playing Along, an oft-buoyant album of duets with artists including Mavis Staples, Valerie June and Jeff Tweedy. It succeeded on its own terms.
For Visions, Jones wanted to write with a single collaborator, Leon Michels, to make a mid-tempo record with session players and solo artists who've recorded with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Brazilian Girls, Joni Mitchell and others. So she invited him into the studio, shut the door and made Visions.
Billed by Jones' label as a more carefree, upbeat record, Visions sets a mood across twelve soulful, wood-paneled originals. Despite mentions of dance or dancing in a few songs, it's often bliss driven by solitude that's suggested. The happy-go-lucky "On My Way" floats across its measures, a joyful ode to moving forward not with a partner or lover, but alone, where the notion that "no one cares what you have to say" lives in the same space as "in the dark you can dance and sway." That many of the ideas for Visions, as Jones has said, "came in the middle of the night or in that moment right before sleep," it makes sense that she's focused on solitude, and that she's embracing it.
"Everyday we do God's little dance," she sings on "Staring at the Wall," an uptempo groover with a twangy, Sun Records-suggestive guitar line and a piano-propelled counter melody that, combined with sturdy snare-drum snaps, could power a Saturday night dance floor at a dive bar. "Running" gets energy from a piano melody, a reverbed drum pattern and a layered chorus of Jones' voice adding responses. "Swept Up in the Night" is a ballad of longing set after midnight. Lost in a dream, Jones can't shake her memories of a certain someone: "I find you a thousand times/ Underneath the stones in my mind." These are sturdy songs, the kind that not only linger in the psyche, but are so well crafted as to be indestructible. © Randall Roberts/Qobuz
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Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Tambourine, Recording Engineer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Norah Jones, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Drums, Tambourine, Recording Engineer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Norah Jones, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Drums, Tambourine, Recording Engineer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Norah Jones, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Drums, Tenor Saxophone, Recording Engineer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Guy, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Norah Jones, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Guy, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Norah Jones, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Drums, Tambourine, Baritone Saxophone, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Norah Jones, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vocals, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Homer Steinweiss, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Tenor Saxophone, Tambourine, Recording Engineer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Dave Guy, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Norah Jones, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Tambourine, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Norah Jones, Organ, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brian Blade, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Jesse Murphy, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Tenor Saxophone, Tambourine, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Dave Guy, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brian Blade, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Jesse Murphy, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Tambourine, Recording Engineer, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Norah Jones, Guitar, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Vocals, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Pete Remm, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Organ, Tenor Saxophone, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Dave Guy, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Norah Jones, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brian Blade, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Jesse Murphy, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Cook, A&R Admin - Scott Hull, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Michels, Producer, Drums, Recording Engineer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Norah Jones, Organ, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Jones, A&R - Jens Jungkurth, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Deturk, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lucas Carpenter, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikki Young, A&R Admin - Garrett Robinson, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
Few are the career artists who can create music over the long haul that continually sounds fresh and contemporary without seeming faddish or desperate. Across eight solo studio albums, Norah Jones has effortlessly embraced the here-and-now, followed her muse and allowed her assured sense of self to carry her forward without any embarrassing missteps. Jones wanted to explore darkness on 2020's Pick Me Off the Floor, her most recent studio album, so she flipped the switch. Two years later she swerved to record Playing Along, an oft-buoyant album of duets with artists including Mavis Staples, Valerie June and Jeff Tweedy. It succeeded on its own terms.
For Visions, Jones wanted to write with a single collaborator, Leon Michels, to make a mid-tempo record with session players and solo artists who've recorded with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Brazilian Girls, Joni Mitchell and others. So she invited him into the studio, shut the door and made Visions.
Billed by Jones' label as a more carefree, upbeat record, Visions sets a mood across twelve soulful, wood-paneled originals. Despite mentions of dance or dancing in a few songs, it's often bliss driven by solitude that's suggested. The happy-go-lucky "On My Way" floats across its measures, a joyful ode to moving forward not with a partner or lover, but alone, where the notion that "no one cares what you have to say" lives in the same space as "in the dark you can dance and sway." That many of the ideas for Visions, as Jones has said, "came in the middle of the night or in that moment right before sleep," it makes sense that she's focused on solitude, and that she's embracing it.
"Everyday we do God's little dance," she sings on "Staring at the Wall," an uptempo groover with a twangy, Sun Records-suggestive guitar line and a piano-propelled counter melody that, combined with sturdy snare-drum snaps, could power a Saturday night dance floor at a dive bar. "Running" gets energy from a piano melody, a reverbed drum pattern and a layered chorus of Jones' voice adding responses. "Swept Up in the Night" is a ballad of longing set after midnight. Lost in a dream, Jones can't shake her memories of a certain someone: "I find you a thousand times/ Underneath the stones in my mind." These are sturdy songs, the kind that not only linger in the psyche, but are so well crafted as to be indestructible. © Randall Roberts/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:34
- Main artists: Norah Jones
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Blue Note Records
- Genre: Jazz Vocal Jazz
© 2024 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2024 Capitol Records, LLC
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