Norah Jones News

Every party needs music. David Malitz, who writes about pop music for the Washington Post, put together playlists for three very different outdoor parties: a grown-up sit-down dinner, a brunch with lots of children and a big cocktail party.

By Michael Lollar , Memphis Commercial Appeal Saturday, July 4, 2009 Elvis Presley fans are competing online in the second Elvis MySpace Karaoke Contest for a trip to Memphis to compete in the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist showdown in August.

Campers were not allowed on the ROTHBURY festival grounds before noon Friday unless they were attending the yoga class in the Tripolee area.

Recently such names as Norah Jones and Diana Krall are reviving that big band and jazz sound, but Canada has just launched a new force for the Jazz world to reckon with.

Word came out last year that Jack Johnsona s Brushfire Records had signed their first female artist and, when the labela s Christmas album arrived, her song was the superb standout of the collection.

The first female artist signed to Jack Johnson's label, Brushfire Records, Zee Avi's debut is an engaging and insinuating bit of folk-based rock that portends a solid career ahead of her.

Country music legend Willie Nelson is about to release an album of standards called - American Classic'. The album features duets with Diana Krall and Norah Jones and covers American classics including - Fly Me To The Moon', - Baby It's Cold Outside' and - Always On My Mind', which has been covered by Nelson before.

An emerging maestro of contemporary urban music, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kemal Evans combines elements of soul, funk, jazz and hip hop into a unique blend that resonates with listeners of all genres and has also caught the ears of his fellow musicians.

Sam Yahel has made the grade. His signature Hammond B3 sound-appearing on both his own work and on recordings by Joshua Redman , Bill Frisell , and Norah Jones -has identified him as one of the players that will take Jimmy Smith 's favorite instrument deep into the 21st century.

Amazon UK has gone aggressive and slashed the prices of someA classic albums to just 29p in the UK this morning - resulting in a mass legal downloading spree.

Which song drawn from his five-decades career does Smokey Robinson absolutely have to sing, lest the audience tear the seats out of the floor of the theater? "There are 10 of those," Robinson says with a big laugh.

TYPE OF MUSIC: A fusion of Pop, Jazz & Country. Somewhere between Duffy and Norah Jones.

Last year ukulele wunderkind wowed the RIJF 2008 crowd. This year he returns for a low-dough show at the Eastman Theatre.

When Russian-born British star Katie Melua released her debut disc in 2004, her bluesy pop was compared to Norah Jones.

Amos Lee, who is scheduled to perform Saturday at NextDoor, is more than just a guy with a guitar.

Ita s conceivable that someone could hear folk singer Amos Lee playing an acoustic set and mistake him for someone covering Amos Lee.

The gala is part of the week-long Hawai'i Writers Conference : at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu.

Reggae, rock, pop, jazz and even R&B can all be used to describe the sound of Fatbook, a band comprised of Lawrence University students that's getting some notable recognition.

Charlie Hunter will perform his own brand of funky jazz fusion Friday night at Cafe Culture.

Regarded by many as the greatest jazz singer of them all, Holiday's eloquent ability to sound both world-weary and innocent captivated audiences worldwide ) In pop and rock, a band without a charismatic singer is more or less unthinkable.