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Come Away with Me is mostly an album of warm, languid pop songs. There are touches of jazz--a stand-up bass here, an offbeat drum there--but Jones' voice doesn't have the rogue spirit required for improvisation or the range for sudden emotional bursts. Her singing is beautiful...
"[Lundvall] asked me if I wanted to be a jazz singer or a pop singer," says Jones, "and I said, 'Oh, a jazz singer!'" But between the time she signed and when she began recording, Jones' tastes changed. "I started meeting songwriters and getting into songwriting myself," she says. "And...
Blue Note has branched out in recent years, but Lundvall was still caught by surprise when he heard Come Away with Me. He asked Jones to rerecord some of the material to try to make it sound more like the jazz standards he had expected, but ultimately he decided to...
Jones got her way with Blue Note, but flitting into the public eye has forced her to confront the dangling issue of her famous father. Shankar, 81, has said he regrets not playing a greater role in his daughter's life. In early February, when Jones played a Manhattan show...
Her directness, both about her family and with her record company, will serve Jones well in the months to come. "When someone gets this kind of exposure, audiences sometimes condition themselves to be disappointed," says Lundvall. "Did he really say that?" asks Jones, laughing. "He's so honest. God, I...