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Coming upon your article "Jazzed About Ms. Jones," reviewing the debut album of singer Norah Jones on the Blue Note label [MUSIC, March 18], I assumed I'd be reading about jazz. But no, the story revealed the anemic jazz industry's crossover bid to dress up a pop singer as a jazz artist. Jazz still resonates with life in places like Latin America and Northern Europe, but in America it has become irrelevant and moribund. LEE M. COHEN Belmont Heights, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 8, 2002 | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...Lundvall has heard thousands of tapes, but only twice has a relative unknown walked into his office and walked out with a record deal. The first, in 1994, was Rachelle Ferrell, who possesses a dazzling 6 1/2-octave vocal range. The second was a tiny wisp of a singer named Norah Jones. "Norah doesn't have one of those over-the-top instruments," says Lundvall. "It's just a signature voice, right from the heart to you. When you're lucky enough to hear that, you don't hesitate. You sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazzed About Ms. Jones | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

Hepburn calls Norah, her housekeeper who got the job because she did not sit until Hepburn did, with a loud grunt of the sort not heard outside a barnyard or a soccer match. "Eeuuuuuunhhhh!" A deep breath and another grunt. "Why," Hepburn turns to confide in me, "do they only hear you the second time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katharine Hepburn: A Bad Case of HEPBURN | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

Finally, we are on the same side. I'm upstairs, Norah's downstairs. Hepburn has someone new in her sights. When dessert is slow in coming because Norah is waiting for the homemade Irish lace cookies to bake, Hepburn muses, "What do you think she is doing down there to that ice cream, making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katharine Hepburn: A Bad Case of HEPBURN | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...naked man and a half-dressed woman sporting on their spacious bed), in the personal horoscope (bordered by a male nude in various peek-a-boo poses) and in the advertising (breast stimulators and Frederick's of Hollywood "sex signals"). The fiction is also arousing if you are a Norah Lofts and Daphne DuMaurier...

Author: By Ruth C. Streeter, | Title: Graphic Stimulation: Driving Her Wild | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

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