Norah Jones/Don Was

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Blue Note is one of the first and longest standing institutions of Jazz music. Since its formation in 1939 the label has put out albums by Robert Glasper, Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Gergory Porter, Bobby McFerrin, and so many more.

To celebrate 85 years of music from this iconic label, Justin Richmond and Blue Note’s current President Don Was recorded a series of interviews with the label’s past present and future: Ron Carter, Meshell Ndegeocello, Charles Lloyd, Julian Lage and today, Norah Jones.

Norah has been with Blue Note Records since releasing her juggernaut 2002 debut album, Come Away With Me. Her latest album, Visions, was created with New York’s Leon Michels of El Michel’s Affair. Their two distinctive sounds blend beautifully to make an album that stands out not only as a new texture in her discography, but some of her strongest work to date.

On today's episode, Norah Jones details her musical upbringing and what it was like striking it big with her debut album. She also performs for us, and talks about the musical freedom she's found as part of the Blue Note family.

You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite Norah Jones songs HERE.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:10.0	I'm David Remnick in each week on the New Yorker radio hour.
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0:31.6	To get the context behind events in the news, listen to the New Yorker
0:35.3	radio hour, wherever you get your podcast. Blue Note is one of the first and longest standing institutions of jazz music.
0:46.0	And it's always been one of my favorite record labels.
0:49.0	It started when a guitar teacher passed along Herbie Hancock's made him voyage, the self-titled album from Art Blaking the Jazz Messengers the one featuring Monin.
0:58.0	It was the music of course that made the most lasting impression, but there was the artwork also. No label had cooler branding than
1:05.7	Blue Note. Later I'd find out that was thanks to people like Reed Miles, who was the label's
1:10.4	art director, and Francis Wolf was a
1:13.0	photographer that became an important executive at the label
1:15.0	shortly after its founding in 1939.
1:18.0	And in those 85 years,
1:20.0	the labels put out albums by Robert Glassper,
1:22.0	Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Bobby
1:25.8	McFerrin, Gregory Porter, and so many more.
1:29.8	So to celebrate 85 years of music from this iconic label,
1:33.2	I thought I'd get together with Blue Notes current president,
1:35.6	Don Waz, to speak with the labels past, present, and future.
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