Norah Jones News

The last night of Knockouts saves the best of the best to choose to go who should to the Live Rounds.

Breakthrough singer/songwriter Yuna is set to release her forthcoming new album 'Nocturnal' on Verve Records today, October 29.

Gene & Shelley Enlow Recital Hall (Enlow Hall) at Kean University 2013-2014 season features a one-night-only concert by Anoushka Shankar on Sunday, November 17 at 3pm.

Green Day front-man and AMERICAN IDIOT composer and star Billie Joe Armstrong has recently teamed up with jazz and pop chanteuse Norah Jones for a new album of Every Brothers covers titled FOREVERLY and the first track from the unusually-paired duets album is now available.

The music of Avalon Jazz Band is inspired by the Parisian jazz scene of the 1940's: a mix of swing, Gypsy jazz and French chanson, with influences of Eastern European folklore. Their repertoire consists of French and American standards, as well as a few original compositions. Avalon Jazz Band is actively involved in the New York swing renaissance and, in the two years' time since its creation, has had the pleasure of performing for the French Ambassador and sharing the stage with renowned artists such as Norah Jones & Nellie McKay. Their charismatic vocalist Tatiana Eva-Marie creates a beautiful balance between wild Gypsy energy and the deep and stormy sensitivity of French jazz, inviting the listener on a musical voyage inside her imaginary swing caravan.

Celebrating the release of her seventh album, entitled Traces of You, sitarist and composer ANOUSHKA SHANKAR opens the World Music Institute's Masters of Indian Music series with a performance on Saturday, November 16 at 8:00pm atNew York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Celebrating the release of her seventh album, entitled Traces of You, sitarist and composer ANOUSHKA SHANKAR opens the World Music Institute's Masters of Indian Music series with a performance on Saturday, November 16 at 8:00pm at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Two of the most original theatre artists in America, the long-form improvisers TJ & Dave, will be presented at The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, for the first time tonight October 11 at 8pm.

Sarah Jaffe is thrilled to be joining fellow Texans Midlake this December for a few weeks of US shows kicking off on December 4th in St. Louis, MO at Old Rock House. The three week trek comes as Sarah starts work on her third full-length studio album due out next Spring on Kirtland Records. In addition, Jaffe will be joining a number of notable artists including Girl Talk, Warpaint, Jason Isbell, Marnie Stern, POS and Titus Andronicus in Dallas, TX next weekend for the second day of theINDEX Festival (www.index-festival.com).

Singer, songwriter, musician, and poet HOLLAND GRECO's debut album, VOLUME 1, due out February 2014 on Zappa Records, will mark the first original artist signed this century to the label headed byGail Zappa. The multi-faceted GRECO--keyboards, rhythm guitar, banjo, accordion AND ukulele--lives up to the honor with an eclectic musical palette that is in full effect on the album which showcases her double vision in the two halves of VOLUME 1: the light and dark sides of her personality, expressed in the high-pitched sing-song falsetto ofTunnel Vision and the deeper, smoke-filled vocals in the gothabilly ofMurdergram: Songs Of The Misfits.

Mary Gatchell will be performing her great music with her NYC Band at the beautiful Leddy Center at Verdant Pastures on Ladd's Lane in Epping, NH, this evening, October 4, at 7:30pm.

Broadway Records is proud to announce the release of LIZZIE, a theatrical concept double album, due for release onOctober 8, 2013. It is available for pre-order at http://amzn.com/B00CIIFKAM.

Steven Spielberg, Founder of USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education will present artist and humanitarian George Clooney with the Institute's highest honor, the Ambassador for Humanity Award.

Take a first listen the premiere of Willie Nelson's 'Far Away Places,' featuring Sheryl Crow. This heartfelt ditty is featured on To All The Girls..., Willie's new album of duets with a dream team of pop-country singers including Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood, Wynonna Judd, and more.

Combining surf guitar, rockabilly twang and brass like Quadrophenia with the rhythms and energy of The Clash, that particular song ended up being the launch pad for The Reigning Monarchs, and it was also the first track on 2008's self-titled debut LP.

L.A.'s The Reigning Monarchs have released their new single 'Murder Your Summer' from their new album Black Sweater Massacre, out today, September 24, 2013. Listen to the track HERE.

Anoushka Shankar's seventh album, Traces of You is set for release October 22, 2013 on Deutsche Grammophon. Visually stunning, the clip was directed by Shankar's husband, acclaimed filmmaker Joe Wright

This week at Joe's Pub at The Public, September 16-22, features performances by ELVIRA KURT IN WORD*ROCK*&SWORD WOMEN OF COMEDY, MEN IN BLAZERS, JANN KLOSE / BARNABY BRIGHT, JOEY ARIAS, JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND, and STARSKY + COX.

American music icon Willie Nelson is celebrating his 80th birthday and six-decade-spanning career with the release of To All The Girls..., a brand new album that features a collection of newly recorded duets

Recognized as a legendary pianist and composer for compositions such as 'Cantaloupe Island,' 'Maiden Voyage,' 'Watermelon Man,' 'Chameleon,' and "Rockit," Herbie Hancock has received an Academy Award for his Round Midnight film score and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters (2007) and two Grammy Awards for his globally collaborative The Imagine Project (2010).