Visions is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones. It was released on March 8, 2024, by Blue Note Records.
Visions was produced by Leon Michels. Of the album's title, Jones said in a press release that the majority of the ideas she envisioned for the album "came in the middle of the night or in that moment right before sleep, and "Running" was one of them where you're half asleep and kind of jolted awake."
The album is described by The Los Angeles Times as "a funky, gently psychedelic garage-soul record."[Visions is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones. It was released on March 8, 2024, by Blue Note Records.
Visions was produced by Leon Michels. Of the album's title, Jones said in a press release that the majority of the ideas she envisioned for the album "came in the middle of the night or in that moment right before sleep, and "Running" was one of them where you're half asleep and kind of jolted awake."
The album is described by The Los Angeles Times as "a funky, gently psychedelic garage-soul record."[false2024-03-06 19:23:15Visions420242024-03-082024-03-0846AmericanaBluesContemporary JazzCountry PopFolkJazzJazz BluesSinger-SongwriterSoulVocal JazzJazz Pop11151824268083b745edb-dc43-4bfe-b18b-d15d3dfa4e68985c709c-7771-4de3-9024-7bda29ebe3f9329cb3f2-b650-4b38-bcd9-2fb2c6f3b8b9/media/data/media5/Music/Norah Jones/Visions (2024)/folder.jpgNorah JonesAlbumArtist/config/metadata/People/N/Norah Jones/folder.jpgNorah JonesArtist/config/metadata/People/N/Norah Jones/folder.jpgNorah JonesNorah JonesNorah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She has won several awards for her music and, as of 2023, had sold more than 50 million records worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the 2000s decade chart.
In 2002, Jones launched her solo music career with the release of Come Away with Me, which was a fusion of jazz with country, blues, folk and pop. It was certified diamond, selling over 27 million copies. The record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist, making her the first person of South Asian descent to win that many Grammy awards. Her subsequent studio albums Feels Like Home (2004), Not Too Late (2007), and The Fall (2009), all gained platinum status, selling over a million copies each. They were also generally well received by critics.
Jones made her feature film debut as an actress in My Blueberry Nights, which was released in 2007 and was directed by Wong Kar-Wai.
Jones is the daughter of Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, and is the half-sister of fellow Indian musicians Anoushka Shankar and Shubhendra Shankar.