A Total Experiment(口白) - Norah Jones

I was doing jazz gigs in town
And then I would had started a band
With Jesse Harris and Lee Alexander
I was playing bass
He played bass with me do my jazz gig
That's how I met him
And then Jesse is a songwriter
And play the acoustic guitar
And he was an old friend
I started singing Jessie songs
And then we started writing songs out of nowhere beautiful songs
And then I started writing songs here and there and
So
At these gigs we will play at the living room
Which is a little songwriter place in New York
Do sort of all of our songs and throw in a couple covers
Maybe it's a standard as well
Was really my first experience sort of
Doing something of my own
Where I was singing that wasn't straight of jazzi
It was right around that time
That somebody saw me play a jazz gig
Cuz I was doing both things at the time
And brought me a blue note records
And it ended up being kind of funny
Cuz Bruce lundvall that a blue note records
When he heard my demo
I had to just answer is in one song of Jesse's and he said
Well
What do you want to do
You wanna be a jazz singer or not
You know...
Or pop singer
Oh no, jazz singer jazz singer...
Cuz you are in a blue note records
I didn't want him to turn me away
Hehe~
But then he give somebody to make demos
Cause obviously I was very young and I haven't quite figured out my musical voice and
So he had me do this demos
I figured
Well
We already know what it sounds like playing jazz
It's been done before
Let's try this new thing
So I brought this band I have been playing with
At the time which was Jesse,Lee on bass
And a great drummer named Dan Reeser
Cuz just kind of in town and Jesse had known
And we recorded about 7 or 8 songs
In a couple days
The first song we recorded was "Don't Know Why"
I know it's a song of Jesse's
And it was a total experiment Feast 2 day sessions And the version of "Don't Know Why"
That we got in this demos is the version on my first record
That everybody heard
So it's like the very first moment of us trying this in the studio
It was a live take it was all really quick.
Hahaha