2021 · Album
…’Til We Meet Again
Recorded 2017–2019 · Blue Note Records · Produced by Norah Jones
Quiet Rooms and Borrowed Time
A collection that rewards patience, catching Jones between fully public and fully private.
'Til We Meet Again (2021) is a live compilation, pulling performances from various solo piano-and-vocal sets Norah Jones recorded during intimate venue tours between 2017 and 2019. No full band, no arrangements getting in the way — just Jones at the piano working through a mix of her own songs and a handful of covers. If you already love her studio records, this is a good place to hear what those songs actually feel like when stripped down. If you're newer to her, it's also a reasonable entry point, though maybe not the first thing you hand someone.
The album leans heavily into the quieter side of Jones's catalog. Tracks like "Sunrise" and "Don't Know Why" come back around here, and without the studio polish they feel a little looser, a little more searching. She's not reinventing anything, but she doesn't need to. What these performances show is that the songs hold up on their own terms — they were never really dependent on production to work. The covers scattered through the set are well-chosen and she sings them like she means them, which is the only thing that matters with a cover.
Jones has won ten Grammy Awards and sold over 53 million records worldwide, so there's no shortage of ways to encounter her music. This particular record occupies a specific niche: it's for the listener who wants to sit with her in a smaller room. It doesn't have the sleek finish of Come Away with Me (2002), and it's not trying to. What it has is a certain ease — a performer who has been doing this long enough to not be performing, exactly, but just playing. That's worth something.
Who's playing
Christopher Thomaselectric upright bass
Norah Jonespiano
Pete Remmorgan
Brian Bladedrums
Marcelo Costapercussion
