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Monday, April 19
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Norah Jones
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w/ Sasha Dobson
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Ticket Price: $59.50/$45.00/$39.50 (reserved) adv / $59.50/$45.00/$39.50 (reserved) dos
Doors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PM
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Norah Jones
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Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones has announced U.S. tour dates in support of her critically-acclaimed new album The Fall, which was released by EMI's Blue Note Records on November 17. The 36-city tour will kick off March 5, 2010. The Fall finds Jones experimenting with a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, and Modest Mouse among others. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River's Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partner Jesse Harris. King also helped Jones put together a new group of musicians to perform on the album, including drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer).
CHECK OUT WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE FALL:
"Jones is standing tall on The Fall ... A terrific batch of songs that smartly address her recent romantic travails." - USA Today
"Jones sounds more confident and stretches her songwriting muscle...Her continued growth as a writer, not just as singer, brings another exciting dimension to The Fall." - Associated Press
"Some of her most unguarded songs...Ms. Jones is making a new start." - NY Times
"The Fall has been billed as Norah Jones' rock album. In fact, it's something even more surprising: a hot-blooded soul record." - SPIN
"...avant-roots music that rocks." - Rolling Stone
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Sasha Dobson
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Sasha Dobson is a true natural. Born into a musical family, Dobson first hit the stage at the age of six. By 17 she hit the road, and made New York City her musical home-base. Today her talents have earned her accolades across generations and musical genres. While Dobson has emerged as an indie-folk favorite, she first developed her style as a darling of the jazz world.
In fact, this girl can really scat. For Dobson, jazz improv and phrasing is practically a birthright, having been exposed to jazz, and absorbing it through example since her earliest days. Barely in grade school, she performed with the Dobson Family Band with her father, the late great Bay-area jazz pianist Smith Dobson, her mother, vocalist Gail Dobson, and her brother Smith Jr., a sought-after drummer/vibraphonist and song-writer.
No stranger to the stage, Dobson took New York's jazz scene by storm, and in no time was performing extensively, from famed jazz club Small's in New York, to the Blue Note in Japan, Moscow and more.
Her 2004 release "The Darkling Thrush" (Small's Records), was a tour-de-force jazz vocal record backed by a large ensemble filled with prodigies of the New York jazz scene. It established her as one of the great young scat singers of her generation.
After picking up a guitar, Dobson's musical tastes took a turn. And soon after, in 2006, she released "Modern Romance" (Secret Sun), a bossa nova-tinged collection of songs, many of which were written in collaboration with guitarists Richard Julian and Jesse Harris. Her song-writing skills broadened her collaborative abilities, attracted a new audience, and led to a reunion with an old musical partner in crime, Norah Jones.
Together Dobson and Jones have collaborated on numerous musical side projects over the years. And now, the industrious duo will play side-by-side once again, as Dobson takes the stage next to Norah, providing percussion, guitar and vocal harmonies on Jones' upcoming tour of her new release "The Fall."
Sasha Dobson is also the supporting opening act on the tour, performing songs from her latest release “Burn.” A unique blend of blues, country and rock, "Burn" embraces Dobson's musical influences that span genres, from Lucinda Williams to Elliot Smith. Self-produced, with all-original compositions, "Burn" delivers a heart-felt performance rich with primordial layers of vocals, guitar and percussion -- and a brand of blues that makes her songs of love and loss feel pretty damn good.
Time Magazine says Sasha's songs "go down as easily as a frozen margarita," and NPR predicted "amazing success ahead of her," while Jazz.com praised the “warm, intimate performance” of this “rising star.”
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