I'm curious about the timing of 'Til We Meet Again. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. caught up with Norah Jones over Zoom to discuss the origin of 'Til We Meet Again, the thrill of collaborating with the greatest jazz musicians alive and her hot-and-cold relationship with the word "jazz." Until then, for those unaware of Jones' live prowess, this impeccably recorded live album is more than enough to chew on. Now that vaccines are rolling out (her second shot is around the corner), she's ready to jump back on stage when the time is right. Jones curated 'Til We Meet Again as a response to COVID and a nearly concert-free year. Sumptuous versions of her staples like " I've Got to See You Again" (in France, in 2018) and " Sunrise" (in Argentina, in 2019) demonstrate how Jones has developed her improvisatory muscles over her two-decade career. If Jones hadn't recorded all of her gigs for the past eight years, each of its 14 tracks could have evaporated with the final piano chord. "Black Hole Sun'' concludes her first-ever live album, 'Til We Meet Again, which drops April 16 on Blue Note. "It's just one of those moments I'm really glad we could capture," Jones adds, "because I don't even know if I'll play that song again." "I don't know if his ghost was in the room or what, but it carried me through that song like I could have never imagined." "It was probably one of the most beautiful live moments I've ever had," she says. "But I thought, 'We're going to send some love to him and do this song of his.'" Despite "Black Hole Sun" not immediately being in Jones' wheelhouse, the performance was a spectral success. "I was kind of nervous," the eight-time GRAMMY winner and 17-time nominee admits to. Jones had spent the day woodshedding the song in her dressing room. Near the end of the set, her band took five, and she sang Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" onstage for the first time-and maybe the last. Just over a week after Chris Cornell wailed Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying" at Detroit's Fox Theater mere hours before taking his life, Norah Jones stepped onto that same stage.
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