Norah Jones at The Paramount

What an amazing voice! I haven't heard anything like it before.

She was at her humorous best. She joked how she was concerned that her outfit was revealing too much but then figured it would be good for them :)

Come away with me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjZPFBD6JU

Don't know why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccu9YUgP680

Sunrise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sE1L2laCc

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Norah Jones opens her latest concert tour in Seattle
Norah Jones hasn’t gone to the dogs. But one of her new songs pays tribute to a girl’s best friend.

“You never lie and you don’t cheat,” Jones sings in “Man of the Hour,” a humorous tune about a faithful Fido who’ll “never make me cry.”

Jones, who soared up the record charts early in the last decade with “Don’t Know Why” and “Come Away With Me,” has included the song on her current album, “The Fall,” a blend of moody rock, blues and alt-country that veers from the strictly jazz-inflected music of previous albums.

And all the kind words for the dog in “Man of the Hour”? Perhaps she’s poking fun at the demise of a long-term relationship with a dog of another kind. The cover of her new CD features a number of canine friends.

Looking feisty and fun in a short, sleeveless dress and red pumps, Jones put on a colorful, lively show Sunday night (April 18) at the Paramount Theatre that offered a mix of wistful, sometimes melancholy ballads and sassy, upbeat rockers.

Jones hired a new, five-member band last year that features guitarist Smokey Hormel (a truly wonderful player) and backup singer and guitarist Sasha Dobson, who opened the concert with her own set. (Dobson is a fine singer, but she needs to work on her showmanship.)

Jones played a bright-red electric guitar on the first three songs and shared the piano with other band members now and then. But it was her soaring voice that made the show.

The Seattle concert was the start of a new leg of her current tour, and the set included songs by the Kinks (“Strangers”), Tom Waits (“Long Way Home”) and Rodney Crowell (“Bull Rider”), as well as a few from the new album. Among them were the lively “Chasing Pirates” and the wistful “Back to Manhattan.”

“Sinkin’ Soon,” from her last album, was a Dixieland-flavored funeral march that featured eerie stage lighting.

Jones and Dobson teamed up for duet on Crowell’s “Bull Rider.” The two singers have been friends for 11 years and also perform in a New York “chick-a-billy” band, Puss n Boots.

The audience spanned several generations, from teen party girls to silver-haired couples in their 60s and 70s. Not many artists can appeal to that broad an audience and keep everyone happy.

Jones opened with “Tell Yer Mama,” “Light As a Feather” and “Chasing Pirates” — all of them songs from “The Fall” — allowing her to show off what she has learned as a vocalist over the last few years. But when she sang such old favorites as “Sunrise, Sunrise” and “Don’t Know Why,” she stuck to the vocal style and arrangements that her fans remember.

Jones closed the main set with “Lonestar,” a nod to her Texas roots. A quick encore featured “Home Many Times” and “Come Away With Me,” featuring Hormel on guitar.