Come Away With Me: CD BF253P50% Herbie Lewis on bass

Herbie Lewis on bass

Trumpeter Donald Byrd was just 2 years into his 2 decade long Blue Note recording career when he brought his quintet in to Manhattan’s Half Note Café in November 1960 to record this soulful

closing with an high-intensity arrangement of “Moon River

and lastly Joe Henderson’s magnificent tenor saxophone

and Michels on saxophone

Come Away With Me: CD BF253P50% Herbie Lewis on bassIn 1999 a 20 year old Norah Jones came to New York from Texas and was quickly gigging around town with a home made demo recording in her pocket. In the spring of 2000 she came to the attention of Bruce Lundvall, the head of Blue Note Records. Impressed by her grasp of the standards and her originality, Lundvall offered her a demo deal with the option for the label to extend this to a full album deal. Norah mixed up the record with a focus on originals