Nine-time Grammy award winner Norah Jones is back with her sixth album ‘Day Breaks’. <br /><br /> After forays into pop and folk, it marks Jones’ long-awaited return to piano-based jazz. She says it’s been awhile since she’s written songs using the instrument she was trained on. <br /><br /> “I think I wrote my first two songs on piano when I was in high school and I hated them. I mean they were just so cheesy and piano-y and I don’t know, it became hard for me to want to write music after that. And then when I moved to New York when I was 20, I got into the song-writing scene and that kind of inspired me… I also didn’t have a piano in my tiny apartment, so I picked up a guitar and I knew like four or five chords and I wrote ‘Come Away with Me’.” <br /><br /> Jones was in her early twenties when she recorded her hit debut album ‘Come Away With Me’. She is now “37 and a mother-of-two“http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7525632/norah-jones-new-album-day-breaks, and, according to critics, this new record features added layers of maturity, complexity and experimentation. <br /><br /> It also reflects her jazz training with more challenging arrangements and an all-star band of players, including saxophonist Wayne Shorter. <br /><br /> “I feel like I’ve done some new things on this record that I’ve never really experimented before like, you know, just listening to Les McCann and a lot of this stuff from the sixties and seventies, the really good soul, jazz stuff. Playing a lot harder. I didn’t really play like that before, it’s been fun to kind of dig in more on piano and that’s what I’ve been doing.”<br /><br /> Norah Jones’ ‘Day Breaks’ debuted at Number Two on the US Billboard 200. <br /><br /> She’s touring the US and Europe this autumn and will be performing in Japan next April.<br />
