Norah Jones

No I do not, the good is the enemy of the best, Music is powerful stuff, bad taste in it leads to bad taste in other areas of life.

She's what is called a "mike" singer, no mike, no sing.

I had an in-law who was acknowledged. worldwide, as the Godfather of avant guard jazz piano.
He told me that he had never met a jazzman( and he had met them all) who didn't think
Sarah Vaughn was THE greatest jazz singer who ever lived.
He said musicians loved her because she was the only diva who could keep time as well or better than the bass player!
And unlike many famous singers you always knew she always never wanted to be doing anything else more than just singing with them.
You get a couple of Sassy recordings, sit down and really listen, and , unless you have really bad taste, your Cd's of Nora and Diane etc will end up where they belong, in the trash can.

I understand totally what I am saying. The above two posts are simply an argument in favor of bad taste for all .

This is the ancient view of the Philistine. To save the uneducated the bother of looking it up I quote the Oxford,"a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts or who has no understanding of them".

The distaste of argument is an American characteristic, Frenchman, to cite but one example, would consider this thread mild indeed as they argue 10x this and at the end of the day no one is offended.

Newbee, you seem in imminent danger of same.
Tube, you seem determined to live by the fuzzy-thinkers mantra of every thing and thought being equal to every other one.

Czarivey, you are spot on, truth from start to finish.
Admirable restraint in not saying without her dad nobody would have ever heard of her.

You need an elementary course in logic.

Wisdom is not a team sport.

What is best in serious music is not my personal taste but the collective wisdom of the best minds over the course of centuries.
To me, anyone who uses the term, "check yourself" is an uneducated boob, to you it might be the height of good taste.
So be it.

You need never to have seen her at all to make a phone call. Ravi's calls get answered.

"Employ your time in improving yourself by others mens writings so that you shall come shall come easily by what others have labored hard for" .
Socrates

"The man of wisdom is never of two minds".
Confucius

"Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world" .
Schopenhauer

" All truly wise thoughts have been thought over thousands of times, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience"
Goethe

You are most welcome.