# Raven-Haired Chesty Long-Legged New Chanteuse from Brooklyn **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119 "2002-03-19T23:12:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/21 "2002-03-28T04:49:23Z")
Yowzah! ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/22 "2002-03-28T05:04:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Yowzah! \*\* Then you might want to check out [Ravi’s other daughter](http://www.anoushkashankar.com/). “Yowzah!” seems to run in the family. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/23 "2002-03-28T05:05:56Z")
Heh-heh-heh…found a [comparison shot](http://www.anoushkashankar.com/photos/anoushka10.jpg). Yowza![sup]2[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/24 "2002-03-28T22:37:07Z")
And this album is on Blue Note, the best known jazz record label, WHY? Yes, she has a very lovely voice…smoky and bluesy. Very much reminded me of…ummmm…Bonnie Raitt. Not a bad thing, by any means. I can’t stretch so far as to hear any actual JAZZ going on in here, though. Her piano technique is about on the level of MY piano technique (not a compliment). The arrangements backing her are guitar-heavy and thick and poppish (not a compliment). Bill Frisell, on the one cut in which he plays (THAT was a let-down), is largely wasted on wavery-quavery oceanic effects. It’s a very nice pop album. My wife will probably LOVE it (not a compliment). I have no idea why, aside from the Blue Note connection, anyone would call it a jazz record. (Ironically, the “jazziest” track on the disc…nice funky bass line…is the Hank Williams “Cold, Cold Heart.”) ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/25 "2002-03-29T03:20:10Z")
I’ll give you all of those points, Ike. But remember that she’s only something like 22. Perhaps I’m hearing potential; perhaps I’m hearing an interesting fusion of country, jazz, & cocktail; perhaps I’m just smitten by her billiesque throatiness. I guess I was a bit effusive in the OP. I think that she needs to grow before she becomes a great, but I also think that the potential is there. Time will tell. But listen to the album again with an ear toward the future. ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/26 "2003-01-16T01:06:56Z")
Reviving this thread to mention that Norah Jones’ album got **8** Grammy nominations. Not that the Grammys are anything like an indicator of talent, but a quick stop by the streaming audio section of [http://www.norahjones.com](http://www.norahjones.com) to hear some of the live versions backs me up. And, **Uke** , speaking as a guitarist, what’s wrong with guitar-heavy? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/27 "2003-01-16T01:40:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stofsky \* > \*\*Norah Jones’ album got **8** Grammy nominations \*\* Hah! I rest my case. ---
**Author:** ![Neil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/839c29/32.png) [@Neil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neil)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/28 "2003-01-16T02:56:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock \* > \*\*Then you might want to check out [Ravi’s other daughter](http://www.anoushkashankar.com/). “Yowzah!” seems to run in the family. \*\* Seriously hot girls whose dad happens to be Ravi Shankar. Yeah, I’m in love. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/29 "2003-01-16T05:15:13Z")
Norah Jones _is_ a cutie, but for jazz/pop singers who are also hot? [I like Ms. Krall.](http://www.dianakrall.com/) Great piano player, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/30 "2003-01-16T05:26:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*Hah! I rest my case. \*\* Oh _pfft_. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/31 "2003-01-16T05:59:22Z")
She is rather cute, but I would not call her chesty. I think her music is better than the usual pop fare, but I know plenty of better pianists/singers who aren’t famous because they’re not that kind of pretty and their dad isn’t Ravi Shankar. But I do think she has potential, and if I had a choice between her and say, Britney Spears, I’d go with Norah Jones. But I maintain that Ella Fitzgerald did it better. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/32 "2003-01-16T15:17:28Z")
She reminds me of Billie Holiday. It’s something in the phrasing, I think. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119/33 "2003-01-16T15:47:35Z")
I agree she’s talented and beautiful (and Ravi didn’t have much, if anything, to do with her career – he was mostly absentee and there was a nasty rift between them for some time), but she’s not much in the way of jazz…yet. As Stofsky said, she’s someone to keep an eye on. The good thing about the Grammy nod is that she’ll have the money and freedom to be the artist she wants to be in the future. I’m in her corner and looking forward to the next album. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raven-haired-chesty-long-legged-new-chanteuse-from-brooklyn/99119.md?page=1)