Even before Norah Jones’ debut album, Come Away With Me, was released, there was already a buzz on the then 22-year-old singer-songwriter-pianist. She was heralded by Rolling Stone as one of ten “Artists to Watch” in 2002 with the headline “Jazz Nerd Becomes Piano Seductress,” and Entertainment Weekly singled her out as one of the coming year’s “Brand New Heavies.”

Prior to those prognostications, the Texas-raised, Brooklyn-based Jones had garnered a small local fan base, entertaining those in the know in intimate New York clubs, from the Living Room on the Lower East Side to Makor on the Upper West Side. But once her CD was released on February 26, 2002 on Blue Note Records, Norah Jones was introduced to the rest of the world—and she took it by storm.