New York City

Artist : THE PETER MALICK GROUP FEATURING NORAH JONES Label : KOCH Records Release : 22/2/2547 Song List 1. New York City 2. Strange Transmissions 3. Deceptively Yours 4. All Your Love 5. Heart of Mine 6. Things You Don't Have To Do 7. New York City (Radio Edit) Description KOCH Records Is Pleased To Announce A Stunning New Release THE PETER MALICK GROUP FEATURING NORAH JONES 5-Track EP in Stores June 10, 2003 Track Listing: (All Vocals By Norah Jones) 1. Strange Transmissions (Peter Malick) 2. Deceptively Yours (Peter Malick) 3. All Your Love (Sam Maghett) 4. Heart of Mine (Bob Dylan) 5. New York City (Such A Beautiful Disease) (Peter Malick) New York, NY - THE PETER MALICK GROUP featuring NORAH JONES (5-time Grammyฎ Award-winner) was recorded in September-October of 2000. The EP is titled “New York City” and has special meaning in the hearts of all who were involved in the project. Peter Malick, a respected blues singer/ songwriter and guitar player, walked into a club in New York City’s Lower East Side and heard Norah Jones, a then 21-year old unknown singer. Over the next few months they became friends and a tour of New England Blues clubs culminated in these two recording sessions. The title track “New York City (Such A Beautiful Disease)” was written by Malick. He wrote 3 of the 5 songs for this EP. This mini-album was produced by Peter Malick and executive produced by Grammyฎ Award-winner Hugh Fordin. The record features a cover of Bob Dylan’s hit “Heart of Mine” and “All Your Love” which is a standard Chicago Blues song performed by Magic Sam. Malick has played with a wide variety of performers throughout his recording career including: Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Earl Hooker, Johnny Young, Otis Spann, Big Mama Thornton and more. Currently, his band can be found in many of the top Blues clubs on both coasts. This exceptional EP offers dynamic insight into the deep rooted creative process that evolves when talented musicians are put into a positive recording environment. The players are: Peter Malick, guitars; Norah Jones, vocals, piano; Lee Alexander, bass; Eric Gardner and Marty Richards, drums; Danny McGough and Mike Thompson, piano. KOCH Entertainment is the leading and fastest-growing independent music company in the U.S. KOCH's operations encompass record labels and distribution companies in the U.S. and Canada. KOCH Entertainment is the market leader among independents in both the U.S. and Canada and its record labels had the largest number of Billboard charting albums among independents in 2001/2002. THE BOSTON GLOBE SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2003 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT SECTION BY DAVID WILDMAN UNKNOWN WHEN THEY RECORDED TOGETHER, NOW SHE'S NORAH JONES Three years ago, veteran Boston blues guitarist Peter Malick was in a local studio recording his songs with a then-unknown 21-year-old singer. At the time, he'd sensed there was something unique about the sultry-voiced chanteuse. As it happens, her name was Norah Jones, and unique would prove to be an understatement. She would soon go on to level the commercial music establishment, winning eight Grammy Awards for her stunning jazz-pop crossover debut, "Come Away With Me," on the prestigious label Blue Note. Meanwhile, Malick, 51, who divides his time among Brookline, New York, and Los Angeles, found himself holding a hot property. The guitarist discovered, not surprisingly, that there was a sudden flurry of interest in the recordings. Blue Note topped a list of potential buyers, but Malick, who has worked with some of the biggest names in blues, including Muddy Waters keyboardist Otis Spann, James Montgomery, and Big Mama Thornton, chose not to sell. Now, the six-song CD (there are seven tracks, two of which are the same song), titled "New York City" and released under the name the Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones, will hit shelves July 8 on the independent label Koch. And not, it would seem, in small numbers. Malick says the initial order from the Target department store chain totaled 46,000 CDs. The Malick/Jones recordings aren't the nascent etchings of a singer finding her voice. The key ingredient to her Blue Note success was an authentic late-night jazz atmosphere that made the songs sound like old piano bar chestnuts. Indeed, when Malick first heard Jones, she was singing the jazz standard "Since I Fell for You" at the Manhattan club the Living Room. And on her recordings with Malick, she sounds every bit a seasoned Billie Holiday-style crooner, but with a harder edge. "To me she has a timeless blues voice," says Malick. "I asked her to do some gigs and record with me, and she told me she didn't know how to sing the blues but that she would try." Malick and Jones toured the East Coast for a couple of weeks and even performed at a fair on Newbury Street in September 2000. In August and September of that year they laid down tracks at South Boston roots-rock studio Room 9 From Outer Space, where owner/engineer Ducky Carlisle's resume includes work with blues diva Susan Tedeschi and rocker Robin Lane. Jones was pleasant, enthusiastic, and easy to work with, Carlisle recalls, and even stayed at his house with her boyfriend while she was in town. Carlisle heard something special in her voice but says he was equally excited by the quality of the songs Malick had written. "Hearing something like `Strange Transmissions' coming out of Peter was just fantastic," says Carlisle. " And Norah sounded amazing on it. We all went back to my house and listened to the rough mixes about seven or eight times. That's something that never happens." Hugh Fordin, a Grammy-winning producer, was later sent to Room 9 by Koch to supervise the final mixes. The first single will be the title track, a gently soulful tune that looks at the bittersweetness of life and love in Manhattan. "We are really proud of this recording," says Lulu Cohen, senior director of media relations for Koch. "We think it is an important release. Norah was evolving as an artist, and we think Peter is extremely talented." The label plans a full-length release by the Peter Malick Group in the fall that will include the Jones tracks plus new material Malick has been working on with singer-songwriter Jess Klein. Also included will be some tracks that he has recorded with his daughter Mercy, 26. As for Jones's meteoric rise, Malick says he is thrilled by her success. "I hope it is an opening for all roots music," he says.