Nora Jones risks her comfort zone via collaboration CD called “…Featuring” from EMI’s Blue Note Records.

“It’s so exciting and flattering and fun when I get asked to sing with somebody that I admire. It takes you a little bit out of your comfort zone when you’re doing something with another artist. You don’t know what to expect—it’s kind of like being a little kid and having a playdate,” Jones said.

The multi-Grammy Award winning singer’s CD contains 18 songs including duets with such legends as Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, and Dolly Parton, and with 21st Century icons from OutKast to the Foo Fighters. This stunning collection is now available in the market from Polyeast Records.

These collaborations reveal Jones’ astonishing musical versatility, from jazz to country, hip-hop to rock. Three of the songs on “…Featuring” originally appeared on records that won Grammy awards for Album of the Year (Ray Charles’ “Genius Loves Company,” Herbie Hancock’s “River: The Joni Letters,” and OutKast’s “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below”), and several others were also nominated for Grammys.

“A lot of the people on this record are people I’ve worshiped since I was a kid, and some of them are younger and more my contemporaries. Even though the musicians are so varied, the vibe of the songs makes sense when we put them all together, said Jones.

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