Visions (Norah Jones album)

Visions is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones. It was released on March 8, 2024, by Blue Note Records.

Background
Visions was produced by Leon Michels. Of the album's title, Jones said in a press release that the majority of the ideas she envisioned for the album "came in the middle of the night or in that moment right before sleep, and "Running" was one of them where you're half asleep and kind of jolted awake."

The album is described by The Los Angeles Times as "a funky, gently psychedelic garage-soul record."

Promotion
The album's lead single, "Running", was released on January 18, 2024, simultaneously with the album's announcement. Jones announced she would be embarking on a North American tour starting in Spring in support of the album.

Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81 based on six reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The review aggregator site AnyDecentMusic? compiled seven reviews and gave Visions an average of 7.1 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.

Commercial performance
Visions debuted at number 168 on the US Billboard 200, number 1 on the Jazz Albums and number 40 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts with pure sales of 7,000 copies.

Personnel
Musicians
 * Norah Jones – vocals, piano (all tracks); guitar (tracks 1–7, 10); bass, keyboards (6, 10); Wurlitzer electric piano (7), organ (8, 10, 12), synthesizer (9)
 * Leon Michels – drums (tracks 1–4, 6, 12), bass (1–4, 7, 12), tambourine (1–3, 6–10), guitar (1), tenor saxophone (4, 7, 9, 11), baritone saxophone (6), drum programming (10), organ (11)
 * Dave Guy – trumpet (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9, 11)
 * Homer Steinweiss – drums (track 7)
 * Jesse Murphy – bass (tracks 8, 9), upright bass (11)
 * Brian Blade – drums (tracks 8, 9, 11)

Technical
 * Leon Michels – production, engineering
 * Alex Deturk – mastering
 * Garrett Robinson – mastering
 * Scott Hull – mastering
 * Jens Jungkurth – mixing (all tracks), engineering (8, 9, 11)
 * Lucas Carpenter – engineering assistance