Eagle Point Golf Club

1998 (Exact date unknown)

Denton, TX

Set:

Come Rain or Come Shine 

 

Notes:
 
* Although this performance can probably be better classified as a rehearsal, due to the historical significance of the event it has been included in the concert listing.
* Jesse Harris related to the New Yorker in February 2003 how he first met Norah, then a freshman at UNT, five years before: “Norah had this big blue Cadillac—a huge '71 Sedan DeVille—so she was sent by the faculty to pick up the band from their hotel," he explains. "That night, we played together on a fairway on the golf course at the hotel. Norah sang some standards—we all thought she was good.”
* Richard Julian went into much more detail about this performance in a 2006 interview with puremusic.com: “Me and Jesse got in a rental and just drove across the country. In Texas, Kenny Wolleson and Steve Cardenas and Kurt Rosenwinkel were going to be playing a jazz clinic with Mark Johnson, the great upright bass player, who is known mostly through his work with Bill Evans, at North Texas State University, where Norah was going to college. And she had this huge blue Cadillac from the '70s, this beat-up thing that they sent her to pick up the band in. because she had the biggest car of anyone, basically. And that's why she came and picked us all up to go to this clinic. She was going to school there. And of course, she's a very beautiful young girl. That didn't go unnoticed by anybody. People kind of started talking to her. And she seemed really cool. She was a singer. And we all went to this record store together after the clinic. And she sang this song a little bit, because I was talking to her about a Tony Bennett record I loved that she knew really well. And I thought, wow, this girl really knows her music and seems really talented. And we all ended up--she had a date with someone that night, and she broke the date and came out with us and took us out for Mexican food. And we went on this golf course and jammed. I don't think she would have ever asked to sing or ever said a peep. She was just out there listening to all of us. She was probably intimidated, because all of us were so much older and established. She was something like 18 or 19 at the time, I remember. And finally I said, "Hey"--or one of us said it--I don't want to take credit for it--but it was me--but anyway--I said, "Hey, why don't you sing a song?" Because there's all these guitar players there who could play standards, and she seemed to know her standards. And so Steve Cardenas and Kurt Rosenwinkel accompanied her. She did "Come Rain or Come Shine" out on this golf course. And she sounded amazing. She told us she had this steady gig in Dallas where she played piano and played standards.”

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