Insta-fame is a funny thing. Had Norah Jones not sold a bazillion copies of 2002s Come Away With Me to moms and uncles via Blue Note Recordsknown for issuing some of Miles Davis finest workwed be having a completely different conversation about Ms. Jones. There wouldnt have been the predictable adult-contemporary backlash from the indie set, and she wouldnt have provoked the ire of purists who thought she was trying to ape jazz. Her new record, The Fall, would be judged sans baggage, and like it should be: as the latest installment from a honey-voiced chanteuse with a knack for writingand pickingwitty pop songs that may not break new ground or change lives, but are above average and contempt in every way. With Sasha Dobson. CHRIS KORNELIS
Sun., April 18, 8 p.m., 2010