What The.... - Norah Jones

What The.... - Norah Jones sweeps the big awards?

I mean, it's great intimate-fifth-date music (which is why I've only heard the album on the car radio and on the kiosks at the record store), but Album of the Year, during a year with The Rising and The Eminem Show came out?

Can anyone say "Christopher Cross"? Sarah Vaughn or Cassandra Wilson are to Norah Jones as Django Reinhardt is to Pat Metheny.

On the other hand, the "All Star Tribute to the Clash", by Elvis Costello, Springsteen, Miami Steve Van Zandt and Dave Grohl, was really, really great. Even my 11 year old daughter went "Wow. That was cool. Wish we could get that on CD".

UPDATE: A correspondent writes: "Django was a genius, yes, but don't sell Metheny short - he's hardly a lite-jazz fret caresser."

Fair enough. Metheny is good, although I haven't listened to him much since the late eighties. I just needed something a little less obvious than "Billie Holiday is to Norah Jones as Charlie Parker is to Kenny G". Point taken.

Here's the real question: Am I wrong? Am I selling Jones short?

I'm willing to be convinced.