Norah Jones hit the Rolodex before recording her latest album.
She tapped a few high-profile songwriters — alt-country star Ryan Adams and critically acclaimed singer Will Sheff of Okkervil River — to put together a few tracks.
She teamed up with producer Jacquire King, who also has recorded music for the Kings of Leon and Modest Mouse.
And then she released “The Fall.”
The chart-topping singer will head to Seattle to play music from that album, her latest platinum-selling success story, on Sunday.
The album was billed as her most rocking record to date, in large part because of her list of collaborators.
However, Jones also kept working with long-time teammate Jesse Harris, preserving the type of pop jazz sound that has helped her sell more than 30 million albums in the past eight years.
8 p.m. Sunday, Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine St., Seattle; $46.50 to $57; stgpresents.org or 877-784-4849.
HIM: Talk about famous firsts.
This goth-rock group claims to be the first Finnish band to go gold in the United States — meaning it shipped 500,000 copies of a single album — thanks to its 2005 breakthrough “Dark Light.”
They may just accomplish the feat again. The group’s success continued on to its most recent album, “Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Chapters 1-13,” which debuted at No. 25 on the Billboard 200.
Now, HIM — which stands for His Infernal Majesty — will hit Seattle.
The group will sign autographs at Silver Platters record store in Seattle before its show on Saturday. Get the full details on both events at www.heartagram.com.
8 p.m. Saturday, Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., Seattle; $28; ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.
David Grisman Quintet: Is it bluegrass? Is it jazz?
David Grisman doesn’t really care for either label.
He’d just as soon you call it “dawg music.” And he has recorded plenty of it.
In the past decade alone, Grisman has released nearly a dozen studio albums, along with a few live discs.
The 65-year-old acoustic guitar master will bring his group to Seattle for a six-show stint that begins on Thursday.
Multiple times Thursday to April 24, Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., Seattle; $33.50; ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.
Andy Rathbun: 425-339-3455; arathbun@heraldnet.com.
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