Crawford Post Production recently completed creative video editorial and audio mixing sessions on three mini- documentaries featuring Norah Jones and The Handsome Band. These featurettes are included as bonus material in her concert DVD, "Norah Jones and The Handsome Band: Live in 2004, " released on November 16, 2004 for Blue Note Records. Norah's previous DVD, "Live In New Orleans, " was also edited and mixed at Crawford, and went four times platinum-selling in the U.S.

These mini-docs follow silky-voiced Norah onstage and off, and engagingly examines the struggle an artist faces when she goes from small nightclubs to huge arenas in just a few short months. One featurette shows a 24-hour day-in-the-life of the band and crew; the often told, on-the-road scenario that Crawford editor Tom Roche knew would need a fresh approach. Says Roche, "Norah's audience is intelligent and hip, and our task was to create video pieces that were as smooth and classy as Norah's own sound."

Producer/filmmaker Jim Gabour, Managing Director of Jim Gabour Moving Pictures LLC of New Orleans, was happy to return to Crawford following the blockbuster success of his "Norah Jones: Live In New Orleans" production. Says Gabour, "This is my fifth high-profile project at Crawford in the last three years, and they have never given me anything less than a world-class product." Gabour's offline was conformed by Roche in Crawford's newest Avid Adrenaline suite, the sixth Adrenaline suite to be linked to the company's new 5.6-terabyte Unity Media shared storage system.

Another mini-doc, "Guitar Tour, " features the band's guitarists, Adam Levy and Robbie McIntosh. Backstage just before the band's sold-out show at Atlanta's Chastain Park, Levy and Macintosh opened their private trunk of vintage guitars and told the stories behind each "axe." Crawford sound designer Greg Crawford supervised both the field recording and later the final mix.