With her 2017 release, Written for You, Portland singer-songwriter-pianist Naomi LaViolette is veering in a slightly different direction than her previous albums. LaViolette’s vocals are as smooth and rich as ever, and sonically the album is as steeped in classical music and jazz as it is in folk and pop, but the wrinkle here is in the nature of the content, and that wrinkle is the gift. Instead of solely mining the depths of her life experiences while creating songs for this album, much of the content comes from songs she was commissioned to write for others. Creating a record with this theme happened naturally, but almost accidentally. “Someone asked me to write a song commission several years ago, and it was really fun to do,” says LaViolette. “Then I got another and that was fun to do. It was this snowball effect. My husband knew how much I loved doing these, so he said, ‘You should put all these songs on a record and call it Written for ...