amateurist otm re: bright size life. Such a good album!
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
it was recommended to me on ILM, maybe even on this very thread.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
Some fairly wide-ranging Mitchell show tapes incl. Larry Klein having no prob w Jaco-associated songs, while not trying to imitate him (also no difficulty with songs from other eras). Metheny Group could be good, though I like him better with Haden etc. on 80/81 and Rejoicing, also w Ornette on Song X (also good w Gary Burton)
― dow, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
I really liked Jaco's s/t solo debut. Really haven't latched on to anything else by him though, including the Mitchell work.
― how's life, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that solo album is pretty funky. Sam + Dave and Herbie Hancock cameos help.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
Bright Size Life is great and captures a lot of the same vibe as Hejira
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Joni on Car(e)y:http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-muse-behind-joni-mitchells-carey-1415721658
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
wonderful image too
http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/AR-AH807_JONI_12S_20141111102702.jpg
― marcos, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
and an interview with Cary himself!http://online.wsj.com/articles/when-joni-mitchell-met-cary-raditz-her-mean-old-daddy-1415721367?tesla=y
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
great article! xxp
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
yea both of those were really great
― marcos, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
https://crete.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/joni-michell-in-matala-crete/
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
Mark Deming reviews new, def artist's-choice box set (think some audio excerpts too but haven't had time to check): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love-has-many-faces-a-quartet-a-ballet-waiting-to-be-danced-joni-mitchell/28316633?ean=81227957858
― dow, Sunday, 30 November 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Cover is also self-portrait, I think I read:
http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/81227957858_p0_v1_s600.JPG
― dow, Sunday, 30 November 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Figured bump would be forhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/joni-mitchell-will-not-allow-taylor-swift-to-play-her/
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
I said to the producer, 'All you've got is a girl with high cheekbones'....RAWR!
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Who should play Joni would be an interesting game to play
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
She doesn't conform to the standards required to be met by anyone you've heard of.
― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Jenny Lewis is probably too old
― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
A Joni biopic has so much potential for bathos, maybe it just shouldn't ever happen
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
Maybe if it were just the Cary/Carey experience? I wanna go to that island. Keira Knightley could do it (the island thing didn't involve much campfire chirping, seems like; could just use soundtrack of the original J)
― dow, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
K wouldn't be too old for that-era J
― dow, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
You know, like the one about the Beatles as Hamburg house band, or when John and Brian Epstein took a vacation together.
― dow, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
I thought the bump would be for that awful open letter by Dave Bidini (non-Canadians and anyone under the age of 25 go "who?") that's basically "why don't you smile, lady? ps why do u h8 John Lennon"
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
hey what can you folks tell me about post-70s joni?
― marcos, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
what should i a seek out? listening to wild things run fast right now and i can dig it tbh
― marcos, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
If you like Wild Things from the get-go, you may be well served just working through it all, you'll probably find a fair amount of interest in every record.
― MaresNest, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Night Ride Home (from 1991) is best though.
― Tim F, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Re box set & all sides now, cool li'l interview this morning. Think there's more tomorrow:
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/08/369276288/after-decades-of-success-shes-still-just-a-painter-who-writes-songs
― dow, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
"man to man" from wild things is great, uses the new 80s production and style pretty successfully imo
― marcos, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
I definitely rep for Wild Things, Taming and Night Ride (the latter two especially). Also, Shine is somewhat underrated, if occasionally overly serious and didactic (even for Joni)
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
and by "underrated" I mean among the kinda people who post to ILX. It was her best selling album since Hejira iirc
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Hell, I love "Fiction" and "Good Friends" from DED.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B63FmFICQAALwAj.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 January 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link
"They paved paradise/put up a designer boutique shop..."
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 January 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
i am listening to mingus as we speak, didn't notice this thread in SNA, but searched it to post about mingus! anyways this album is highly underrated, it's a little flimsier than the preceding albums but i just love the looseness of it, joni does jazz VERY VERY well and i've never had a problem with how deep she wanted to go into jazz.
― marcos, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
Joni doesn't either!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 January 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
haha which is a good thing!
― marcos, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
I like that portrait. Makes me feel like a lad again, hat in hand, before my girlfriend's Mom. Time and the Cali sun have not melted her.
― dow, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
Then again, Google her self-portraits...
― dow, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
they are amazing!
― marcos, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
Eh I kind of feel like Joni doing jazz never really sounds like jazz, just jazzed up Joni ( not necessarily a bad thing). But I need to give Mingus a closer listen.
― man alive, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
i don't particularly enjoy the "mingus" album but i've always been a little suspicious of how some critics seemed to want to punish mitchell for trying to make a "jazz" album, as if this white girl couldn't possibly know what she was doing. in fact i think more than a few of the critics were bluffing their supposed expertise in jazz that qualified them to disparage the album as not-jazz.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 9 January 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
I remember not liking it a while back. I so rarely like ANY jazz vocals, that Joni doing her take on them was not likely to please me. Right now I'm listening to it again -- the opener is kind of messy and pointless imo, an exercise, but I guess it does sound like "actual jazz" whatever little that's worth. God Must Be A Boogie Man is sort of overwrought. I also have a distaste for Jaco's intrusive, farty bass playing in general. The lyrics she put to Goodbye Porkpie Hat are cringey, but she does a credible job on the vocal. The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey is a very good tune though.
― man alive, Friday, 9 January 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
It's also the least "jazzy" of the tunes so far.
Pre-Mitchell Joni:
http://www.openculture.com/2015/01/vintage-video-of-joni-mitchell-performing-in-1965.html
― dow, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Thanks so much for posting that.
― skip, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Total aside, but the Jim Chapin announced on drums wrote one of the most important drumset books out there, like one of a handful that pretty much every drum student uses.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
She's already so much better than anything referred to as part of "the folk scene" aby then imo.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link