From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2005 #397 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Thursday, October 20 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 397 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- formatting problems NJC ["mike pritchard" ] Re: Cat Power njc [Bob Muller ] Re: Cat Power njc [Joseph Palis ] jodie borle NJC [mags h ] NYC for non-NYers and the cabaret convention njc [Joseph Palis ] (njc) Purple Panic, Ultraviolet Glaze and the Witten Catharsis [littlebre] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:39:41 +0200 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: formatting problems NJC Is anyone on the technical side of the JMDL doing anything about the 'problem' with using 'smart quotes' and not 'straight quotes', and about allowing 'non-ascii' characters, (French, Spanish, Portuguese accents etc) or is this only a problem for listers from other languages and those who prefer smart quotes? mike in bcn np - Brad Mehldau - Day is Done ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:18:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Cat Power njc Hi Garret, She's got 7 albums out there, the latest being 2003's "You Are Free" which was considered by most critics I read to be her best. It's the only one that I have. One killer track and the rest forgettable. Bob NP: Bonnie & B.B., "Baby I Love You" Garret wrote: Any Cat Power fans out there? I had a tape that someone made me (yup, people still use tapes) but misplaced when moving. It had about five cat Power songs on it. How many albums does she have and which are the best? GARRET NP- Allison Crowe, ACOY (Slainte yourself Adrian;-) - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:18:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Joseph Palis Subject: Re: Cat Power njc My professor introduced me to Cat Power via "You Are Free" but I have not purchased it or any of their stuff except the album of covers they released (and which I find fascinating up to now). Chan has this appealing voice that can get addictive and she can make a popular song unrecognizable in the tradition of Rickie Lee Jones (though not as inventive as RLJ). Her take on "Satisfaction" is very different, much like Tania Maria's brasil version of it. Then there is a harrowing "Lilac Wine". This is not your ordinary covers album that stick to the original concept, formula and execution and I recommend it. Joseph in windy NYC np: hum of the computer Bob Muller a icrit : Garret wrote: Any Cat Power fans out there? I had a tape that someone made me (yup, people still use tapes) but misplaced when moving. It had about five cat Power songs on it. How many albums does she have and which are the best? GARRET NP- Allison Crowe, ACOY (Slainte yourself Adrian;-) - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. - --------------------------------- Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Tilichargez le ici ! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:18:36 -0700 (PDT) From: mags h Subject: jodie borle NJC www.jodieborle.com have a listen to this prairie gal's voice enjoy, mags you could move mountains with the words you do not say ~mark reeves~ www.markreeves.com www.jeremyproctor.com - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:30:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Joseph Palis Subject: NYC for non-NYers and the cabaret convention njc Hi all~ So I flew to NYC three days before the actual fall break from school because various assorted friends are in NYC and various assorted reunions are inevitable. The nice thing about NYC for non NYers with barely a week to explore the city is that one gets to prioritize the events he/she want to see. I was planing to watch "Spamalot"'s matinee show today but my ex-girlfriend, who is flying out of the country tonight would rather see "Wicked" or "The Light in the Piazza" so I'll see if it will be the always hilarious Monty Python crew we will see this afternoon or Elphaba and Glinda. I heard good things about the three shows and I will probably be happy with any although I have not heard of "The Light in the Piazza". The other nice thing about this city is the amount of good films that get shown on the big screen (like Godard's "Masculine-Feminine" at the Film Forum) and see Wim Wenders in the flesh talk about "Land of Plenty". Yesterday a couple of friends of mine saw Luis Mandoki's film called "Innocent Voices". Mandoki is a Mexican director (although with transnationalism I don't think it is useful to label anyone with one's ethnicity as his/her defining identity marker) who also did Hollywood films like "Message in a Bottle" and "When A Man Loves A Woman". But "Innocent Voices" is a moral high ground because it touches on the forced recruitment of 12-year-old children to work as soldiers during the El Salvadorean civil war in the 1980s. Mandoki is a skillful director but he (like Spielberg when he helms dramas) can oh-so-subtly be emotionally manipulative especially if the corruption of the innocence of children is a cinematic sub-theme. But this boy -- Carlos Padilla -- is one of those young actors who seem to blossom before your eyes. Like Vinicius de Oliveira in "Central Station" or Victoire Thivisol in "Ponette", his coming-of-age is almost painful to watch. And I guess I derived a certain catharsis from seeing someone break free from the all-too-safe feeling of being perpetually protected by one's parent(s) -- at least cinematically. The gunfires can be sometimes grating -- but maybe that is the point of the movie -- to let those of us who never experience this type of thing, re-live it for those who did. Last night, I happened to be at the Lincoln Center because Clive Barker will be in Borders and he will be signing autographs. Plus his readers will get a chance to chat with him briefly (and maybe ask him where did that "I have such sights to show you" come from). While browsing through a stack of CDs in a special section of vocalists, a big guy asked me to help him prop a small poster in the midst of the CDs. The poster is the announcement of the Cabaret Convention that will run from Oct 17-23. Of course, I know some of the singers in the line up because I have their CDs and I always thought that I would one day catch a show when my resources are better. But this big guy was telling me to watch that night's show and was describing the previous night's performance which has the great names like Andrea Marcovicci, Karen Akers, Rebecca Kilgore, Steve Ross, Karen Mason, etc. on the list. Turned out the guy is Donald Smith (not the Donald Smith of "Singin' in the Rain' fame) who is the organizer of the whole Cabaret Convention and is the executive director of the Mabel Mercer Foundation. So I bought a ticket which brought me to the balcony along with groups of people of a certain demographic profile. And that night's show is probably typical of the night in the whole Cabaret Convention but I was made an instant fan of some singers I haven't heard of before. Singers are made to sing two songs each although that night's honoree -- Barbara Carroll -- performed 6 numbers. A young Spencer Day opened the show. Good pianist and has a good back up guitar and bass. Then came a woman I havent heard before - Mary Foster Conklin - but she showed superb vocal control that I made a mental note to get her CD. Then there is a very engaging Eric Comstock who is also a pianist and who sang with such authority and obvious love for the materials of Jule Styne and Kander and Ebb that he covered. Next came Laurel Masse, who I think gave the best performance of a song that night with a rapid-fire vocalese of "Fascinating Rhythm" and used her extremely low notes in singing "Sweet and Slow". While it is hard to top a singer like Laurel, the next one, Barbara Fasano managed to get the audience to cheer her and give her close to a standing ovation. Fasano is a very pretty singer who sang "Let's Do It" with all the cerebral sexiness. She did "Remind Me" after which is as beautiful as Ella Fitzgerald's. Then came Daryl Sherman who also palyed the piano to a great saxophonist whose name escapes me. Daryl Sherman has this Blossom Dearie speaking voice and she reminded me of Dearie when she sang "More than you Know" and had a playful duet with the saxophonist on the next track that I haven't heard of before. Before the first act closed, the elegant Barbara Carroll came on stage and performed an exquisite and hair-raising "My Funny Valentine". The hall was at its quietest when Carroll was playing the passage to the lyric equivalent of "..stay, little valentine, stay.." using dramatic use of silence to punctuate the lovely song's ode to one's unlovely love. Very moving. Then she did two vocals that fused "If You Love Paris" with "YOu are not my first love". She updated the lyrics somehow and made a passing reference to Diana Krall. She ended the first act with a very riotous "I Wont Dance" quoting funny passages from "Cabaret". The second act featured Ann Hampton Callaway who asked the audience what are the adjectives they would use to descrbe Barbara Carroll. Then she composed a song based on those adjectives with her own funny and witty lyrics describing how she hates Barbara Carroll because of her slimness, etc. She also sang at one point: "why can't the world have more Barbara Carrolls rather than Britney Spears" that had the audience applauding. Then Carroll came out and played her tune to Bill Evans and Callaway sang her own lyrics to it. It was a lovely duet from two pianists. Donald Smith came out next to announce the next singer but before that he said: "don't you just hate show-offs?". Allan Harris came next. He has a very smooth voice that sometimes verges on the smooth-jazz vocals. It reminded me so much of George Benson and Freddy Cole. He sang a very good "Softly as in the Morning Sunrise" with melisma kept in check. Then he did an original tune in his guitar with two superb back-up singers who almost stole the show from him. Canadian Adi Braun came next and sang a Canadian song -- I forget the exact details how she described it but the song is very beautiful. Just her voice and a piano accompaniment. She ended her two-song set with a rather slow "The Lady is a Tramp" which is so good and a re-imagination of a song traditionally sung fast and brisk. I like the lustre of her voice and I may check out her CD. Heather Sullivan came next and accompanied herself to the piano. She was one of the back-up singers of Allan Harris earlier and she sang a reworked "Piano Man" and another song which together were so achingly sung that the applause was much louder than the applause she got when she was announced earlier. A note: I remembered an article that came out that said that when Lizz Wright sang in a high-profile tribute concert, she walked onstage an unknown and came out no longer an unknown because of her vocal prowess and how she connected to the audience. I am inclined to say that to Heather Sullivan because of her grace and her ability to create a world by her song and music. In fact the song she sang after "Piano Man" reminded me of a Joni song and it was her most applauded number too. I am now a fan of Heather Sulliavan, no doubt about it. Ronny White came last and also played the piano and sang "I Walk A Little Faster" and finsihed it with a song Mabel Mercer usually sang when she ends her performances -- it sounded like "I Love You, Alright". White sang it well and with such playfulness that I thought it was a good way to end the evening. The last number was given by Barbara Carroll who played and sang Sondheim's "Old Friends". Before she sang, she told the audience that that song came about because when Sondheim and his friends would toast their drinks, they don't say "to one's health", etc but "here's to us, who's like us, damn few". It was a fitting end to a great concert. I am glad I came. Joseph in very-good-weather NYC np: sound of mourning pigeons Jerry Notaro a icrit : - --------------------------------- Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Tilichargez le ici ! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:52:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gerald A. Notaro" Subject: Re: NYC for non-NYers and the cabaret convention njc Joseph Palis wrote: > Hi all~ > > So I flew to NYC three days before the actual fall break from school > because various assorted friends are in NYC and various assorted reunions > are inevitable. The nice thing about NYC for non NYers with barely a week > to explore the city is that one gets to prioritize the events he/she want > to see. I was planing to watch "Spamalot"'s matinee show today but my > ex-girlfriend, who is flying out of the country tonight would rather see > "Wicked" or "The Light in the Piazza" so I'll see if it will be the always > hilarious Monty Python crew we will see this afternoon or Elphaba and > Glinda. I heard good things about the three shows and I will probably be > happy with any although I have not heard of "The Light in the Piazza". > I've seen all three. Light In the Piazza is by far the better show. > The other nice thing about this city is the amount of good films that get > shown on the big screen (like Godard's "Masculine-Feminine" at the Film > Forum) and see Wim Wenders in the flesh talk about "Land of Plenty". > Yesterday a couple of friends of mine saw Luis Mandoki's film called > "Innocent Voices". Mandoki is a Mexican director (although with > transnationalism I don't think it is useful to label anyone with one's > ethnicity as his/her defining identity marker) who also did Hollywood > films like "Message in a Bottle" and "When A Man Loves A Woman". But > "Innocent Voices" is a moral high ground because it touches on the forced > recruitment of 12-year-old children to work as soldiers during the El > Salvadorean civil war in the 1980s. Mandoki is a skillful director but he > (like Spielberg when he helms dramas) can oh-so-subtly be emotionally > manipulative especially if the corruption of the innocence of children is > a cinematic sub-theme. But this boy -- Carlos Padilla -- is one of th! > ose young > actors who seem to blossom before your eyes. Like Vinicius de Oliveira in > "Central Station" One of my favorite movies! or Victoire Thivisol in "Ponette", his coming-of-age is > almost painful to watch. And I guess I derived a certain catharsis from > seeing someone break free from the all-too-safe feeling of being > perpetually protected by one's parent(s) -- at least cinematically. The > gunfires can be sometimes grating -- but maybe that is the point of the > movie -- to let those of us who never experience this type of thing, > re-live it for those who did. > > Last night, I happened to be at the Lincoln Center because Clive Barker > will be in Borders and he will be signing autographs. Plus his readers > will get a chance to chat with him briefly (and maybe ask him where did > that "I have such sights to show you" come from). While browsing through a > stack of CDs in a special section of vocalists, a big guy asked me to help > him prop a small poster in the midst of the CDs. The poster is the > announcement of the Cabaret Convention that will run from Oct 17-23. Of > course, I know some of the singers in the line up because I have their CDs > and I always thought that I would one day catch a show when my resources > are better. But this big guy was telling me to watch that night's show and > was describing the previous night's performance which has the great names > like Andrea Marcovicci, Karen Akers, Rebecca Kilgore, Steve Ross, Karen > Mason, etc. on the list. Turned out the guy is Donald Smith (not the > Donald Smith of "Singin' in the Rain' fame) who! > is the > organizer of the whole Cabaret Convention and is the executive director > of the Mabel Mercer Foundation. So I bought a ticket which brought me to > the balcony along with groups of people of a certain demographic profile. > And that night's show is probably typical of the night in the whole > Cabaret Convention but I was made an instant fan of some singers I > haven't heard of before. Singers are made to sing two songs each although > that night's honoree -- Barbara Carroll -- performed 6 numbers. > > A young Spencer Day opened the show. Good pianist and has a good back up > guitar and bass. > > Then came a woman I havent heard before - Mary Foster Conklin - but she > showed superb vocal control that I made a mental note to get her CD. > > Then there is a very engaging Eric Comstock who is also a pianist and who > sang with such authority and obvious love for the materials of Jule Styne > and Kander and Ebb that he covered. > > Next came Laurel Masse, who I think gave the best performance of a song > that night with a rapid-fire vocalese of "Fascinating Rhythm" and used her > extremely low notes in singing "Sweet and Slow". > > While it is hard to top a singer like Laurel, the next one, Barbara Fasano > managed to get the audience to cheer her and give her close to a standing > ovation. Fasano is a very pretty singer who sang "Let's Do It" with all > the cerebral sexiness. She did "Remind Me" after which is as beautiful as > Ella Fitzgerald's. > > Then came Daryl Sherman who also palyed the piano to a great saxophonist > whose name escapes me. Daryl Sherman has this Blossom Dearie speaking > voice and she reminded me of Dearie when she sang "More than you Know" and > had a playful duet with the saxophonist on the next track that I haven't > heard of before. > > Before the first act closed, the elegant Barbara Carroll came on stage and > performed an exquisite and hair-raising "My Funny Valentine". The hall was > at its quietest when Carroll was playing the passage to the lyric > equivalent of "..stay, little valentine, stay.." using dramatic use of > silence to punctuate the lovely song's ode to one's unlovely love. Very > moving. Then she did two vocals that fused "If You Love Paris" with "YOu > are not my first love". She updated the lyrics somehow and made a passing > reference to Diana Krall. She ended the first act with a very riotous "I > Wont Dance" quoting funny passages from "Cabaret". > > The second act featured Ann Hampton Callaway who asked the audience what > are the adjectives they would use to descrbe Barbara Carroll. Then she > composed a song based on those adjectives with her own funny and witty > lyrics describing how she hates Barbara Carroll because of her slimness, > etc. She also sang at one point: "why can't the world have more Barbara > Carrolls rather than Britney Spears" that had the audience applauding. > Then Carroll came out and played her tune to Bill Evans and Callaway sang > her own lyrics to it. It was a lovely duet from two pianists. > Went to see Ann last October in NY at the Blue Smoke. She had been in Tampa to perform with the Tampa Bay Gay Men's Chorus so my friend Frank and I were bold enough to go up to her at the bar and chat with her. She was wonderful, as always. Her album with her sister Liz called Sisters is a real treat. > Donald Smith came out next to announce the next singer but before that he > said: "don't you just hate show-offs?". > > Allan Harris came next. He has a very smooth voice that sometimes verges > on the smooth-jazz vocals. It reminded me so much of George Benson and > Freddy Cole. He sang a very good "Softly as in the Morning Sunrise" with > melisma kept in check. Then he did an original tune in his guitar with two > superb back-up singers who almost stole the show from him. > > Canadian Adi Braun came next and sang a Canadian song -- I forget the > exact details how she described it but the song is very beautiful. Just > her voice and a piano accompaniment. She ended her two-song set with a > rather slow "The Lady is a Tramp" which is so good and a re-imagination of > a song traditionally sung fast and brisk. I like the lustre of her voice > and I may check out her CD. > > Heather Sullivan came next and accompanied herself to the piano. She was > one of the back-up singers of Allan Harris earlier and she sang a reworked > "Piano Man" and another song which together were so achingly sung that the > applause was much louder than the applause she got when she was announced > earlier. A note: I remembered an article that came out that said that when > Lizz Wright sang in a high-profile tribute concert, she walked onstage an > unknown and came out no longer an unknown because of her vocal prowess and > how she connected to the audience. I am inclined to say that to Heather > Sullivan because of her grace and her ability to create a world by her > song and music. In fact the song she sang after "Piano Man" reminded me of > a Joni song and it was her most applauded number too. I am now a fan of > Heather Sulliavan, no doubt about it. > > Ronny White came last and also played the piano and sang "I Walk A Little > Faster" and finsihed it with a song Mabel Mercer usually sang when she > ends her performances -- it sounded like "I Love You, Alright". White sang > it well and with such playfulness that I thought it was a good way to end > the evening. > > The last number was given by Barbara Carroll who played and sang > Sondheim's "Old Friends". Before she sang, she told the audience that that > song came about because when Sondheim and his friends would toast their > drinks, they don't say "to one's health", etc but "here's to us, who's > like us, damn few". It was a fitting end to a great concert. I am glad I > came. Sounds like dream concert. Keep your eye and ear out for Josh Young. Gorgeous voice (ain't bad to look at, either.) He has a BSN on an upcoming Covers that is stunning. Just released his first solo cd of cabaret and show songs. Thanks for the wrap up, Joseph. We'll have to do NY some time. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:08:55 -0600 From: Robert Procyk Subject: new joni bio? Hey, when I was with my daughter at "Time for Twos" last night at my public library , I stumbled across the new Joni bio - can't remember who wrote it (it's at home right now), and it looks, well, lame, but then again I only glanced at it last night. But who wrote it? I leafed through and it just looked like some undergrad paper on Joni, complete with 4 billion references. The stupidest thing I came across was a blurb about how small Maidstone was, and then the next paragraph was just a quotation from Nash saying "Joni comes from a small town" or something like that. Oh, it was just awful. But maybe it'll get better. Maybe I am just jealous because I've always wanted to write her life, or at least her Saskatchewan life, and so I can't stand to look at this stuff. So who knows anything about this book? Sorry in advance if this has been discussed already - I've tried to stay current lately, but some digests just slip through the old fingers. Rob np: Charlie Haden "American Dreams" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:31:46 +0000 From: littlebreen@comcast.net Subject: (njc) Purple Panic, Ultraviolet Glaze and the Witten Catharsis Hi, Gang, Don't have much time to write, but I wanted my virtual jonifamily to know: Robert is in the hospital, with extreme anemia and some form of pneumonia (probably pneumocystis, but we won't know for another day or so), and it's looking mighty iffy. And although I've been walking around in a state of Blue Transparency for some time, more or less expecting this, my state went from Blue to Purple Panic (five hours yesterday trying to get a confused and extremely weak Robert cleaned and clothed because he absolutely *would not* go to the hospital unshowered and in an ambulance) and I'm now trying to maintain an ultraviolet glaze. But while taking a shower this morning, I decided to put on some Patti Witten. No, not Land of Souvenirs, because I know what Second Longest Day of the Year does to me, and then I decided against Sycamore Tryst, because Another Minute More is too close to my current situation (and no, goddammit, I'm not ready yet to be widow), and so I put on Patti's Prairie Doll CD (actually PD is the name of the group she plays with sometimes), and I was doing sort of okay until Call the Angels came on, and well, Patti, thanks. It was ridiculous for me to avoid breaking down, I feel better now, and ready to go see Robert at the hospital. Those of you who are more or less conventially religious, I could use prayers for Robert's and my strangth right about now, and for those of you who are, like me, vaguer on this point, anything you can manage is also welcome. Tryin' to keep my walls from tumbling down, love to all, Walt-- Let the walls go tumbling down Falling on the ground And all the dogs go running free The wild and gentle dogs Kenneled in me ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2005 #397 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)