From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #88 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 Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Friday, March 10 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 088 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: FW: Message re; River [JRMCo1@aol.com] Ian Shaw Interview [seulbzzaj@aol.com] Re: Joni Dream [Smurf ] Re: Shopping NJC [Smurf ] Re:The Human Jukebox [PassScribe@aol.com] Re: Shopping NJC [FMYFL@aol.com] Subject: Re: RE:NJC Claudia's new CD [Claud9 ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:22:29 EST From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Re: FW: Message re; River A cogent analysis of "River," Bob. Thank you. That song is packed with Joni genius and duality. I'll explicate it in words someday, but I'm still learning more from it upon every listen, even after 35 years. You make an excellent point when you illuminate the fact that Joni frequently took on universal themes and made them personal. I believe she does so in much the same way that Gordon Parks often focused on one person in his photography to illustrate broad social themes. His "American Gothic" for instance: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2006/03/08/GA200603080009 7_movie.htm?startat=2 Synchronistically, James Taylor's website features his cover of this Joni classic as soon as you surf onto it. http://www.jamestaylor.com/_mp3/james_taylor--river.mp3 He still sings "river so wide" instead of "long," but who's perfect? I'm off to play my own standard tuning version on my own guitar. Ever so cathartic. - -Julius In a message dated 3/9/06 4:08:38 PM, scjoniguy@yahoo.com writes: > Hi Emma - my "analysis" of River: > > In a bushel full of top-notch songs, River is > surely one of Joni's finest and emotionally > strongest. Following the pattern of some of the > other songs on Blue, it takes universal themes > and makes them become personal. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:42:13 -0500 From: seulbzzaj@aol.com Subject: Ian Shaw Interview Here is an interview with Ian Shaw frm a newsletter e-mail that I received from Linn Records: Ian Shaw New Album - Exclusive Interview Having already featured on the front cover in the brand new March edition of leading publication Jazzwise and a host of live dates just announced, the portents are good for the forthcoming Ian Shaw album "Drawn to All Things" (Linn AKD 276). It is a sumptuous reworking of the Joni Mitchell songbook from the UK's leading male jazz singer. Produced by Richard Cottle, it features a mouth-watering array of talent. Sure to be one of the musical highlights of 2006, it places one foot in jazz territory and another into a broader spectrum that is both soulful and big in the production stakes. His most recent albums have been released on US-based labels but this, his debut album on Linn Records, represents a homecoming that, in the words of respected publication Jazzwise, will see Ian's profile raised beyond "the confines of the jazz world". Often compared with the legendary Mark Murphy, many critics believe Ian to be an important international talent in a world with a very few male jazz vocalists. Released on Monday 3 April, you can pre-order your copy online at www.linnrecords.com. Linn Records' Colin Cook took some time to catch up with Ian for an exclusive interview - which we will present in two parts, in this and the next edition of the Linn Records Jazz Newsletter. It will offer a fascinating insight into the artist and his new album, the current jazz scene and music industry in general. Joni Mitchell has an extensive back catalogue of songs. How did you choose the material for "Drawn to all Things"? The songs which made the final collection were chosen mainly for my own personal connection with Joni's work. "Both Sides Now" was one of my first singles albeit sung by the impossibly blue-eyed Judy Collins. "Night Ride Home" has been a duet with Claire Martin for almost all our gigging years. It is joyful. "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" album was a glorious ephiphany for me as a student in the 80s, so "Edith" represents that record. Some of Joni's compositions are too . . . well, too . . . Joni!! To re-interpret "Hejira" (apart from "Furry Sings the Blues" which I recorded in 1999 with Cedar Walton) would be like discovering a locked diary, prising it open and reading it out aloud, naked on a uni-cycle with a flat tyre. Can you describe the thought process behind the arrangements from their original formats? I hope that, although some of my arrangements twist a gentle, rhythmic and harmonic squewer, occasionally daring to re-harm and re-structure, the overall narrative tension and 'scape of each miniature is merely re-interpreted and not re-invented. Will there be any surprises when performing them live? The only surprises when I perform these songs live is that, because I work with jazz musicians, there will be improvisation over whole repeated sections, unlike Joni's originals which, of course, focus on her story and carefully spun arrangements in studio format. I am able, as a jazz singer, to play these lines live as I would Gershwin or Porter. What would you say to the diehard Joni Mitchell fan about the album? I hope the die-hard Joni fans will only see my album as a body of work that reflects a complete devotion to composer and poet. Which non-Joni Mitchell song would you like to hear her sing? I would like to hear Joni sing Fran Landesmann and Tommy Wolf's "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most". Don't miss part two of this exclusive interview which will be featured in our next newsletter on Thursday 23 March, 2006. Ian Shaw will be touring extensively this year - full details can be found here. - Scott ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:22:31 -0800 (PST) From: Smurf Subject: Re: Joni Dream - --- Laurent wrote: > Joni is > actually a tall man with whitish hair and a mustach, > now bearing a > resemblance with John Cleese. > > Who would have guessed she was hiding this for all > these years? \ Bob Dylan did say she was a man. - --Smurf . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:26:24 -0800 (PST) From: Smurf Subject: Re: Shopping NJC - --- Jimmy wrote: > I don't like shopping for > groceries or clothes. That's what Ed is for. LOL Ed wears clothes? - --Smurf . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 23:37:44 EST From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re:The Human Jukebox Hi, all, I was surprised no one mentioned the human jukebox that used to appear on the streets of San Francisco, down by the waterfront area. I last saw him in 1990, I think; there was a guy in a homemade box, resembling an old telephone booth. It was brightly colored and had a list of songs on the front. There was an opening, as I remember, and if you put some money in there, a sliding door opened up near eye-level, and a guy inside would proceed to play a song on a trumpet for you. Cool, eh?! Kenny B In a message dated 3/8/06 3:13:59 AM, owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org writes: > From: Nuriel Tobias > Subject: Human Jukebox > > Hi friends! > In one of her DVD's (Sorry for not recalling which one) Joni says she > doesn't want to become a human jukebox. > Anyone knows what did Joni mean by that? > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 23:38:36 EST From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Shopping NJC Yes he does, except when he goes to Daddy Depot :) Happy casual sex Friday, xoxo Jimmy In a message dated 3/9/2006 11:26:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, smurfadelica@yahoo.com writes: > --- Jimmy wrote: > > >I don't like shopping for > >groceries or clothes. That's what Ed is for. LOL > > > Ed wears clothes? > > --Smurf ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:38:27 -0500 From: Claud9 Subject: Subject: Re: RE:NJC Claudia's new CD Hi Randy, Down-home acoustic is right. It doesn9t get more true to what we do. It is just us. Two guitars, two voices and great enjoyment playing together. Thanks for checking it out and for your kind words! Best Claudia ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #88 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------