From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2007 #77 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 Tuesday, February 20 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 077 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- The Nara sessions! ["vincenzo mancini" ] Re: Dixie Chicks duet w/James Taylor - NJC [Jerry Notaro ] Re: hgtv, living with ed njc [Em ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #54 [StDoherty@aol.com] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20njc=2C=20Chinese=20=28Cafe=29=20New=20Ye ar=20=26=20banyan=20trees=20=26=20museums?= ["=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=2] Re: njc, Chinese (Cafe) New Ye ar & banyan trees & museums ["Randy Remot] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20njc=2C=20=26=20banyan=20trees=20=26=20an d=20the=20PAZ=22s=20whistle=20stop?= ["=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=20WATTS?] Re: njc, Chinese (Cafe) New Ye ar & banyan trees & museums now NJC [Em ] Chopin, njc [LCStanley7@aol.com] Re: I had forgot.....Joni's piano playing... ["Jill Haas" ] Globe & Mail Joni article [] Typos (njc) [] Re: Transitions & Evolutions (njc) ["Dr. Katherine Whited" ] Re: Transitions & Evolutions (njc) [Victor Johnson ] Re: Jonifest (NJC) ["Lori Fye" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:12:54 +0000 From: "vincenzo mancini" Subject: The Nara sessions! You can see them at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70LXLE3CkJk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w0CJbMOVVc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25MF9j4N5G0 Vincenzo - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger Download today it's FREE! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:38:16 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Dixie Chicks duet w/James Taylor - NJC This is by far my favorite of the Crossroads series. We just started getting the HD MYV channel and they broadcast this show recently in Hi Def and %.1 Dolby Digital. A real treat. Jerry > For anyone who might be interested, here is a link I sent to a friend recently > it's an audio recording of the Dixie Chicks with James Taylor performing > "Sweet Baby James". It's from the program CMT Crossroads. > > I hope you enjoy it. > > http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=RlRweFVY > cHZwM2w1VEE9PQ > > Warmly, > Cassy > > NP: Del Amitri - Food For Songs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:17:33 -0500 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: hgtv, living with ed njc I have found a show on the TV that is fun and good. Lately in the east it has been coming on at 7pm. It is a show about an actor who is an environmentalist. . and he and his wife are living together and everything he does is with thoughfulness to the environment. For example, he was replacing his kitchen counters and he found a counter top that was made using recycled glass bottles (in a mosaic of cement maybe/). And when he goes to the store and is at the checkout counter and he is asked, "paper or plastic?" Ed says the right answer is "neither." Bring your own bag. So he forgets his canvas bag and he is walking out of the store with an arm ful of stuff and the goods might fall out of his arms. . it is sweet . . . and I like the show. He always wants to find a hoome for anthing that could potentially end up in a landfill .. inspiring Also, he was haivng solar panels put on his house and so was a friend of his. I hope this show isn't just for a short time. It is on HOme and Garden TV. His wife puts up with him. it's a good one, try to watch it. has anyone seen it? LiVING with Ed Marianne _________________________________________________________________ http://homepage.msn.com/zune?icid=hmetagline ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:29:47 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: hgtv, living with ed njc Its hilarious! I've always loved Ed Begley for some reason. hehhhehhh, we do enjoy this one. GF is addicted to reality shows, most of which I detest with all my being. This one goes down smooth, though. :) Em - --- Marianne Rizzo wrote: > I have found a show on the TV that is fun and good. > > Lately in the east it has been coming on at 7pm. > > It is a show about an actor who is an environmentalist. . and he and > his > wife are living together and everything he does is with thoughfulness > to the > environment. > > For example, he was replacing his kitchen counters and he found a > counter > top that was made using recycled glass bottles (in a mosaic of cement > > maybe/). > > And when he goes to the store and is at the checkout counter and he > is > asked, "paper or plastic?" > Ed says the right answer is "neither." > Bring your own bag. > > So he forgets his canvas bag and he is walking out of the store with > an arm > ful of stuff and the goods might fall out of his arms. . > > it is sweet . . . and I like the show. > > He always wants to find a hoome for anthing that could potentially > end up in > a landfill .. > > inspiring > > > > Also, he was haivng solar panels put on his house and so was a > friend of > his. > > I hope this show isn't just for a short time. > > It is on HOme and Garden TV. > > His wife puts up with him. > it's a good one, try to watch it. > > has anyone seen it? > > LiVING with Ed > > Marianne > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://homepage.msn.com/zune?icid=hmetagline ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:01:54 EST From: StDoherty@aol.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #54 In a message dated 02/19/2007 3:00:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org writes: I would have to say that the album DJRD contains her most interesting work in terms of guitar composition, and is way up there on my favorites list overall. Unlike Kakki, I love Hejira - she was thinking, thinking, and I love to think, think and hear Joni thinking, thinking. Then, one record later, she changes pace, and is living, living, reckless multiplicity. Unconscious. The incredible progression of the seven record span from LOTC to DJRD is truly mind blowing to me - not a mediocre song in the entire span, and the end is nothing like the beginning. Mingus represented a diversion of sorts and a deflection of sorts, as the work was not all hers, and her subsequent work went in a very different direction althogether. I repeat my earlier query as to what her next record would have been like if Mingus had not beckoned. She was on her way out of orbit altogether, and then she sort of found her way back to earth - - - maybe something about getting married, I dunno. At that time, she had lost me anyway - glad I eventually caught up. I totally agree with this. I've always like DJRD, but didn't get a CD copy till a year ago. Then I started listing to it while I ran because it's perhaps her best album for this sport. The title cut is on my steroid play list because it really makes me move. Makes my head move - I love the lyrics. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:46:58 -0800 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=20WATTS?=" Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20njc=2C=20Chinese=20=28Cafe=29=20New=20Ye ar=20=26=20banyan=20trees=20=26=20museums?= - ---------- Original Message ------------- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:09:14 -0800 From: "Patti Parlette" To: joni@smoe.org Subject: njc, Chinese (Cafe) New Year & banyan trees & museums >Happy Chinese (Cafe) New Year! > >I started to write this Friday and then (weak and a lazy mind) forgot to >complete it and send it. > >Alors, voila: > > >An announcement I received set me off into JMOCD w/ the word "banyan"....not >a word you see everyday. > >Empty halls and beveled mirrors >Sailing seas and climbing banyans >Come out for a visit here... > >to our art museum to make a Chinese (Cafe) New Year's wish: > >"CELEBRATE THE CHINESE NEW YEAR NOW THROUGH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 > >The Benton Museum offers a variation on the Chinese tradition of writing >your hopes and dreams on colored paper, putting them in red envelopes, tying >them to oranges, and hurling them into an age-old banyan tree; if they snag >on a branch, it's believed that your wishes will ascend to heaven. > >There will be no orange hurling at the Benton, but you're invited to write >your wish or prayer on a red paper, tie it up and hang it on a venerable old >branch from the Store Manager's backyard." > >Methinks our art museum needs more trees, which would make it then a what? > >Are there really banyan trees in the California canyons, Lady Lesli? > >If I had my way I'd wander over to the museum to write my hopes and dreams >on colored paper and put them in red envelopes (reds are sweet), and I would >tie them to a whole BOWL of oranges too, and hurl them into an age-old >banyan tree, wishing that the wars were done. > >Love & peace, > >Patti P. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Play Flexicon: the crossword game that feeds your brain. PLAY now for FREE. > http://zone.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmtagline ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:50:34 -0800 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: njc, Chinese (Cafe) New Ye ar & banyan trees & museums From: "LESLI A WATTS" >>An announcement I received set me off into JMOCD w/ the word >>"banyan"....not >>a word you see everyday. Well there aren't alot of words that rhyme with 'canyon'- she had to resort to 'second hand one'. Don't know if there are banyans in LA-there is a Banyan Street, though. RR ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:02:01 -0800 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=20WATTS?=" Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20njc=2C=20=26=20banyan=20trees=20=26=20an d=20the=20PAZ=22s=20whistle=20stop?= uh oh sorry about that blank pallette post. tired after trying to keep up with the paz. impossible. pete and i met paz last night and saw the preservation jazz band. It was a great show, good music, the audience following the band on stage, dancing and lots of umbrellas. necklaces were thrown. . he was everywhere at once and when we finally caught up with him he was in the lobby working his butt off. the band had just driven in from tucson. kakki, her mom, dorothy, steve and michele dulson were there to create lots of revelry. we found a restaurant which served the requisite martinis. we all had a good time getting to know each other. pete and i left around 9 and the others climbed aboard the bus and played? until god knows when. >Patti p wtote: >Are there really banyan trees in the California canyons, Lady Lesli? probably, but not that I've seen. i've seen lots of old old banyans in hawaii. in honolulu, there's a big stately one. wasn't that where joni saw the TREE MUSEUM? and maybe in laurel canyon, on the harry houdini estate. none up here in topanga canyon though. i have seen a number of moreton figs, ( a banyan is type of fig) like the famous one near the santa barbara harbour. i'm sure there are some, somewhere. >If I had my way I'd wander over to the museum to write my hopes and dreams >on colored paper and put them in red envelopes (reds are sweet), and I would >tie them to a whole BOWL of oranges too, and hurl them into an age-old >banyan tree, wishing that the wars were done. i'd do the same and betcha joni would too. guess we'll just have to throw our wishes onto the sycamore branches out here. peace, you impossible dreamer! lesli ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:14:06 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: njc, Chinese (Cafe) New Ye ar & banyan trees & museums now NJC Steely Dan referenced "banyans" as well, in the song "AJA". Wherever "the dude ranch above the sea" is. I always took it to mean an Esalen type place. As always: I could be wrong. :) Em - --- Randy Remote wrote: > From: "LESLI A WATTS" > >>An announcement I received set me off into JMOCD w/ the word > >>"banyan"....not > >>a word you see everyday. > > Well there aren't alot of words that rhyme with 'canyon'- > she had to resort to 'second hand one'. > Don't know if there are banyans in LA-there is a Banyan > Street, though. > RR ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:15:47 EST From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Chopin, njc Chopin's Minute Waltz is in the key of D flat which should make it a two minute waltz. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:12:28 -0800 From: "Jill Haas" Subject: Re: I had forgot.....Joni's piano playing... monika said: So what are your favorite piano parts/piano songs by Joni? Why those? Sorry I'm in a bit of a hurry, but I thought I'd put in my three cents: Down to You-- Court and Spark Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) --For the Roses Paprika Plains--Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Even if I had the time, I don't know if I could elaborate on why I find the piano on these songs so beautiful. They just are. IMHO. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:22:55 -0800 From: "Jill Haas" Subject: Re: CBC documentary 1/28 and Songwriters Hall of fame 1/29 Hi Jmdlers-- I have finally made my copy of the CBC documentary (1/28) and Songwriters Hall of fame (1/29), (three discs, thank you Doug), and am re-offering it to the list. First come, first served! Write me off-list with your address and I'll send it off to you. Jill Hi Jill I'll have everything on CD. The 2 hour Hall of Fame radio special is on tonight. Doug Jill Haas wrote: I spent the whole 2 hours of the CBC show trying to get my gol darn !%#$!!#*#%#^^*!! computer to let me listen to the streaming audio. I updated software. I begged and pleaded with the gods of computer goombah and voodoo. No luck. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:50:06 -0800 From: "Jill Haas" Subject: Re: Fw: '83 Concert at Irvin e Meadows and 87 concert at pacific amphitheater Lesli, Yes, that rings a hell of a bell. I think that's why I was so angry at the people sitting behind me. I am of the school of "play what you want, Joni," and felt that the crowd was rude and unappreciative. It was my first time seeing her--I was in heaven and I couldn't believe that I was so out of sync with the rest of the audience and that people were behaving like creeps (that's the censored version of what I really want to say...). Jill From Lesli: I thought joni played the same songs each night but in a different order. the night at irvine meadows was different. Joni seemed to be straining, fighting her way through the songs to. Right after " For Free" joni left the stage leaning on klein, only about 2/3 of the way though the show. there was no "heard it through the grapevine encore that night! remember the crowd booing--does this sound familiar jill? or anyone? From Jill: >Hi Laurent, >Finally, I did get to see Joni in '83 at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater (CA) >and sat second row center. I think I cried through the entire concert, and >then at the end threatened to punch out the two women sitting behind me who >where criticizing her for playing new material. They were, I'm sure, "fans," but they >wanted Joni to keep her wings tucked in. Personally, I've always loved to >see her fly. If those fans had their way, we wouldn't have the great body of >material she's produced. Her work has a life of its own, IMHO. > >There were times that it took a bit of patience before I could "get it" >when new (and different) material came out, but it always worked its way >into my world, and my life is much richer for it. > >Pardonez mois for the gushing admiration--sometimes I just can't help >myself. > >Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:29:59 -0700 From: "Dr. Katherine Whited" Subject: LOTC - DJRD Transitions & Evolutions Other than Joni, I am not aware of any musician in history with the talent and courage it takes to make such sweeping changes in their music. I was a folk singer/songwriter during her first transition period and I seriously missed her STAS  LOTC sound. But when I just relaxed and listened with no judgments (no projecting my own expectations) I not only enjoyed her music but also grew musically. A friend and I were sharing a bottle of wine in my shabby apartment on the beach listening to the new HOSL (8-track of course) and discussing how much Joni & Paul Simon had changed when it suddenly dawned on me that all of us had changed musically and personally since the days of STAS. I let go of my resistance that night, kinda like a light switch going on and as a result Joni's music has introduced me to wonderful new loves: harp guitar, world music, jazz, fingerstyle guitar...etc. Then there's the world of AMAZING artists that opened up like Jaco, Michael Hedges, etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgKB8zG5qP0 MHO in a nutshell about that transition between LOTC and DJRD is that while its true that people have a tendency to resist change, I'm glad that we've chosen to "thaw out' and appreciate her ever-evolving music.(You know it never has been easy whether you do or you do not resign, whether you travel the breadth of extremities or stick to some straighter line....you're either gonna thaw out or freeze.) I am so eager to hear her new music! Has anyone heard any of it, yet? Whoever wrote : "I love Hejira - she was thinking, thinking, and I love to think, think and hear Joni thinking, thinking. Then, one record later, she changes pace, and is living, living, reckless multiplicity. " I love that! Its so true! When I first heard her on DJRD with the driving world beat, Jaco's bass, well all of it just knocked my socks off then took me prisoner and I couldn't play anything else for a long time. I totally get where it'd be a great steroid running partner. However, Hejira remains my favorite album to date. Okay, perhaps my own affinity for the road is a big influence, but I really love that relaxed smoothness of Hejira. Listening to Hejira is like slipping on a favorite pair of old silk pajamas, perfect fit and feels so good. Katherine ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:18:47 -0500 From: kjhsf@aol.com Subject: Re: Rickie Lee Jones NJC especially another sad song entry Hey Patrick- I will check out the wikipedia info. I've had the pleasure of seeing Rickie throughout her career, but the concert that struck me most was the 1984-ish The Magazine tour. She was brilliant, but impatient with the audience--understandably as some idiot kept yelling "Hey, Rickie, where's your beret?" She and her band were amazing that night, but she left the stage after 50 minutes and refused to come back out. I was thinking she was high on that Letterman clip based on her fidgityness in the post performance rap with him. I thought her performance was sensational, as was her performance in the French clip. Thanks for your response! Ken - -----Original Message----- From: pleader@nyc.rr.com To: kjhsf@aol.com; joni@smoe.org Cc: c.eisenhardt@earthlink.net Sent: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:06 PM Subject: RE: Rickie Lee Jones NJC especially another sad song entry hey there ken, and any other rickie lee fans including chucke. i just read the wikipedia bio, which is probably very accurate, and there is a lot of talk of her drug and alcohol problems, which i'd heard about for years. the first time i saw her was at the berkeley community theater in 1982 (a week or so before the l.a. concert that became most of "girl at her volcano") and she was very high, slurring her words and passing out bourbon to the front row. but musically and performance-wise, brilliant. it was painful to watch, and wonderful at the same time.. i've seen her several times since, and she's been quite fantastic, especially summer of '05 outdoors at the brooklyn prospect park bandshell when she gave one of the warmest shows i've heard. rob wasserman guesting again. each time i've seen here she's been happier and more stable than that first, difficult concert. i do agree that her early stuff was amazing, but i think flying cowboys (1989) is just brilliant, too, as good as the first three studio albums. i think 'evening of my best day' (2003) is almost up there, i've sure listened to it a lot this year... as for her latest, it's a sneaky little album. i was struck, as was chuck, by the fact that the songs are melodically extremely simple. but listening pretty consistently for a couple of days, i've had little grace note completely leap out at me. there are some great arrangement/production things going on; not really ostentatious but more, as i said, sneaky. and, while i haven't watched the dvd yet, i'm letting the little stories, or reveries, or whatever they are, worm they way in. it's just so different from most projects that popular music artists do, and i find that completely satisfying. i'm really looking forward to getting to know the album better. by the way, on the recent discussion of sad songs, i have to add rlj's 'skeletons' both for the whole story and just for the way she sings certain lines. what do birds leave behind, of the wings that they came with? skeletons, by rickie lee jones, 1982 she was pregnant in may now they're on their way dashing thru the snow to st. john's, here we go well, it could be a boy but it's okay if he's a girl oh, these things that grow out of the things that we give we should move to the west side they still believe in things that give a kid half a chance when he pulled off the road step in a waltz of red moonbeams said he fit an apb, a robbery nearby and he go for his wallet and they thought he was going for a gun and the cops blew bird away some kids like watching saturday cartoons some girls listen to records all day in their rooms but what do birds leave behind, of the wings that they came with if a son's in a tree building model planes? skeletons, skeletons patrick np - rlj, on the street where you live ps. the two youtube clips you mentioned were amazing. i don't agree that she was high at the letterman show, she's just that quirky all the time. and what an amazing performance. the french show i believe you're correct, she was very high, but also in great musical form. i don't know how she did it. thanks for describing them. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org]On Behalf Of kjhsf@aol.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:56 AM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Rickie Lee Jones NJC Feeling a bit let down with Rickie's latest, though there are a couple of tracks that are kind of nice. In any case, I was browsing through youtube and typed in Rickie Lee Jones and came across a STELLAR performance of her around 1985 on Letterman singing "the Magazine". Very Laura Nyro-esque. There is also a fantastic video of her performing Weasel and The White Boys Cool in Paris in 1983. It's got me wondering exactly what happened to her. On the DVD of the new CD, there is a little spot where she reminisces about the way her career started, and how she has no regrets about not following down that road (fame? glamour?), even though it hurts so much to be where she is now. Her early stuff was so powerful to me-very musical and beautifully executed. But in the early videos of her, particularly in the brief post performance chat with Letterman, she appears strung out beyond words. And from the glazed look in her eyes during the Paris performance, I am amazed that she was able to sing and play so wonderfully. Fans of Rickie-check out these clips on youtube before they're discovered and removed. I'm curious to know what other fans of RLJ think. Ken ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:42:29 -0500 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: CBC documentary 1/28 and Songwriters Hall of fame 1/29 I was also a beneficiary of Doug's kindness and I'd be happy to send out two or three copies of this set, if anyone cares to mail me off-list. I also have the Forest Hills show from DIME (thanks, Dave!) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Jill Haas Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 6:23 PM To: dmeek@marketbridge.ca; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: CBC documentary 1/28 and Songwriters Hall of fame 1/29 Hi Jmdlers-- I have finally made my copy of the CBC documentary (1/28) and Songwriters Hall of fame (1/29), (three discs, thank you Doug), and am re-offering it to the list. First come, first served! Write me off-list with your address and I'll send it off to you. Jill Hi Jill I'll have everything on CD. The 2 hour Hall of Fame radio special is on tonight. Doug Jill Haas wrote: I spent the whole 2 hours of the CBC show trying to get my gol darn !%#$!!#*#%#^^*!! computer to let me listen to the streaming audio. I updated software. I begged and pleaded with the gods of computer goombah and voodoo. No luck. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:49:47 -0500 From: Victor Johnson Subject: Re: Transitions & Evolutions (njc) On Feb 19, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Dr. Katherine Whited wrote: > Other than Joni, I am not aware of any musician in history with the > talent > and courage it takes to make such sweeping changes in their music. Neil Young and Rush. Both have made sweeping changes in their music, something that has kept it fresh, vibrant, and dynamic. They have never been afraid to try something completely different. Speaking of Rush, a new album, Snakes and Arrows, comes out on May 1. Victor NP: Prison Break ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:02:50 EST From: Motitan@aol.com Subject: Re: LOTC - DJRD Transitions & Evolutions All this talk about Hejira makes me oh so curious. I've seen a lot of people here considering it their favorite album. This weekend I'm going to the the Xchange (a music store) to buy a cd or two and I think I may just grab Hejira and give it a go without really knowing it beforehand. I've only bought a few albums without trying them out or hearing some songs in one manner or another beforehand. However, my biggest and greatest surprises were For The Roses and Neil Young's Tonight's The Night. I didn't hear a song from both but just bought them on an impulse and could have not been more pleased. Perhaps this could be like that? What's life if you're not spontaneous...even with the little things? I guess we'll see! I'll let you know after this weekend, haha! - -Monika ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:27:36 -0800 From: Subject: Presevation Hall Jazz Band (njc) A few of the SoCal JMDL'ers had the wonderful chance to meet up yesterday to see the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in Cerritos. Below is a link to the tour schedule. This is a MUST SEE/ATTEND/JUMP and JIVE event! It was absolutely outstanding! Plus, the after-party events with Mr. Paz are always stellar and fun! I took my own mama and she went nuts with joy. This was my parents' own favorite music, having honeymooned in Nawlins and spending other trips there over the years. I grew up listening to so much of it. For my mom it was like us seeing Joni after a 50 year absence ;-) She was a complete groupie with some of the band members - haha! Beyond this being a totally classic experience, you will also see some of the most accomplished musicians you have ever heard. Just amazing. Thanks SO much to Paz for the invitations! We had a fantastic time. Kakki http://www.preservationhall.com/2.0/tour_schedule.php ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:47:09 -0800 From: Subject: Globe & Mail Joni article Ha - I could write endlessly about this article but in the end the thought that comes most to my mind is that Joni kept the writer up all night talking and the writer, probably being under a deadline, just slopped it together. Kind of like some college students who party all night and then throw the term paper together an hour before class the next day! ;-) One quibble - this is the second article from the Canadian press that says she lives in Beverly Hills. She doesn't but hey, maybe she is telling them that to throw them off the trail? Also I found it kind of funny and ironic that Joni criticizes the "white, straight male" interviewers who are so shallow emotionally and who don't get her, yet here we have what appears to be a female interviewer bringing new meaning to the term "shallow." Laughing it all away... and I hope Joni is, too. Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:12:50 -0800 From: Subject: Typos (njc) Lesli, As another frequent typo (and sometimes grammar) offender, I say no matter! I always appreciate your analysis and input and also believe that everyone on the list and especially those over 40 should get a pass (40 being the age when the eyesight gets a little off). I do nothing but read and write all day and also have to sometimes read and respond to hundreds of emails a day at work on top of it. I type 90 WPM and was a spelling and English champ in school days but our eyes get tired and fatigued sometimes and our hand/eye coordination is also not what it used to be. So please, don't worry. I look at content not people who miss the occasional keystroke. We do this for fun and diversion, not pay, right?! ;-) Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:15:10 -0700 From: "Dr. Katherine Whited" Subject: Re: Transitions & Evolutions (njc) Correct me if I'm wrong Victor, but haven't their changes all occurred within the genre of rock? Whereas Joni's changes took her music from the rock bins into the jazz bins and (BSN) into the easy listening bins next to Tony Bennett, etc. I acknowledge that other musicians grow and even re-invent themselves, it's just that I"ve just never seen any musician do it to the extremes of and with the frequency of Joni. Katheirne Neil Young and Rush. Both have made sweeping changes in their music, something that has kept it fresh, vibrant, and dynamic. They have never been afraid to try something completely different. Speaking of Rush, a new album, Snakes and Arrows, comes out on May 1. Victor NP: Prison Break > Other than Joni, I am not aware of any musician in history with the > talent > and courage it takes to make such sweeping changes in their music. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:26:04 -0800 From: "Jill Haas" Subject: Jonifest-- Hejira and Dulcimer Hey Moni, I doubt you'll regret the purchase (Hejira). First, it will grow on you, and then it will grow in you. There are years of pleasure in that small package. BTW, I will be happy to show you everything I know on dulcimer, which is not much as I've let myself get pretty rusty. Luckily, it's a fairly simple instrument. If you care to, listen to "California" and "A Case of You" and we'll figure out the chords together. I've been playing and singing to the point where I'm hoarse and my guitar fingers are killing me. There's a lot of catching up to do after years of neglecting practice, but I'm having more fun than a puppy. Jill Monika writes: All this talk about Hejira makes me oh so curious. I've seen a lot of people here considering it their favorite album. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:01:14 -0500 From: Victor Johnson Subject: Re: Transitions & Evolutions (njc) For one thing, I wouldn't count BSN as a sweeping change in style. Several other artists have put out recordings of "standards" and also orchestral arrangements of their music. And as much as Joni has been influenced by jazz, her music is still essentially rock with a jazz influence and still belongs in the rock bin. She is no more a jazz artist than Neil Young or Yes or Steely Dan. I have seen Neil Young in concert several times, and no one performs such vastly different styles of music all within one concert. I have been following Rush avidly since 1986 and their music has changed drastically from album to album. If you take Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, Hold Your Fire, and Presto, they all sound completely different from one another, as much as any of Joni's albums sound different from one another. Neil Young has a vastly different sound ranging from the raw punk sound of "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" to the acoustic beauty of "Silver and Gold" and experimental projects like "Trans"...he has consistently changed his sound from album to album, probably with more frequency than Joni. Rock, as a genre of music, is an incredibly generic term and encompasses so much vastly different music that it really loses its meaning. I generally avoid categorizing music as so often it defies classification. Having said that, Court and Spark, Hejira, DJRD, and Mingus are all within the same genre of music. I also totally agree with you that they are all very different from one another but they do not belong in the jazz bin. Don't get me wrong...I admire Joni as much as anyone on this list and believe she has been truly innovative, amazingly so, but I would not single her out. Honestly, I think it is all very relative. best, Victor On Feb 19, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Dr. Katherine Whited wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong Victor, but haven't their changes all > occurred > within the genre of rock? Whereas Joni's changes took her music > from the > rock bins into the jazz bins and (BSN) into the easy listening bins > next to > Tony Bennett, etc. I acknowledge that other musicians grow and even > re-invent themselves, it's just that I"ve just never seen any > musician do it > to the extremes of and with the frequency of Joni. > Katheirne > > > Neil Young and Rush. Both have made sweeping changes in their music, > something that has kept it fresh, vibrant, and dynamic. They have > never been afraid to try something completely different. Speaking of > Rush, a new album, Snakes and Arrows, comes out on May 1. > > Victor > > NP: Prison Break > > > >> Other than Joni, I am not aware of any musician in history with the >> talent >> and courage it takes to make such sweeping changes in their music. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:01:52 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: njc, Rickie Lee Jones in Cambridge Thanks for the great concert review, ChuckE! And since it is Presidents' Day in the U.S.A., all of this talk about Rickie Lee Jones reminds me of her song Ugly Man, about the man who has dishonored the office and our country and -- uh oh, when I get this crazy feeling I know I'm in trouble again...... he's an ugly man he always was an ugly man he grew up to be like his father an ugly man and he'll tell you lies he'll look at you and tell you lies he grew up to be like his father ugly inside hey - ugly man what's the plan? if people knew what would they do to the ugly man? Having fun? but will we be here when you're done with me....? revolution now it's finally going to come everywhere that you're not looking Revolution and we'll take it back now we take the country back everywhere that you're not looking ugly man ugly man ugly man I love how she doesn't mince any words. She is gutsy. Anima rising,uprising in me tonight, Patti P. _________________________________________________________________ Refi Now: Rates near 39yr lows! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,399/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-17727&moid=7581 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:45:15 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: sjc, aim the hoses on the "Bush bonfires" From our own Jonimitchell.com, here is part of the Trailblazer Interview by Camille Paglia, August 2005: CP: You have a fire image on the front of Dreamland. JM: Oh, that's just George W. Bush burning down the world. All my paintings lately have been Bush bonfires. It's the same as the forest fire in Bambi, with the hideous white hunger. - ----------------------- Let's aim the hoses on them! If you agree that a surge in troops just pours gasoline on these bonfires -- if you are against the escalation -- please take a few seconds to go to Harry's House: http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/petition/Escalation/fdikdp If you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it! And here's another place you can tell it: http://pol.moveon.org/lettertocongress/?id=9899-1448109-b78bwy&t=2 "Speak out, you got to speak out against the madness, You got to speak your mind if you dare." -- David Crosby Thank you so much for taking the time. And my apologies to the non-Americans here for the bandwith, and for what our country has done to the world. Love & Peace, Patti P. "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people." - -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - --- Margaret Mead You say we have turned Like the enemies you've earned But we can remember All the good things you are And so we ask you please Can we help you find the peace and the star Oh my friend We have all come To fear the beating of your drum - -- Joni Mitchell _________________________________________________________________ Play Flexicon: the crossword game that feeds your brain. PLAY now for FREE. http://zone.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmtagline ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:19:47 -0800 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: gay and jmdl, njc Marianne wrote: > it seems like every other person on this list is gay and we havent't > figured out why. Em added: > it seems like the natural balance to me. > How it would be when we get "back to the garden". > I am thankful. As am I. It would be interesting, though, to figure out exactly how many GLBT people there are on this list. I am one. Lori Santa Rosa, CA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:24:05 -0800 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: Jonifest (NJC) > In return for all of this love, I'll do my best to fulfill my promise to Paz > to take over as "the Human Jukebox" and do whatever I can to make this event > fun for all of us. Anybody want to work on a song? I hear that I sing a > mean harmony, I play guitar rather sadly, but I do know just about every > tuning Joni ever came up with (or can figure it out). I may even bring a > dulcimer. Jill, your post made me SMILE. It also made me wish (again) that I could attend Jonifest this year. I'm so glad you're going, though, and I know you and everyone else is going to have a wonderful time. Happy travels to all, Lori Santa Rosa, CA ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2007 #77 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------