From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2008 #280 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 Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Friday, November 7 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 280 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- propositions, njc [Marianne Rizzo ] Re: Judgement of the moon and Stars score ready ["Randy Remote" ] Re: Judgement of the moon and Stars score ready now really njc [Catherine] Re: Judgement of the moon and Stars score ready now really njc [Dave Blac] NJC Lost and wandering blues Band [missblux@googlemail.com] Joni Celebration in NYC ["Kay Ashley" ] Re: Congratulations! NJC ["Kate Bennett" ] photo of joni [Mags ] Joni Mitchell Day [do9eatdo9@yahoo.com] Re: Joni Mitchell Day [FMYFL@aol.com] Happy Joni Day UK ["Jamie Zubairi Home" ] joni blitz [Marianne Rizzo ] smile, njc [Laura Stanley ] Re: joni blitz ["Cassy" ] Shine on Obama on Joni's birthday [Patti Parlette ] Re: joni blitz [Monika Bogdanowicz ] Happy Birthday Joni! [Monika Bogdanowicz ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:10:02 -0500 From: Marianne Rizzo Subject: propositions, njc I am so emotional about our new president. I can break down (in a good way) at any time. I have never felt this way about a president. (Like Barbara Streisand and Mr. Rockefeller ~ forgot what movie it is ) Yet, we cannot expect him to do it all (look at the mess we have gotten in) we have to be good citizens active ourselves in making change suiting up \getting in the game stuff like that I was wondering sweet joni friends, What were some of the propositions in your states and how did they turn out? this is fascinating. have a beautiful day "a new day to carry on" lOve Marianne ps. Love and Happy birthday to Joni tomorrow. may all your dreams come true. we have much to celebrate ~ _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_1 12008 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:42:27 -0800 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Judgement of the moon and Stars score ready Bravo, Dave! I'm not a good enough piano player for a test drive, but maybe I'll learn it someday. Thanks for all the toil !! RR >I present the comprehensive and > unabridged score to Judgement of the Moon and Stars. > cheers, > Dave B ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 05:33:33 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Stanley Subject: Re: Pride, njc Kate wrote: And what a thoughtful decision he made last night, to forego the fireworks. I hope he can take some time now alone to allow himself to mourn for his beloved grandmother. This celebration is tempered by realizing how much further we have to go as evidenced by the sad results from California voters re Prop 8. What does it mean for all those couples who are legally wed? Hi Kate, Fireworks were definitely not missed. I noticed right off that the acceptance speech environment was very different in a good way from the Democratic convention which turned me off because of all the hoopla. My heart goes out to the whole family over the loss of his grandmother. As for Prop. 8 and Amendment 1 here in Arkansas, hopefully the ridiculous nature of both of these will go toward turning the tide. It is kind of like people who had to experience the Bush presidency in order to wake up. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:07:31 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Judgement of the moon and Stars score ready now really njc Dave, your dedication at putting this together is greatly appreciated. I am mind-boggled at people who can pick apart a piece like that and put it into notation. My son had a guitar teacher who could do this on the fly but he told me that it sometimes led to his constantly deconstructing music to the point where he sometimes lost the ability to just enjoy it. I hope that's not the case with you. I'm not a very good piano player either, and when I see a note that's way below the line, often give up because I'm too lazy to figure out what note it is, even though it's not that hard to do and I could just bloody well write it on the score, but I had one of those knitting-needle-knuckle-wrapping nuns for a teacher and probably would have been given a hard time for marking up my score like that. Nevertheless, I have also downloaded it and am going to give it a try. The weird thing is, when I was a kid, I took piano lessons and learned everything by reading the notes and never really thought much about them being chords when put together. Then later, when I taught myself guitar, I learned chords only and never thought about single notes. Later still, I took classical guitar lessons and began to read music written for guitar as notes. However, I've never been able to figure out a piano chord chart, although I suppose it's just a matter of figuring out which notes make up a particular chord and then playing it. If you told me to play a Am7 on the guitar, I could do it without thinking but, if you told me to do the same on the piano, I'd have to spell it out one note at a time. I know this on an intellectual level but have difficulty translating it into the physicality of actually playing the stuff, but I suppose it's just a matter of repetitions and muscle memory and all that. That probably didn't make a great deal of sense but I'm sure there are one or two people who will get what I'm talking about. - --- On Wed, 11/5/08, Randy Remote wrote: > From: Randy Remote > Subject: Re: Judgement of the moon and Stars score ready > To: "Dave Blackburn" , "jmdl" > Received: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 1:42 PM > Bravo, Dave! I'm not a good enough piano player for a > test > drive, but maybe I'll learn it someday. Thanks for all > the toil !! > RR > > > I present the comprehensive and unabridged score to > Judgement of the Moon and Stars. > > cheers, > > Dave B __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:21:06 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Judgement of the moon and Stars score ready now really njc Catherine, I'm glad people are digging into my JOTMAS score. There has been such a wealth of Joni guitar transcriptions on the JMDL (thanks to Sue, Marian and Howard primarily) and a shortage of her piano work, so that has inspired me to fill that void little by little. So far, Blue, Down to You and now Judgement are done, unfortunately accessible through the guitar tabs database where you wouldn't likely think to look for them. I'm urging Les to create a "Piano scores" menu tab. As a guitar teacher myself, I encourage my students to transcribe music (not just guitar music) because it brings together so many skills at once: ear training, rhythm counting, correct notation, clear layout etc. There is now a beautiful tool to assist this process, called "Amazing Slow Downer" which lets you slow down, repitch if necessary, loop small sections and EQ a digital file to where you can hear what's going on. Without this tool there are areas of this piece that would have been impossible (for me at least) to decipher, and my friend Barnaby and I have spent many days emailing back and forth over the micro details of this tune till we felt we had it. There are still, truthfully, a couple of places where it's too hard to hear the piano part under the woodwinds and we gave it our best guess. thanks, Dave Blackburn On Nov 6, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Catherine McKay wrote: > Dave, your dedication at putting this together is greatly > appreciated. I am mind-boggled at people who can pick apart a piece > like that and put it into notation. My son had a guitar teacher > who could do this on the fly but he told me that it sometimes led > to his constantly deconstructing music to the point where he > sometimes lost the ability to just enjoy it. I hope that's not the > case with you. > > I'm not a very good piano player either, and when I see a note > that's way below the line, often give up because I'm too lazy to > figure out what note it is, even though it's not that hard to do > and I could just bloody well write it on the score, but I had one > of those knitting-needle-knuckle-wrapping nuns for a teacher and > probably would have been given a hard time for marking up my score > like that. > > Nevertheless, I have also downloaded it and am going to give it a try. > > The weird thing is, when I was a kid, I took piano lessons and > learned everything by reading the notes and never really thought > much about them being chords when put together. Then later, when I > taught myself guitar, I learned chords only and never thought about > single notes. Later still, I took classical guitar lessons and > began to read music written for guitar as notes. However, I've > never been able to figure out a piano chord chart, although I > suppose it's just a matter of figuring out which notes make up a > particular chord and then playing it. If you told me to play a Am7 > on the guitar, I could do it without thinking but, if you told me > to do the same on the piano, I'd have to spell it out one note at a > time. > > I know this on an intellectual level but have difficulty > translating it into the physicality of actually playing the stuff, > but I suppose it's just a matter of repetitions and muscle memory > and all that. > > That probably didn't make a great deal of sense but I'm sure there > are one or two people who will get what I'm talking about. > > > --- On Wed, 11/5/08, Randy Remote wrote: > >> From: Randy Remote >> Subject: Re: Judgement of the moon and Stars score ready >> To: "Dave Blackburn" , "jmdl" >> >> Received: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 1:42 PM >> Bravo, Dave! I'm not a good enough piano player for a >> test >> drive, but maybe I'll learn it someday. Thanks for all >> the toil !! >> RR >> >>> I present the comprehensive and unabridged score to >> Judgement of the Moon and Stars. >>> cheers, >>> Dave B > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! > > http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:31:18 +0100 From: missblux@googlemail.com Subject: NJC Lost and wandering blues Band Anyone heard of The Lost and Wandering Blues band? I'm seeing them tonight and they seem ot be good fun: http://www.lostwandering.com/ Bene ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:53:27 -0500 From: "Kay Ashley" Subject: Joni Celebration in NYC Hello Listers, Just a quick note to let you (and the NYC listers in particular) know that there will be a Joni Birthday Celebration tomorrow night at Banjo Jim's. Emilie Cardinaux is curating the evening. I'll be going on at about 10pm and after that I'll be playing guitar for Joy Askew on "Coyote." Some of you will remember that she was part of the Joni's Jazz show in Central Park back in 1999, and that Patrick Leader has sung her praises on-list over the years. I'm not sure who else is on the bill, but I think it's going to be a very interesting mix of musicians. It should be very fun! Here are the deets: Friday 11/7/08 8:00pm -- whenever Banjo Jim's 9th Street & Avenue C $10 cover charge And I am beyond thrilled with the election results... what a wonderful, amazing, and healing moment in history this week is. Kay ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KAY ASHLEY ~ Singer-Songwriter http://www.kayashley.com http://www.myspace.com/kayashley http://www.sonicbids.com/kayashley http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Kay_Ashley/585981930 Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. ~Leonard Cohen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:10:18 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Re: Congratulations! NJC Hi Randy, It was always strange to hear the rightwingnuts describe Obama as extremely liberal- I've always considered him quite centrist. This is a big reason why I believe he won this election & why he attracted so many supporters of differing ideologies. Our problems are so much bigger than partisan politics can begin to address so the biggest mandate as I see it is to begin to solve these problems by dissolving the barriers of partisanship. It will take an extraordinary leader to pull this off but if anyone can do it, I believe Obama can. We don't know yet who he's going to choose for the EPA but RFK Jr has been mentioned which could be a good choice. And if he is really does consider nuclear power as a future option, then those of us who disagree (& there are many) will have to do everything in our power to dissuade him from that. Kate >While I'm very happy with the outcome of the election, and very relieved that it wasn't stolen electronically, I think people get caught up in the symbolism of the moment, as well as the magnetism of Mr. Obama's personality, and forget that his record shows him to be a very middle of the road politician< ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:16:25 -0800 (PST) From: Mags Subject: photo of joni http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/03/31/cbc-needs- to-be-saved-from-its-supporters.aspx found this one today, whilst doing some other research online. it's a gorgeous image of Joan. Mags, watchful of all this wind/rain/ice pellets falling on winterpeg i exist as i am, that is enough ~walt whitman~ __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 06:29:37 +0700 From: do9eatdo9@yahoo.com Subject: Joni Mitchell Day Happy Joni Mitchell Day! It's already 11.07.08 in this part of world. Rian NPIMH-Coyote Going back to sleep again. ( -_-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:42:40 EST From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell Day That's right Rian, and keeping with a long time JMDL tradition, I urge all the lurkers out there to post on Joni's Birthday. Even if you say "Happy Birthday Joni", it's always a good way to introduce yourself. Jimmy In a message dated 11/6/2008 6:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, do9eatdo9@yahoo.com writes: > Happy Joni Mitchell Day! > > It's already 11.07.08 in this part of world. ************** AOL Search: Your one stop for directions, recipes and all other Holiday needs. Search Now. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212792382x1200798498/aol?redir=http://searchblog.aol.com/2008/11/04/happy-holidays-from - -aol-search/?ncid=emlcntussear00000001) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:01:58 +0000 From: "Jamie Zubairi Home" Subject: Happy Joni Day UK Happy Joni Day She's come a long way, baby. Much Joni to you all Jamie Zooby - -- Feel like supporting a World Record Attempt while giving to charity? go to: http://www.justgiving.com/zooby Jamie Zubairi can be found for voice-overs at http://uk.voicespro.com/jamie.zubairi1 acting CV and showreel at http://uk.castingcallpro.com/u/81749 http://www.jamiezubairi.co.uk Facebook me! Everest Blog: http://jamiezubairi.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:39:38 -0500 From: Marianne Rizzo Subject: joni blitz celebrating joni's birthday first with a blitz second with a blessing send everyone a birthday notice a song any joni song the song you're feeling today woodstock maybe maybe anything else love or coyote the first three joni songs that come to mind then every chance you get you are listening to joni for a week or month or so definitely on friday and the weekend anytime possible share joni with someone be it the radio station, your cats friends and coworkers it is the day the day the special day share the beautysee her image a new day feel the joni spirit feel the spirit of the times with joni spirit wish her best of everything my best to you, joni greatspirit protect her glow protect all that is sacred to her ~ ~ ~ ~ What are the first three joni songs that come to mind? Say what comes to mind. bless your heart joni!\Happy birthday XOXO Marianne _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_1 12008 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:48:57 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Stanley Subject: smile, njc If you feel sad or low, just go online and find a photo of Barack Obama smiling. You'll feel your face smile back! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:49:02 -0800 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: joni blitz Black Crow Cherokee Louise Jericho Goodness knows why those three came to mind so fast but there you are! love Cassy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 04:53:43 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: Shine on Obama on Joni's birthday Reading the news, and it sure looks.....beautiful! Pardonnez-moi the lack of an NJC tag, but I think there is something here for everyJonibody: an overview of the global impact of the Obama election as seen on the front pages of newspapers all over the world. http://obama2008.s3.amazonaws.com/headlines.html xo, pp P.S. It's almost midnight. Bon anniversaire, Joni. Shine on! _________________________________________________________________ Get 5 GB of storage with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_5gb_1120 08 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:06:28 -0800 (PST) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: joni blitz Woman of Heart & Mind, Court & Spark, and Cactus Tree. - -Mon - --- On Fri, 11/7/08, Marianne Rizzo wrote: ~ What are the first three joni songs that come to mind? Say what comes to mind. bless your heart joni!\Happy birthday XOXO Marianne _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_1 12008 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:14:41 -0800 (PST) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Happy Birthday Joni! I truly hope that she has a wonderful day doing whatever makes her the happiest! If I could tell her, "thank you," (for all the music she has given us) I would. And for you on this HISTORIC day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_blokUE3o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJM8ggvRjNs (This one has some very particularly pretty pictures!) - -Monika ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2008 #280 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------