From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2010 #341 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 Monday, November 15 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 341 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 [Warrenkeith91354@aol.com] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 [Gerald Notaro ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 njc [Mags ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 njc [Lieve Reckers ] Acoustic Jazz revisited [Laura Stanley ] Re: Acoustic Jazz revisited [Dave Blackburn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:54:03 EST From: Warrenkeith91354@aol.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 Mark...the movie, " The Kids Are Alright " is certainly worth seeing. I enjoyed it immensely, everything about it was top notch; the story; the writing; the directing; and above all else the acting...what a fabulous cast! I hope you will seek it out and watch it soon, it is worth it. Enjoy! Jonily Yours, Warren Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:16:17 -0500 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 Nice mention of the movie in this morning's Parade, as an Oscar contender. Certainly Annette Benning deserves a nomination. Unfortunately the movie has not done well at the box office. Maybe this buzz will renew interest. Jerry On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, wrote: > Mark...the movie, " The Kids Are Alright " is certainly worth seeing. I > enjoyed it immensely, everything about it was top notch; the story; the > writing; the directing; and above all else the acting...what a fabulous > cast! I > hope you will seek it out and watch it soon, it is worth it. Enjoy! > > Jonily Yours, > Warren Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:34:12 -0800 (PST) From: Mags Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 njc the movie will be available here on DVD as of this Tuesday. Looking forward to it !! Hopefully, as you said, the latest news will give the movie a boost. I am also looking forward to seeing Another Year, Mike Leigh's latest (of Secrets and Lies fame). An ensemble cast, the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. Not the typical Hollywood pretty people thing. I have no idea when it will be showing here, frustrating to have to wait, but there you have it. - --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Gerald Notaro wrote: From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 To: Warrenkeith91354@aol.com Cc: joni@smoe.org Received: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 11:16 AM Nice mention of the movie in this morning's Parade, as an Oscar contender. Certainly Annette Benning deserves a nomination. Unfortunately the movie has not done well at the box office. Maybe this buzz will renew interest. Jerry On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, wrote: > Mark...the movie, " The Kids Are Alright " is certainly worth seeing. I > enjoyed it immensely, everything about it was top notch; the story; the > writing; the directing; and above all else the acting...what a fabulous > cast! I > hope you will seek it out and watch it soon, it is worth it. Enjoy! > > Jonily Yours, > Warren Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:21:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Lieve Reckers Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 njc Hi Mags! I just saw that movie, Another Year, at my local cinema. I must say that I compared it with "The Kids are Alright", because both deal with family life in the broader sense, and I must say it came out of that comparison the much weaker one. It seemed it was just based on an idea of a number of characters, and they were allowed to do their party piece in terms of acting and improvising, but there were so many loose threads (interesting characters appearing and never showing up again) that I felt the film really never had anything to say, apart from some rather shallow and predictable stuff. It seemed to me like the "naturalness" and "unglamorousness" were parading and covering up for "nothing-much-to-say-ness". Even the acting and improvised dialogues felt unreal and sketchy at times. It really made me want to go and see "The Kids are Alright" one more time! Lieve in London ________________________________ From: Mags To: Warrenkeith91354@aol.com; Gerald Notaro Cc: joni@smoe.org Sent: Sun, 14 November, 2010 16:34:12 Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 njc the movie will be available here on DVD as of this Tuesday. Looking forward to it !! Hopefully, as you said, the latest news will give the movie a boost. I am also looking forward to seeing Another Year, Mike Leigh's latest (of Secrets and Lies fame). An ensemble cast, the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. Not the typical Hollywood pretty people thing. I have no idea when it will be showing here, frustrating to have to wait, but there you have it. - --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Gerald Notaro wrote: From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #316 To: Warrenkeith91354@aol.com Cc: joni@smoe.org Received: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 11:16 AM Nice mention of the movie in this morning's Parade, as an Oscar contender. Certainly Annette Benning deserves a nomination. Unfortunately the movie has not done well at the box office. Maybe this buzz will renew interest. Jerry On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, wrote: > Mark...the movie, " The Kids Are Alright " is certainly worth seeing. I > enjoyed it immensely, everything about it was top notch; the story; the > writing; the directing; and above all else the acting...what a fabulous > cast! I > hope you will seek it out and watch it soon, it is worth it. Enjoy! > > Jonily Yours, > Warren Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:28:41 -0600 From: Laura Stanley Subject: Acoustic Jazz Listening to Last Chance Lost in the car and my son said Joni Mitchell acoustic guitar for jazz. Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:37:27 -0600 From: Laura Stanley Subject: Acoustic Jazz revisited That last email got away before I edited it. My son said Joni is the only one who uses an acoustic guitar for jazz. I can't think of anybody else who plays acoustic for jazz as much as Joni. Can you? My son also said there ought to be an APP for the JMDL. I like that idea. Is it possible? Maybe a Joni covers APP too. Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:21:37 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Acoustic Jazz revisited Hi Laura, In my opinion Joni became a bona fide jazz vocalist and her piano playing incorporated some of the chordal things we might call jazz but I don't feel she ever played jazz on guitar, with the possible exception of Overture on DJRD. I think of jazz as involving improvisation, and to my knowledge, DJRD was the only album which contained a lot of it, and that was largely on piano, the Paprika Plains mid section in particular. TTT possibly contains some improvised guitar work. Jazz guitarists who play acoustic include Ralph Towner (nylon string & 12 string), Tommy Emmanuel, John Abercrombie, Jeff Linsky, Peter Sprague, Frank Vignola, John Jorgensen. plus all those who played jazz before the invention of the electric guitar like Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian. Defining what jazz is is always a tricky one however and my conception of it may be different from others. How do you feel Joni's guitar playing would be called jazz? thanks, Dave On Nov 14, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Laura Stanley wrote: > That last email got away before I edited it. My son said Joni is the only one who uses an acoustic guitar for jazz. I can't think of anybody else who plays acoustic for jazz as much as Joni. Can you? > > My son also said there ought to be an APP for the JMDL. I like that idea. Is it possible? Maybe a Joni covers APP too. > > Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2010 #341 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------