From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #158 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://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Monday, May 30 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 158 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Mitchell Jazz Summer Solstice Radio Special [Bob Muller ] Re: Richard Thompson (NJC) [Steve Dulson ] Re: If you could ask Chuck Mitchell a question... [Anita G ] 40th anniversary of BLUE [ava rosenblum ] njc Northern (Coastal) CA and Coastal OR -- any advice? [Walt Breen Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell Jazz Summer Solstice Radio Special Thanks for the shoutout David - I really look forward to your shows every year. Considering the focus they are very eclectic. I encourage every one who can to check it out. Bob NP: Josh Ritter, "Kathleen" - ----- Original Message ---- From: David Gizara To: joni@smoe.org Cc: Bob Muller Sent: Sun, May 29, 2011 10:17:46 AM Subject: Joni Mitchell Jazz Summer Solstice Radio Special >>> Hello Jimdles, >>> My name is David Gizara and I host Thursday Night Jazz on KLCC Eugene, >>> OR, 89.7 FM (NPR). We stream at www.klcc.org so it can be heard everywhere. >>> Each year I do a special show of Joni Mitchell songs covered by jazz >>> vocalists and instrumentalists as close to the Summer Solstice as I can get.. >>> This years show is June 23rd at 8 pm Pacific and will feature covers of Joni >>>Mitchell songs by mostly jazz musicians. >>> As always, I can't do this show without the huge help of Bob Muller and he has >>>turned me on to amazing covers. I am going with personal favorites this year, >>>stuff that resonates with me but I would love to hear from you all if you have >>>some favorite Joni covers to suggest. >>> Please tune in. >>> I'm hoping to send the show to Bob on CD again so he can make it >>> available to all who want it. >>> Thanks, >>> Peace >>> David Gizara >>> davidgizara@epud.net >>> Thursday Night Jazz Host >>> KLCC 89.7 FM >>> 136 W 8th Ave >>> Eugene, OR 97401, USA >>> www.klcc.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 12:46:18 +0100 From: Paul Castle Subject: Re: Joni's Jazz Artists' Bios Jim wrote: > 4) Glen Hansard > Glen Hansard, special guest > http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/philpedia/artist-detail.cfm?id=4569 Wow! Not a name I expected to see - sadly no mention of Marketa Irglova, though - would love to hear her doing a Joni cover or two. Saw them (The Swell Season) in London a while back and just loved their live show. I read - http://bit.ly/kqBO0X - that > The pair first met when Irglova's father was promoting > a Frames tour of the Czech Republic. Irglova had been > classically trained on piano from an early age but also > brought up on her father's Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell > records. I hear that she's just finished making a solo album (due Aug 9) and has been touring with Iron & Wine singing bvs. Love this - 'Low Rising' - http://youtu.be/MFDfJsNY_2E best to all PaulC NP I Have Loved You Wrong - The Swell Season http://blip.fm/~14yfcm ____________________ http://blip.fm/paulcastle ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 11:34:20 -0400 From: Steve Dulson Subject: Re: Richard Thompson (NJC) Scott wrote: >Your concert database won't even fit in that tiny place! :-) And Sue wrote: >Lucky!!!! :-) And Paul wrote: > Have a great night, Steve & Michele - wish I could be > with you. Actually Michele had a ballet ticket that she was unwilling to give up that night, so I went with friends Heidi, Emil and Claire. The evening did not start well. On the 405 Freeway on the way to Heidi's, folks in the car next to me started waving and pointing, just as I realized I had a flat tire. Pulled off onto Beach Blvd, parked, called Heidi and she and Emil came and picked me up, by which time I had put on the compact spare. Off to Long Beach to pick up Claire, then up to Santa Monica. Had a great Mexican dinner at Lares', then walked down to McCabes and got in line with about 20 folks in front of us. We were able to get third row seats. Woohoo! Opener Jim Kweskin, whom I'd never seen before, was really good - trad songs, EXCELLENT fingerpicking and his six-song set was only marred by a &^%&$^$ harmonica player who had to play, of course, on every phrase of every song. I love harmonica when it is tastefully and sparingly used, a la Dylan or Neil Young, but this...bah! RT was in fine form (is he ever not?) and it was amazing to see him deliver 75 minutes of music with such intensity and passion. He sang every line as though he meant it. I was too awestruck and overwhelmed to keep a set list, but he did '52 Vincent (of course)- I could feel the ghost of old band mate Dan Dwyer sitting behind me and smiling ("The only decent motorcycle song ever written!")- an updated Money Shuffle, Johnny on the Rolling Sea and Dimming of the Day, which had me in tears. He also did Sandy Denny's Who Knows Where the Time Goes after a heartfelt introduction. For the 15-minute, three-song encore he brought out teen-aged son Jack to play acoustic bass guitar with him. One number was a Fairport song, maybe called The Hangman? RT was the proud, beaming papa and mom Nancy Covey (who used to book and MC McCabes) was all smiles too. It was cool, but didn't have the intensity of the solo set. Happy to see my car still there when we got back to Beach Blvd, and drove home slowly on surface streets reflecting on one of the best evenings of music I've heard. Of course, Scott, in the database RT gets a 5*. :) *************************************************** Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA FAR-West (Folk Alliance Region - West) tinkersown@ca.rr.com www.far-west.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 19:54:28 +0100 From: Anita G Subject: Re: If you could ask Chuck Mitchell a question... Any regrets? A ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 13:13:20 -0600 From: Walt Breen Subject: Thanks for "Blue" and "Emergence"! Hi, Paul, A jmdler here -- just wanted to thank you for both the "Blue 40th Anniversary" and "Emergence" shows. Just listened to both in sequence. Going through a "Blue Transparency" phase (a "Cellophanic" phase?) in my life (again), and your pieces were perfectly timed and much appreciated. Wept at times. If anyone is a good role model for thoughtful if occasionally curmudgeonly aging, it's Joni. Best, Walt "Little" Breen Well, I'm learning it's peaceful With a good dog and some trees Out of touch with the breakdown Of this century We're not gonna fix that up Too easy (Joni Mitchell, "Electricity", 1972) Let the walls come tumbling down Let them fall right on the ground Let all the dogs go running free The wild and the gentle dogs Kenneled in me (Joni Mitchell, Jericho, 1974) Visit my website: www.learninginsights.info ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 15:47:58 -0500 From: ava rosenblum Subject: 40th anniversary of BLUE Thank you so much Paul Ingles for the incredible radio documentary on Joni! (I tried Paul's email, but for some reason, it bounced back.) So comforting to listen to the music and Paul's narrative. best, ava On May 29, 2011, at 2:00 AM, JMDL Digest wrote: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 00:50:23 -0600 From: Walt Breen Subject: njc Northern (Coastal) CA and Coastal OR -- any advice? Hi gang, As I'm sure I've mentioned, having lived in Utah for almost two years, I'm hell bent (SW Air bound) to SF and points north to find a new place to live. I'm torn between good-sized towns (Eureka/Arcata, CA and Coos Bay/North Bend, OR) and any place w/pop over 1000 (e.g., Florence, Newport, Lincoln City and any other of the dozens of small picturesque towns on the OR coast). Utah is gorgeous, but I've found the summer weather intolerable, and the people confusing (extremely kind, polite, friendly, and shockingly right-wing, although in the least redneck way possible -- I call them the Polite Borg). Any jmdlers on the Left Coast who can sing the praises of any of these places (or warn me against them)? In case you're wondering, I freakin' love rain and snow, the latter not a major concern on the Coast, I know. It's continuous, direct, relentless sun that I'm actually not-quite-allergic to, but I literally get migraines from too much sun, and my "reverse" seasonal affect disorder makes it hard to go outside during the day when it's bright and sunny - -- anxiety bordering on panic. Those of you who know me already know I'm nuts, hopefully in a nice way. I've been able to fit in here with not as much difficulty as I might have expected. If you're nice and polite, Mormons treat you similarly. It's evangelicals and intollerant blue collar types I worry about more, especially in parts of Oregon. So, any advice? Walt "Little" Breen Well, I'm learning it's peaceful With a good dog and some trees Out of touch with the breakdown Of this century We're not gonna fix that up Too easy (Joni Mitchell, "Electricity", 1972) Let the walls come tumbling down Let them fall right on the ground Let all the dogs go running free The wild and the gentle dogs Kenneled in me (Joni Mitchell, Jericho, 1974) Visit my website: www.learninginsights.info ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #158 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------