From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1537 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 1 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1537 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Jazz Snobs [Laurie Antonioli ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:54:07 -0700 From: Laurie Antonioli Subject: Jazz Snobs I haven't had time to follow all the recent posts about the "Kate Perry incident" but, no one is snobbier than jazz musicians. It's been interesting to me that many of them have "come clean" about how much Joni has touched them. And, many jazz singers have included Joni's songs on their recordings. Tierney Sutton's latest is an example, though her story is that she didn't even get hip to Joni until about 13 years or so ago. Some of us, like me, started with Joni and then went on to jazz. As you know, I'm making a new record of Joni's music and I tell the story here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/songs-of-shadow-songs-of-light/x/1830694 And I'm not the least bit snobby about Joni's impact on me. Believe it or not, the "jazz police" have given me a couple tickets already! The biggest point, to me, is that music is not clearly one thing or the other. At least in jazz, all the masters now are gone. Just a handful left. And with that, the young jazz musicians are calling on all their "childhood" influences - jazz singing is such a genre-bending affair anymore that it's hard to even know how to classify the new crop of "jazz singers." I deal with this all the time as I run the Vocal Program at a jazz institution. Back to Joni - her music lends itself to jazz, as she was deeply influenced by jazz music, but, it also transcends and crosses over to people who like pop, folk, rock, country and so on. Her music, depending on "who" is doing it can live in any of these environments and THAT is what makes it like Ellington or Cole Porter. Her songs are like the "Great American Songbook" or "Standards" which were written in the 1930's and 40's. From 1960's on up, Joni carved out a niche that works in many settings and because of that, will live on as some of the most important popular music ever written. Laurie Antonioli ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1537 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------