From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1109 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 Wednesday, August 20 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1109 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Vince Mendoza's arrangements & orchestrations [c Karma Subject: RE: Vince Mendoza's arrangements & orchestrations Too true about Joni's orchestral guitar. More recent examples are "Just Like This Train" and "Harlem In Havana" even though the latter makes more use of electronic texture. She is channeling her inner Duke. CC > Subject: Re: Vince Mendoza's arrangements & orchestrations > From: lawntreader@googlemail.com > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:38:33 +0100 > CC: simon@icu.com; joni@smoe.org; ckarma@hotmail.com; scjoniguy@yahoo.com > To: beatntrack@att.net > > Dave, I love how you have written here about Mendoza. So erudite. > > I know I have often shared here on JMDL that I listened a lot to Debussy in 1968 when I first heard STAS and The Dawntreader. Debussy and Joni are inextricably linked in my mind. When I heard the Mendoza arrangement, it just blew my socks off. I will always love the STAS original, but the TLog version did feel a full circle in Joni's musical career - at least to my ears. Looking back now, I recognise the extraordinary guitar playing on STAS was sounding pretty near orchestral in its idea. So unique at the time. So unique now. > Anita > > > On 19 Aug 2014, at 13:34, Dave Blackburn wrote: > > > > Oops. I meant A Case of You from BSN. > > > >> On Aug 18, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Dave Blackburn wrote: > >> > >> > >> In closing, Simon remarks that Mendozas arrangements did not take Jonis tunings into account; Im afraid this makes no sense. The alternate tunings were a way to accomplish non-standard voicings on guitar using easy fingerings. Vince Mendoza, or any arranger for that matter, was not constrained by the guitarists fingerings at all and could easily hear and orchestrate her voicings. They were remarkable for a self-taught guitarist to have discovered but are not anything to stump an advanced jazz arranger. A Case of You from Travelogue is a perfect rendition of the dulcimer voicings that contained unisons and dissonances; Mendoza captured and honored them all. > >> > >> all for now, > >> > >> Dave ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1109 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------