From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1918 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 Sunday, March 29 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 1918 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Last Joni song you played [Jeff Clark ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #556 [Bob Muller ] Re: NY Times: How David Geffen's $100 Million Lincoln Center Gift Came Together NJC [Jay Lavelle ] Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #1916 [Bob Muller ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 01:28:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Jeff Clark Subject: Re: Last Joni song you played Hi Mike, thanks for taking the time to send these notes on one of my favorite Joni songs. I look forward to reading the rest of her notes, now that I know where to find them. I also enjoyed the cover of those school kids singing Chelsea Morning; such a joyful song. Her doing it on the Dick Cavett show is one of my favorite clips. I don't know everything thats out there on youtube, I notice. I only recently found the Introduction to Rock n Roll Hall of Fame clip. I sometimes play that in the morning to get a quick fix. What a great collection of images and clips that is. Catherine, that King Crimson album is another classic album I never got around to hearing. I got to check that out. And congratulations to Laurie again. I know we'd all love to your "Love" so, "Stay in Touch"!Jeff <> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:00:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #556 Wow, Mike - thanks for that shout out. I know it's heresy to say but there are several covers that I prefer to Joni's originals. Still waiting for some of the Shine songs to get covered to hear what better production values can be brought to them. Might not ever happenB though; DED only has 2-3 to date.Stay tuned - lots more on the way. Bob NP:B Sleater-Kinney, "No Anthems" B From: Mike B To: "joni@smoe.org" Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 8:02 PM Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #556 Hi Jeff You'll find all the liner notes in the Music section of the website. Here's what Joni says aboutB Passion PlayB (When All The Slaves Are Free): "I always liked the Rabbi Jesus' spunk and his rebellious spirit.B My father told me, "Your Jesus is awfully human."B He also said my way of telling the story of Moses and the Burning Bush would be, to some people, blasphemous! B B B This song is basically my telling of the Easter story but it morphs into contemporary ecological and sociological disasters.B It is about crisis in the heart and healing of the heart.B The "I" perspective that I am singing from is that of Zachius, the tax collector.B He was short.B He was jumping up and down in the back row of a large crowd that gathered to witness the arrival of Jesus into the town of Jerusalem.B He had climbed into a sycamore tree to get a better look. " I've been too busy catching up with some of Bob's Covers to listen to any original Joni recently. There's been some great finds, including three that for me better the originals: Ian Shaw's fantastic Harlem in Havana, Cheryl Barnes's Come in From the Cold, and... (I know this is sacrilege!) Polly Gibbons' All I Want. Is it obvious that Joni's swoops and octave jumps owed something to R&B/soul vocal styling?B I'd never made the connection until hearing that cover. I thought I hated Mimi Klein's Be Cool for ditching the swing in the melody, but somehow it'sB grown on me a lot. And Super Optimistic's disco All I Want was just great fun. And finally the various retro covers of Chelsea Morning (especially the English/Welsh? kids' choir) reminded me what a gloriously uplifting song that is. So once again thanks Bob! Spring greetings to all Mike > > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:45:55 +0000 (UTC) > From: Jeff Clark > Subject: Whats the last Joni song you played? > > Does anyone know if on the Geffen box set she put little > notes down about the songs, like Neil Y did on Decade? I never looked at that > Geffen box. Anyway, whats the last Joni song you played?Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:21:58 -0400 From: Jay Lavelle Subject: Re: NY Times: How David Geffen's $100 Million Lincoln Center Gift Came Together NJC David Geffin is donating $100 million for Avery Fisher Hall, formerly Philharmonic Hall, the home of the New York Philharmonic orchestra.. This is the building that will be named in his honor. The $15 million payment is to members of the Fisher family. Alice Tully Hall is next door in the Juilliard School. It is a 1000-seat chamber music hall. The entire cost of the hall was provided by Tully, a soprano and NYC arts patron whose great-grandfather founded Corning Glass. Jay On Mar 24, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Susan E. McNamara wrote: > You are right Bob ... It was a very generous gift. Geffen could take care of > a lot of stuff with his mounds of cash. People in his rarified air need to be > cultivated carefully though ... It's all about his legacy. One thing that > really bothered me about this deal was the Tully family got a payoff of at > least $15 million to give up their name on the hall. I'm not understanding > that, but what do I know? It seems charity is a high-stakes ego game at that > level. > > From: Bob.Muller@fluor.com [mailto:Bob.Muller@fluor.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:20 AM > To: Susan E. McNamara > Cc: 'joni@smoe.org'; owner-joni@smoe.org > Subject: Re: NY Times: How David Geffen's $100 Million Lincoln Center Gift > Came Together NJC > > Thanks Sue, that was an interesting read. Makes me wish that ALL of the 1% had > that kind of generous attitude. > > Bob > > NP: Kendrick Lamar, "Alright" > > > > From: "Susan E. McNamara" > > To: "'joni@smoe.org'" >, > Date: 03/23/2015 02:19 PM > Subject: NY Times: How David Geffen's $100 Million Lincoln Center Gift > Came Together NJC > Sent by: owner-joni@smoe.org > ________________________________ > > > > Thought some of you might be interested in this article b& Alice Tully Hall > will now be David Geffen Hall! > > http://tinyurl.com/mwnzphd > > Sue Tierney McNamara > Email: sem8@cornell.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The information transmitted is intended only for the person > or entity to which it is addressed and may contain > proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. > If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are > hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, > distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon > this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please > contact the sender and delete the material from any and all > computers and other devices. > > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual > sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. > ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:32:03 -0500 From: Happy The Man Subject: Re: Whats the last Joni song you played? Been listening to Court and Spark on Vinyl since I picked it up used the other day. Mostly like Bob the new Courtney & Kendrick albums and any Alabama Shake song that gets released that week. I've been playing the Trio's album by Chick Corea w/Brian Blades NP: John Fullbright - Jericho On Mar 28, 2015 7:51 AM, "Anita Gabrielle" wrote: > The last Joni song I listened to in the car was "Night Ride Home" and the > last one I physically played was the ecstasy inducing "Dawntreader." > > And I simply can't imagine practising a Joni song ready for my birthday on > May 8th to sing at SF Jazz. > GO LAURIE! > Anita ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:07:19 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Whats the last Joni song you played? Offnight Backstreet day before yesterday with a new toy I have been playing with called a VoiceLive 3. It does vocal harmonies and effects and I was just playing with it. One of my faves to play. I did a version with my kids of this one with my eldest son on turntables playing like a perussion section. It was really cool. I hope to do that for my party coming up April 3. Best, Paz On Mar 27, 2015, at 4:45 PM, Jeff Clark wrote: So whats the last Joni song that you played? Or heard. AT this point I don't really listen to cds at all, though I'm thinking of going back to listening to them, also reading books and occasionally watching a complete movie from start to finish. In fact I did that last night by watching Dirty Dancing for the first time ever. And Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is going to be the next cd I listen to. I never actually listened to it, though I owned it for a long time. That college guy that wrote a recent article about Joni got me thinking about how I need to hear AW. Anyway, usually I just go to youtube and hear whatever Joni song I need to hear. I still listen to Out in the Country, just cause I really like the song and her singing on it. I play The Only Joy in Town quite a bit. I just really like the song, the chords and the text to it. It creates visuals in my head and I feel like I'm in Rome. The last song I heard though was the demo version of Passion Play she did in Italy. It's good that she feels confident to be able to play a song that has barely been started, to an audience. I can see why an artist would have that need, just like a comedian needs to try out new material. I wonder when she got the idea for what the song would be about. Its something I would like to ask her sometime. There must be some moment or spark when one line of text comes to her mind, and then I can see how the rest of the song would start flowing together. People always ask her what comes first the music or the words and in that case clearly the music came first. Does anyone know if on the Geffen box set she put little notes down about the songs, like Neil Y did on Decade? I never looked at that Geffen box. Anyway, whats the last Joni song you played?Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:50:21 +0000 From: Anita Gabrielle Subject: Re: Whats the last Joni song you played? The last Joni song I listened to in the car was "Night Ride Home" and the last one I physically played was the ecstasy inducing "Dawntreader." And I simply can't imagine practising a Joni song ready for my birthday on May 8th to sing at SF Jazz. GO LAURIE! Anita ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 22:20:46 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: Re: NY Times: How David Geffen's $100 Million Lincoln Center Gift Came Together NJC Thanks for the correction Jay! My confused reading comprehension strikes again! :-) Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 28, 2015, at 12:22 PM, "Jay Lavelle" wrote: > > > > David Geffin is donating $100 million for Avery Fisher Hall, formerly Philharmonic Hall, the home of the New York Philharmonic orchestra.. This is the building that will be named in his honor. The $15 million payment is to members of the Fisher family. > > Alice Tully Hall is next door in the Juilliard School. It is a 1000-seat chamber music hall. The entire cost of the hall was provided by Tully, a soprano and NYC arts patron whose great-grandfather founded Corning Glass. > > Jay > > > >> On Mar 24, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Susan E. McNamara wrote: >> >> You are right Bob ... It was a very generous gift. Geffen could take care of >> a lot of stuff with his mounds of cash. People in his rarified air need to be >> cultivated carefully though ... It's all about his legacy. One thing that >> really bothered me about this deal was the Tully family got a payoff of at >> least $15 million to give up their name on the hall. I'm not understanding >> that, but what do I know? It seems charity is a high-stakes ego game at that >> level. >> >> From: Bob.Muller@fluor.com [mailto:Bob.Muller@fluor.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:20 AM >> To: Susan E. McNamara >> Cc: 'joni@smoe.org'; owner-joni@smoe.org >> Subject: Re: NY Times: How David Geffen's $100 Million Lincoln Center Gift >> Came Together NJC >> >> Thanks Sue, that was an interesting read. Makes me wish that ALL of the 1% had >> that kind of generous attitude. >> >> Bob >> >> NP: Kendrick Lamar, "Alright" >> >> >> >> From: "Susan E. McNamara" > >> To: "'joni@smoe.org'" >, >> Date: 03/23/2015 02:19 PM >> Subject: NY Times: How David Geffen's $100 Million Lincoln Center Gift >> Came Together NJC >> Sent by: owner-joni@smoe.org >> ________________________________ >> >> >> >> Thought some of you might be interested in this article b& Alice Tully Hall >> will now be David Geffen Hall! >> >> http://tinyurl.com/mwnzphd >> >> Sue Tierney McNamara >> Email: sem8@cornell.edu >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> The information transmitted is intended only for the person >> or entity to which it is addressed and may contain >> proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. >> If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are >> hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, >> distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon >> this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please >> contact the sender and delete the material from any and all >> computers and other devices. >> >> Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual >> sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. >> ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:45:55 +0000 (UTC) From: Jeff Clark Subject: Whats the last Joni song you played? So whats the last Joni song that you played? Or heard. AT this point I don't really listen to cds at all, though I'm thinking of going back to listening to them, also reading books and occasionally watching a complete movie from start to finish. In fact I did that last night by watching Dirty Dancing for the first time ever. And Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is going to be the next cd I listen to. I never actually listened to it, though I owned it for a long time. That college guy that wrote a recent article about Joni got me thinking about how I need to hear AW. Anyway, usually I just go to youtube and hear whatever Joni song I need to hear. I still listen to Out in the Country, just cause I really like the song and her singing on it. I play The Only Joy in Town quite a bit. I just really like the song, the chords and the text to it. It creates visuals in my head and I feel like I'm in Rome. The last song I heard though was the demo version of Passion Play she did in Italy. It's good that she feels confident to be able to play a song that has barely been started, to an audience. I can see why an artist would have that need, just like a comedian needs to try out new material. I wonder when she got the idea for what the song would be about. Its something I would like to ask her sometime. There must be some moment or spark when one line of text comes to her mind, and then I can see how the rest of the song would start flowing together. People always ask her what comes first the music or the words and in that case clearly the music came first. Does anyone know if on the Geffen box set she put little notes down about the songs, like Neil Y did on Decade? I never looked at that Geffen box. Anyway, whats the last Joni song you played?Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:24:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #1916 Laurie - what an awesome once-in-a-lifetime gig! And an eclectic lineup of talent. I'm beaming with happiness for you. Love is a gorgeous song. Hasn't been done a lot, no good reason I can think of because it's so universal. Lydia van Dam did a great version as did Karen Oberlin. Bob NP: Olga Konkova - "God Must Be A Boogie Man" B From: Laurie Antonioli To: JMDL Cc: "joni-digest@smoe.org" Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 3:26 AM Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #1916 The last song I played and am trying to learn...waiting for Matt to transcribe it... is Love.B This is such an amazing piece of work.B I didn't appreciate it before, though, because I was for a period obsessed with the Travelogue album, heard it many times.B The original version is helpful when trying to learn it since by the time she gets to Travelogue Joni is phrasing like a jazz singer, back phrasing and forward phrasing, so, to learn, it's good to go back to the first version.B As well, when I read Corinthians 13 and found how she adapted this, well, I was in a transformational state for a couple days. I hope to find a way into this song.B It is, for me, the most challenging one so far. BY THE WAY everyone...SFJAZZ finally has started to announce the line-up for the Gala on May 8th.B Here's the latest:B http://sfjazz.org/jonimitchell and yes, that's my name on the list - guess I can finally shout it from the mountain top!! Laurie ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1918 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------