From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #358 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Monday, November 19 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 358 The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much much more. The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- A Case ["John van Tiel" ] wishing on a star ["Suze Cameron" ] Re: A Case [Merk54@aol.com] Mingus ["Mark or Travis" ] Sad sale ["Craig Harris" ] Re: Sad sale [Randy Remote ] Joni's painting & technical terms [BigWaltinSF@aol.com] Re: A Case [Michael Paz ] Re: Rikki, Natalie [Gary Zack ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 09:53:26 +0100 From: "John van Tiel" Subject: A Case Just wanted to share this with you ... Last Wednesday, Amsterdam, the Concertgebouw. Diana Krall in Concert. The Concertgebouw is an amazing hall. Historic, built for concerts only and usually reserved for the greats from the world of classical music. The bill for the next three months shows only three non-YoYoMas & Sophie von Otters & the like. The acoustics of the hall are unbelievable. Even at capacity crowd, every whisper can be heard. Mikes are unnecessary. The sound is always crisp and natural, anywhere in the hall. The raised stage is inside the room so the performers are literally surrounded by people. The audience on the left and the right (officially the choir stands, but sold as seats when there is no choir) look down on the performers. The back of the stage is a gigantic 19th century pipe organ. It's Holland's sacred music temple. Diana was clearly impressed by the setting and seemed nervous. She thawed after the reception of the songs. And then something magical happened. Towards the end of the concert (mostly jazz & musical standards - with regular combo) she started playing the keys of the piano so softly and subtly that the instrument almost whispered. The entire audience literally fell silent. No coughing, nothing. The intro lasted minutes. And then she played a 10-minute version of A Case of You. Sooooo beautiful, I just could not believe it. I liked the Joni Tribute version. But this was nothing like that performance. The song had clearly grown on her. It came from her toes. When she was finished (just single keystrokes whereby the word 'stroke' is totally appropriate) there was silence. Just a few seconds. And then the applause ... more than 5 minutes. For one song. For a song that most of the audience didn't even know (it was very much the rich, evening dress & fancy suit older crowd). Diana did not go into the next song - none of the professional keep-the-show-going stuff. She just sat on her stool, looking at the ground and said: "I am so sad .... That was Joni Mitchell." She played only two more songs. All through the concerts she made snide and cynical comments to song lyrics "'Love can be so cruel' ... oh, don't I just know that!". Perhaps she just had a break-up experience of some kind. That may have helped. But whatever she was going through, she turned "A Case Of You" into an unbelievable experience. It was one of the highlights of my entire life as a concert goer. And Diana knew she had excelled herself. The Concertgebouw had once again worked its magic. As soon as I stepped out of the building, I walked over to a telephone booth to call my Joni soulmate in the US to share the experience. I needed too. After that, we went out for beers. A case seemed to be too much, I was a bit drunk already. Amsterdam is beautiful at night. John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 08:22:06 -0500 From: "Suze Cameron" Subject: wishing on a star Woke up before the roosters. Dragged my daughter out to the boonies to watch the star show. First star I wished for peace. The second star for justice. The showers were so plentiful that I was able to wish for Joni to write again. Not that this is in any way a trivial wish, it just seems like with everything going on in the world...well, you all know what I mean. What a wonderful sight, and to be able to share it with my daughter made it that more meaningful. I said to her that this certain set of circumstances making this display so awesome wouldn't occur for over 100 years. I said that we would both be dead when this happened again. She said maybe not, and then that made me wish for even more things...All the good in the world science can bring and all the bad. Anthrax scares and bombs dropping in the same moment these meteors streak through the early morning sky. Sorry, rambling. Joni writing again, new material to listen to....that really is something to wish for... Sue ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:49:17 EST From: Merk54@aol.com Subject: Re: A Case John, how fortunate to have seen Diana perform that song. For me it was the highlight of the Joni Tribute. I can't imagine it getting much better than that - but a ten minute version - Wow! I've always been a bit disappointed in Diana's albums, especially after seeing what she is capable of with a song like A Case of You. Given the right material, and the right setting (her alone at the piano), I think she would be amazing. Congrats on experiencing such a magical moment. Now when is she coming to Chicago? Jack ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 09:28:44 -0800 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Mingus Bravo is running a program on Charles Mingus. They are talking about the end of his life yet. So far the only Joni mention has been a caption about 'Chair in the Sky' saying 'originally recorded by Joni Mitchell in 1979'. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 09:55:45 -0800 From: "Craig Harris" Subject: Sad sale It appears someone is selling Jaco's 1960 Jazz Bass on Ebay. It looks like the real deal. It is sad to see that the bass is not staying in Jaco's family. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1486663425 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:03:45 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Sad sale This is the bass Jaco played on the Shadows and Light video. Minimum bid is unknown, but it's more than the first bid of $20,000 (!). Craig Harris wrote: > It appears someone is selling Jaco's 1960 Jazz Bass on > Ebay. It looks like the real deal. It is sad to see that the > bass is not staying in Jaco's family. > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1486663425 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:43:09 EST From: BigWaltinSF@aol.com Subject: Joni's painting & technical terms Hi, all, I'm interested in art history, but am woefully ignorant of art techniques (which I suppose, is like being interested in physics but not knowing math), so I was both fascinated by what John Irving wrote: <> I may have the wrong term, but I had kind of concluded that Joni's style, while reeling from complete abstractiop, through impressionism, to more-or-less realism, was centered on the fauvist idea of the use of color -- just as John said (in different words, of course). As for my ignorance, I don't know what "value" means, what "form painting" is, nor what "flatness" refers to -- does it have to do with perspective, or it more involved with the manner in which she paints? I'm going now to look it up in my art referneces, but i thought I'd ask here also in case anyone else was puzzled, intrigued, etc. warmly, walt ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:36:57 -0800 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: A Case John- Great story. Thanks so much for sharing it. When she was here for Jazz Fest I saker her to play that and she kinda gave me a puzzled look like "what???". Will there be a tape coming of this show???? Later Paz on 11/18/01 12:53 AM, John van Tiel at john.van.tiel@wxs.nl wrote: > Just wanted to share this with you ... > > As soon as I stepped out of the building, I walked over to a telephone booth > to call my Joni soulmate in the US to share the experience. I needed too. > After that, we went out for beers. A case seemed to be too much, I was a bit > drunk already. Amsterdam is beautiful at night. > > John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:13:59 -0500 From: Gary Zack Subject: Re: Rikki, Natalie Hi Chuck, Must correct you on this one. When Rickie Lee did her first TV appearance on Saturday Night Live supporting her first album, she did in fact do "Chuck E's In Love" first, and then later in the show did "Coolsville." I have a videotape of the show. I do remember when I first saw her I was blown away and immediately ran out to buy the album. Saturday Night Live sure showcased some great talent back in the early days. I have many of the old shows on tape. I must admit I haven't been able to really get into Rickie's newer stuff though. I did always think that Jennifer Warnes has been an extremely underrated singer/songwriter. I haven't heard her new CD called "The Well" yet but am anxious to pick it up, next time I head to the music store. Best regards, Gary Chuck Eisenhardt wrote: > > I recall that in Rikki Lee's first appearance on national TV (Saturday Night > Live) > supporting the first album, she refused to sing the big hit and did > 'Coolsville' > instead (probably the least accessible cut on the whole album.) I don't know > exactly what this says about her need to differentiate her art from that of > certain other long-haired blonde pop singers, but clearly she chose to > present herself in this huge first exposure with a sparse, arty, bohemian, > attitude rife example rather than the poppy, full-production 'Chuck E's in > Love' > > I love this whole album - 'Company', 'Night Train', Youngbloods' 'Last > Chance > Texaco'...great stuff. I think 'Company' belongs in the front rank of > American > songbook classics. > > As for Ms. Merchant I will break a cardinal rule (If you can't say something > nice...') > to say I can't stand her! I could never at all fathom why 10,000 Maniacs > ever > got airplay on MTV or on rock-format stations! It was never even close to > the > genre. She has what are to me really annoying vocal mannerisms which she > seems to hope will stand in for style, a limited range, a playbook of > identical- > sounding mid-tempo navel-gazers, and some reputation for falling > down in personal appearances. She was embarrassingly bad in the Concert > for New York. According to the paper she made her recent Boston audience > nervous by playing mostly off her just-released album (see above), mostly > avoiding the familiar, and then closed the concert by starting and quickly > aborting several songs after a few bars, which seemed to even upset the > band. > > She's probably a very nice person, tho! > > ChuckE ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #358 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?