From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #265 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org 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 Tuesday, December 16 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 265 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Wordle - [Jeannie ] Re: Joni Wordle - guess the song! [mia _ ] re:joni on amazon ["joe farrell" ] Title not in the song. [johncalimee@verizon.net] Re: joni on amazon [Bob Muller ] Retro Covers for December 2008, Volume 33 [Bob Muller Subject: Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/387212/La_Avenida_de_Algodon Let's give this wordle a shot if it goes through! Jeannie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:40:30 -0600 From: mia _ Subject: Re: Joni Wordle - guess the song! I couldn't see them either at first. I was using the new Google Chrome browser, and I kept getting stuck on the Java caution. Then I switched to the Mozilla Firefox browser, and it worked fine! Mia <> _________________________________________________________________ Suspicious message? Theres an alert for that. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_broad2_1 22008 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:27:03 +0000 From: "joe farrell" Subject: re:joni on amazon Just browsing Joni items on amazon. There is a book available for pre-order called "Will You Take Me as I Am: Unraveling Joni Mitchell's Blue" by Michelle Mercer. It is due out in April 2009 published by Free Press in hardback, 256 pages and offered on amazon at #15:16p gbp. Anybody know anything about this? Anyone heard of it's intended publication? Interesting. Regards, Joe. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:57:50 -0600 (CST) From: johncalimee@verizon.net Subject: Title not in the song. Well, the easiest Joni song to think of where the title isn't in the song is Hejira. Try working that one into a lyric...! j. On other fronts... I have been toying with Joni's songwriting method where she floats a melody over the finished music. For example, the wordless Two Grey Rooms and Passion Play. I recall playing these songs for a few friends and they commented (in a perjorative way) that it was 'almost' like scat singing. As if she'd come up short, either melodically? Or because her vocals were language like. Sort of like 'air guitar' italian or something. I was fascinated by this skill because I had no clue how one could pull it off. Is anyone on the list up to taking the challenge to put a melody to some of Joni's instrumental passages? How about the bridge in Paprika Plains? Or melody (not to mention lyrics) to the Shine instrumental? I recall the story with 2 Grey Rooms went as follows: Joni was bummed out during a recording session with the 'boys' and asked Henry if she could go in and put a melody over the polished music. I assume the demo we have is that recording? And if it is, did she compose that in one take? - -Talk about creative genius if that's how it went down. Anyway, I've been toying with floating a melody over an instrumental. It began while listening to Herbie's A Case of You. I was trying to sing the song to the music and having a bitter time of it. I had Joni in my head. -But something of a breakthrough happened when I decided to forget the melody as Joni wrote it and simply get into the voicing of the instruments. Somewhere in there I found a voicing and I found I could, in a rudimentary way, float a melodic line over the song. For a few minutes I felt I was channelling Diana Krall. :-) What I came away with is a greater sense of admiration and respect for Joni's muse. And that even the smallest of us can play the creative game. So long as everyone's out of the house and beyond ear shot. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:13:43 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: joni on amazon Looks like you already know all there is to know about it at this point, Joe. I can only add that Michelle was at the last Full Moon Jonifest and that she's written a book about Wayne Shorter as well. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:38:30 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Retro Covers for December 2008, Volume 33 Howdy folks, If your holiday stress-o-meter is pushing into the red zone, maybe you need to chill with some oldie but goodie Joni covers. So here they are - it's Volume 33, first issued when Herbert Hoover promised "2 chickens in every pot and etc": http://tinyurl.com/63zxjh And what will you get for your download dollar (or lack thereof)? 1. The University of Northern Colorado Vocal Jazz Ensemble - I Don't Know Where I Stand 2. Suzin Skyler - A Case Of You 3. Mary Hopkin - Both Sides Now 4. Chuck Mitchell - The Circle Game 5. Ginger Berglund - The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines 6. The Loons - The Urge For Going 7. Skeeter Davis - Both Sides Now 8. The Joint Chiefs - All I Want 9. Rachel & Hugh Higgins - Big Yellow Taxi 10. CC Robin - Free Man In Paris 11. Lincoln Mayorga - Both Sides Now 12. Shivesen Jazz Choir - I Don't Know Where I Stand 13. John Townsend - The Circle Game 14. Keller Williams - A Case Of You (Live) 15. Keller Williams - For Free (Live) 16. Dick Hyman - Both Sides Now 17. Steve LaManna - Michael From Mountains 18. Melanie Taylor - River 19. Woody Mann & Suzanne Vogt - The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines 20. Terry Baxter & Orchestra - Both Sides Now So what are ya waitin for? Go get it. Bob NP: David Byrne & Brian Eno, "I Feel My Stuff" ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #265 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe