From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #38 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Friday, February 7 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 038 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Joni Book in the mail #39 [Michael Paz ] Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #178 [kbhla@fastmail.fm] Re: Funeral songs [David Lahm ] Re: Funeral songs ["Mark" ] Re: Funeral songs [David Lahm ] RE: Funeral songs? ["Susan E. McNamara" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 00:59:06 -0600 From: Michael Paz Subject: Joni Book in the mail #39 Came home to a lovely present in the mail tonight after a great evening with Jack DeJohnette, Esperanza Spaulding, Joe Lavano, Leo Genovese (Spring Quartet) and Christiant Scott Quintet and Helen Gillet. OMG! WHat a great night of music. Then a signed copy of the new songbook waiting for me. #39 YaY!!!!!!!!!! Love Paz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:31:33 -0800 From: kbhla@fastmail.fm Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #178 It may well have been coincidental prescience and acknowledgement of Herbie's widely growing popularity at the time, Betsy. I remember Herbie's concerts always being a hot ticket when I was in college in the early '70s. Kakki > Can someone clear up my confusion about this 1974 article? After Joni > sings: > Stills swoons, "I wish I could think of all those words." Everyone breaks > up. "But then again, I wish I could play with Herbie Hancock too." > > But Herbie had barely taken notice of Joni before Mingus, right? So > Stills > wasn't saying he was jealous of Joni for playing with Herbie...it was > just > prescience? > > Betsy > > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2742 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:00:32 -0500 From: David Lahm Subject: Re: Funeral songs The occasion is sad but this thread is a prompt for true soul-searching. DAVID LAHM On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Betsy Blue wrote: > Both Sides Now and Circle Game are the obvious choices, but I like Sweet > Bird, Sweet Sucker Dance, Love, Song to a Seagull, Let the Wind Carry > Me,Two Grey Rooms, and Hejira as well. > On Feb 4, 2014 10:34 AM, "JMDL Digest" wrote: > > > > > JMDL Digest Tuesday, February 4 2014 Volume 2014 : Number > 145 > > > > > > > > ========== > > > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > > -------- > > Funeral songs? [Les Irvin < > > lesirvin@gmail.com>] > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:32:16 -0700 > > From: Les Irvin > > Subject: Funeral songs? > > > > Any suggestions for Angela? > > > > "I am arranging a funeral for a client who was an avid Joni Mitchell > > fan, can you please give me an idea of an appropriate piece of her music > > to play at the crematorium? - the funeral is 13th February so I would > > appreciate a quick response." > > > > Name: Angela Pelelschi > > email: apelleschi@jaspervincent.com > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of JMDL Digest V2014 #145 > > ***************************** > > > > ------- > > To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. > > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:13:00 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Funeral songs I think you might be on to something with that one, CC. Challenging the dark with light. We've had similar threads and it always stumps me somewhat. Parts of Joni's songs seem appropriate. The 'we are stardust (billion year old carbon), we are golden (caught in the Devil's bargain) and we've go to get ourselves back to the garden' chorus of 'Woodstock' is great but the rest of it about the rock festival....unless the deceased was there or had a great interest in it seems a bit of a stretch. The 2000 version of 'Both Sides Now' is a nice choice I think. A mature and beautiful summing up of a life with all its questions still unanswered. And 'Love' is appropriate to almost any occasion of this type. I would like to leave this life believing that 'Love's the greatest beauty'. Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: c Karma Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 11:21 AM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: re: Funeral songs My choice: I Think I Understand Daylight falls upon the pathThe forest falls behindToday I am not prey to dark uncertaintyThe shadow trembles in its wrathI've robbed its blackness blindAnd tasted sunlight as my fear came clear to meI think I understandFear is like a wilderlandStepping stones or sinking sandNow the way leads to the hillsAbove the steeple's chimeBelow me sleepy rooftops round the harbor It's there I'll take my thirsty fill Of friendship over wineForgetting fear but never disregarding her Oh, I think I understandFear is like a wilderlandStepping stones or sinking sandSometimes voices in the night Will call me back againBack along the pathway of a troubled mindWhen forests rise to block the light That keeps a traveler saneI'll challenge them with flashes from a brighter timeOh, I think I understandFear is like a wilderlandStepping stones and sinking sand CC ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:07:45 -0500 From: David Lahm Subject: Re: Funeral songs Your question reminds me that in my lifetime funerals have to some degree been replaced by memorial services in which we celebrate the life of the person that's gone rather than explicitly mourn- ing. This may seem, perhaps, a better alternative for a public gathering. I couldn't mourn at the microphone very long: no more than how much I'll miss her, my anger and helplessness at the unfairness of her suffering and the fear of what my own turn will be. To mourn is to acknowledge the power of death. I understand the urge to, instead, punch death in the mouth: "You can't take away my memories of her, you pig." Play her favorite song; GIVE something to her and hope that she hears it. Do I have to choose? Well, WOODSTOCK (1979) has moved me more than any other JM recording. It tells of many coming together and finding a common humane purpose. I haven't heard it for years, but I vaguely recall a poignancy to CHAIR IN THE SKY. DL On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Anita wrote: > > > > On 4 Feb 2014, at 19:00, David Lahm wrote: > > > The occasion is sad but this thread is a prompt for true soul-searching > > > > David, I am curious. What have you found? > Love > Anita ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 20:04:02 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: Funeral songs? Songs To Aging Children Come was the first that came to mind for me, but I also think Hejira and Sweet Bird are also great picks. I also love the suggestion of I Think I Understand, what a great song. I appreciate the suggestion of LOVE, but that song, and the new testament reading it is taken from, is almost always used at weddings. Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Les Irvin Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 1:32 PM To: Joni List Subject: Funeral songs? Any suggestions for Angela? "I am arranging a funeral for a client who was an avid Joni Mitchell fan, can you please give me an idea of an appropriate piece of her music to play at the crematorium? - the funeral is 13th February so I would appreciate a quick response." Name: Angela Pelelschi email: apelleschi@jaspervincent.com ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #38 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe