From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #90 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, March 14 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 090 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Interview with Henry Lewy, article on jm.com ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Paprika Plains [Catherine McKay ] Re: Where was C&S recorded? [Jamie Zubairi Home ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 22:48:20 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Interview with Henry Lewy, article on jm.com One of Joni's biographers kept calling it "the archives". I think it was Karen O'Brien. Anyway, she meant the "Library" section of jonimitchell.com. Today, I googled "Henry Lewy" and found a big interview, already on Les' site... The late Henry Lewy, said in part, >"She comes up with the arrangements she does from listening carefully to her own piano or guitar parts. She has a very interesting style - she's essentially self-taught and actually invents her own chords frequently - and she can hear in her own parts the components of the fuller arrangement. When Joni gets musicians in the studio, the first three or four takes are usually just for listening. She doesn't want to think too much about them - she just wants to play, and frequently you get some real magic happening in those takes." Lewy says he likes to use just guitar-bass-drums or even guitar-drums when the song is new because "if there are too many players, she has a tendency to lose the intricacies of her guitar playing and she'll play *with* them instead of *them* playing with her. And since her guitar is the heart of the arrangements you lose something when that happens."> http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=590 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:09:08 +0000 From: c Karma Subject: RE: Paprika Plains STANDING O!!!! Bic FLICKED!!!! Thank you Mike, Dave and Michael. This is a musicologically significant event restoring a great work for generations. CC "Who you gonna get to do the dirty work when all the slaves are free." -- JM > Subject: Paprika Plains > From: beatntrack@att.net > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:47:22 -0700 > CC: ckarma@hotmail.com; guitarzan@hughes.net > To: joni@smoe.org > > It is done. A transcriber's odyssey has been completed. > > Beginning with my interview with Mike Gibbs last year and then a casual question as to whether he might still have his original score to Paprika Plains, he then seached his house for a couple of weeks and located some old photostats of his handwritten score from 1977 which he sent me. Zoomed way in they were just legible. They only included the parts that he himself wrote, not the piano and vocal parts leading up to the orchestral interlude or the recapitulation after it. So a melding of his score with a new transcription of the piano and vocal parts needed to be done. At this time, my friend and co-transcriber in Australia, Michael Dunn, happened to contact me regarding something else and I mentioned that I was working on PP since Mike Gibbs had made it feasible. Between us we were able to complete the work in three months, and then we sent it to Mike Gibbs for his approval. He proof read it and was very pleased with the work. > > The full score, in 11x17 format http://jonimitchell.com/music/transcription.cfm?id=506 > and a piano-vocal chart in 8.5x11 http://jonimitchell.com/music/transcription.cfm?id=507 > > is put up on the website today for all to peruse and study. We hope Joni researchers and historians will find this undertaking useful as well as musicians wanting to learn the piece. > > cheers, > Dave Blackburn (and Michael Dunn) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:42:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Paprika Plains Amen to that. Awesome, incredible, mind-boggling stuff. People pay lots of money for music sheets and books that are wrong, and you guys are doing this real good for free! >________________________________ > From: Susan E. McNamara >To: Dave Blackburn ; JMDL JMDL >Cc: Chris Coccaro ; Randy Remote >Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:01:56 AM >Subject: RE: Paprika Plains > > >As I said on Facebook, this is a mind-boggling accomplishment. Thank you so much Dave and Michael. Plus it is also brilliant that you were able to involve Mr. Gibbs. I'm so grateful that we now have this incredible piece of music archived FREE for all the inspired musicians, maybe not even born yet, who want to learn it. That may sound a bit over the top, but I am dead serious ... This is so important. Thank you, thank you! > >Susan Tierney McNamara >email: sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:09:20 +0000 From: Jamie Zubairi Home Subject: Re: Where was C&S recorded? Wasn't it recorded at the A&M studios? For some reason is got that in my head. I've a feeling that The Kiva is the home studio, where NRH was recorded. The last hired studio album was CMIARS as it was Ashcombe Hall near Bath, where Peter Gabriel has his studio (Larry was producing his album). I'm just checking this out now. I'm going on memory On 13 Mar 2014 02:02, wrote: > Why is Joni's voice steely and strident on Court And Spark (the whole > album)? > > It doesn't sound like that on FTR (the album). > > Do we know when she started releasing tracks that she recorded at home? > > I know that Larry and Thomas Dolby had replaced Henry as engineers on DED, > but what about the other records? > > Jim ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #90 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe