From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #246 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 Thursday, July 24 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 246 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- All About Jazz review of Laurie's album [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: All About Jazz review of Laurie's album [Anita Gabrielle ] Re: covers [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #945 [Laurie Antonioli ] Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #945 [David Lahm ] Post-polio syndrome [Laura Stanley ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:43:01 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: All About Jazz review of Laurie's album Excerpt: "Does the jazz world really need another album of Joni Mitchell songs?bis a valid one. In theory, it does not. But when the album in question is shaped by the voice of Laurie Antonioli, the answer is yes." Read the whole thing here: http://goo.gl/XCAxr1 Bob NP: Namaste, "Havana Blues" - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 computer. 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But when the album in question is > shaped by the voice of Laurie Antonioli, the answer is yes." > > Read the whole thing here: > > http://goo.gl/XCAxr1 > > Bob > > NP: Namaste, "Havana Blues" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 computer. > > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual > sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. > ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:40:46 +0100 From: Jamie Zubairi Home Subject: Re: covers They also did 'Centrepiece' which Joni uses in 'Harry's House' but takes it off the beat, slightly, to great effect. I love their almost manic, energised singing and the close harmonies that they use. I wish I was more pitch perfect to know what was going on with their harmonies (and Joni's for that matter). Annie Ross also made appearances as an actress. Is it LA Story that she appeared in? Jamie Zubairi Actor, Voiceover, Painter, Photographer. Agent: Byron's Management 020 72428096 SpotLight Showreel Unbroken Line Jamie Zubairi is Associate Artist at Ovalhouse working on new works for 2014 You can see him soon in: Lost Theatre Solo Festival 2014 *Three Sides To A Fence* by Atar Hadari, 7:30pm 9, 11 July 2014 Current exhibition *WaterPlus Colour* at Blend Cafe 587 Green Lanes, N8 0RG until 27 June Recent work: *Cucumber* for Channel 4, by Russell T Davies due Jan 2015 *Tino Sehgal Unilever Commission "These Associations"* Tate Modern (Turner Prize Nominated) *Unbroken Line*' OvalHouse, supported by public funding from the Arts Council of England. On 22 July 2014 05:53, Betsy Blue wrote: > Bob reminded us that: > Twisted is not a Joni song. I'd bet a lot of non-jazz aficianados are not > familiar with the LHR version. > > Joni's Twisted is a great interpretation. (Better than Better Midler, who > basically re-did the song.) It was certainly my introduction to Lambert, > Hendricks, and Ross. Even if jazz is not your thing, I would urge you to > check out their stuff. It is mind blowing. > > Betsy, musical slut ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:42:33 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: covers That's a good point Vincenzo...I like her cover of "How Do You Stop" much better than James Brown's original, and having said that it's not exactly a stellar song to begin with. I have gotten quite a few emails from people through JM.com informing me that Twisted is not a Joni song. Once can certainly argue the point. A Bird That Whistles included it on their tribute concert/CD release. I'd bet a lot of non-jazz aficianados are not familiar with the LHR version. Bob NP: Bruce Springsteen, "American Skin (41 Shots)" - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:19:19 -0700 From: Laurie Antonioli Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #945 Well...since some of us are jazz geeks here, here is the whole background on "Twisted." Annie Ross, of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross essentially only wrote 3 vocalese lyrics while with LHR. Vocalese is the art of putting lyrics to a pre-existing improvised instrumental solo. Jon Hendricks, the master of vocalese, wrote all the other lyrics. "Twisted" is part of this trio of songs that also include "Jackie" and "Farmer's Market." All of these songs are blues, though it's not usually apparent unless you're a jazz musician - not down home blues, but bebop blues. Anyway...(are you still with me?)...the tenor saxophonist that played these 3 songs that Annie put lyrics to is the late Wardell Gray. His horn solo is what the lyrics are "following" on "Twisted" - the "melody" is the "My analyst told me.." and so on for 12 bars, 2 times and then its' a winding road - a horn solo. All of LHR's music, for the most part, was in this style - the vocalese art form. And finally, Annie Ross was one of Joni's idols or influences. Annie is definitely one of my influences. "Twisted" is one of THE most classic vocal jazz bebop songs in that genre. The other really famous one that was done by a famous musician, George Benson, is "Moody's Mood For Love" - he didn't write it - but he made it famous (outside the jazz world.) I won't go into detail on that song but it's the same thing. Joni "covered" Twisted - and is, by the way, where I heard it first -- and there was Bette Midler -- but, once I got into LHR, I was obsessed with them. Annie still sings in NY once a week at the Metropolitan Room. I saw her years ago. She, like Joni, was known for sky high vocals (Annie much higher than Joni) but no longer hits those notes. She, however, is still as soulful as Joni is in her later years (Annie must be in her 80's now.) And there you have it! Laurie On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:00 AM, JMDL Digest wrote: > > JMDL Digest Tuesday, July 22 2014 Volume 2014 : Number > 945 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Re: covers [Betsy Blue < > betsyblue82@gmail.com>] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:53:45 -0700 > From: Betsy Blue > Subject: Re: covers > > Bob reminded us that: > Twisted is not a Joni song. I'd bet a lot of non-jazz aficianados are not > familiar with the LHR version. > > Joni's Twisted is a great interpretation. (Better than Better Midler, who > basically re-did the song.) It was certainly my introduction to Lambert, > Hendricks, and Ross. Even if jazz is not your thing, I would urge you to > check out their stuff. It is mind blowing. > > Betsy, musical slut > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2014 #945 > ***************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:49:01 -0400 From: David Lahm Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #945 I leave it to others to decide if this is njc or not. Myself, I don't find JM's "Twisted" particularly rewarding, contrasted to those of real jazz singers. But my real purpose is to give some details about "Moody's Mood for Love." Some time around 1950 (give or take a couple of years) James Moody, a saxophonist who had recorded with Dizzy Gillespie in the 40s, recorded the instrumental of that title. It was a jazz take on the standard "I'm in the mood for love," written about 10 years before by composer Jimmy McHugh and lyricist Dorothy Fields (1904-1974). She was my mother. Moody's version made almost no reference to McHugh's melody, thus the change of title was justified. There were many contrefacts (new melodies on established chord sequences) written during the bebop period: "Groovin' High" (Gillespie) is a contrefact of "Whispering;" "Bird of Paradise" (Parker") is a contrefact of "All the things you are;" "Four in One" (Monk) is a contrefact of "Just you, just me." Give Jon Hendricks his due, but for me, a greater writer of vocalese was the late Eddie Jefferson (d. 1979). I think his finest effort was the lyric he set to Coleman Hawkins' famous 1939 "Body and Soul;" some of you may have heard Manhattan Transfer's version. Like Joni Mitchell, Eddie was the best performer of his own works. He wrote the lyric to "Moody's Mood for Love" and the vocal was first recorded by King Pleasure in about 1952. That version is possibly what has inspired other jazz singers though the years. DAVID LAHM On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Laurie Antonioli < laurieantonioli@gmail.com> wrote: > Well...since some of us are jazz geeks here, here is the whole background > on "Twisted." Annie Ross, of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross essentially only > wrote 3 vocalese lyrics while with LHR. Vocalese is the art of putting > lyrics to a pre-existing improvised instrumental solo. Jon Hendricks, the > master of vocalese, wrote all the other lyrics. "Twisted" is part of this > trio of songs that also include "Jackie" and "Farmer's Market." All of > these songs are blues, though it's not usually apparent unless you're a > jazz musician - not down home blues, but bebop blues. Anyway...(are you > still with me?)...the tenor saxophonist that played these 3 songs that > Annie put lyrics to is the late Wardell Gray. His horn solo is what the > lyrics are "following" on "Twisted" - the "melody" is the "My analyst told > me.." and so on for 12 bars, 2 times and then its' a winding road - a horn > solo. All of LHR's music, for the most part, was in this style - the > vocalese art form. And finally, Annie Ross was one of Joni's idols or > influences. > > Annie is definitely one of my influences. "Twisted" is one of THE most > classic vocal jazz bebop songs in that genre. The other really famous one > that was done by a famous musician, George Benson, is "Moody's Mood For > Love" - he didn't write it - but he made it famous (outside the jazz > world.) I won't go into detail on that song but it's the same thing. > > Joni "covered" Twisted - and is, by the way, where I heard it first -- and > there was Bette Midler -- but, once I got into LHR, I was obsessed with > them. Annie still sings in NY once a week at the Metropolitan Room. I saw > her years ago. She, like Joni, was known for sky high vocals (Annie much > higher than Joni) but no longer hits those notes. She, however, is still > as soulful as Joni is in her later years (Annie must be in her 80's now.) > > And there you have it! > > Laurie > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:00 AM, JMDL Digest > wrote: > > > > > JMDL Digest Tuesday, July 22 2014 Volume 2014 : Number > > 945 > > > > > > > > ========== > > > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > > -------- > > Re: covers [Betsy Blue < > > betsyblue82@gmail.com>] > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:53:45 -0700 > > From: Betsy Blue > > Subject: Re: covers > > > > Bob reminded us that: > > Twisted is not a Joni song. I'd bet a lot of non-jazz aficianados are not > > familiar with the LHR version. > > > > Joni's Twisted is a great interpretation. (Better than Better Midler, > who > > basically re-did the song.) It was certainly my introduction to Lambert, > > Hendricks, and Ross. Even if jazz is not your thing, I would urge you to > > check out their stuff. It is mind blowing. > > > > Betsy, musical slut > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of JMDL Digest V2014 #945 > > ***************************** > > > > ------- > > To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. > > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:02:29 -0700 From: Laura Stanley Subject: Post-polio syndrome I'm teaching about post-polio syndrome. It is a painful thing to have, and I can't help but think of Joni. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #246 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe