From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #297 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 Sunday, September 7 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 297 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni at the Grammys [Michael Sentance ] Joni Covers 196 - I don't know where they're coming from [Bob Muller ] Female empowerment JR & JM [Mary ] Re: Mutts of the Planet's Hejira Live will be available in one more week [Bob Muller Subject: Re: Joni at the Grammys Joni won a Grammy for "Best Album Package" for *Turbulent Indigo* in 1995. She was nominated for that award in 1977 for *Hejira*. On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Susan E. McNamara wrote: > DidnB9t she win for best cover art or something? I remember Turbulent > Indigo winning for something. > > On 9/6/14, 11:54 AM, "Michael Sentance" wrote: > > >Just to answer the comment more fully, > > > >Joni attended the Grammys in 1970 when she won an award for "Best Folk > >Performance" (3/11/70). > >Joni attended the awards ceremony in 1975 when she had multiple > >nominations > >and won 1 award. (3/1/75). > >She attended the Grammys in 2001 and both presented an award as well as > >winning for "Best Traditional Pop Vocal". (2/21/01) > > > >I may have missed some but there are some notable appearances. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 16:35:30 -0700 From: Bob Muller Subject: Joni Covers 196 - I don't know where they're coming from Happy Saturday (or Sunday) all! Just got back from a little roadtrip so I'm late in posting but still made my deadline...here's another BRAND spanking new CD's worth of Joni covers, featuring oodles of great tunes. A 3-fer from The Netherlands' Brenda Frans, including a "Passion Play" that's so good I kick off the disc with it. Starts out as a copy and goes off in a whole 'nuther way. A 5-peat from Ann Moss including The Arrangement which is also rarely tackled, a couple more from Joni tributes, including Stevie's version of Woodstock that was never released and many more complete the set. Most of these (except for the tribute selections are from 2013). https://www.yousendit.com/download/ZUczUWVncG83N0RtcXRVag 1. Brenda Frans - Passion Play 2. Brenda Frans - River 3. Brenda Frans - A Case Of You 4. D. Reach and M. Scott - Both Sides Now 5. Henry Mancini - The Circle Game (Main Title) 6. Tierney Sutton - Blue 7. Stevie Wonder - Woodstock 8. Peter Herbert - Wild Things Run Fast 9. Irma Schultz - Chelsea Morning 10. Kevin Sandbloom - River 11. Sally Barker - A Case Of You 12. Anna Dagmar, Allison Scola - This Flight Tonight 13. Will Taylor & Strings Attached - Both Sides Now 14. Ann Moss - Conversation 15. Ann Moss - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns 16. Ann Moss - The Arrangement 17. Ann Moss - Cactus Tree 18. Ann Moss - The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines 19. Nereide - Both Sides Now 19 tracks, 19 hits - Enjoy. Bob NP: Brenda Frans, "A Case Of You" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 11:54:56 -0400 From: Michael Sentance Subject: Joni at the Grammys Just to answer the comment more fully, Joni attended the Grammys in 1970 when she won an award for "Best Folk Performance" (3/11/70). Joni attended the awards ceremony in 1975 when she had multiple nominations and won 1 award. (3/1/75). She attended the Grammys in 2001 and both presented an award as well as winning for "Best Traditional Pop Vocal". (2/21/01) I may have missed some but there are some notable appearances. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 10:08:34 -0700 From: Mary Subject: Female empowerment JR & JM First, I am in awe of all you regular posters, musicians, writers, performers and all, you are all well spoken & write nicely. I don't know how to make this into a good paragraph, but the passing of Joan Rivers & all the info on her available these last couple of days & her insistence on being the best & doing it her way & having her own opinions & not apologizing for them, illuminated for me, an aspect of Joni Mitchell that has never bothered me, frankly, but seems much more understandable in the light of her career choices. Even though Joni (in her book) didn't enjoy performing, she was out there doing it alone, knew she had a gift, booked her own gigs, worked up from the bottom and learned the recording business and had to toot her own horn a lot to even get noticed. Malka's book on Joni is very illuminating, putting familiar quotes & stories into fuller context, leaning heavily on the experience of it all. I am almost halfway through it & the discourses on philosophy and depression & the creative muse are pretty deep conversations and I just put it down & pace myself, so I can really ingest it all. Having followed her music ever since Blue, you know everything she puts down for us is real, we knew it then, we know it now, so it's not surprising she was dealing with so much inner turmoil. You can almost hear her bleed on FTR. Just glad to be alive to grow up with Joni & her music. GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 16:12:32 -0700 From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Mutts of the Planet's Hejira Live will be available in one more week Thanks for the post Dave, and for making this show available. Mine's on order! Bob NP: Sade, "Ordinary Love" ________________________________ From: Dave Blackburn To: JMDL JMDL Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 3:40 PM Subject: Mutts of the Planet's Hejira Live will be available in one more week Dear Joni friends, The new CD from Robin Adler and Mutts of the Planet, Joni Mitchells Hejira Live, is released in just a few days and can be ordered in advance from the link below. It was recorded on June 1 this year in Carlsbad, CA and many members of the JMDL were in the full-house audience. The band, featuring guest lead guitar phenomenon Jamie Kime (one of the charter members of Zappa Plays Zappa), and bassist Kevin Hennessy, performed Jonis 1976 masterpiece with mastery and deep attention to the textures and poetic landscapes of the original, but we added some extended solos for Jamie to take some tunes to dizzying heights. We filmed the show for what was to have been a DVD release but the licensing costs were prohibitive so we decided on an audio CD and some selected Youtubes of the show instead. The first three Youtubes are up now at http://tinyurl.com/o46267pfor your viewing pleasure. For best picture quality click on the settings cogwheel and set the resolution to 720p. To order the CD, recorded and mixed lovingly by yours truly, visit Robins website http://www.robinadler.com/products.htmlThey are $20 via PayPal for one CD and $10 for a second or third one, all taxes and shipping included. Note: we will not be selling this on iTunes, Amazon or via streaming services; it is only available direct from us (so we have a fighting chance of breaking even someday.) For the benefit of recently joined listers, Mutts of the Planet was formed in late 2005 to perform Jonis music exclusively, and has performed a string of sold-out concerts and jazz festivals in the nine years that followed. We released, in 2010, Safaris to the Heart: The Songs of Joni Mitchell, and in 2012 a 90 minute concert DVD of Blue and Court and Spark, with guest bassist Max Bennett who asked us if he could play with us. During those nine years we have learned and performed close to 100 of Jonis songs from every period of her work, and presented Blue, Court and Spark, For the Roses and Hejira in their entirety; we will be tackling Mingus this Nov 8th at Dizzys in San Diego. Along the way, I have personally transcribed dozens of Jonis tunes (mainly the piano pieces which had never been adequately done before) including a personal Mt. Everest, Paprika Plains. All of these are free for anyone to download and study at http://jonimitchell.com/music/piano.cfmAnd, best of all, during those nine years we have made many friends on this list, met many of you in person and been welcomed into homes as guests in the US, the UK and Denmark. Thanks to all of you for the gift of your friendship and for your enthusiastic support our Mutts project since its inception. Our goal has always been to honor the music of this one great composer, keep it live in front of audiences now that Joni herself doesnt perform, and sometimes to add our own arrangements and perspectives to a body of work that is in many ways the classical music of our generation. best wishes to us all, Dave and Robin. p.s SMOE usually eliminates all my apostrophes, so sorry about that - as a former English major it pains me to read what appears at the other end! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:40:34 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Mutts of the Planet's Hejira Live will be available in one more week Dear Joni friends, The new CD from Robin Adler and Mutts of the Planet, Joni Mitchells Hejira Live, is released in just a few days and can be ordered in advance from the link below. It was recorded on June 1 this year in Carlsbad, CA and many members of the JMDL were in the full-house audience. The band, featuring guest lead guitar phenomenon Jamie Kime (one of the charter members of Zappa Plays Zappa), and bassist Kevin Hennessy, performed Jonis 1976 masterpiece with mastery and deep attention to the textures and poetic landscapes of the original, but we added some extended solos for Jamie to take some tunes to dizzying heights. We filmed the show for what was to have been a DVD release but the licensing costs were prohibitive so we decided on an audio CD and some selected Youtubes of the show instead. The first three Youtubes are up now at http://tinyurl.com/o46267p for your viewing pleasure. For best picture quality click on the settings cogwheel and set the resolution to 720p. To order the CD, recorded and mixed lovingly by yours truly, visit Robins website http://www.robinadler.com/products.html They are $20 via PayPal for one CD and $10 for a second or third one, all taxes and shipping included. Note: we will not be selling this on iTunes, Amazon or via streaming services; it is only available direct from us (so we have a fighting chance of breaking even someday.) For the benefit of recently joined listers, Mutts of the Planet was formed in late 2005 to perform Jonis music exclusively, and has performed a string of sold-out concerts and jazz festivals in the nine years that followed. We released, in 2010, Safaris to the Heart: The Songs of Joni Mitchell, and in 2012 a 90 minute concert DVD of Blue and Court and Spark, with guest bassist Max Bennett who asked us if he could play with us. During those nine years we have learned and performed close to 100 of Jonis songs from every period of her work, and presented Blue, Court and Spark, For the Roses and Hejira in their entirety; we will be tackling Mingus this Nov 8th at Dizzys in San Diego. Along the way, I have personally transcribed dozens of Jonis tunes (mainly the piano pieces which had never been adequately done before) including a personal Mt. Everest, Paprika Plains. All of these are free for anyone to download and study at http://jonimitchell.com/music/piano.cfm And, best of all, during those nine years we have made many friends on this list, met many of you in person and been welcomed into homes as guests in the US, the UK and Denmark. Thanks to all of you for the gift of your friendship and for your enthusiastic support our Mutts project since its inception. Our goal has always been to honor the music of this one great composer, keep it live in front of audiences now that Joni herself doesnt perform, and sometimes to add our own arrangements and perspectives to a body of work that is in many ways the classical music of our generation. best wishes to us all, Dave and Robin. p.s SMOE usually eliminates all my apostrophes, so sorry about that - as a former English major it pains me to read what appears at the other end! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:18:07 -0400 From: maggie_mcnally@yahoo.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #296 Hi JMDLrs, just call me Madame Lurks-a-lot. I wanted to address the topic of the event for Wayne Shorter and the cost of a ticket. I work in the field of fundraising. That was an interesting transition for me 16 years ago when I went from being all "I treat every person equally" to having to treat donors as special. I remember talking to myself about how I would need a major attitude adjustment. What I have learned since then is that fundraising is hard work, and that with so many "noble causes" out there each cause needs to use every tool in the fundraising arsenal. Some people don't want anything to do with going to people's parties, while others love to participate in a fundraiser. I like to think of it as giving people an alternative to spending their money in the for-profit world. You can go spend $X to go out for an evening of dinner and music, or you can spend $X+$Y and go to a fundraiser, get fed and entertained, and know that a portion of the money you spent that night goes to a cause you care about. I realize that some folks live on the financial edge and cannot afford to do something like attend a fundraiser. But a great percentage of us can and do give a bit of our money away for causes we care about. And even though rich folks have a lot and one might think they should just fund whatever need is presented to them, the truth is that they get hit up every which way and even they have to be careful about how they fund those causes. I personally think it is great that this event is happening for WS. It sounds like a very special night, and if I could I would s-t-r-e-t-c-h myself to attend. I hope there are enough people who buy tickets to sell it out and raise oodles of money for the WS project. And I am delighted to know that Ashara will be there, thus giving us the inside scoop on the event. My $.02. Peace, Maggie NP: This American Life > On Sep 6, 2014, at 10:54 AM, owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) wrote: > > onlyJMDL Digest Saturday, September 6 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 296 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini [Laura Stanley ] > re: Wayne Shorter concert with JONI !!! [c Karma ] > Re: Wayne Shorter concert with JONI!! [Michael Flaherty Re: Wayne Shorter concert with JONI/ meetings and concerts [Anita Gabriel] > Re: article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) [Jamie Z] > Re: Wayne Shorter concert with JONI!! [Anita Gabrielle RE: article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) ["John E] > Re: article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) [Lori Re] > Re: article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) [Corey B] > Re: Wayne Shorter concert with JONI!! [asharajm@aol.com] > Re: article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) [Lori Re] > article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) [Moni Keller] > Re: article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) [Lori Re] > Re: article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) [Moni Ke] > Re: article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) [Doug Re: article: The secret torment of Joni Mitchell (Daily Mail UK) [FMYFL@a] > Re: Wayne Shorter concert with JONI!! [Jimmy Stewart > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAu6BRWL8p8 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:34:01 +0000 > From: c Karma > Subject: re: Wayne Shorter concert with JONI !!! > > The intriguing part of this is the venue:at "A Private Bel-Air Estate." > Hmmm. > CC > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:50:10 -0700 > From: Michael Flaherty > Subject: Re: Wayne Shorter concert with JONI!! > > I'm with you, Lori. I can't believe anyone would pay that much to see anyone. > > I have seen Joni twice, but I'm certain if I had not it wouldn't matter. > > (No offence to those who choose to go, or would if their schedules allowed. Obviously we just see this very differently.) > > > Michael > ------- > Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 21:59:26 -0700 From: Scott Price Subject: Re: Mutts of the Planet's Hejira Live will be available in one more week On 9/6/2014 12:40 PM, Dave Blackburn wrote: >The new CD from Robin Adler and Mutts of the Planet, >Joni Mitchell's Hejira Live, is released in just a few days Hi Dave, Seems like years since I posted here but your project so moves me! I was absolutely mesmerized by the mastery all the assembled Mutts exhibited throughout the YouTube clips. Along with Robin, of course, the ability of the musicians to capture the nuances and complexity of the Hejira pieces left me nearly breathless. This is truly amazing work for which you are all to be congratulated and admired. Needless to say I ordered the disc and am anxiously awaiting its arrival. Bravo!!! Scott ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #297 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe