From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #463 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 Wednesday, January 14 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 463 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- New Library item: Joni Mitchell is having a moment [TheStaff@JoniMitchell] =?UTF-8?Q?New_Library_item:_Joni_Mitchell,_Joan_Didion?= =?UTF-8?Q?,_and_Justin_Bieber:_Fashion=E2=80=99s_New_Superstars?= [] Hejira Live makes top SD albums of the year list. [Dave Blackburn Subject: Hejira Live makes top SD albums of the year list. Just wanted to share this with you all: our local jazz critic, who almost never includes music with vocals in his reviews, chose our Hejira Live CD to be on his best releases of 2014 list, and he also picked our Mingus concert for his best of 2014 list.. San Diego has some monster talents so it is especially gratifying to be included. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/blogs/sounddiego/Top-SD-Jazz-Records-of-2014-288445221.html Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 19:12:40 +0000 (GMT) From: "johnnybgoode@lineone.net" Subject: re: Robben Ford quotes Karma, Dave, These are fascinating insights John >----Original Message---- >From: ckarma@hotmail.com >Date: 08/01/2015 16:40 >To: "joni@smoe.org", "Dave Blackburn" >Subj: re: Robben Ford quotes > >Dave wrote: I agree that the piano writing and the language she created on >piano, was >very special, and totally unlike her guitar writing - almost a different >composer. >On piano, her left hand technique of rolling eighth note arpeggios, was very >plain and undeveloped, but what she played against it, rhythmically and >harmonically, was really different. That is some of what I would talk about >if I get to present at the Lincoln Symposium. >I generally agree with that assessment, except that I feel that some of the >rhythmic and dynamic accents she tosses into her piano (with both hands) is a >similar take on her extremely unique loose right hand guitar style ("Paprika >Plains vs. "Cotton Avenue", or "One Week Last Summer" vs. "If.") On the >piano side, a great number of pieces illustrate Dave's note of her >ambidextrous counterpoint. The pieces (for me) that I feel show it easily are >"Blue", "Down To You", "Judgement of the Moon and Stars" and "If I Had A >Heart." There are two on HOSL and one on C&S, though that completely blow me >away in that her voice adds a third rhythmic/melodic element that is like >flavors melding in a slow cooker. On these tracks, the band anchors while her >piano and voice vapors curl and rise: "Shades of Scarlet Conquering" and "The >Boho Dance" from HOSL and "Car On A Hill" from C&S. When other orchestral and >band elements are added they often join in unison with the piano line and then >separate each taking turns to welcome the other back, like dancers. Ballet >analogy, anyone? (Wayne Shorter's sax notwithstandingthat's Pas de deux.) >It bears noting that Jaco didn't appear much on her piano trackshis fretless >sound was too sustained and melodic in most places. Her piano technique seems >tilted toward more rhythmic bassists. In the rare instances where he appeared >on a piano track, her piano became a rhythmic element. >CC ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #463 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe