{"id":590,"date":"2012-04-10T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2014-03-03T23:17:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:17:26","slug":"mth-v-joni-mitchell-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/mth-v-joni-mitchell-live\/","title":{"rendered":"MTH-V: Joni Mitchell Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/jonimitchell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joni<\/a> a number of times on this blog. And much like my personal arrival to her music, I was exposed to her via a variety of secondary sources before diving deep into her own catalogue. Be it a couple friends who are devotees,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Miles-Electric-Different-Kind-Blue\/dp\/B00069FKN2\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Electric: Another Kind of Blue<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestaylor.com\" target=\"_blank\">James Taylor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomscottmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Scott<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Downey,_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Downey Jr.<\/a>&#8216;s tenure on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ally-McBeal-Very-Christmas\/dp\/B000050HV4\" target=\"_blank\">Ally McBeal<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0or my fondness for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Love-Actually-Widescreen-Edition-Grant\/dp\/B00005JMFQ\" target=\"_blank\">Love Actually<\/a><\/em>, it seemed like she was always popping up somewhere in my periphery. So a few years ago I blindly purchased <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Court-Spark-Joni-Mitchell\/dp\/B000002GXL\" target=\"_blank\">Court and Spark<\/a><\/em>, and I quickly burned that entire album into my brain. (&#8220;Car On A Hill&#8221; is one of the best songs I own.) She always pleases, and my Joni collection and knowledge continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is Joni a top-notch songwriter, but she knows how to surround herself with first-rate musicians. While I often like to reference <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Joni-Mitchell-Shadows-Light\/dp\/B00009AV7L\" target=\"_blank\">Shadows &amp; Light<\/a><\/em>, for which Joni uses a backing band of jazz giants, that&#8217;s far from the only example. She seems to know that by composing and singing she&#8217;s done her job, and therefore she doesn&#8217;t need to worry about being &#8220;shown up&#8221; by the other instrumentalists &#8211; that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re there for. Perhaps her decades-long fondness for Miles goes beyond the music, extending to his unparalleled skills as a bandleader. It definitely makes me wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This video is of a live performance of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hejira-Joni-Mitchell\/dp\/B000002GYC\" target=\"_blank\">Hejira<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s title track in Japan. Her band includes the one and only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayneshorter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Shorter<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pino_Palladino\" target=\"_blank\">Pino Palladino<\/a>. As with any context, when Wayne&#8217;s on stage, great things are sure to happen&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Live in Japan)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T2kUySnZ-Jw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a little bonus, here&#8217;s a rocket-fueled performance of <em>Court and Spark<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Raised on Robbery&#8221;\u00a0from 1974 by Joni with Tom Scott &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L.A._Express\" target=\"_blank\">The L.A. Express<\/a>. Despite the annoying chirping (no doubt a holdover from transferring this damaged old recording to digital&#8230;), it&#8217;s the highest quality version of this particular performance I could find. Love it.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joni Mitchell - Raised On Robbery, 1974\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_y3f61DXnfU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve mentioned Joni a number of times on this blog. And much like my personal arrival to her music, I was exposed to her via a variety of secondary sources before diving deep into her own catalogue. Be it a couple friends who are devotees,\u00a0Miles Electric: Another Kind of Blue, James Taylor, Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[501,401,496,252,253,500,495,498,502,497,499,390,424],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mthv","tag-ally-mcbeal","tag-court-and-spark","tag-hejira","tag-james-taylor","tag-joni-mitchell","tag-love-actually","tag-pino-palladino","tag-raised-on-robbery","tag-robert-downey-jr","tag-shadow-and-light","tag-the-la-express","tag-tom-scott","tag-wayne-shorter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}