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Joni Mitchell Hopes to Spread "Fiddle"
With The Fiddle and the Drum, her collaboration with the Alberta Ballet, recently documented on DVD, Joni Mitchell is looking forward to spreading the piece worldwide. “The whole thing in a certain way is out of my hands," Mitchell tells Billboard.com. “It's going to be featured at the (2010) Winter Olympics in Vancouver. We've had a ...
Reverend Zen: Angels, Blues and the Crying Moon
by David King
The New York group Reverend Zen has released its debut album, Angels, Blues & the Crying Moon (Blackjack Music, 2006), that is quickly garnering music industry acclaim around the world. Platitudes aside, Reverend Zen's true genius lies in its music. The album is everything a great album should be: melodies that hang in your head like ...
Music a la Carte: Andrea Clearfield's Salon in Philadelphia
by Victor L. Schermer
According to Wikipedia, what is called the “salon" originated in Paris in the 17th century. Held in the homes of significant personages, and providing a unique opportunity for women in particular to serve as hostesses and mingle with “society," the early salons brought together high-minded individuals to read and discuss literary works. Over the course of ...
"Mama Rosa" Brian Blade Coming in April
BRIAN BLADE * MAMA ROSA * The debut singer/songwriter recording On Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Brian Blade will release Mama Rosa, his first recording as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. The album is a revealing journey through a thirteen-song cycle about family, loved ones, travels and a sense that these things have to be ...
Pernille Bevort: Cowboys and Girls
by Ian Patterson
Since making her recording debut in the mid '90s, saxophonist/composer/arranger/vocalist Pernille Bevort has established herself as one of the leading lights on the Danish jazz scene, with half a dozen recordings as leader under her belt. Playground + 1 (Calibrated, 2007) provides ample proof of her outstanding musicianship, whether on tenor or soprano saxophone, as well ...
London Jazz Festival 2008
by Frederick Bernas
London Jazz Festival 2008 London, England Nov. 14-23, 2008 Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, Mark SandersThe VortexNovember 14 In a meticulously unplanned concert, the music often seemed like a sonic battle between these three renowned improvisers. Sporting a black fitted tee and a hairstyle that could be straight from the ...
Trailblazers Selling a Romantic Kind of Love
Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock"? Sheila Weller, in her book Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation (Atria Books), which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: “It was the first line of ...
Shine
Label: Hear Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: One Week Last Summer; This Place; If I Had a Heart; Hana; Bad Dreams; Big Yellow Taxi (2007); Night of the Iguana; Strong and Wrong; Shine; If.
River: The Joni Letters
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2007
Track listing: Court and Spark; Edith and the Kingpin; Both Sides Now; River; Sweet Bird; Tea Leaf
Propechy; Solitude; Amelia; Nefertiti; The Jungle Line.
Joni Mitchell: Shine
by John Kelman
With a remarkable career that includes the near-perfect Asylum triptych of Court and Spark (1974), The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975) and Hejira (1976), it's almost beyond reasonable expectation for Joni Mitchell to produce an album that, more than three decades later, lives up to those early classics. Still, while Shine doesn't quite have the magic ...
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