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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Joni Mitchell Jazzed: Ten Essential Mitchell Covers

by Ian Patterson
January 3, 2025

Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's spectacular transition from acoustic folk singer in the '60s through folk-rock 'n' roller in the early '70s to leader of jazz-inflected bands in the mid-'70s was a gradual process. This musical transformation can be traced over the course of five albums for Asylum, beginning with the multi-million seller and Grammy-winner Court and ...

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Moving Portrait

By Dave Douglas

Label: DIW
Released: 1998
Track listing: The Nine Cloud Dream; Paradox; Moving Portrait; First Frost; Roses Blue; My Old Man; The Same Situation; Movement; Romero.

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Article: Album Review

Dave Douglas: Moving Portrait

Read "Moving Portrait" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
December 1, 1998

Dave Douglas has a superb experienced trio supporting him on Moving Portrait. The session consists of the trumpeter's compositions plus three by Joni Mitchell. Douglas feels that the words, music, and meaning of Mitchell's songs provide an excellent starting place for his ensemble to improvise in jazz. Like all forms of art, the result is a ...

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