It seems that Joni Mitchell likes northern California. Her last three performances, to the best of our knowledge, have taken place there, the latest being in Berkeley (September 2 and 3 of this year) where she performed before 9,000 people at the outdoor Greek Theatre as part of the benefit tor Mimi Farina's Bread and Roses organization Quoting from Conrad Silvert's review in the San Francisco Chronicle: About six hours after the music had begun. Joni Mitchell walked on stage to a standing ovation She began strumming her big guitar and sang "Coyote from Hejira. sing-talking the words into the microphone as intimately as she might in someone's living room Then she sang the haunting, "Shadows and Light," from The Hissing ol Summer Lawns. investing her poetry with fine shades of expression that evoked multiple layers of deja vu. like fingering ghostly rosary beads of past lives.
She then sang her Ode to Memphis Bluesman Furry Lewis, Furry Sings the Blues." and then introduced the funny Las Vegas song by saying: "Imagine you're on the Strip and up walks Lola Folana in a gold lame jumpsuit, all sucked up. She then beckoned Herbie Hancock to the grand piano, and Herbie accompanied her with exquisite harmony as she sang her lyrics to a pair of tunes by Mingus, presumably from her upcoming album Her words were a stunning portrait of Mingus: and her phrasing was light years ahead of the jazzy stuff she sang on Don Juan 's Reckless Daughter, her last album. Joni's been woodshedding.
Joni has recorded tour tracks of Mingus' music for her next album, which, according to sources at Elektra/Asylum will probably not be released until at least Christmas So far. Joni has used the services of Wayne Shorter. Jaco Pastorious. Stanley Clark. Jerry Mulligan. Don Elias and Jeremy Lubbock Joni is currently vacationing in Mexico and will return to the studio later this fall to complete work on the album which she is producing herself .
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