"I wanna make you feel free," Mitchell sings on the record-opening "All I Want." Mission accomplished.Blueis liberation — and the start of a freedom that continues to impact music, culture, and identity today. “Blueis considered to be Joni’s finest work, and it totally just...
Instead of the hushed and haunting piano elegy that Mitchell plays to end the record, Carlile led the band through a progressively building arrangement that started small and ended massive, drums thumping and Hanseroth's electrifying guitar chords ringing from the rafters. A similar approach was ap...
I saw Joni on stage at the Troubadour in LA in 1968, this golden-haired beauty playing gorgeous chords and singing with mind-blowing abandon in terms of what she was willing to reveal about herself. I wrote her a fan/love letter and sent red roses. Some years later, she found the unop...
Later that night, I searched eBay for Joni Mitchell ephemera. I found a cutting of a review of her albumBlue, taken from a 1971 issue ofMelody Maker. It was cheap, so I bought it. The review argued thatBlue’s songs were ‘hard to relate to’, the ‘problem’ of the record ‘one...
St. Louis-born Green approached his guitar as if he was a horn player, eschewing chords for lucid, single-note melodic lines. His “less is more” aesthetic is highlighted on this absorbing trio session with bassist Ben Tucker and drummer Dave Bailey, where Green serves up a blend of soulf...
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Rather than construct his tunes on minor and major chords, Davis structured the compositions around modes. And the sextet--Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, James Cobb, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly--responded superbly without prior notice or rehearsal. What resulted has been called...
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"I saw this documentary on Joni Mitchell," she continues, "and the interviewer was asking her, 'Why do you use all these strange tunings?' And she said, 'I tune the guitar until I find the chord that resembles my emotional landscape.' And most of my chords are unresolved — so I ...
Prince was obsessed with Joni Mitchell. The opening to 'Purple Rain' was based on her guitar chords." "Joni Mitchell's Blue at 50: A Celebration of Her Life and Music" is sponsored by the UConn School of Fine Arts and the Department of Music. It's held in two sessions, from 9 ...