Celebrating The Music Of Joni Mitchell News

 
Globe and Mail
John Mayer's headin' out to California
Globe and Mail
(Dionne Warwick) The song, the album's opening track, is Queen of California. There are references to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, two Canadian artists drawn to the Golden State – the setting of the dreams of the Mamas & the Papas and the destination ...


 
Common Fence Music at Channing Church presents Tom Rush
Fall River Herald News
Country music star Garth Brooks has credited Rush with being one of his top five musical influences. Rush has long championed emerging artists. His early recordings introduced the world to the work of Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and James Taylor, ...


 
Emeli Sande a neuroscientist with pop-star talent
Chicago Tribune
“Their validation motivated me more than anything to give music a try.” By the time she was 11, she was writing songs on piano, and drawing inspiration from her father's record collection, which included Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, and lots of African ...


 
Derbyshire Times
Parish pride and joy
Derbyshire Times
He did something similar later on in the evening when he sang 'Twisted,' with an equally impressive double bass backing that really reminded me of his fellow Canadian, Joni Mitchell. The song's jazzy vocal gymnastics really showed off Al's versatility ...


 
The Guardian (blog)
Multiculturalism is what makes British music great
The Guardian (blog)
The reason I wanted to move to England was the music. That's what defined the country for me. Sure, I eventually got into numerous American artists, such as Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones and Stevie Wonder, but the Brits were something else altogether ...

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Gil Evans' Centennial Tribute, Plus a Conversation With John Pizzarelli and ...
Huffington Post
There are great songs that have been written since 1964 where they say "The Great American Songbook" ends because of "Sound Of Music" and Richard Rogers and all that jazz. But look at Joni Mitchell's body of work, it's incredible.


 
Have no fear, the Vancouver jazz festival is inclusive
Vancouver Sun
A folkie in the sixties, my musical taste had slowly graduated from Gordon Lightfoot, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan to Hendrix, Clapton, Morrison (Jim and Van), Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane.

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