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Joni Mitchell, Canadian-American icon of folk music and champion of the singer-songwriter genre, released \u201cJoni\u2019s Jazz,\u201d a four-part collection of new and old music, on Friday, Sept. 5.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 81-year-old singer curated 61 of her most jazz-influenced songs on the collection, which runs for just under five hours from start to end.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cJoni\u2019s Jazz\u201d is five hours of peace and beautiful thought. Though it may be slightly boring or repetitive to the unacclimatized listener, the collection is a treat to fans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Traditional jazz might not be what first comes to mind when the name \u201cJoni Mitchell\u201d is muttered, though the influence is present throughout her career with her use of the piano and brass instruments, like the saxophone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The collection is officially dedicated to Wayne Shorter, Mitchell\u2019s former saxophonist and composer to others, who passed away in 2023. Wayne was a Grammy Award-winning musician himself and a large influence on Mitchell\u2019s work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The four parts of the collection are separated by discs and can be played on four separate physical CDs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The collection features some of Mitchell\u2019s most famous songs (either remastered or left as is), as well as live and alternate versions of songs and previously unreleased demos.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Many of the live versions of songs are from more recent years, such as a cover of the famous song, \u201cSummertime,\u201d which she sang at her return to the Newport Folk Festival after a 53-year absence from the event.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Previously unreleased demos include earlier versions of songs \u201cMoon at the Window,\u201d \u201cBe Cool\u201d and \u201cTwo Grey Rooms.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The best part of the collection is not the new material, but rather the grouping of old material. Disc one sticks out to me in particular and is the highlight of the collection. It opens with my personal favorite Mitchell song, \u201cBlue.\u201d The song was remastered for her collection, as it was originally recorded in 1971 as the title track of her third studio album. The song perfectly encapsulates the somber but romantic music that Mitchell is famous for producing. \u201cBlue\u201d relies heavily on piano, unlike most of Mitchell\u2019s early acoustic music, showing signs of jazz influence even in her earliest songs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Immediately after, we are hit with \u201cTrouble Man,\u201d a more recent song, recorded in 1998 as a collaboration between Mitchell and Kyle Eastwood, popular bassist and another staple musician of jazz.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTrouble Man\u201d is much more of a typically jazz song with percussion and brass, setting us up for the bulk of the collection which follows similar instrumental themes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Mitchell, as an ode to the creators of jazz, also includes multiple songs touching on political and racial injustice. In the past, Mitchell controversially took on the persona of a black male to deliver some crucial messages in her songs. Despite this strange and offensive choice, Mitchell has spoken out about injustice throughout her career.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Other standout songs in the collection are \u201cCherokee Louise\u201d and \u201cSex Kills\u201d which also have political messages critiquing the current culture and state of the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I can best see this collection being played fully on a long road trip or in the evening as dinner music. It is beautiful and rewarding, but very lengthy. However, it is hard for Mitchell\u2019s music \u2014 new or old \u2014 to ever be a miss.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Rating: 4\/5\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source dailycampus.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joni Mitchell, Canadian-American icon of folk music and champion of the singer-songwriter genre, released \u201cJoni\u2019s Jazz,\u201d a four-part collection of new and old music, on Friday, Sept. 5.\u00a0\u00a0 The 81-year-old singer curated 61 of her most jazz-influenced songs on the collection, which runs for just under five hours from start to end.\u00a0\u00a0 Joni Mitchell poses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2006601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Joni-Mitchell-sings-an-ode-to-jazz-music-with-new.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}