LOS ANGELES – Today, nine-time Grammy® Award Winner, Rock & Rock Hall of Famer, Kennedy Center Honoree, Gershwin-prize winner, and music icon Joni Mitchell announces her first show in Los Angeles since 2000 to take place at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, October 19, 2024 and due to overwhelming demand, second Hollywood Bowl show has been added on October 20, …
I missed out on something beautiful at the turn of the last century. In 2000, when Joni Mitchell triumphantly reimagined her pensive classic “Both Sides Now,” I never heard it because it was hidden where even the FBI couldn’t find it, among sturdy chestnuts on her contractual obligation album of sensible jazz standards. However, despite …
Of course, leave it to Joni Mitchell to bring together one of the hippest ensembles of jazz musicians to her Shadows and Light tour. Jaco, Mays, Alias, Brecker and Metheny showed their American R&B chops like few rock groups before them. Back in 1980, this was as big of a sonic production as anything Messrs …
As amazing as they are, the things you hear Jaco Pastorius do on the bass might not be the best part of his musicianship. To my ears, what sets him apart is his ability to disappear into the song. Every little Jaco moment is preceded by some bit of subtle magic he’s worked in the …
. Scot-king songwriter, dark-hearted minstrel, troubled and temper-torn troubadour, bitter balladeer extraordinaire, roiling ace back alley jig picker Richard Thompson. I love this king of all the sad bastards with the golden hands, his records ooze delight and despair in the most organic and ornery of ways. Plays like the devil and knows all his …