Joni MITCHELL - Mingus 1979

Joni MITCHELL - Mingus 1979
AS 53091

Jazz

Female artists (Laura Nyro, Joni, Rickie Lee) are always getting the short end of the stick. When this album was released it was generally deemed a failure and it got no airplay and fell off the charts. Listening to it 22 years later I can't believe how underrated it has become. If you thought Joni was just a flower-powered folk singer then you were wrong. This is some of the most spacey, haunting, and eccentric music out there. Oh, the instruments may seem familiar but the way they are used is just plain out there. Jaco Pastorius can make his bass sound like a trumpet, sax, piano, Fender Rhodes, synth and more. Joni's guitar playing had never been or never was again this powerful or primal. Highlights: everything. God Must Be a Boogie Man a duet between Joni's guitar and Jaco's bass combines her haunting vocals backed by a chorus of what sounds like escapees from a mental institution. The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey: with Joni's near perfect phrasing and a devil-may-care guitar strum. The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines: an uptempo jazz-tune which, in a just world, would have been a great single. Oh and one more thing, Joni's voice would never again be this perfect. She had trained her voice and it has never sounded better. It didn't have that high screechy, nails-on-the-chalkboard sound of her early days, nor the Tom Waits-gravel quality it has today. This is an essential part of Joni's oeuvre. Get it now.
By Damien Bjorn Ruud.
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And Sad Album by Joni Mitchell and Charlie Mingus
which is diverse from any Album that the two made
Separately, but you can still hear the influence of
each one in the music.
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Jaco Pastorius- Bass
Don Alias- Congas
Peter Erskine- Drums
Herbie Hancock- E.Piano
Joni Mitchell- Guitar, Vocals
Emil Richards- Percussion
Wayne Shorter- Soprano Sax
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A1. Happy Birthday 1975 (Rap) 0:57 
A2. God Must Be A Boogie Man 4:33 
A3. Funeral (Rap) 1:07 
A4. A Chair In The Sky 6:40 
       Composed By - Charles Mingus 
A5. The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey 6:33 
B1. I's A Muggin' (Rap) 0:07 
B2. Sweet Sucker Dance 8:06 
       Composed By - Charles Mingus 
B3. Coin In The Pocket (Rap) 0:11 
B4. The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines 3:22 
       Arranged By [Horns] - Jaco Pastorius
       Composed By - Charles Mingus 
B5. Lucky (Rap) 0:03 
B6. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 5:41 
       Composed By - Charles Mingus  
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