Joni Mitchell

...hugely inventive and sophisticated. The folksier tracks sound like psychedelic nursery rhymes in the style of Vashti Bunyan or Joni Mitchell; the funkier tracks are a barrage of African hollers, discordant guitars and clanking rhythms...

In this article: Vashti Bunyan and New England

...Inn (now the Chart House) in Cardiff. His band mates included saxophonist Barry Farrar, trumpeter Don Sleet, future Thelonious Monk/Joni Mitchell drummer John Guerin and future Elvis Presley bassist Jerry Scheff. Like other young jazz...

In this article: Mike Wofford, San Diego, Shorty Rogers, Phil Spector, Diana Krall, San Antonio, Texas, Neurosciences Institute, Bela Bartok, and Ella Fitzgerald

...culture and wind up in 2008, when the Grammy for best album went to Herbie Hancock for "River: The Joni Letters,'' his tribute to Joni Mitchell. But this book also serves as a covert primer on how to hear jazz - what to listen for, and how...

In this article: Louis Armstrong, Jazz, Albert Ayler, Gary Giddins, Earl Hines, Billie Holiday, Suicide, George Russell, and Ken Burns

...together in front of an audience, also tackling material made famous by folks named Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond, Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters and Neil Young. The fact that the original "Last Waltz'' concert was held...

In this article: The Last Waltz, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, The Weight, and Boston

...is a stately recording that suggests Herring's 1970s heroes, Mississippi twang coursing through songs written or popularized by Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins. Golden Apples marks the first time Herring didn't record in Austin. She left...

In this article: Cyndi Lauper, Austin, True Colors, See See Rider, Mississippi John Hurt, and Judy Collins

...them more environmentally friendly are urgent guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 November 2009 20.00 GMT In the 40 years since Joni Mitchell sang about paving paradise, putting up parking lots remains an American obsession. Scientists...

In this article: EPA, US, Nitrogen, Pollution, Hydrocarbon, Purdue University, and US Department Of Agriculture

...paradise, but a fine civic amenity," said Lisa Schroeder, executive director of Riverlife, the project developer, referencing a 1970s Joni Mitchell song. "When I thought of the Mon Wharf, I thought parking. I thought flooding," Mayor Luke...

In this article: Post-Gazette, Point Park University, Army Corps of Engineers, Dan Onorato, and Luke Ravenstahl

...more of. Instead we get a line like, "You never know a good thing till it's gone'' on "Live Like We're Dying. '' Not only is Joni Mitchell smirking, but so is Tim McGraw. Allen can and, most likely, will do better, but he has to figure...

In this article: Kris Allen, American Idol, Heartless, Kanye West, Tim McGraw, and The Truth

...channels, the singer found himself bewitched by a playlist featuring many of the great West Coast singer/songwriters of the 1970s: Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Neil Young. . . Yusuf -- as he has called himself since his...

In this article: Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Moonshadow, London, Tea, God, Father and Son, and Wild World

...ads in the Vancouver Sun was a small blurb for a Greenpeace Benefit Concert. Tickets were $3 at the door, for a lineup that included Joni Mitchell, Chilliwack and Phil Ochs. Ten thousand people turned out, raising $18,000 after expenses.

In this article: Greenpeace, James Taylor, Vancouver, Phil Ochs, Vancouver Sun, and Big Yellow Taxi