I find her album "Ladies of the Canyon" hard to listen to.
I find her album "Ladies of the Canyon" hard to listen to.
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.
And it's my favourite, it's the jazz stuff that I can't get on with.
Audiophile Tosher
But the jazz stuff is brilliant
Ladies of the canyon is also brilliant
And so is just about every album she made. Hejira is my favourite but folk are allowed their own taste...allegedly.
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.
I'm not even sure we could call it 'jazz'? Joni herself said that all the jazzbos she brought in to record with were flabbergasted by her chords and harmonic progressions. She received a good ribbing from none other than Wayne Shorter, explaining to her how she is so terribly wrong in her harmonies. "You cannot resolve a sus chord with another sus chord." Wayne told her.
And yet she did just that. She stuck to her guns (as all Scorpio women do; I know that too well, I'm in love with one).
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.
As it turned out, Joni's jazz posed a huge challenge to players of the highest caliber -- Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock. Mingus heard it and called her. I'm pretty sure if Miles Davis was in better shape around 1976/77, he would've called Joni too.
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.