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joni Mitchell (not really)

At Colbourne Ave, we have a half-arsed kind of tradition where on the anniversary of the first gig we ever put on (it was Bill Risby) we have a jazz tribute night to a pop band. Kind of like Frisell plays Lennon. Or Eckleberg plays Jackson.

It’s Thursday the 25^th of Feb, and we’re doing Joni Mitchell (almost a year since the aneurysm from which she's still recovering). Three songs per musician, no song twice, more interpretations than covers. There will be moments of genius from :

Spike Mason (and Barney Wakeford)
Leonie Cohen
Bonnie Stewart
Jonny Maddox
Bill Risby
Joseph Zarb

and they'll be playing, in chronological order of publication :

	album	year
Song to a Seagull	Song to a Seagull	1968
Both Sides	clouds	1969
The Fiddle and the Drum	clouds	1969
Woodstock	ladies of the canyon	1970
For Free	ladies of the canyon	1970
Blue	blue	1971
a case of you	blue	1971
the last time i saw richard	blue	1971
Don't interrupt the sorrow	the hissing of summer lawns	1975
Amelia	Hejira	1976
Dry cleaner from des Moines	Mingus	1979
Good bye pork pie hat	mingus	1979
Be Cool	wild things run fast	1982
Chinese Cafe	wild things run fast	1982
Hejira	shadows and light	1990
Coyote	shadows and light	1990
cherokee louise	night ride home	1991
the sire of sorrow	turbulent indigo	1994

And we leave the last work to Chaka Khan, who in an interview a couple of months ago said :

See, Joni Mitchell, she's actually funky, she just doesn't know it, and I'm bringing that forward. The jazz is in there. You get her, but I've slowed a lot of the stuff down because a lot of the lyrics - she's a very fast singer, so sometimes it's hard to catch her words - but I think she's so relevant

Elizabeth Geyer Trio

As a freelance trumpetplayer and vocalist, Elizabeth has supported James Morrison, Gene Pitney and Harry Secombe and was a feature vocalist and soloist with Swing City before taking up songwriting. After performing her songs extensively in the US and Europe in 2007, Elizabeth released her third album, 'On Patrol With The Jazz Police' and in 2009 her song The Dream won Best Song in international competition IAC and was featured on the American US Smooth Jazz Compilation Album in 2010.

With Bill Risby and Nic Cicere. Have a listen:

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