JONI MITCHELL – Joni’s Jazz – 8LP – Vinyl Box Set [SEP 5]

8LP – Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set: Joni Mitchell’s Career-Spanning Collection Joni’s Jazz includes Studio Recordings, Live Performances, Rare Alternate Takes, and Material Drawn from Multiple Decades and Record Labels, Among Them Are Two Previously Unreleased 1980 Demos.

Joni Mitchell introduces Joni’s Jazz, a passion project years in the making. This career-spanning collection features recordings chosen by Mitchell that reflect jazzs profound influence on her music.

Spanning 61 tracks, Joni’s Jazz includes studio recordings, live performances, rare alternate takes, and material drawn from multiple decades and record labels, among them are two previously unreleased 1980 demos.

The set features contributions from some of Mitchells most important collaborators in jazz, among them Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock and Charles Mingus. Mitchell, who calls Shorter her favourite collaborator, dedicates the collection to him following his passing in 2023.

Covering nearly every era of her recording career, the collection includes selections from Songs to a Seagull, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Mingus, Turbulent Indigo, Both Sides Now (a 2001 Grammy Award winner) and more. It also features her guest appearances on projects like Hancocks Grammy Award-winning album, River: The Joni Letters.

Across the collection, the music follows Mitchells artistic growth from the rhythmic layering of Harrys House / Centerpiece to the bold experimentation of The Jungle Line, the narrative scale of Paprika Plains, and the airy, improvised feel of A Chair In The Sky.

It draws from more than five decades of Mitchells recordings, going back to 1968 for Marcie, from Song to a Seagull. The most recent is her performance of Summertime, recorded live at the 2023 Newport Folk Festival. It marked Mitchells first full-length concert in over two decades a powerful return that resonated around the world.

As a self-portrait in sound, Joni’s Jazz captures an artist in conversation with jazz over a lifetime never imitating, always inventing. Last year, in the liner notes for Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 4, she joked, People ask me my favourite of my albums, its going to be Jonis Jazz. Now it is.

8LP’s

Boxset

61 tracks

Studio recordings, live performances, rare alternate takes,

Two previously unreleased 1980 demos

Collaborations with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock and Charles Mingus

Includes selections from Songs to a Seagull, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Mingus, Turbulent Indigo, Both Sides Now and River: The Joni Letters

Tracklist:

Side One:
1. BLUE
2. TROUBLE MAN Kyle Eastwood feat. Joni Mitchell
3. MOON AT THE WINDOW – Demo
4. BE COOL – Demo
5. HARLEM IN HAVANA

Side Two:
1. CHEROKEE LOUISE
2. COME IN FROM THE COLD
3. IN FRANCE THEY KISS ON MAIN STREET
4. NOTHING CAN BE DONE

Side Three:
1. SEX KILLS
2. EDITH AND THE KINGPIN
3. COLD BLUE STEEL AND SWEET FIRE
4. THE JUNGLE LINE

Side Four:
1. SHADES OF SCARLETT CONQUERING
2. YVETTE IN ENGLISH
3. MARCIE
4. A BIRD THAT WHISTLES

Side Five:
1. LOVE
2. COMES LOVE
3. THE MAN I LOVE – Herbie Hancock feat. Joni Mitchell

Side Six:
1. AT LAST
2. YOU’RE MY THRILL
3. SOMETIMES I’M HAPPY
4. STAY IN TOUCH

Side Seven:
1. THE CRAZY CRIES OF LOVE
2. FACE LIFT
3. SWEET SUCKER DANCE Early Alternate Version

Side Eight:
1. YOU DREAM FLAT TIRES
2. ANSWER ME, MY LOVE
3. LOVE PUTS ON A NEW FACE
4. BOTH SIDES NOW

Side Nine:
1. HARRY’S HOUSE/CENTERPIECE
2. SUNNY SUNDAY
3. HANA
4. LAST CHANCE LOST
5. SMOKIN’ (EMPTY, TRY ANOTHER)

Side Ten:
1. PAPRIKA PLAINS

Side Eleven:
1. HEJIRA – Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979
2. REFUGE OF THE ROADS
3. BLUE MOTEL ROOM

Side Twelve:
1. BLACK CROW
2. OFF NIGHT BACKSTREET
3. JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN
4. NO APOLOGIES
5. NOT TO BLAME
6. THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES

Side Thirteen:
1. THE SIRE OF SORROW (JOB’S SAD SONG)
2. GOD MUST BE A BOOGIE MAN
3. A CHAIR IN THE SKY

Side Fourteen:
1. GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979
2. THE TEA LEAF PROPHECY (LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS) Herbie Hancock feat. Joni Mitchell
3. SHINE

Side Fifteen:
1. IF I HAD A HEART
2. IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER
3. ONE WEEK LAST SUMMER
4. SUMMERTIME Live at Newport Folk Festival, July 22, 2023

Side Sixteen:
1. STORMY WEATHER
2. TWO GREY ROOMS Demo
3. THE DRY CLEANER FROM DES MOINES
4. TWISTED
5. IF