Hejira Music Cd

Joni Mitchell - Hejira

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Hejira      Artist : Joni Mitchell      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $10.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-10-25      Studio : Elektra / Wea      Label : Elektra / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (120 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Hejira      Hejira by Joni Mitchell      Rating:      I have always loved and admired Joni Mitchell's music, her poetry and the depth of her lyrics. She is an artist who has consistently grown and changed throughout her career, always becoming stronger and more interesting, following the influences of jazz greats, while always maintaining her own unique qualities. Hejira is my new favorite album of hers, ordered while I was looking for a few of my other favorites which I only have in vinyl. I would highly recommend it both for the music and the poetry, which is wonderful.Hejira     Customer Reviews for Hejira Cd      'I'm like a black crow flying in a blue sky.'      Rating:      "The whole Hejira album was really inspired . . . I wrote the album while traveling cross-country by myself and there is this restless feeling throughout it . . . The sweet loneliness of solitary travel."--Joni Mitchell. Hejira ranks among my three favorite Joni Mitchell albums (the other two being Court and Spark and Blue), and it is one of Joni Mitchell's best albums, considered by many critics as the "high-water mark" of Mitchell's career. Blending folk, rock and jazz, and driven by Mitchell's riveting guitar and Jaco Pastorius's fretless bass, it was a success both critically and commercially upon its 1976 release. Mitchell wrote most of the beautiful songs on the album while driving cross country, infusing her definitive folk-rock sound with intimately poetic, confessional lyrics. Hejira features a perfect arrangement of meticulously-crafted songs and Mitchell classics ("Coyote," "Amelia," "Hejira," and "Song For Sharon"). The album also features an impressive list of backing musicians: Larry Carlton on acoustic & electric guitars, Neil Young on harmonica, Tom Scott on horns, and Jaco Pastorius on bass. The complete album tracklist includes: 1. Coyote 5:01 2. Amelia 6:01 3. Furry Sings The Blues 5:06 4. A Strange Boy 4:19 5. Hejira 6:42 6. Song For Sharon 8:37 7. Black Crow 4:22 8. Blue Motel Room 5:04 9. Refuge Of The Roads 6:42 G. Merritt Editorial Reviews for Hejira Audio Cd      Amazon.com essential recording      After the expanded instrumental scale and sonic experimentation of Court & Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell reverses that flow for the more intimate, interior music on Hejira, which retracts the arranging style to focus on Mitchell's distinctive acoustic guitar and piano, and the brilliant, lyrical bass fantasias of fretless bass innovator Jaco Pastorius. Known for his furious, sometimes rococo figures beneath the music of Weather Report, Pastorius is tamed by Mitchell's cooler, more deliberate ballads: these meditations coax a far gentler, subdued lyricism from Pastorius, whose intricate bass counterpoints Mitchell's coolly elegant singing, especially on the sublime "Amelia," which transforms the mystery of Amelia Earheart into a parable of both feminism and romantic self-discovery. This isn't Mitchell at her most obviously ambitious, yet the depth of feeling, poetic reach, and musical confidence make this among the finest works in a very fine canon. --Sam Sutherland