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Joni Mitchell / ‘Joni’s Jazz’ all-eras box set

8LP and 4CD versions include unreleased demos

By John Earls

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Joni Mitchell celebrates her jazz catalogue with a 61-track all-eras box set, Joni’s Jazz, to be released in September.

Available in 4CD or 8LP vinyl editions, the songs have been chosen by Mitchell, who has also contributed new sleeve notes. They date from 1968’s ‘Marcie’ from Song To A Seagull to a performance of ‘Summertime’ from 2022’s Newport Folk Festival, which was Mitchell’s first live show since 2002.

4CD version comes in mediabook-style packaging (click image to enlarge)

Joni’s Jazz includes two previously unreleased demos, of ‘Be Cool’ and ‘Moon At The Window’. These were recorded in 1980 for Mitchell’s 1982 album Wild Things Run Fast. There are also live versions of ‘Hejira’ and ‘Goodbye Pork Hat’ from a 1979 concert at Santa Barbara County Bowl, plus Mitchell’s guest performances for Herbie Hancock and Kyle Eastwood.

The idea for Joni’s Jazz was first hinted at by Mitchell made in the sleeve notes for last year’s box set Archives Vol 4, in which she stated: “People ask me my favourite of my favourite albums. It’s going to be Joni’s Jazz.” The compilation is dedicated to Wayne Shorter, following his death in 2023. Mitchell writes of Shorter in her sleevenotes: “It was a joy to play with him. He will be missed, but he will remain alive for me in his music.”

Mitchell has not released a new album since Shine in 2007, but has played a handful of concerts since Newport Folk Festival, including her first Grammys performance in 2024.

Joni’s Jazz is released on 5 September via Rhino.

Massive 8LP vinyl edition (click image to enlarge)

Tracklisting

Joni’s Jazz Joni Mitchell /

    • CD 1
      1. ‘Blue’
      2. ‘Trouble Man’ (Kyle Eastwood featuring Joni Mitchell)
      3. ‘Moon At The Window’ (Demo 2)
      4. ‘Be Cool’ (Demo 2)
      5. ‘Harlem In Havana’
      6. ‘Cherokee Louise’
      7. ‘Come In From The Cold’
      8. ‘In France They Kiss On Main Street’
      9. ‘Nothing Can Be Done’
      10. ‘Sex Kills’
      11. ‘Edith And The Kingpin’
      12. ‘Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire’
      13. ‘The Jungle Line’
      14. ‘Shades Of Scarlett Conquering’
      15. ‘Yvette In English’
      16. ‘Marcie’
      17. ‘A Bird That Whistles’
    • CD 2
      1. Love’
      2. ‘Comes Love’
      3. ‘The Man I Love’ (Herbie Hancock featuring Joni Mitchell)
      4. ‘At Last’
      5. ‘You’re My Thrill’
      6. ‘Sometimes I’m Happy’
      7. ‘Stay In Touch’
      8. ‘The Crazy Cries Of Love’
      9. ‘Face Lift’
      10. ‘Sweet Sucker Dance’ (Early Alternate Version)
      11. ‘You Dream Flat Tires’
      12. ‘Answer Me, My Love’
      13. ‘Love Puts On A New Face’
      14. ‘Both Sides Now’
    • CD 3
      1. ‘Harry’s House/Centrepiece’
      2. ‘Sunny Sunday’
      3. ‘Hana’
      4. ‘Last Chance Lost’
      5. ‘Smokin’ (Empty, Try Another)’
      6. ‘Hejira’ (Live at Santa Barbara County Bowl, October 9 1979)
      7. ‘Refuge Of The Roads’
      8. ‘Paprika Plains’
      9. ‘Blue Motel Room’
      10. ‘Black Crow’
      11. ‘Off Night Backstreet’
      12. ‘Just Like This Train’
      13. ‘No Apologies’
      14. ‘Not To Blame’
      15. ‘The Magdalene Laundries’
    • CD 4
      1. ‘The Sire Of Sorrow (Job’s Bad Song)’
      2. ‘God Must Be A Boogie Man’
      3. ‘A Chair In The Sky’
      4. ‘Goodbye Pork Hat’ (Live at Santa Barbara County Bowl, October 9 1979)
      5. ‘The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)’ (Herbie Hancock featuring Joni Mitchell)
      6. ‘Shine’
      7. ‘If I Had A Heart’
      8. ‘Impossible Dreamer’
      9. ‘One Week Last Summer’
      10. ‘Summertime’ (Live at Newport Folk Festival, July 22 2022)
      11. ‘Stormy Weather’
      12. ‘Two Grey Rooms’ (Demo 5)
      13. ‘The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines’
      14. ‘Twisted’
      15. ‘If’

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