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Released: July 1974. Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Released in January 1974, it infuses the folk rock style of her previous albums with jazz elements. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album.
Perhaps the most important break for Mitchell, with the development of Court And Spark, was her embrace of jazz musicians: in this instance, Tom Scott and LA Express. The change came about, at least partly, because of struggles in the demoing process.
5 mar 2024 · Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark turned 50 years old this year. ... she moved beyond the boundaries of Southern California’s folk-rock musicians and connected with Tom Scott’s fusion group, ...
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18 gen 2021 · If compared with her critically acclaimed magnum opus Blue from 1971, Court and Spark is diametrically opposite. Mitchell once again delves into her favoured themes of love and freedom, but there is a slight difference in the treatment this time.
17 gen 2024 · ‘Down To You’ is Court And Spark’s cornerstone and one of the great songs of the 1970s. There’s a Buddhist view of transience comparing new lovers with new fashions, both being an ever-changing succession of veils that cover a core of loneliness.
15 gen 2024 · Side two opens with “Car On a Hill” and Tom Scott’s saxophone. Scott is credited with all woodwinds on Court and Spark . A member of The Blues Brothers, he later led L.A. Express, a jazz fusion ensemble that later served as Mitchell’s backing band, most famously for her double live LP Miles of Aisles also released in 1974.
17 gen 2024 · The song strikes one of Court And Spark’s lighter moods, with guitar from Robbie Robertson and a memorable saxophone solo courtesy of Tom Scott.
