Artist:
Joni Mitchell
Genre:
Jazz
Total Time:
04:48:55
Record Label:
Rhino Records
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Release Date
September 5, 2025
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Joni Mitchell
Genre:
Jazz
Total Time:
04:48:55
Record Label:
Rhino Records
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
September 5, 2025
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Product Description: Releasing on 4CD/8LP, Joni's Jazzfeatures tracks from Mitchell's entire career-spanning catalogue, including repertoire from releases with other artists and labels. It is a dedication and a love letter to her greatest collaborators in the genre---Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorious, and Wayne Shorter among them --- and features rare demos, b-sides and alt versions of previously released tracks.
Joni Mitchell fell in love with jazz as a teenager—in particular, the sound of Miles Davis’ trumpet. “Miles Davis taught me how to sing,” she said onstage in 1974. “Pure straight tones holding straight lines. The feeling when you sing and you open up your heart.” As much as we call her a folk singer (her acoustic guitar, her historical context), her music always felt more like jazz whether it sounded like it or not: the subtlety, the complexity, the privileging of personal freedom over the unity of (and accessibility to) the crowd. You could sing Neil Young at a protest or a campfire; Joni Mitchell, not so much.
Joni’s Jazz, which starts with 1971’s “Blue” and goes on to present a non-chronological edit of album, live, and demo tracks going all the way up to “Summertime” from the 2022 Newport Folk Festival, is both a celebration of her music and an argument of sorts about it—namely that the “jazz” that drove the narrative around definitive but divisive albums like 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns and 1979’s Mingus was actually a central part of her sound for most of her career and a driver of her creative legacy. (Of Hissing, she once joked that she “cut the jazzers some slack…and that was the kiss of death.”)
The irony of this progressive, often wild music is that it came out of a rejection of what at the time was considered cool. “I couldn’t get anybody to explain how this got to be hip,” she once said of her frustrations with the recording process in the late ’60s. “It wasn’t as good as the sound that went before.” Basic stuff, she meant—how drums sounded, the way a bass player arranged their part around her vocal melodies. “They would get exasperated, like I was ignorant,” she said. “Until one guy said, ‘Joni, you’re gonna have to play with jazz musicians.’” There’s an idea.
Joni Mitchell fell in love with jazz as a teenager—in particular, the sound of Miles Davis’ trumpet. “Miles Davis taught me how to sing,” she said onstage in 1974. “Pure straight tones holding straight lines. The feeling when you sing and you open up your heart.” As much as we call her a folk singer (her acoustic guitar, her historical context), her music always felt more like jazz whether it sounded like it or not: the subtlety, the complexity, the privileging of personal freedom over the unity of (and accessibility to) the crowd. You could sing Neil Young at a protest or a campfire; Joni Mitchell, not so much.
Joni’s Jazz, which starts with 1971’s “Blue” and goes on to present a non-chronological edit of album, live, and demo tracks going all the way up to “Summertime” from the 2022 Newport Folk Festival, is both a celebration of her music and an argument of sorts about it—namely that the “jazz” that drove the narrative around definitive but divisive albums like 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns and 1979’s Mingus was actually a central part of her sound for most of her career and a driver of her creative legacy. (Of Hissing, she once joked that she “cut the jazzers some slack…and that was the kiss of death.”)
The irony of this progressive, often wild music is that it came out of a rejection of what at the time was considered cool. “I couldn’t get anybody to explain how this got to be hip,” she once said of her frustrations with the recording process in the late ’60s. “It wasn’t as good as the sound that went before.” Basic stuff, she meant—how drums sounded, the way a bass player arranged their part around her vocal melodies. “They would get exasperated, like I was ignorant,” she said. “Until one guy said, ‘Joni, you’re gonna have to play with jazz musicians.’” There’s an idea.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Blue (2025 .Remaster)
(03:06)
2 . Trouble Man (feat. Joni Mitchell) Kyle Eastwood feat. Joni Mitchell (03:42)
3 . Moon at the Window emo) (03:26)
4 . Be Cool emo) (03:36)
5 . Harlem in Havana (2025 .Remaster) (04:27)
6 . Cherokee Louise (04:34)
7 . Come in From the Cold (07:32)
8 . In France They Kiss On Main Street (2025 .Remaster) (03:20)
9 . Nothing Can Be Done (04:53)
10 . Sex Kills (2025 .Remaster) (03:58)
11 . Edith And The Kingpin (2025 .Remaster) (03:38)
12 . Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire (2025 .Remaster) (04:18)
13 . The Jungle Line (2025 .Remaster) (04:26)
14 . Shades Of Scarlett Conquering (2025 .Remaster) (05:00)
15 . Yvette in English (2025 .Remaster) (05:18)
16 . Marcie (2025 .Remaster) (04:37)
17 . A Bird That Whistles (02:38)
18 . Love (03:49)
19 . Comes Love (2025 .Remaster) (04:29)
20 . The Man I Love (feat. Joni Mitchell) Herbie Hancock feat. Joni Mitchell (05:57)
21 . At Last (2025 .Remaster) (04:27)
22 . You're My Thrill (2025 .Remaster) (03:54)
23 . Sometimes I'm Happy (2025 .Remaster) (03:59)
24 . Stay in Touch (2025 .Remaster) (03:00)
25 . The Crazy Cries of Love (2025 .Remaster) (03:55)
26 . Face Lift (2025 .Remaster) (04:43)
27 . Sweet Sucker Dance (Early Alternate Version) [2025 .Remaster] (07:03)
28 . You Dream Flat Tires (02:53)
29 . Answer Me, My Love (2025 .Remaster) (03:23)
30 . Love Puts on a New Face (2025 .Remaster) (03:48)
31 . Both Sides Now (2025 .Remaster) (05:43)
32 . Harry's House/Centerpiece (2025 .Remaster) (06:52)
33 . Sunny Sunday (2025 .Remaster) (02:38)
34 . Hana (03:43)
35 . Last Chance Lost (2025 .Remaster) (03:16)
36 . Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) (01:44)
37 . Hejira (Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979) [2025 .Remaster] (07:35)
38 . Refuge of the Roads (2025 .Remaster) (07:57)
39 . Paprika Plains (2025 .Remaster) (16:22)
40 . Blue Motel Room (2025 .Remaster) (05:05)
41 . Black Crow (2025 .Remaster) (04:23)
42 . Off Night Backstreet (2025 .Remaster) (03:22)
43 . Just Like This Train (2025 .Remaster) (04:26)
44 . No Apologies (2025 .Remaster) (04:20)
45 . Not to Blame (2025 .Remaster) (04:20)
46 . The Magdalene Laundries (2025 .Remaster) (04:02)
47 . The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) [2025 .Remaster] (07:07)
48 . God Must Be a Boogie Man (2025 .Remaster) (04:37)
49 . A Chair in the Sky (2025 .Remaster) (06:41)
50 . Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979) [2025 .Remaster] (06:02)
51 . The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) [feat. Joni Mitchell] Herbie Hancock feat. Joni Mitchell (06:29)
52 . Shine (07:28)
53 . If I Had A Heart (04:03)
54 . Impossible Dreamer (04:27)
55 . One Week Last Summer (04:59)
56 . Summertime (Live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 7/24/2022) [2025 .Remaster] (05:41)
57 . Stormy Weather (2025 .Remaster) (03:07)
58 . Two Grey Rooms emo) [2025 .Remaster] (03:57)
59 . The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines (2025 .Remaster) (03:24)
60 . Twisted (2025 .Remaster) (02:22)
61 .If (05:31)
2 . Trouble Man (feat. Joni Mitchell) Kyle Eastwood feat. Joni Mitchell (03:42)
3 . Moon at the Window emo) (03:26)
4 . Be Cool emo) (03:36)
5 . Harlem in Havana (2025 .Remaster) (04:27)
6 . Cherokee Louise (04:34)
7 . Come in From the Cold (07:32)
8 . In France They Kiss On Main Street (2025 .Remaster) (03:20)
9 . Nothing Can Be Done (04:53)
10 . Sex Kills (2025 .Remaster) (03:58)
11 . Edith And The Kingpin (2025 .Remaster) (03:38)
12 . Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire (2025 .Remaster) (04:18)
13 . The Jungle Line (2025 .Remaster) (04:26)
14 . Shades Of Scarlett Conquering (2025 .Remaster) (05:00)
15 . Yvette in English (2025 .Remaster) (05:18)
16 . Marcie (2025 .Remaster) (04:37)
17 . A Bird That Whistles (02:38)
18 . Love (03:49)
19 . Comes Love (2025 .Remaster) (04:29)
20 . The Man I Love (feat. Joni Mitchell) Herbie Hancock feat. Joni Mitchell (05:57)
21 . At Last (2025 .Remaster) (04:27)
22 . You're My Thrill (2025 .Remaster) (03:54)
23 . Sometimes I'm Happy (2025 .Remaster) (03:59)
24 . Stay in Touch (2025 .Remaster) (03:00)
25 . The Crazy Cries of Love (2025 .Remaster) (03:55)
26 . Face Lift (2025 .Remaster) (04:43)
27 . Sweet Sucker Dance (Early Alternate Version) [2025 .Remaster] (07:03)
28 . You Dream Flat Tires (02:53)
29 . Answer Me, My Love (2025 .Remaster) (03:23)
30 . Love Puts on a New Face (2025 .Remaster) (03:48)
31 . Both Sides Now (2025 .Remaster) (05:43)
32 . Harry's House/Centerpiece (2025 .Remaster) (06:52)
33 . Sunny Sunday (2025 .Remaster) (02:38)
34 . Hana (03:43)
35 . Last Chance Lost (2025 .Remaster) (03:16)
36 . Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) (01:44)
37 . Hejira (Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979) [2025 .Remaster] (07:35)
38 . Refuge of the Roads (2025 .Remaster) (07:57)
39 . Paprika Plains (2025 .Remaster) (16:22)
40 . Blue Motel Room (2025 .Remaster) (05:05)
41 . Black Crow (2025 .Remaster) (04:23)
42 . Off Night Backstreet (2025 .Remaster) (03:22)
43 . Just Like This Train (2025 .Remaster) (04:26)
44 . No Apologies (2025 .Remaster) (04:20)
45 . Not to Blame (2025 .Remaster) (04:20)
46 . The Magdalene Laundries (2025 .Remaster) (04:02)
47 . The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) [2025 .Remaster] (07:07)
48 . God Must Be a Boogie Man (2025 .Remaster) (04:37)
49 . A Chair in the Sky (2025 .Remaster) (06:41)
50 . Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979) [2025 .Remaster] (06:02)
51 . The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) [feat. Joni Mitchell] Herbie Hancock feat. Joni Mitchell (06:29)
52 . Shine (07:28)
53 . If I Had A Heart (04:03)
54 . Impossible Dreamer (04:27)
55 . One Week Last Summer (04:59)
56 . Summertime (Live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 7/24/2022) [2025 .Remaster] (05:41)
57 . Stormy Weather (2025 .Remaster) (03:07)
58 . Two Grey Rooms emo) [2025 .Remaster] (03:57)
59 . The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines (2025 .Remaster) (03:24)
60 . Twisted (2025 .Remaster) (02:22)
61 .If (05:31)
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