OT: Joni's Shadows & Light

B Merrill <[email protected]> Fri, 11 May 2007 15:07:20 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.music.jane-siberry
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Just watched Joni M's DVD "Shadows and Light" (via Netflix) which I do
recommend to all you Joni fans. 

The band is TDF!!: Pastorius, Metheny, Michael Brecker, Don Alias, Lyle
Mays. I cannot  think of a band supporting a singer with more technical
"chops" than this one. Fortunate Joni.

Tho Pastorius' solo is so jumbled that he may have begun his tragic
melt-down. [Yes, he has. I just checked. He begins to fall apart in around
1976.]

Recorded in 1979, everyone is looking young and great. Esp Joni, she's
wearing a teal suit, red carnation, purple shirt, black waist band, and
even "red high heels." Go Joni!! She moves her derriere in the teal pumps
in a excellent ladylike manner.... (Does that cute over-bite make it look
like she's smiling more than she is...?)

A good collection of songs, esp. for me two from the Hissing of those
Lawns: "Edith and the Kingpin" and the sublime "Shadows and Light."

-- enjoy the spring, 

Bruce