Joni Mitchell

[Joe]

I saw an interview with Joni where she said she wrote the lyrics to "Big Yellow Taxi" (they paved paradise, put up a parking lot) in a recording studio bathroom after her producer told her that the album she was recording needed a single. She said it took her about ten minutes to write it.

[Crafty Angler]

There's a great American Masters bio of Joni on PBS that's been on a number of times -

Very well done, covers a lot of her later work with the contemporary jazz masters as well as her work with Mingus.

I would think it will be on again at some point this Spring

[rphud]

Joni, Metheny and Jaco doing Mingus! I think there was a Joni documentory that stated she was ready to quit when somebody talked her into getting together with Metheny and Jaco. Good thing for us.

[rphud]

I really, really miss Jaco.