By Siddhartha Mitter, Boston Globe Correspondent | September 23, 2007
NEW YORK - When Herbie Hancock embarked on making "River: The Joni Letters," his new album out Tuesday based on the music of Joni Mitchell, he quickly found himself treading at once on familiar and unfamiliar ground.
Familiar, because Hancock, the great jazz pianist, has known Mitchell since 1979, when he and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, his friend and fellow alumnus of the classic Miles Davis quintet, teamed up with the singer on a project she was developing with Charles Mingus. Though Mingus passed away that year, causing the album, "Mingus," to come out incomplete, the sessions formed the basis of a friendship that would grow richer over the years. Hancock would later appear on another Mitchell album, the orchestral collection "Both Sides Now," released in 2000. click title for article
24 September 2007
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two artists that i have a deep respect for. joni mitchell, who virtually created the modern role type for female singer songwriters to follow and miles davis.
miles means more to me. i love so many of his albums.
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