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	Hejira (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The album title refers to a journey of religious or mystical experience, of particular importance in Koranic story of the flight or hijra of the prophet Mohammed and his followers to Medina in 622.
		Though "Coyote" and "Black Crow" are fast-strummed folksy numbers, the rest of Hejira is slow and often languid, notably the epic "Song for Sharon" Discussion of Sharon's Song by Joni Mitchell, which deals with the conflict a woman faces between freedom and marriage, while interspered with images of New York City.
		Critically, the album was at the time not well received but has since been generally recognised as one of the high-water marks in Mitchell's career.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hejira_(album) (496 words)

	Hejira
		Ask Joni Mitchell what a hejira is on her main page...
		In spite of the fact that this is Mitchell during her "I’m using a lot of instruments" era, the album I think this resembles the most is her debut!
		A slight nit is that the album starts sounding kind of samey in spite of the jazzy thing and the harder thing with the electric guitar.
	donignacio.com /mitchelljoni/hejira.html (846 words)

	Amazon.com: Hejira: Music: Joni Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the previous nine years she had released some of the most critically-acclaimed albums of the rock era, and was certainly the most prolific female singer in the world.
		Hejira was the prophet Mohammed's exile journey from Mecca.
		Joni Mitchell's absorbing "Hejira" (noun; any flight or journey from danger or undesirable circumstance towards a more desirable and congenial place) marks the second time she let her listeners in on the fact that she just couldn't take "it" any longer and travelled in pursuit of a happier space.
	www.amazon.com /Hejira-Joni-Mitchell/dp/B000002GYC (2543 words)

	Howard's guide to great music! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the course of their seven studio albums they used an ever-changing team of session musicians to achieve the results they desired, although they were highly competent musicians in their own right (Donald on piano/keyboards and vocals, Walter on bass and electric guitar).
		The focus of this album is the Bosendorfer piano that the group brought in especially for the sessions.
		Her first album (either called Joni Mitchell or Song to a Seagull, depending on who you ask!) is a bare-bones, vocal and guitar album, with occasional splashes of piano and other sounds/instruments.
	www.jmdl.com /howard/music/musfaves.html (4408 words)

	www.myspace.com/hejirabc
		Hejira makes (made) music with equal tempered instruments tuned to Guitars and Synthesizers.
		Our new album comes out this month -- and the release party is this week.
		Get well soon Hejira, I'm sick of sitting at the side of your deathbed, I've got a fucking job to get to and kids to feed already.
	www.myspace.com /hejirabc (722 words)

	basslinks.nl - the ultimate bassguide
		Joni recorded her album Hejira in the summer of 1976, with many of the same musicians she'd been using since 1973, but the sound she wanted for Hejira was more subdued and moody.
		When she'd completed recording the 9 tracks that comprise the Hejira album, a friend told her about a bass player she should hear who was creating a stir with his unusual playing style.
		Joni had been trying for years to find a certain sound on the bottom end of the bass, and Jaco's playing was a dream come true for her music.
	www.basslinks.nl /transcriptions/boogieman.html (420 words)

	Joni Mitchell - Hejira
		A key image song in the LP development is "Black Crow," where the singer compares herself to a bird always "diving down to pick up on every shiny thing." Her cover photo costume emphasizes this fl-wing look, along with other song images of the endless highway, childhood ice skating and dreams of the pertect marriage.
		Album eight is most impressive for the cunning with which Mitchell subjugates melody to the natural music of language itself.
		Whereas in the past only her naive intensity has made it possible to overlook her old-fashioned prosody, here she achieves a sinuous lyricism that is genuinely innovative.
	www.superseventies.com /spmitchelljoni4.html (406 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Hejira: Music: Joni Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is with out a doubt the best jazz album Mitchell made and one of her best albums of all time.
		Despite this 1976 album coming out 12 years before i was born you can really feel as if you were traveling across mid 70s midwest America in the winter.
		The music here is very different to her first jazz album The Hissing of Summer lawns which was a complete change from the diiapointing Court and Spark but thats another review for later.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Hejira-Joni-Mitchell/dp/B0000262TE (1257 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hissing of Summer Lawns: Music: Joni Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Her daring promptly earned critical scorn and halted her commercial expansion, but the album's confident eclecticism and dark beauty have outlived that reception: from the safety of hindsight, Hissing was a promise to stay hungry and creatively adventurous, a promise kept then and now.
		As Joni states in the liner notes, the album was conceived as a whole, and all the pieces fit together conceptually as well as musically.
		When critics knocked this album (and Joni while they were at it), they made one mistake: they could try their hardest to take the adventure away from her music, but failed miserably.
	www.amazon.ca /Hissing-Summer-Lawns-Joni-Mitchell/dp/B000002GY2 (2262 words)

	JACO interview by Clive Williamson
		Then, during the Black Market album, which by that time was completely done, he got hold of me to play this tune, 'Cannonball', which didn't have the right feel that he wanted.
		In Europe, in a couple of countries, it was their album of the year, and it didn't sell but a couple of records.
		The album is more or less quartet anyway, so we went out on the road in the same fashion.
	www.jacop.net /interviewclive.html (3987 words)

	Hejira by Joni Mitchell CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joni Mitchell draws freely on her heroes and influences, and in her turn inspires and informs the work of countless others; thus are the genes of our musical heritage passed on to new generations.
		It is still my favorite Joni Mitchell album, after hearing all of them over the last 25+ years, when I first heard Hejira.
		Joni is my only singer she knows how to play with great musicians and with my mentor Mr Pastorius I like this album it is one the first I listen and I have all the LPs with Pasto and Wayne Shorter.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1095264/a/Hejira.htm (447 words)

	CD Baby: HEJIRA: Hejira
		Hejira was recorded by the band during the fall and winter months of 2004/2005, and was mixed by Colin Stewart of the Hive at Vogville studio.
		The new album is a follow-up to Hejira's first release, "How to Land," a five-song EP released in 2003.
		In support of their release, Hejira is touring western Canada in the summer of 2005, with plans for the west coast during the fall.
	cdbaby.com /cd/hej (388 words)

	Re: NY Times review of Travelogue
		Mitchell's 1976 album "Hejira," which is = > full of songs about flight and wandering and loneliness.
		Even better, = > really, is the live version on her album "Shadows and Light" of 1980, = > just as nervously forward-moving but with a guitar backing closer to her = > folkish roots.
		From folk to folk rock to jazz (or jazz = > folk), all with her own highly personal inventiveness, and now to this, = > it's been a trip that has alienated fans along the way, throwing them = > off the curves, as it were.
	www.mail-archive.com /joni@jmdl.com/msg25057.html (949 words)

	Boogie Man
		Joni recorded her album Hejira in the summer of 1976, with many of the same musicians she'd used since 1973, but the sound she wanted this time was more subdued and moody.
		She overdubbed his bass parts on 4 of the songs on Hejira, and the album was readied for release in late November.
		Although the Mingus album was panned by many reviewers, I feel it’s a must have for any serious Jaco fans out there.
	www.globalbass.com /archives/june2002/boogie_man.htm (329 words)

	Joni Mitchell
		Her 80s records were victims of the era's kitschy hi-tech production values, and we're split on her most recent albums, with Wilson thinking she's fully recaptured her glory years but me arguing that she's lost her voice and poetic spark.
		She says she was in an "emotionally transparent" state when she made this album - along with John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band it's as genuine, as honest and unmannered an album as was ever made.
		As with Hejira, I'm rating Indigo slightly lower than I otherwise would because its narrow stylistic focus may make it difficult to digest for those unfortunate people who are not yet acquainted with her music.
	www.warr.org /joni.html (3432 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter: Music: Joni Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Something that really distinguishes this from all her other 70's albums, is the 16+ minute title track; it features (in addition to Joni's voice, piano, and the band) an orchestra conducted by Michael Gibbs.
		She released the album in 1977 and much of what came after is lightweight, lacking both the melodic and poetical depth of this out-on-a-limb work.
		Although this is not Joni Mitchell at her best, it is Joni Mitchell at her most ambitious and together with "Hejira", this 1977 double LP is her most rhythmic album.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Juans-Reckless-Daughter-Joni-Mitchell/dp/B000002GXG (1555 words)

	Perils of Caffeine in the Evening
		I popped onto iTunes and downloaded the album (and did the little dance where you have to burn a CD, then rip it back to mp3 in order to get it onto my Archos mp3 player because of iTunes' proprietary file format).
		Normally, I'd want to hear some more of an album, but I bought this one on impulse, based on how much we liked Simple Things, and the live show we saw at the Showbox last spring.
		The featured single so far, Home, has a new vocalist, Tina Dico, and for some reason this cut reminds me a bit of a something from Joni Mitchell's Hejira album - just a melodic whiff, though, as Joni's poetic storytelling is definitely absent.
	blogs.salon.com /0001970/2004/03/10.html (696 words)

	The Real Zappa Fan by Zappa Fan
		Pastorius' first album, produced by Colomby and entitled Jaco Pastorius (1976), was a breakthrough album for the electric bass.
		Shortly after the release of the album, Jaco made guest appearances on records all over the jazz canvas, (Mott The Hoople's Ian Hunter's solo album, Joni Mitchell's Hejira album, and Al Di Meola's solo album are standouts, all released in 1976).
		His influence was most dominant on Hejira, and many of the songs on that album seem to be composed using the bass as a melodic source of inspiration.
	morestuff.blogstream.com (2488 words)

	George Graham reviews Joni Mitchell's "Taming the Tiger"
		Mitchell, since emerging with her first album thirty years ago, has been one of the most stylistically restless artists on the scene, often keeping her fans wondering what her next record would sound like, and in the process exploring new artistic ground and adding more musical facets to her style.
		Her new album represents yet another phase, which may or may not appeal to some who have latched on to particular periods.
		Those who like Hejira will probably be the happiest with this album, while those for whom the Court and Spark album was her pinnacle may be less enthusiastic about Taming the Tiger's more stark, intimate, largely drumless arrangements.
	georgegraham.com /mitchell.html (1350 words)

	Amazon.ca: Don Juan's Reckless: Music: Joni Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Something that really distinguishes this from all her other 70's albums, is the 16+ minute "Paprika Plains"; it features (in addition to Joni's voice, piano, and the band) an orchestra conducted by Michael Gibbs.
		The title track is a continuation of Hejira with it's travel theme and just as she did on Hejira, she hid the melodies.
		This album is so light and accessible, perfect music to be listening to as you cruise along the beach, with the top down on your car.
	www.amazon.ca /Don-Juans-Reckless-Joni-Mitchell/dp/B000002GXG (1234 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Crosby persuaded Reprise records to record her, and he produced her first album, entitled Joni Mitchell, which was released in March of 1968.
		Another popular track from this album was "Chelsea Morning" (the song is said to have inspired the naming of President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea).
		This was a breakthrough album for her, with such songs as "For Free", "Big Yellow Taxi", "The Circle Game", and her own version of "Woodstock".
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=171 (1115 words)

	American Masters . Joni Mitchell \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With the appearance of her first album, Joni Mitchell (1967), her impact was immediate.
		Joni Mitchell's first album Song to a Seagull was evidence of a musical style still connected to classical ideals of beauty.
		As Schubert might have suggested a brook running through the Viennese countryside in a piano accompaniment, the background of Hejira suggests the whirring of the modern age.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/mitchell_j.html (898 words)

	Karrin Allyson :In Blue
		Her debut album, I Didn't Know About You is somewhat uneven but features a wide range of material from contemporary songs by Randy Newman and Janis Ian to standards.
		Wilson's album turned out to be the kind of eclectic, musical and cultural potpourri that has been the hallmark of Allyson's releases, while Allyson delivers an album that maintains a narrower concept, even though it is much more of a "late night joint" blues recording than one drenched in the spirit of the Mississipi Delta.
		Allyson's cover of Wes Montgomery's "West Coast Blues" is a joy to hear, and she obviously revels in the lyrics to the song, completely at home with its sentiments about the difficulties of life on the road.
	www.jazzitude.com /karrin_inblue.htm (1064 words)

	Seventies' Greatest Album Covers: Hejira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		So when I began to record albums, I thought album art was a great way to keep both careers alive."
		Appropriately for an album whose title means "journey," the making of the cover was a long, strange trip.
		The front art was stripped together from a number of different photos, which resulted in what Mitchell calls "an incredibly difficult printing job." A studio portrait by Norman Seeff was combined with shots by Joel Bernstein taken on a frozen lake -- "a classic Hans Brinker," as Mitchell puts it.
	www.superseventies.com /ac5hejira.html (194 words)

	hejira.us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We've about three sessions of tracking to do on our forthcoming album, we begin mixing with Colin Stewart at Vogville studios first week of april.
		We'll be playing a favourite tune or two and chatting it up with a host of some persuasion, as I understand it.
		We will soon be deciding where to mix our album, which will be happening in April.
	www.hejira.us /news.html (521 words)

	JacoPastorius.com : Interviews : BBC (1978)
		From his first recordings with Pat Metheny, as well as superb playing and writing with Weather Report, through to his breath-taking solo work and thoughtful contributions as a session player, Jaco Pastorius's musicianship and spirit live on.
		As a freelance radio journalist, I was lucky enough to interview Jaco in October 1978, when Weather Report arrived in London to play at the Hammersmith Odeon, and to publicise their latest album, Mr.
		Heavy Weather was the album that followed your debut with Weather Report on Black Market.
	www.jacopastorius.com /features/interviews/BBC.asp (3962 words)

	Hejira
		I meant to be reviewing Joni Mitchell’s Hejira, but due to the fact that I was heavily sedated by Benedryl when I added Hejira to my listening queue on Rhapsody, I didn’t realize that I was actually listening to the band Hejira (who released this eponymous album).
		Well, this is easily the most understated songs on the album, and it’s not necessarily better conceived than most of the other songs on here, but it’s just very charming.
		I just wish that it was as solidly-made as the songs that appeared in the first few songs of the album!
	donignacio.com /hejira/hejira.html (953 words)

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		But on this album, the melodies came up as the initial idea came up.
		Since the Sundays have been out of the public eye for some time, the new album will reintroduce, and in some cases introduce, many to the band.
		On the basis of the band's first album, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, and its hit single, "Here's Where the Story Ends," Britain tagged the band as the next big thing.
	www.ccytsao.com /arithmetic/articles/09-04-97atn.html (970 words)

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