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  • Actors: Brian Blade, Mark Isham, Greg Leisz, Joni Mitchell
  • Directors: Joan Tosoni
  • Producers: Barbara Bowlby, Geoffrey Kempin, John Brunton, Lindsay Cox, Sam Feldman
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Eagle Vision
  • DVD Release Date: 5 Dec 2005
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004D0FY
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29,561 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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After more than a decade of de facto exile from the mainstream, Joni Mitchell has regained much of her media profile, if not her commercial impact, thanks to deserved if belated accolades from critics and music business peers. Recent Grammy Awards and a special Billboard citation epitomise the ironies of Mitchell's 1980s obscurity: because she reached her highest profile with the broad success in 1974 of Court and Spark, which remains Mitchell's lushest, most accessible album, the Canadian musician and painter has found herself comparatively ignored in later years simply because her work ventured into more eclectic amalgams of her already diverse influences. Yet in her forays into world music, jazz and pop collage, Mitchell has remained a prescient and influential artist.

This 1998 concert special sheds welcome light on the work from that post-Spark quarter-century, its 22 songs dominated by the confessional works that have remained Mitchell's strong suit. Early favourites like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Just Like This Train" retain their charm, but it's Mitchell's more mature pieces such as "Amelia" (from Hejira) and "Sex Kills" (from Turbulent Indigo) that convey the depth and acuity of her work. A superb band--including Brian Blade, Mark Isham, Larry Klein, and Greg Leisz--provides a sinewy, sympathetic framework well suited to the palette of jazz, folk, and pop colours that Mitchell daubs on her songs. Adding further intimacy to the performance is a circular stage design, a small audience and a welcome lack of "big" production effects; instead, Mitchell indulges her second career as a painter through a pre-show stroll around a gallery of her visual works.

Mitchell's frail health in the late 1990s, as well as a lifetime of cigarettes, has taken a toll on her voice, which has lost much of its upper register. Yet there is also an added richness to her lower range befitting this sharp-eyed survivor's art. Old fans will also recognise the flurries of girlish laughter in between-songs patter, while savouring how Mitchell's powers as a writer and player (especially on a new, striking electric guitar) have matured as well. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com



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DVD 5
English
Region 0
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround

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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential for all Joni fans, 8 April 2002
By jerry@jerryh.net (London, England) - See all my reviews
For those who, like me, came to Joni Mitchell's music too late to have much chance to see her perform live, this DVD is like manna from Heaven. Here's an opportunity to see her perform a selection of songs from a wide range of her output, from Ladies of the Canyon to Taming the Tiger. It's all good (with the possible exception of "Why do fools fall in love" - I hated it on Shadows and Light, too!), but if I had to choose, I'd name particularly moving renditions of "Hejira" and "The Magdalene Laundries" as my favourites. Joni's voice may have lost some power and range over the years, but her words, music and performance have lost none of their ability to move and inspire.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Joni Mitchell in the livingroom, 20 Dec 2000
A cool collection of 19 very nice songs with a small but very heavy setup. Her ex-husband Larry Klein on the bass and Brian Blade on the drums among other stars. The concert is very exclusive. Around 200 people are sitting around Joni in some nice big couches. With this DVD you can sit in your own couch and get the lovely mrs. Mitchell for yourself. This DVD contains also a discography and a collection of Jonis fine paintings.
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