Hejira: Celebrating Joni Mitchell at Hare & Hounds
Posted by Rick Finlay on October 17, 2023
When
Tue, December 12, 2023
19:30
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Musicians
Hattie Whitehead
vocalsGuitar: Pete Oxley
guitarRick Finlay
drumsOllie Weston
saxophoneChris Eldred
keyboardsBass: Dave Jones
bassMarc Cecil
percussionAbout
‘Hejira’ is a 7-piece band set up to celebrate and honour the masterpiece works of Joni Mitchell, mostly from the late ‘70s. Having released the albums ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’, ‘Hejira’, ‘Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter’ and ‘Mingus’ (regarded as her ‘jazz period’), Joni then toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous jazz musicians (Metheny, Mays, Brecker, Pastorius and Alias). The tour was recorded, producing the outstanding live album, ‘Shadows And Light’; it is from this album that the band Hejira is drawing the body of its repertoire...