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Hejira: Celebrating Joni Mitchell at Hare & Hounds

Posted by Rick Finlay on October 17, 2023

Where

Hare & Hounds
106 High St
Birmingham
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Hejira: Celebrating Joni Mitchell at Hare & Hounds

When

Tue, December 12, 2023
19:30

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‘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...

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