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Hejira - Celebrating Joni Mitchell at The Cluny
Courtesy of Ina Wieczorek | Posted on March 23, 2024
When
Sat, June 22, 2024
19:30
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Musicians
Hattie Whitehead
vocalsPete Oxley
guitarDave Jones
bassRick Finlay
drumsOllie Weston
saxophoneChris Eldred
keyboardsMarc Cecil
percussionHejira
band / ensemble / orchestraAbout
‘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...