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Hejira: Celebrating Joni Mitchell at Seven
Courtesy of Rick Finlay | Posted on October 17, 2023
When
Thu, December 14, 2023
19:00
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Musicians
Hattie Whitehead
vocalsPete Oxley
guitarRick Finlay
drumsChris Eldred
keyboardsDave Jones
bassOllie Weston
saxophoneMarc 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...