Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
by Joni Mitchell
- Type: Album
- Released: 13 December 1977
- Label: Asylum
- Country: Canada
- Length: 59:43
- Community rating: 3.86/5 from 7 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Leaning heavily into the freewheeling jazz collaborations she had begun cultivating, Joni Mitchell's sprawling double album is an astonishingly ambitious, polarizing avant-garde triumph. 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' features incredibly complex, remarkably playful jazz fusion improvisations, anchored by Jaco Pastorius's fluid basslines and Mitchell's deeply progressive, heavily eclectic acoustic guitar structures.
Genres
Descriptors: improvisation, complex, avant-garde, progressive, folk, experimental, female-vocals, piano, minimal
Tracklist
- Overture - Cotton Avenue (6:41)
- Talk to Me (3:45)
- Jericho (3:22)
- Paprika Plains (16:21)
- Otis and Marlena (4:09)
- The Tenth World (6:45)
- Dreamland (4:38)
- Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (6:38)
- Off Night Backstreet (3:20)
- The Silky Veils of Ardor (4:01)
Credits
- Joni Mitchell - primary artist, design, guitar, vocals, written-by, composed by, piano, acoustic guitar, graphic design
- Glen Christensen - art direction
- Les Krims - artwork [on joni mitchell's dress]
- Jaco Pastorius - bass, bongos, written-by, cowbell [cowbells]
- Robert Ash - engineer [assistant engineer], additional engineer
- Elliot Roberts - management [personal management]
- Bernie Grundman - mastered by, mastering
- Norman Seeff - photography by, photography
- Keith Williamson - photography by [photoprints], photography
- Frank Laico - recorded by [orchestra]
- Henry Lewy - recorded by, mixed by, mix
- Steve Katz - recorded by, mixed by, mix
- John Guerin - drums, snare [snare drum]
- Don Alias - bongos, congas, claves [clave], vocals, written-by, snare [snaredrum], percussion [sandpaper blocks], shaker
- Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone [soprano sax]
- Michael Gibbs - orchestrated by, conductor [conducted by], orchestrated by [orchestrator]
- Larry Carlton - electric guitar
- Michel Colombier - piano
- Alex Acu帽a - congas, cowbell, vocals, written-by, shaker [shakers], bells [ankle bells]
- Manolo Badrena - congas, percussion [coffee cans], lead vocals, written-by
- Airto Moreira - surdo [bass drum], written-by
- Chaka Khan - vocals
- El Bwyd - other [split tongued spirit]
- Glenn Frey - vocals
- John David Souther - vocals