Shadows and Light

by Joni Mitchell

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1980
  • Label: Asylum
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 1:23:56
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Backed by an unparalleled ensemble of jazz fusion luminaries including Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny, this live album perfectly captures the Canadian songwriter's most adventurous period. The sweeping, improvisational reinventions of her classic folk-pop material definitively validated her deep immersion into the avant-garde jazz idiom.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, live, female-vocals, improvisation, genre-blending

Tracklist

  1. Introduction - Live (1:54)
  2. In France They Kiss on Main Street - Live (4:10)
  3. Edith and the Kingpin - Live (4:09)
  4. Coyote - Live (4:56)
  5. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Live (6:01)
  6. The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines - Live (4:33)
  7. Amelia - Live (6:40)
  8. Pat's Solo - Live (3:05)
  9. Hejira - Live (7:52)
  10. Black Crow - Live (3:52)
  11. Don's Solo - Live (3:55)
  12. Dreamland - Live (4:49)
  13. Free Man in Paris - Live (3:22)
  14. Band Introduction - Live (0:49)
  15. Furry Sings the Blues - Live (5:35)
  16. Why Do Fools Fall in Love? - Live (2:26)
  17. Shadows and Light - Live (5:26)
  18. God Must Be a Boogie Man - Live (5:03)
  19. Woodstock - Live (5:10)

Credits

  • Jaco Pastorius - bass
  • Don Alias - drums
  • Pat Metheny - guitar
  • Lyle Mays - keyboards
  • Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone

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