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Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Released in January 1974, it infuses the folk rock style of her previous albums with jazz elements. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album.
5 de mar. de 2024 · “Raised on Robbery” departs from the jazzier elements of Court and Spark as a swinging 1950s-style rock ‘n’ roll number driven by Robbie Robertson’s guitar playing. Car on the Hill
Admitting another angle on Court And Spark's multi-faceted address of the interpersonal, Mitchell writes through the flux of romance, the middle stanza taking the protagonist out to a pickup joint, where "closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found".
15 de ene. de 2024 · Court and Spark is home to two of Mitchell’s biggest radio hits, “Help Me” and “Free Man In Paris.” The textures of these songs, the first with saxophone, the second with bass played by Wilton Felder, co-founder of L.A. jazz group The Crusaders, are what make them memorable and endlessly playable.
Released: January 1974. Chart Peak: #2. Weeks Charted: 64. Certified Gold: 2/27/74. On first listening, Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.
17 de ene. de 2024 · The song strikes one of Court And Spark’s lighter moods, with guitar from Robbie Robertson and a memorable saxophone solo courtesy of Tom Scott.
18 de ene. de 2024 · Joni Mitchell Court and Spark, Asylum Records 1974. Not that there weren’t non-jazzers on the album: The Band’s Robbie Robertson unleashes a fiery guitar solo on the first single, “Raised on Robbery,” and David Crosby and Graham Nash contribute some harmony vocals.
