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Hejira is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1976 on Asylum Records. Its material was written during a period of frequent travel in late 1975 and early 1976, and reflects Mitchell's experiences on the road during that time.
Hejira contains Mitchell's starkest and most sensitive examinations of the apparent incompatibility of love and work, belonging and freedom. Hejira lets Mitchell's duelling ideologies and impulses coexist at the same scale within each song, avoiding extremes of crisis or revelation, an idea reflected in the artwork.
Although Tom Scott, who helped her realize her affinity for jazz with “Court and Spark,” is still around, along with other musicians such as Larry Carlton and John Guerin, the instrumentation is spare and the arrangements restrained.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of "Hejira" on Discogs.
6 de ago. de 2007 · Hejira is a heavy album insofar as all of Joni’s albums are heavy, but it’s the little miracles glimpsed in the music, along the side of the road, that turn it from bitter to bittersweet. Despite the presence of Pastorius, it’s not an overtly jazzy record but a deeper and fuller flowering of the subtle shift in shading since Blue .
LP, Album, Stereo. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1976 Vinyl release of "Hejira" on Discogs.
One fine day in 1972, the saxophonist Tom Scott discovers, fascinated, the voice of a Canadian singer about whom he does not know much, Joni Mitchell, and decides to record one of her most beautiful songs, Woodstock... on a recorder.
