Title: Bad, Bad, Interpretation
Product review: This is an extremely lathargic and unspired CD. Joni Mitchell music is taken here VERY literally, which doesn't fare well, even in this particular jazz setting. The arrangements are extremely simplistic (except "Edith and the Kingpin" but the meter here is way too slow to the point of non-recognition of the material on which it is based), and the playing is strangely pedestrian and uninspired. And sparse -- like there were only two or three instruments in the room. And Thomas Chapin's flute solo on "Coyote" has a lot of "wrong" notes in it. The whole effort is kinda Joni Paint by Number music. A must, I'm afraid, to avoid.However, all is not lost in this peculiar sub-genre. For a truly inspired jazz interpretation of a great composer, check out "Color and Light: Jazz Sketches of Sondheim". It's just terrific.
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