Joni Mitchell’s ‘Court and Spark’ – 50th Anniversary

After a sold out run of shows, the Trouble Child Orchestra is back with their 50th anniversary performance of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark!  Philadelphia musician Ray Drezner is back with even more Joni as she and the TCO join Joni’s journey deeper into rock and jazz.  With selections from 1980’s Shadows & Light, a live concert made more famous by the incomparable Jaco Pastorious on Bass, Michael Brecker on Sax and Joni’s longtime off-and-on paramour and percussion master in his own right, Don Alias to combine afro-caribbean rhythms, saxophone squeals, and electric energy.

Eclectic and determined, Philadelphia musician Ray Drezner combines her years singing opera and bluegrass with a scholar’s focus to transcribe every note of Joni Mitchell’s 1974 double-platinum album, Court and Spark.  For its 50th anniversary, Drezner’s ensemble will play the entire album LIVE!  Confessional and aspirational, Court and Spark weaves Joni’s folk-rock idiom (Free Man in Paris, Help Me), jazz sonorities (Car on a Hill, Twisted), bawdy barbershop harmonies (Raised on Robbery), and sweeping orchestral interludes (Down to You). The band goes all out featuring eminent players like Gusten Rudolph (Drums and Congas), Dani Gershkoff (Flute), Sean Markey and Katie Miller (Guitars), Nick Cejas (Bass) Cecelia Tannous-Taylor and Zero Jones (Strings) Michelle Enos and Geoff Langley (Keys), Andrew Esch (Trumpet), Jason Blythe (Reeds).  

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