Ah! I was living in NYC Heard she was appearing at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium 04/1979...Just had to go. Grabbed my date and took the train. What talent that night: Joni, Pat, Paco.... The girl I took has been my wife for 38 years now. If I had to put a musical score to our lives...it would be Joni Mitchell and Pat Metheny....even out grandkids are hooked:)

@alex45041

4 жыл бұрын

Love it

@laurentdubois2268

4 жыл бұрын

lucky man

@gladtobeopenminded

3 жыл бұрын

Great story - Glad you two are "long timers"! Not many of us out there. Love of music helps!!!

@thomasv458

2 жыл бұрын

I was there too. Outrageous. 🥰 what a time it was ..Perfection. Glad it was great for you too!

@psovad

3 ай бұрын

Paco?

I've seen this many times over the years...just watched it again...this is out of this world!

It is sick how great Metheny and Pastorious were together. Amazing.

Es berührt mich immer noch sehr;dieses Lied,die Band!Schön!

I've played guitar for almost 40 years, and while I always loved the bass and filled in occasionally on songs with the most basic bass parts, it was Jaco Pastorius' playing that made me want to really learn the instrument. He was such an immense talent. It's a shame his life was cut short at such a young age. I wonder what masterpieces he might have created if his mental illness and drug addiction hadn't got the better of him. But I'm also grateful that he gave us so much incredible music in his 35 years. Hard to believe it's been almost 34 years since his death. RIP Jaco.

@Laayon19

2 жыл бұрын

I've been playing bass for a long time and I'm only starting to scratch the surface of what he could do at 21.

@RMR1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Laayon19 Yeah, it's amazing how natural talent works. I was blessed with a natural talent for stringing words together and have made my living as a writer for the last 30 years. I love what I do, but I'd give it up in an instant to have even a fraction of the raw talent of a guitarist like Hendrix or Garcia or Beck. Learning guitar, bass and piano has always been a struggle for me -- none of it came easy -- and even with all the thousands of hours I've put in, I will never be more than just OK at it. But as frustrating as it is sometimes, the ride has always been fun. That's music for ya.

@Laayon19

2 жыл бұрын

@@RMR1 yea I know exactly what you mean. I've been playing for around 30 years and only 2 years ago did I start to understand music. Now people are like, yea but you're talented, it would be easier for you......bullshit. I really enjoy playing now and I wouldn't give it up for anything or anyone.

@jayapted1492

Жыл бұрын

I always thought that his bass playing contributed a lot to the genius of this album.

@2001mimil

Жыл бұрын

there is an amazing Belgian bass player inspired by Jaco Pastorius.. his name is Michel Hatzigeorgiou playing with the most amazing Belgian jazz band Aka Moon.. (previously 'Nasa Na' quatuor with belated very talented guitar player Pierre Van Dormael).. Check them out.. ;-)

Joni is the queen of alternate tunings.

@garyrasberryjr.552

4 жыл бұрын

She had polio as a child. It weakened her hand where she could grip all the chords, so she simply retuned her guitars for different songs. Early on she had to take time to tune, but later she just had extra guitars pretuned.

@charlesmorse9851

3 жыл бұрын

@@garyrasberryjr.552 Amazing. I only knew that she had used over 100 open tunings in her recordings. I did not know she'd had polio. Talk about making lemonade out of lemons. Remarkable fact. Thanks Ras Jr

@coffeegirl6854

3 жыл бұрын

I love all those tuning. They are fun to play. I did not know Joni had polio. Wow. I love this song. Those darn "coyotes". I love her artwork too. ♥️

@DwayneETowns

3 жыл бұрын

When music was music ... music Excellence at its best

@Barry101er

3 жыл бұрын

No Joni-no Sonic Youth

Love how Jaco closes out the song, his tone is impeccable.

@SuperMusicology101

7 жыл бұрын

Love love many many great bass players no one had Jaco's tone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@anthonycummins34

7 жыл бұрын

KrupaDrums Hadrien feraud has a song with the outro of this song as the intro

@madddogg7920

6 жыл бұрын

Nobody played like Jaco. He was called the Jimi Hendrix of the bass for good reason. His use of bass harmonics was revolutionary. Just like with Jimi, I can't even begin to imagine what Jaco would have given us if he hadn't left us at such a young age.

@morningtheft1

5 жыл бұрын

Perfection....

@scottblair1735

5 жыл бұрын

Jaco was a gift to the planet, what an incredible talent.

God this is beyond genre, supernatural bass you can barely believe in

MAN SHE SOUNDS GREAT ONE OF THE GREATS

Joni truly is a jazz musician....and surrounded by only the best as she should be.

Jaco's use of harmonics are outstanding, truly a brilliant musician. Hejira is definitely my favorite album of Joni's.

@unstrung65

2 жыл бұрын

and Pat Metheny's harmonics !

🐺🐺🐺 COYOTE. Must be one of my best country songs of all time. Pity my late husband never heard me sing this around the house. As he had and still has a family in Canada and USA. Thanks JONI MICHELLE For making this dark dark world a bit brighter

@ManuelaZacchetti

28 күн бұрын

It is one of my fav too but “country” feels too tight to describe Joni’s music. SO LONG!

I’m stating the obvious but this is such an incredible display of live musicianship that it melts your heart. On a technical note for all you musicians, as much as I’ve listened to and watched this performance I still can’t tell where Jaco’s harmonics begin and Pat Metheny’s end and vice versa. Can you? Musically it reminds me of the track ‘Milestones’ on the Miles Davis album by the same name. The bookend solos from Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane are so seamless and connected they sound like one continuous person even though they’re playing two different instruments with different pitches. As with Jaco and Pat as well as Don, Lyle and Michael on the other tracks, particularly ‘Hejira’, the interplay is magic.

@Arturo-sm1tb

8 ай бұрын

So many GOATS on one stage, it is literally mindboggling.... I cannot believe it. If there is just ONE concert I could go back in time and attend, this is the one.

Walked into a coffee shop in 1975 and they were playing Miles of aisles, that voice .. immediately went and bought all her albums on vinyl and then every other after .. played them to death and then bought CDs of everything, musical background of a life .. love how she changed and grew

I love the guitar that she plays in this video, Pat's looks similar. 1980 she was 37, I think, and Don smiling, and everyone so young and vibrant. And Jaco in fine form, sad what happened to him. I wish this concert was on DVD without all the other film added. Such a wordy song, Joni is in such excellent voice, and I think this is my favorite song from her.

This has to be the best performance of all time. These artists 👌🏾

Just a mind-blowing lineup in this band! Wheee!!! But being as old as I am and how much these musicians have meant to me, it kinda makes me weepy in regards to mortality. All things must pass...

saw this concert, at the Mississippi River Fest, amazing shows there in the mid-70s until they stopped. Mistake. Easy drive. Always ahead of the ticket sales, as I worked in radio then. magical shows and musics.

Not sure of another song where the bass is as important to the song as this one and Jaco just nails it. Perfection.

@jeremystein4534

3 жыл бұрын

For Once in My Life, by Stevie. I listen to Jamerson's line more than the voice.

@wojciechpischinger6564

3 жыл бұрын

"Refuge of the roads"

@_Game0ver_

2 жыл бұрын

Pino's bass on 'Wherever I Lay My Hat'.

@PatriotSteve

2 жыл бұрын

@@_Game0ver_ it’s a great performance. Fretless sounding like some of Jaco’s work.

@literallyshaking8019

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard versions of this without Jaco and it just sounds naked without his harmonic fills and massive fretless tone.

The closest thing to a true Goddess to grace the western world in my lifetime....Blessings and Prayers to Joni

Jaco's genius was that, as a sideman, he never tried to outshine the mein thing, he just made it shine brighter!

@bryanleigh6497

3 жыл бұрын

While stealing the show the whole time!

@muonani

3 жыл бұрын

@@bryanleigh6497 in his own modest way.

Jaco in its Prime my god this whole concert and line up is still Awesome.

Love this performance by Joni Mitchell. Loved this Album, "HEJIRA".

Just another brilliant performance by a group of incredible musicians! They make it seem so easy and natural, and it is so beautiful. Thank you for what you've brought to the world.

Jaco Pastorius. Absolutely the finest bassist...ever! Magical!!!!

@peterbrockhoff857

2 жыл бұрын

May he rest in peace.

@andreaassanelli4117

Жыл бұрын

I wont tell he was the greatest or not, but that doesnt matter... With Joni Mitchell he reached a state of grace, of perfection. I saw him live with weathe rreport, but I cherish more his work with Joni. He is sadly missed. He was just SO right playing with Joni, Pat and Larry (Carlton in Hejira)

@death2pc

4 ай бұрын

The music world is solely Jaco. Jaco is all. Greatest ever man. I've got all his albums, tapes and CD's with all his greatest hits. He wrote all of Joni Mitchell's songs, as well, everything for Metheny and Mays.

Jaco's sound is so instantly recognizable as nobody but him.

@zackzallie8735

3 жыл бұрын

His death is so avoidable it driven me mad. I miss Jaco so much

@randyd.1524

11 ай бұрын

It true!

@elmoluizpereiradacostafilh8087

3 ай бұрын

He's truly genius!

I have lost count of the number of times I have watched and listened to this (both studio and live versions). It (and Joni) never ceases to amaze me. Her writing, singing and playing (how does she DO that stuff on a guitar?) has me coming back time and again to listen and celebrate. And this is just one song on one album among many that can be appreciated the same way. Love your stuff, Joni.

What a perfect alignment of talent, musicianship, creativity, etc. Joni, Jaco, Pat, Lyle, Michael, Don....all of them flawless here. I own this concert on DVD, and I highly recommend it.

@Darth_Jafar

Жыл бұрын

What DVD is this?

@erichavenbass

11 ай бұрын

@@Darth_Jafar Shadows and Light

One of the GREATEST Bass players of all time...RIP

One of our greatest inventions. The ability to record events in history, and send it forward. Blessed are we as humans. Al the best to Joni Mitchell

At some point every one of these world class musicians probably had to shake their heads and marvel at the fact that they were in Joni Mitchell’s band. God they were tight!

one of the great concerts of all times. so good.

@yellfire

3 жыл бұрын

Well, according to Joni (and the band members as well) this concert was average compared to other gigs on the Shadows and Light tour.

@devoutburrito

3 жыл бұрын

@@yellfire k

Ohmy God this band!!!!!❤❤❤

Just listening because I met and chatted with Joni briefly today in LA. She looks great at 70!

@mattyz45

10 жыл бұрын

jealous...miss jaco

@BrookeMonfort

6 жыл бұрын

I used to have regular dreams about jamming with her. I remember when this album came out. I was playing folk clubs in Chicago. She's a national treasure.

@madddogg7920

6 жыл бұрын

I actually started listening to some of Joni's music because of Jaco. She is an incredible singer/songwriter, of course, but with "Hejira" it became clear that she's so much more than that. Choosing Jaco as her bass player when she decided to experiment with jazz was a masterstroke on her part.

@oldestgamer

3 жыл бұрын

@@madddogg7920 She said that Jaco was here favorite bass player!

@kevinb3812

4 ай бұрын

@@BrookeMonfort A Continental Treasure! The World Loves Joni's Music.

Most impressive line up I've heard with a singer. Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Don Alias. Lyle Mays and Michael Brecker play on other tunes of this album. Joni is one of a kind.

Prisoner of the white lines on the free freeway

Always loved Joni since 1974. In my late teens she mesmerised me with her voice singing and her musical Arrangements

How beautiful is the sound of this music,all of it means life on going, Wonderful 💐

I never appreciated how good Joni Mitchell is!!!! I loved many of her songs but this is such a different sound that it grabbed me right away!

@frewofstew6304

10 ай бұрын

Joni was Change...guess that's why!

Recorded in 1979 at the Santa Barbara Bowl Joni Mitchell's Mingus tour with Pat Metheny guitar, Jaco Pastorius bass, Michael Brecker sax, Don Alias drums, and Lyle Mays keys.

Greatest song writer in history..The best..And I love here.

@robertlee2094

4 жыл бұрын

And David Crosby agrees.

Joni Mitchell, most underrated guitarist ever, this song highlights her genius.

@PhillipLandmeier

3 жыл бұрын

She's not underrated. ;-)

@musicofanatic

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhillipLandmeier Not even close! Why do people like to say that?? I recently read "Rick Danko, the most underrated bassist". What crap! Highly rated by fans and peers alike. Is this kind of statement made by those who labor under the delusion that they know something no one else knows; that they are making some sort of profound pronouncement??? Foolishment!

@aaronm.3581

2 жыл бұрын

She's rated a little high in my opinion. She's just strumming some easy chords. Most of this concert you could unplug her and it would not matter. Even here, what is she playing that is hard or groundbreaking? Absolutely nothing.

@musicofanatic

2 жыл бұрын

@@aaronm.3581 Is your criteria for a guitarist worthy of praise whether they can shred like Slash or reproduce Eruption note for note? Can you figure out Mitchell's tunings on Amelia, Hejira, Black Crow and duplicate her voicings? My point is her guitar work is innovative, unique and essential to her compositions.

@aaronm.3581

2 жыл бұрын

@@musicofanatic I can figure out her tunings. I like her compositions. But really, she isn't doing anything all that innovative or unique. I'm not saying she is a bad guitarist. She is not. But I think she is overrated. Her using tunings that are well known and used by thousands of people before her, is not all that impressive. If she was a GREAT guitarist, she would not disappear into the background when ACTUAL great musicians are on stage with her.

The absolute pinnacle

Weather Report featuring Joni Mitchell - one of jazz's most unsung collaborations.

As a huge Jaco fan...To me, this maybe his high point. The Band is magic. Joni's amazing tunes. Music from the highest order.

She's out of this world

Always come back to this and Free Man in Paris to see an ensemble that shows you how it's done when you're playing with the best. Always inspiring, always...the best.

What a monument of a song, stands the test of time

Talk about a super group. Joni just had to be in heaven each night with that band behind her. I often return to this for inspiration.

Such an original tune. The whole vibe is like nothing else. Very cool!

@sgt.thundercok4704

Жыл бұрын

Original doesn't mean good. I5t's forced quirkiness and annoying as hell.

What astmosphere and magic. Just wow, what a time. We can never hold it.

Joni and Jaco are 1 of a kind! Love Forever111

Jaco. Here and gone and left an eternal mark in the music world.

I listen to joni and csn nearly every day or night since 1970 when I returned from Viet Nam. That's almost 50 years worth. Can't say that about too many recording artists.

brilliance meets brilliance meets brilliance. Can't imagine a better bunch of musicians to do this great song.

This is just absolute perfection!

Thank God someone made the decision to tape this live concert for prosperity.

Jaco on majestic form. Sensational

One of my favorite Joni songs!

Fantastic.♥ I Just Love It. (Thanks, Joni Mitchell) and Friends.

This is exquisite music at it's best .

Magical Goddess...

So lucky to see a date on this tour in Columbia, MD. Tears in my eyes listening now...

jaco and pat....wow ...incredible musicians in the presences of an angle!

I think this is the best gig I've ever seen.

Reduced to tears with this rendition, the lyrics, the Arrangements, the odd-open guitar tunings, the lineup, Joni and Pat staring at Jaco while he waves goodby

Jaco’s playing is just on another level ….totally unequalled then and NOW. I consider myself so privileged that I’m old enough now to have been young enough back then.

@PhillipLandmeier

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there's nobody like Jaco. Maybe someday, but I'm not holding my breath. He adds something to music that nobody ever did before and nobody has done since. Maybe another will come along but I don't expect to see it.

Always magnificent. And impressive catalog of works.

I just love this version and listen over and over. Thanks

How can there be only 468 likes. 96 comments for one of the most mind blowingly musically talented and appealing performances ever recorded. This is perfection and I love the visuals.

he picks up my scent on his fingers while he's watchin the waitress's legs

I enjoyed the coyote versus mouse footage. I have all the Joni and Jaco albums. Watching a big predator fail at killing a tiny prey is somehow conveyed in this song. That's what it's for... Intellectual difficulty, smart defeat, I'm way bigger and badder than you but I have to stand and fight, wrestling with my ego, and sometimes I lose that fight. I miss you Jaco.

This is so good it makes me tear up.

we sure do miss you Jaco...

Out of this World!!

Such a great tune and Jaco does complement it so well!

@HK83IE

9 жыл бұрын

Ron D jaco complemented everything he did so well.

@kkm5758

9 жыл бұрын

Ron D Jaco makes this tune.

this songs always felt almost hypnotic for me i love the feeling you get with both the bass and singing style

Impeccable performance here--as always. Love those "Joni" tunings making stupendous chords that define this (and all of her) music.

Perfect.

The bass of Jaco is outstanding

Joni always warms me up, and Jaco's bass lines are just so amazing

Oh man, I absolutely love this song! It just to me, represents absolute perfection. The fusing of her vocal style which is so unique and you got Jaco in the background improvising, Alex Acuna on kit drums, Pat Methany (not one of my favs, appreciate him but...) this is a Shadows and Light which was just a killer album. Here's a Joe Strom fact, he bought a ticket to this show and walked right in! Can you imagine that? Just rolling up to the Greek Theater, buying one ticket which must have been harder than hell to find enrolling in and watching this phenomenal show! Only gel right! ❤🎶 So while I'm kind of of freaked out about coyotes, honestly I can't hold it against an animal for their nature you know? He's just doing what they do and it's just really sad that coyote got our friends cat. Thank you for sending the Joni my way though. She's up there in like the top 3, def the top five. Right up there with weather report BB King Django Reinhardt Etc.

@yellfire

3 жыл бұрын

Don Alias on percussion, not Alex Acuna

This is one of my favorite all time videos. I'm watching on KZread even though I own this. Loved everyone in this set Joni, Jaco, Matheny and the sexy bongo player. Yeah!

Wish we'd had the benefit split screen back then so I could appreciate every little nuance of Jaco - Genius! And so are Pat & Joni....... Very happy to enjoy this song version every other day, occasionally more often. Sheer music beauty

That commanding groove Jaco laid down! Can't imagine how thrilling it must of been to have performed with this prodigy!

Joni, Pat Matheny, Jaco, Lyle - it doesn't get better

Rhythm is in the head. Great players play around it while feeling it, not forcing, timing both loose and tight. Jaco is so great because he plays freeflow. When players play too many syncopations, like a lot of jazz players do it quickly starts to bother me. With Jaco it just adds. I dont even like fretless bass that much but boy, those melody lines bring so much character to the music. That album and the band live here is just like the pinnacle of music. Its like the top others want to reach.

Pat Metheny lays down ferocious accompaniment; he is a king.

Just finished watching/listening to this recording for about the 50th time. Had never caught Jaco & Don’s rhythmic syncopation from 3:33-3:40 before. Brilliant. Anyone else?

1:46 sneaky genius at work....just brilliant!

@TheFlightsimNerd

3 жыл бұрын

you noticed that too huh? amazing stuff

My daughter was listening to someone contemporary and I told her she was influenced by Joni Mitchell. She says who? Had her listen to a few tunes and she’s now a fan for life.

@kevinb3812

4 ай бұрын

You gave her a gift!

what a groove . Joni with those guys playing with her is sublime . I miss Jaco

And Joni still looks cool as ever holding that guitar!

@stephaniev5898

3 жыл бұрын

She's looking extremely cool while somehow pulling off an outfit that an elementary school principal would wear. She just owns it.

Love Joni.....love to see her concert

I love ❤from 🇧🇷

My God such sublime genius. A Goddess and an amazing lineup of Musicians

jaco at his finest.i prefer his playing with joni and this band over all his solo stuff hands down

@kevinb3812

4 ай бұрын

Me Too. He was clean in these days and that helped. The company he kept on this tour was good for him I believe.

I think the coyote she was referring to was Sam Shepard. Great song. Great musicians. Wish I could have been there.

Joni sings her own songs, there is still room to invite these heroes around Jaco, timeless wonderful..... these bass lines, sick good.....

Everything really came together on this tour and the albums around this time in Joni's life! It's such a body of work that it seems like a beautiful dream. I still want to thank that cat that suggested Jaco Pastorius to Joni because conventional bass playing just wouldn't do with what she was wanting musically in her mind. Ultimately a perfect collaboration! (Jaco's friends, Lyle and Pat, brought their A-game to the recipe as well.)