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- Summary: The four-disc compilation release features 61 tracks of Joni Mitchell's jazz music including rare and unreleased live tracks, demos, b-sides and alternate takes.
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- Record Label: Rhino
- Genre(s): Jazz, Pop/Rock
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Sep 5, 2025Joni's Jazz functions as a kind of sublime playlist, providing a stellar grounding of her work in folk, rock, and pop, while almost constantly reflecting jazz's musical vocabulary and influence.
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Classic Rock MagazineSep 17, 2025Choice cuts from an incomparable half century. [Oct 2025, p.87]
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UncutSep 5, 2025Beautifully curated collection. .... It's rare for familiar work to be re-contextualised in such a way that you hear it with new ears. But that's exactly what happens here. [Oct 2025, p.48]
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Sep 17, 2025Eschewing a chronological listing, the random order of these 61 tracks comfortably places tracks from 1991’s Night Ride Home with “In France They Kiss on Main Street” from ’75’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns and “Just Like This Train” alongside material from ’98’s Taming the Tiger, and it’s remarkable how naturally the tracks emerge as a cohesive new whole.
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Sep 5, 2025Mitchell truly came into her own as a standards singer. But fans of her own writing will be tested by the inclusion of a few too many of those covers. In its determination to make its point, Joni’s Jazz is a labor of love that still feels a little labored.
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Sep 5, 2025Unlike the four prior archival editions, Joni’s Jazz gives listeners very little that’s new. .... It is tempting to see it, then, as a chaotic but mostly coherent and sometimes very compelling streaming playlist, given deluxe physical form. [Oct 2025, p.46]