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Court & Spark [CD]

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Joni Mitchell's Court & Spark is the 1974 album where folk poetry met jazz-pop polish, presented here on CD.

After the stark, confessional brilliance of Blue and the searching For the Roses, Mitchell turned toward a fuller, brighter sound. She recruited Tom Scott and his L.A. Express, a group of jazz-schooled players who wrapped her songs in sleek horns, supple rhythms and warm electric textures. The combination brought her music to its widest audience yet without sacrificing a shred of her lyrical intelligence.

Help Me is the hit, a giddy, nervous song about falling for someone you probably should not, driven by a gently swinging groove. Free Man in Paris, inspired by her friend and label boss David Geffen, captures the pressure of the music business with sharp wit and a breezy melody. Raised on Robbery is a rollicking, rock-leaning character sketch, and Twisted closes the album with a playful jazz cover from the Annie Ross songbook.

The title track Court and Spark opens proceedings with an intimate, piano-led tale of love and doubt that sets the tone for everything that follows. Smart, sophisticated and endlessly listenable, Court & Spark is one of the great singer-songwriter albums of its era and a perfect entry point into her catalogue.

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