[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Can someone explain what makes the sound of Joni's piano playing unique? >Surely she doesn't retune her pianos! Yet, unless someone is covering one >of her songs, no one else's piano playing sounds like hers to me . . . with >one exception -- Jackson Browne!
Joni's piano style is very guitaristic, and more specifically, Joni-guitaristic -- complete with its dense and complex tight clusters of consonant dissonance embedded within more traditional chord shapes. My own piano playing is very influenced by Joni ... I hear it, others may or may not. I've also been influenced by many others like Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Lyle Mays, Paul Bley, Art Lande, Fred Hersch so the Joni influence may be too many layers down to readily detect. -Fred Simon
