I agree totally, and will add that it was the last album she did before ciggies claimed her voice. rfc, RR
brian symes wrote: > After some testifying about Joni at her best I thought I would add that after >getting such bad vibes from the phillistines about Mingus, when Joni finally came >back and recorded WTRF Her spirit was filled with Love as every song is about this >very subject.On the whole the songs look back to the rock and roll days,the LA >express sound,jazz from Mingus and Be cool sounds so much like Bernsteins song in >West Side Story. Wayne Shorter inventing a type of background echo and riff's that >will show up on future work with Joni. She is the master of her voice in WTRF she >runs up and down the scales that makes other female rockers sound like one note >squackers.On these songs she defines the music not the other way around. > She was giving Geffen her very best.
