Joni Mitchell - The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines

[snapperjackson]

Sick Version!

[art101tv]

... it's all so interesting. Self-absorbed jerkoffs like superunknown373 quack away and never shut up. They're too busy slashing away to just sit back, listen, watch, and have a little fun. Whatever. Superunknown373 is well named. May he and his kind forever remain unknown.

[ZappaFan101]

173 likes and 0 dislikes. I guess no morons watched this yet.

[ZappaFan101]

That note Jaco does just after about 1:29 I love it. The way he articulates it- so unexpected, yet it feels so right. Those little things like that are what makes Jaco so damn awesome.

[ZappaFan101]

Man, I could hear Jaco play all day long. His touch on the bass is amazing. Not only did he have an excellent sense of groove, but he could play it so damn clean! Just listen to those triplet runs! There isn't a shred of unwanted noise.

[DiVoRaM]

AWSEMON!!! WEIRD!!! WHAT EVER!!! I LOVE THIS MUSIC!!!!

[stevearle]

Time for all the anti-artistic license musos to get out of the bedroom, stop practicing and live some life!!!

[VonSchteffie]

The music is fantastic! But Joni's clothes gives me nightmares...

[analogic10]

I'll be damned! That's how I dream to sound oneday...

[JennetteWohl77444]

You can grab the audio-mp3 of this clip at fromvideotomp3 doht cohm.

[mariadelfina1983]

che figata di donna! la amo <3

[Seattlecarnut]

Wow! With Joni Mitchell singing and Jaco on bass, awesome performance!

[Zaul2410]

damn! they're all dead now, (except joni)

a massive lost

[pieterjanoddens]

Visite my channel for some great bassworks! Jaco forever!

[djdjany]

The best bass ever heard.

[PubliusDiamond]

Wow. Have you ever seen a man more surgically attached to his instrument? Awesome

[kacita]

Just delightful...

[VitomirSRB]

Fucking great!!

[JDrumbar]

Virtuosic1, please... i dont care if you think he could have done better, but seriously, who are you to tell Jaco Pastorius one of the greatest if the the greatest electric bassists to have lived how to play his instrument. This performance is one of my favorites of all time... oh by the way, did you really expect anything less from Michael Brecker?!!! also i agree with the annoying ness of the interludes, sometimes you just wanna see the band of gods play :P

[tellarjj]

Joni Mitchell ,c'est aussi la classe avec Pasto ! ... et son groupe...

[Merstheman]

It's too bad all the other videos don't work anymore, this band is SO GOOOOOOOD. Jeez...

[jibcraip]

This DVD is maaaad !! so great ! Jaco was on point ! he groove like nobody !

[rafpena8]

Virtuosic1, your 55, so post some of your brilliant original music. I'm sure we will all be astounded by your creative prowess. Shit, I wonder how Jaco got all those people to buy his records when there are virtuoso's like yourself out there.

[JDrumbar]

@rafpena8 i like how u think :)

[PercyBeanProductions]

Love it!!!!!

[cesaresusa]

All three of them (Don Alias, Jaco Pastorius and Michael Brecker) passed away. What a loss!

[adamfruitcake]

Insane bass and drums on this performance!

[tomlang555]

Jaco's playing on this track is exceptional, even by his standards.

[Virtuosic1]

Jaco is slick on this track but without a chord instrument present and Brecker echoing his triplets, I'm surprised Jaco didn't break off, descending chromatically against Michael's echoed static triplets, to reprovide a better foundation and propulsion instead of remaining on a pedal root triplet for almost the entire chorus! Michael's choruses are typically brilliant here, a cross between the be-bebop style and technical facility of Phil Woods combined with the cool of a Warne Marsh.

[superunknown373]

Good for you Virtuosic1, you read a Jamey Aebersold book once and now you have to let everyone bask in the glow of your superior knowledge.

Please...

Sometimes simple repetition is the best option. Listen to Grant Green if you don't believe me.

[happymyster]

Thank you! Don't know many musicians that think like that in the middle of an improv solo .... or at all.

[Virtuosic1]

Basking in Jimmy Aebersold???? That's a fucking laugh and a half. Lennie Tristano, friend. Lennie Tristano was my teacher and mentor from age 11 until his death in 1978 (1964 to 1978). My youtube video can be seen by searching Virtuosic1 plays Lennie Tristano. Tristano considered me the greatest piano technician he ever heard, he himself naming me "Virtuosic One". Give my video a look and see if you tend to agree with him.

[jeffdeegan]

even if you are as good as you claim to be, people respect others not only for their talent but also their personalities, and with an inflamed ego like yours you're not gonna get much respect from anyone, and in response to your original comment, I'm pretty sure Jaco knew exactly the sound he was going for, and he wasn't trying to make it technically and theoretically perfect, cause no one cares about that, he was feelin' it, and at the end of that day that's really what it's all about.

[Saxyman14]

Can you imagine how much better you'd be without that giant ego? Or at least how much more likable you'd be. But I know some of the most technical players on the planet, but can't play for shit when it comes to gigs or jam situations. you need to be able to play outside the practice room too.

[Virtuosic1]

I'm very familiar with Grant Green and in this case simple repetition didn't work contrapuntally to Brecker's stretches. As for my "superior knowledge", it comes from 10 years of study with the master, Lennie Tristano, coupled with a Juilliard Degree degree. I've read Aebersold once. That was enough. Here's my video. You decide whether my comments have any credibility.

[bassscape]

Well, where is that video then?

[bassscape]

Ah, found it. Let me give you one piece of advice on that thing: don't talk if you don't have anything to say.

[Mwgsy64]

Wow thanks, I've enjoyed this song so much over the years and loved the way the bass and sax work together. I can see how silly I've been after benefitting from your wisdom. I'll not bother listening to it again.

[JDrumbar]

@Virtuosic1 dude, seriously give up, if your such a master, why arnt you out there being a master, instead your telling everyone else on youtube about how much u love being superior... ok, your smarter than all of us noobs, we get it

[beckmondo99]

Hmmmmmmmm. . . :-)

[JDrumbar]

@Virtuosic1 yeah i watched your video, and i can see that your a fantastic technician, and yet it lacks what Jaco's triplets are full of... life, love, selflessness... you play for other people to watch, Jaco plays because it feels like nothing else to play... Its sad that such talent is wasted with too much playing from the ego. play with your heart man, thats where music comes from

[paulvienneau]

@Virtuosic1

You're surprised that an improvising musician, with different experiences and influences than you, decided, in the moment, to play something different than you would play *in hindsight*?

Wow.

You're a pratt.

[johnpauljoneswannabe]

@Virtuosic1 Does it look like Michael is upset at Jaco at the end, due to Jaco's reaction to Brecker's look?

I think jaco was just trying top push the groove.

I think you're probably right, but It was probably an on the spot decision on Jaco's part.

[johnpauljoneswannabe]

@Virtuosic1 @Virtuosic1 Does it look like Michael is upset at Jaco at the end, due to Jaco's reaction to Brecker's look?

I think jaco was just trying top push the groove.

I think you're probably right, but It was probably an on the spot

decision on Jaco's part.

[libertatus]

@johnpauljoneswannabe I'm simply commenting on the name "johnpauljoneswannabe". Very Cool. I've been at this for 20 years and I too am still a johnpauljoneswannabe. .....and a Jacowannabe .........and a Jamersonwannabe .......and a CharlieHadenwannabe ............and a..............

[cooleyballs1]

@Virtuosic1 BRILLIANT.What a cock!

[thefunkbassist]

jaco had triplets of a diety

[nysseMaister]

so true

[traildoggy]

stellar !!!

[ackeiswetter]

What an ending! I wish they would show more of Jaco instead of LV

[wadekirtley]

Does anyone know if the "melody" of this song was a transcription of an instrumental solo, as Annie Ross's "Twisted" was? (Tenor solo by Wardell Gray)

[musicloveranthony]

the music was written by Charles Mingus. He presumably would have written the vocal music as well. joni provided the lyrics. it wasn't an interpretation of a specific instrumental solo, though. you know "goodbye porkpie hat"s vocal line was originally an instrumental solo as well?

[peters9nine]

Jaco,Don,Michael-  R.I.P.

[DrShrinker]

Really good. Alias was - and is - so underrated. And those Jaco triplets at the end are totally obnoxious - in an awesome way.

Thanks for posting this.

[GiadaShake]

fantastic

[LoMerezco]

Sono senza parole...

Jaco is incomparable

[Muohwhat]

Did you catch the look of exasperation on Brecker's face at the end? Jaco was quite the character...

[rhix]

yeah he stepped all over his solo, but hey, he's Jaco haha!

[PercyBeanProductions]

Damn right!

[jpjones]

This is where Joni the artist got in the way of Joni the musician. Why the hell show pictures of Las Vegas when she has a virtuoso performance going on? But perhaps her biggest crime here is that she edits the tune in the damned middle of the jam, I guess to make sure the video comes in a 56 minutes (or whatever). Listen to it on the album, then watch this video. You will notice the disjointed edit near the end before Jaco's vamp out. Serious boneheaded decision by the producer &/or Joni.

[superunknown373]

Yeah the whole artsy music video interludes in this DVD annoy me, I'd really much rather watch the performance. I didn't even bother uploading Hejira because, while on other songs you still get the performance with video interludes, Joni thought it would be a good idea to put some lame video of her and some dude ice skating over the WHOLE performance. Well, I guess nobody's perfect...

[milanlawrence2]

This is just incredible! I've heard others try it but to get it swing like this is extremely difficult.Hadn't thought of Joni as such a good singer before.

[musicloveranthony]

the youtube covers of this are HORRIBLE. everyone tries to sing the vocals. this isn't a pop song. it isn't meant to be sung, or crooned. the notes were written by Mingus, for Joni. if he had meant them to be full of riffs he would have written them that way.

anyways, Joni had trained her voice so well at this point. it's interesting, if you listen to her recordings from the 1975 rolling thunder revue her voice was much lower in timbre and she avoided the falsetto.

[grandmaos]

wierd how people that seem unhumanly good at their instruments tend to die early.. jaco and brecker are like the mozarts of today

[MemphisInternalArts]

WHat Brecker is dead? I am so out of it.

[grandmaos]

yep

[srptopdog]

Anyone know who the drummer is?

[superunknown373]

Don Alias

[musicloveranthony]

Don Alias

[grandmaos]

shit how old was brecker when this was recorded?

[ewi4000]

This tour was in august and september of 1979

Mike Brecker was born March 1949. So he was 30 years old.

Best regards, Louis Gerrits

[ilrollatore89]

great bassist, too, of course!!

jaco R.I.P

[tonyfreejazz20]

Nice one Mike. Awesome. Great sax player.