Joni Mitchell - In France they kiss on main street

[Dreamofthereturn]

CANADIAN FIESTA! OLÈ !!

[Piero2374]

Jaco, STRAORDINARIA la tua performance!!!!

[PageTheFisherman]

Now that.

Is how you play bass.

[paulmeard]

thanks for posting this

[rosskolnikov]

This is the best version of a remarkable song. Pat Metheny's solo just lifts it up to a new plateau.

[Musicenthusiasm]

@rosskolnikov

Not to mention Jaco's astounding bass line.

[AleekahTV]

This is the type of jam that cannot be easily be identified as this certain genre or that certain genre. That makes for the best music in my opinion.

[blackandtanful]

ｼﾞｮﾆ･ﾐｯﾁｪﾙ､傑作ﾗｲヴ"SHADOES&LIGHT­"から､"ﾌﾗﾝｽの恋人達"～終始弾きまくったｼﾞｬｺの代表­作でも!～ﾒｾﾆｰもイイね! #jazzm 

[AlmostEthical]

Joni and the bands she formed - what a force. Great music.

[Bravo6Whiskey]

Timeless.

[Getsemwet]

@ 2:59 - unmistakably Metheny.....



[SawleyExile]

Amazing. What a combination of players and treatment.

[gidolf]

Heard this yesterday in a bass and voice only version .. very delicate, very suspenseful, somewhat mystical. You people who play the bass - get a girl to sing this with you!

[darkfire79]

She has the most interesting voice.

[marinman39]

Thanks for intelligent discourse, not enough of that here. I have nothing more to add to your words, except to say i am so glad that Pat has had 36 years of recording now to try different things and get that fantastic tone- on modern jazz with Charlie Haden, and on his Pat Methany Group escapades(check out his 2004-5 stuff, as good as it gets), and solo, and so much more. And Jaco was a burning candle, sad in comparison.

[Everyvideo123]

sensational.

[jamesedwardtheobald]

SHIT YEAH!

[mattbrandwich]

what an epicly amazing combination of musicians

[shelleybobelly1]

saw her at the Greek with my boyfriend/s brother.....bf didnt wanna go,,,,,,,I wasnt even 20 yet

[Benteliciuos]

joni is bolada

[BassMusicUK]

Sick bassline...though I think while some people feel it is over-dominating the track is that it is quite loud in the mix

[catalystdrums123]

One of the greatest bass parts of all time

[SaxMan7776518]

Oh my god the bass line is beyond sickness.

[SupernalOne]

Sometimes Jaco could be too busy - the bass should leave regular gaps in the bassline, to let the other instruments carry the song for a moment - he's kinda dominating the song here, though as usual in a virtuoso way - never thought I'd ever say "less bass" -

[POBox1999]

@SupernalOne I completely agree with you. Phenomonal virtuoso bassist, but he didn't play enough rest notes IMHO. Its the space before the sounded note that makes the note sound so sweet!

[AriaSuperBass]

A great song to start with, and Jaco rolling along underneath it all...what more could you want??

[marinman39]

Joni, Jaco and Pat! Two jazz greats get into this song which is sort of rock, but really beyond genre (its a Joni song, she is her own genre).. What bass tones! My version of history: The electric bass was invented in the 1950's, then it had to wait so that Jaco could play it. I play both electric and acoustic bass, and whenever an acoustic bass purist asks me why I bother with electric (fretless) I sent them to this recording. Magic.

[croon4u]

@marinman39 hello??? and Lyle Mays!!!! God I miss hearing his playing and I was so dirty on myself when I lost "Street Dreams" (on cassette) - a yummo album made with Metheny and a fistful of mighty, megafine musicians recorded at none other than Power Station in NY.

[jamesedwardtheobald]

@marinman39 cheers to you! i say 'bah' to 'purism' of that sort. as an electric jazz oriented guitarist i would have NEVER played guitar if you couldn't get the BIG sound like pat, or jeff beck. that dry straight jazz guitar sound drives me nuts! unpleasant when using the 'listeners' ears. mostly only technical musicians listen for ideas above sound. there is a reason pat metheny has sold millions of albums - he SOUNDS good. staying true to some nonsense form of purism didn't get him there!

[marinman39]

@jamesedwardtheobald Thanks. Purism is some kind of intellectual thing. Music is felt, and if it sounds/feels good you've succeeded. These musicians succeed, Jeff Beck wow, another great. Run into the purity thing with some roots types I play with sometimes, bluegrass purists, country swing purists, which is really funny because bluegrass was an invented music designed exactly to move traditional country music into the jazz age, ditto for country swing. Sounds good or it doesn't.

[Piero2374]

@marinman39 straordinaria la performance di Pastorius!!!

[bassployer]

@marinman39 in this song jaco plays the fretted bass - but in other songs he plays his bass of doom too (i have the DVD here) ...who said he plays too much notes? ...remembers me in the "amadeus" movie - someone said this in the movie about mozart too ;)

[marinman39]

@bassployer Wow, didn't know that. He somehow makes it between the notes, just like a fretless. Did he also play the fretted bass on some of the songs on Hejira by Joni? That last tune, Refuge of the Roads, has got to be fretless, totally inspiring tune and bass part in any case. After that album, every pro studio guy in the world tried to get that sound for years.

[bassployer]

@marinman39 i haven't the hejira here (still not, but will order it tomorrow, thanks for the tip!) but listened to Refuge of the Roads on youtube - its definitely fretless, the singing-fretless-jaco-sound. these pro studio guys won't succeed - they'r not jaco - what did he say in an interview: its all in the hands :) btw i'm playing "In France.."(the jaco-line) on my fretless and it sounds great (never as great as jaco) - keep playing fretless - we don't need the cage-bar-fretts! ;)

[ongakubcn]

Glorious tune...the "dream team" band, for sure

[herbergunther]

Best record ever.

[pbl1]

@herbergunther - not even close

[ericoschmitt]

@pbl1 got a better one of this tune? please post it