Billboard杂志终身成就奖得主以爵士乐诠释经典情歌集 扣人心弦，沉入意境的温柔典雅精緻大作，

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推荐曲："Both Sides Now"、 "A Case Of You"、 "Stormy Weather"

通俗乐坛的作曲家兼歌手，为了表现对自己所擅长的音乐领域之外其他音乐风格的实力或兴趣，抱持玩票态度，流行跨足古典、摇滚改唱爵士的例子大有人在，不过由玩票至进而转行，或在玩票过程中表现该方面专业的功力者，就不是那麽多件。在摇滚乐坛早就享有稳固地位并受到乐坛高度肯定的女性诗人/画家/歌手琼妮蜜雪儿(Joni Mitchell)算是少数符合上述标准的。

琼妮蜜雪儿并非第一次演唱爵士乐，早在20年几前，她就曾因杰出的词曲创作才华，受到爵士贝斯大师查尔斯明格斯(Charles Mingus)的赏识，大师特地为她写了六首曲子请她填词，琼妮只写了四曲，不料大师提前病逝，后来再加上她的2曲原创专辑才告完成，这张名为「Mingus」的专辑成为非常珍贵的民谣/摇滚/爵士结合的典范之作，20年来，琼妮以敏锐内敛、脱俗典雅的词曲创作风格，建立她崇高的地位，1995年美国告示排杂志(Billboard)特颁终身成就奖来表彰她对于西洋通俗乐坛的贡献，典礼上琼妮演唱了两首爵士经典"Stormy Weather"、"Comes Love"，意外给了她与製作人Larry Klein灌录这张以大管絃乐团编曲伴奏演唱爵士乐经典曲目的专辑「一体两面」。

琼妮蜜雪儿的作品总是疏离中带著女性特有的温柔与典雅，其文学诗性的质感，更是叫人印象深刻，不论单纯的钢琴、共鸣吉他或简单的乐器伴奏演唱，都能够扣人心弦，沉入意境，新专辑歌手首度突破以71，42和22人的管弦乐团伴奏，琼妮的嗓音出现空前的亲切与温暖，"Stormy Weather"被其他爵士乐手演唱过的版本有如过江之鲫，琼妮蜜雪儿的版本趋向稳重成熟，重唱自歌手经典专辑「Blue」的"A Case Of You"，从民谣转变为表情丰富多面的歌调，而琼妮蜜雪儿最脍炙人口的作品"Both Sides Now"被安排再专辑最后，且以及悠然的表情处理，似乎再总结20年来的历练，歌手在民谣摇滚与爵士乐之间的创作取捨和诠释的功力，其实已不在受类型上的限制了。

"Both Sides, Now" is a single by Joni Mitchell. Her recording first appeared on the album Clouds, released in 1969. She re-recorded the song in a Jazz style for the album of the same name, released in 2000.

It is one of Joni Mitchell's best-known songs (with "Big Yellow Taxi," "Woodstock," and "A Case of You"). It was written in March 1967, inspired by a passage in Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.

I was reading Saul Bellow's "Henderson the Rain King" on a plane and early in the book Henderson the Rain King is also up in a plane. He's on his way to Africa and he looks down and sees these clouds. I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too, and I immediately started writing the song. I had no idea that the song would become as popular as it did.