The woman behind the music is funny, outspoken, and impossible to put in a box. Jim Farber speaks to Henry Alford whose new ...

Joni Mitchell never shied away from getting deeply personal in her music, but 'Little Green' was a difficult song to write due to its heartbreaking inspiration ...

Joni Mitchell was an excellent songwriter, and on her album 'Blue', she wrote a song so moving it made James Taylor feel as though he was home.

To pull it off, you need a keen understanding of Joni's outlook on life and what makes her sophisticated ... “People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me they're too personal," Joni Mitchell ...

Joni Mitchell is a songwriter who always minds dualities, whether exploring the beauty of heartache or including seedier elements in a love song. “A Case of You” can be sentimental if you don ...

A day later Nietzsche returned. As one of the most progressive of contemporary jazz musicians it should perhaps come as no surprise that trumpeter Dave Douglas should make such a personal statement ...

This week, illicit antiquity trading, Harlem Renaissance patrons and whiteness, a new biography of Joni Mitchell, Diane Keaton season, and much more.