William Galison & David Lahm & Mike LeDonne & Lew Tabackin & Kenny Washington — Blue Motel Room ()

Jazz pianist David Lahm and his All-Star guests, Randy Brecker, Thomas Chapin and Lew Tabackin, use Jazz music to reimagine the songs of Joni Mitchell, one of the century’s greatest musical talents, on this imaginative CD entitled David Lahm: Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell.

The individualistic, esoteric nature of Joni Mitchell’s repertoire bears a natural affinity to Jazz. Now pianist, arranger, and composer David Lahm pays tribute to her in the idiom that has permeated her repertoire: Jazz. This recording represents a new kind of recognition for one of Pop and Folk-Rock’s most endearing song sculptors. Features 19 all-star Jazz musicians including Randy Brecker, Lew Tabackin, Thomas Chapin, and Kenny Washington, David Lahm: Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell proves that Joni Mitchell's works are Jazz compositions that have a place in the repertoire of that most vital and uncompromising genre of music, mainstream American Jazz.