Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 5th September, 2025

8LP Box Set

Tracklist:

LP 1

1. Blue
2. Trouble Man Kyle Eastwood Feat. Joni Mitchell
3. Moon At The Window – Demo
4. Be Cool Demo
5. Harlem In Havana
6. Cherokee Louise
7. Come In From The Cold
8. In France They Kiss On Main Street
9. Nothing Can Be Done

LP 2

1. Sex Kills
2. Edith And The Kingpin
3. Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
4. The Jungle Line
5. Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
6. Yvette In English
7. Marcie
8. A Bird That Whistles

LP 3

1. Love
2. Comes Love
3. The Man I Love Herbie Hancock Feat. Joni Mitchell
4. At Last
5. Youre My Thrill
6. Sometimes Im Happy
7. Stay In Touch

LP 4

1. The Crazy Cries Of Love
2. Face Lift
3. Sweet Sucker Dance Early Alternate Version
4. You Dream Flat Tires
5. Answer Me, My Love
6. Love Puts On A New Face
7. Both Sides Now

LP 5

1. Harrys House/Centerpiece
2. Sunny Sunday
3. Hana
4. Last Chance Lost
5. Smokin (Empty, Try Another)
6. Paprika Plains

LP 6

1. Hejira – Live At The Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979
2. Refuge Of The Roads
3. Blue Motel Room
4. Black Crow
5. Off Night Backstreet
6. Just Like This Train
7. No Apologies
8. Not To Blame
9. The Magdalene Laundries

LP 7

1. The Sire Of Sorrow (Jobs Sad Song)
2. God Must Be A Boogie Man
3. A Chair In The Sky
4. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Live At The Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979
5. The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) Herbie Hancock Feat. Joni Mitchell
6. Shine

LP 8

1. If I Had A Heart
2. Impossible Dreamer
3. One Week Last Summer
4. Summertime Live At Newport Folk Festival, July 22, 2023
5. Stormy Weather
6. Two Grey Rooms Demo
7. The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines
8. Twisted
9. If

Joni Mitchell introduces Jonis Jazz, a passion project years in the making. This 4CD or 8LP edition feature recordings chosen by Mitchell that reflect jazzs profound influence on her music, liner notes with rare and previously unseen photos and original artwork by Mitchell. Spanning 61 tracks, Jonis Jazz includes studio recordings, live performances, rare alternate takes, and material drawn from multiple decades and record labels. Among them are two previously unreleased 1980 demos.

The set features contributions from some of Mitchells most important collaborators in jazz, among them Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, and Charles Mingus. Mitchell, who calls Shorter her favorite collaborator, dedicates the collection to him following his passing in 2023. It was a joy to play with him, she writes. He will be missed, but he will remain alive for me in this music.

Covering nearly every era of her recording career, the collection includes selections from Songs To A Seagull, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Mingus, Turbulent Indigo, Both Sides Now (a 2001 GRAMMY Award winner), and more. It also features her guest appearances on projects like Hancocks GRAMMY Award-winning album, River: The Joni Letters. Across the collection, the music follows Mitchells artistic growth from the rhythmic layering of Harrys House / Centerpiece to the bold experimentation of The Jungle Line, the narrative scale of Paprika Plains, and the airy, improvised feel of A Chair In The Sky.

It draws from more than five decades of Mitchells recordings, going back to 1968 for Marcie, from Song To A Seagull. The most recent is her performance of Summertime, recorded live at the 2023 Newport Folk Festival. It marked Mitchells first full-length concert in over two decades a powerful return that resonated around the world. As a self-portrait in sound, Jonis Jazz captures an artist in conversation with jazz over a lifetime never imitating, always inventing. Last year, in the liner notes for Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4, she joked, People ask me my favorite of my albums, its going to be Jonis Jazz. Now it is.