Joni Mitchell - Free Man in Paris (live, 1979)

[@widehotep9257]

She has such a unique songwriting style, and such a lovely, one-of-a-kind voice.

[@glenndespres5317]

The caliber of musicians who ‘backed’ Joni is just a testament to her true artistry. I LOVE Joni! ❤️

[@SuperBillybob53]

Yes, so true.

[@Karmakatt6]

Jaco on Bass.. considered to be in the top few Bass players in the entire history of the instrument..

[@bishlap]

@@Karmakatt6 no, you don't say!?!

[@glenndespres5317]

@@bishlap 😉

[@Gnofg]

I saw this tour and it ended one of my high school was a roadie for this tour. I saw the Red Rocks show and he told me that the band considered the best of the tour.

[@Arturo-sm1tb]

Where else in the stratosphere are you going to see the GREATEST female musician of the last 100 years, the GREATEST electric player of all time, supported by legends and all time greats like Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays and Michael Brecker, among the greatest musicians ever on their respective instruments, not to mention world class songwriters. SPEECHLESS every time I see this.

[@widehotep9257]

J A C O ! ! !

[@danielecomboni-c3k]

...and what about Jaco as well?

[@dkjazzz]

⁠@@widehotep9257Exactly, can’t believe this comment missed JACO a true legend

[@dkjazzz]

@@danielecomboni-c3kYes !

[@KevinFreedman-jl2bv]

This tune and this show could never be long enough for me. I could listen all day long

[@groovinhooves]

Joni Mitchell - vocals, guitar Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone Pat Metheney - guitar Lyle Mays - keyboards Jaco Pastorius - bass Don Alias - drums Pro-tip: You'll make more musician friends if you learn to include slightly more complete attributions and recognition of all the performers.

[@nondeblah]

That drummer though.

[@RolandWolffRiviera]

just listened to Michael Brecker playing sax on Donald Fagens nightfly album - Genius!

[@sophiafake-virus2456]

@@nondeblah Joni was going out with him, at the time.

[@nondeblah]

@@sophiafake-virus2456 He seems happy.

[@TheChrisheath7]

Totally insane line-up.

[@orlandorafaeldossantos492]

What a musician, singer, composer! What a performer! And what a team! Joni's forever! ❤❤❤

[@Teeb2023]

"Just how important was Joni's music?" Metheny, Mays, Pastorius, Alias, Brecker. That's how.

[@josephbell5806]

Amen, brother!

[@curson5206]

I feel so lucky to have been there.

[@NUKE-W.E.F.]

They're all the best of thee best. Brecker was one hell of a sax player.

[@utubewillyman]

Yeah, I mean I like Joni's music, but I was like "why are all the superstars in the back row?"

[@NUKE-W.E.F.]

@@utubewillyman It was Joni’s show and her songs. However, I don’t believe they’re in the background. Joni is singing , the singer usually is up front but anyone with any sense knows this whole band is off the chart

[@payres48]

Never got to see Joni live, one of my biggest regrets.

[@kennethpatterson6511]

Saw this little combo on this very 1979 tour. Only Joni could have made the phone calls necessary to assemble this band. I'm still not over the wonderful shock of it. What a collection of talent. I married my date right after it............

[@brianrose340]

I was there. It was magical. I was almost too young to truly appreciate it. I had albums featuring every artist on the stage, and didn’t know until the concert started who would be in her band. I couldn’t take my eyes off of Jaco for more than a second or two all night, but Michael Brecker was a monster too. I’ve been to lots of good and great concerts since, but I don’t think any performance could top that night in 1979 at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.

[@Cre8tvMG]

That's a great story. Thanks for sharing!

[@joshcharlat850]

Lucky lucky you!!

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Wow! You lucky so and so. Shadows and Light (from maybe a year or so later?) features the same band, and was one of the first Joni albums I bought. One amazing live band, playing some of the best material ever offered for human consumption!

[@stockvaluedotcom]

I saw Joni in South Bend Indiana in 1974. I know the date because she commented on the Notre Dame UCLA basketball game that had just been played where ND broke UCLA's 88 game winning steak. She of course knew nothing about basketball but bet on ND, "for the underdog" while on the bus with a member of her crew and seemed kinda happy to have won the bet. Joni was gorgeous, transcendent, perfect. Congrats on your memory. I'm pretty happy with mine as well.

[@brianrose340]

@@simonhodgetts6530 Shadows and Light was from the concert tour I attended. That’s what I was lucky enough to see and hear live.

[@bigwhitedog1991]

1979...a good year for music

[@electa7235]

LOVE THIS CLIP! SHE looks so happy and alive!!!

[@freddie1471]

Recorded in 1979 at the Santa Barbara Bowl Joni Mitchell's Mingus tour with Pat Metheny guitar, Jaco Pastorius bass, Michael Brecker sax, Don Alias drums, and Lyle Mays keys.

[@bigtwit799]

wow 20 years ago!

[@vargaso]

Probably the best touring band of all time, the talent on stage is staggering. Testament to how respected Joni is.

[@sergiobucciarelli7514]

I think the same, the best touring band

[@joefelice5062]

Zappa had some pretty amazing bands, but I can’t think of any other bands that are on this level.

[@void.apparatus]

Joni is timeless.

[@taf44tt8io]

YEEEEEESS !!!!!!

[@arricammarques1955]

Lyrical poetry set to music

[@ichimanggoseng]

Just found these video after 6 years, loved Joni and this lined up,thanks 😍😍👍🤟

[@yelassinacoulibaly]

The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness. It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@girlart9]

Love the lady since the first time I ever heard her. On a transistor radio in 1969. Love her so very, very much. Joni, too many things to thank you for!

[@mikemchugh3073]

Joni's Super Group...and Jaco's final note...Pure Joy...

[@lorenzo6mm]

I was there. What a memory. I am in this video/Concert audience. What fantastic days in Santa Barbara, The 1970's. Met her personally a year later on the Kanan Road Renaissance Fair.

[@TomByron-h7s]

This reminds me of Woodstock 94. A nice outside festival with good people and good music

[@slickwilly9334]

This is one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen !

[@Lmon2]

One of the best jazz-rock-vocal bands in history! Joni! Pat! Jaco! And all the rest. I moved to STB about 4 years later...I would have paid dearly to see that show!

[@astrorad2000]

We saw this fantastic performance at Alpine Valley in East Troy, Wisconsin and it was like being in Nirvana!!

[@lisaharrison1031]

There will only ever be ONE JONI. She’s simply the best. Been a fan since 1972.

[@robertrindler2080]

What a great version of a great song!

[@rodbuck1986]

The way Joni walks around the stage at the end after she puts her guitar down,interacting and laughing with Pat Metheny......a combination of first sensuality, then modesty and finally joy in the moment....priceless.

[@sweetjane5033]

more juice for Joni with that beautiful band. I love her changes… newness!❤

[@throckmortensnivel2850]

All of these musicians had incredible talent, and they all worked very hard at what they did. The beauty they brought to the world lives on and on.

[@SuperBillybob53]

One of the Greatest assembled Bands of all time. One of the most memorable evenings of music I have ever heard live.

[@maharmusicstudio1733]

If you saw this live, I am in total jealousy mode.

[@hornerinf]

It just doesn't get better than this. Greatest artist of the 20th century, and an all star band that is without peer. If there was ever a time capsule for these times, the video of this concert should be in it.

[@Teeb2023]

Agreed, of all the gigs I know I've missed in my 50+ years, this one hurts the most, but I'm soooo glad it was recorded.

[@hornerinf]

@@Teeb2023 I know, and I was not far away from this concert at the time but I was playing so much music myself that I didn't pay any attention to what concerts were happening. I'm just glad I have DVDs of my two favorite ones...this one by Joni, and the Pink Floyd Pulse concert in 1994.

[@hughlball]

Fantastic musicians

[@kamel-i5w]

Excellent Joni et bravo aux musiciens...... ..

[@randallreed9048]

She is a GIANT in popular music. Underappreciated by the younger generation--until they hear her!

[@BrentSteinberg]

There was no one better than jaco!! He left us far to soon !!!!!!

[@MegaSickcat]

Joni's music is timeless. So many great songs. She is super talented...

[@daybrd916]

Great song, on the original 1974 recording there was on guitar one of the most incredible guitarists on planet, his friend and neighbor at time, Jose Feliciano

[@gordonanderson3111]

Grey Fox in the Snow - what an album title! These were the great times, anyone that says '70's music was lame, was not there to see this!

[@thorsden5562]

She is a musical genius. Priceless talent.

[@stardresser1]

They were/are ALL musical geniuses.

[@dorianedwards8522]

OMG! What a band. This would have been one of the best tickets of the 70's. First class musicianship and fantastic songs and vocals. OMG! That's about all I can say.....

[@5StarAlcatraz]

Amazing bass by Jaco...all primo musicians playing in the groove! RIP Jaco and Lyle.

[@ehle8805]

I'm glad this video exists

[@davidcarlin3850]

Three of them have departed. RIP. Incredible caliber these musicians the best Joni ever had.

[@southtxguitarist8926]

Actually four - Alias, Brecker, Jaco, and Lyle.

[@John-km2uw]

Joni, she knew what she was doing. This story she sings about... Thank God we'll be able to witness it for the rest of our days.

[@Im2qwik]

For those not aware THE free man in Paris Joni sings of was David Geffen

[@JeffMiller-lp3dp]

Was aware - great story telling lyrics, right?

[@robingallagher9492]

This a great performance and the bass part is like a song on it's own - keep coming back to listen this !

[@tshandy1]

This video should have a lot more views. The bass being laid down by Pastorious is astonishingly good -- so good I don't even mind that it's mixed in a little too loud.

[@TheLolapuff]

Well put

[@patbassman8251]

the mix is terrible on this recording , the bass is getting lost and you can't hear it properly too much bottom end.

[@hansbass5028]

One of the most exciting charming women who ever lived.God i love this performance,so cool!

[@NUKE-W.E.F.]

She was definitely at her best on that night and so was the band. Brecker amazes me how he just stands there and plays amazing music, but then again the whole band does. Jaco, Metheny it just doesn’t get any better than this. Love this show. Joni sings like an angel. L

[@jugglerj0e]

Love how everyone's grooving with Joni. They are so in sync together. I wish they had both Brecker brothers too. That would be cool.

[@sawjack8961]

yah! the sax man is wright on time !! { we } used to call this {tight!} nice work !

[@Wyldhare47]

My favorite album!.....🌻

[@taf44tt8io]

MILES OF AISLES first, for me :)

[@levhugh]

There is no one else like Joni !

[@christopherfox5862]

Joni brought together the strongest popular music ensemble of the last half century. Never gets old watching this band.

[@13Hangfire]

She was and is amazing!

[@gregoryhartung5646]

This will never grow old.

[@JohnGeorgeHill]

I saw this group at the Greek Theater in L.A. The Shadows and Light tour had everything, a great all around artistic experience.

[@BrentSteinberg]

Life can be short !!!!

[@chasbodaniels1744]

Here’s another instance of a great moment from decades past. Where has the time gone?

[@lynnehanebach945]

51 seconds in Jaco peels of a sublime bassline, sax guy turns around like....'nice one bro'.

[@anthonyparkinson5544]

This is one of the first singles that I bought Coupled with Car on the Hill

[@ks8452]

Jaco Pastorius. Gone way too soon. Love you brother....

[@escritoragaviota]

Te amo 😍❤️😍🤩❤️💞🤩

[@richardmorton4762]

She looks and sounds incredible. What a fantastic combination of her the other magnificent musicians who are sharing the stage with her.

[@meboy3226]

Look at her near the end thru Michael’s saxophone. She loves it. And after her quick touch to Pat and laugh.

[@BowWowVideo]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@---ir6sr]

The Queen of alternate guitar tunings has arrived.

[@chasbodaniels1744]

Haha, yeah. It must’ve been a challenge to play along with her.

[@---ir6sr]

@@chasbodaniels1744 Jaco's bass work never disappoints. Just one negative on Coyote. He over plays harmonics just a tad too much. Just sayin.

[@drdylanmcmillan]

Alternative even.

[@bjohnston3659]

I gather this song is based on a conversation Joni had with David Geffen who was bitchin about how busy he was and actually remembering a trip to Paris

[@marshhen]

Yes she has confirmed it was about him.

[@francisbroka9471]

Huge Joni!

[@jjsc4396]

Grooving……🚶🏼‍♀️

[@phillacey878]

Probably the greatest artist of our time talent as big as the sky especially with this lineup queen Joan much love.

[@yhn1inc]

Jaco's bass line here is otherworldly perfection.

[@francisesalazar2709]

She’s a badass , smart, sweet, unbelievable and great performer😎

[@chrisarensdorf19]

It doesn't get any better than this!!

[@lisaharrison1031]

ONE OF A KIND!!! Joni fricking Mitchell.

[@johnmochan2321]

Listen to the words her eyes cant buy fun as this .They loved her Talent form the sky's❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊

[@rapidrhinoplumbing-monrovi3269]

Best of the Best for Joni,, she deserved it,,,,

[@cpg8000]

This is so kick ass ❤

[@Stringman1950]

Always amazing. What a powerful group of albums Michell produced one after the other. Memories.

[@ianmills4408]

Great to see Metheny/Mays augmenting the band beautifully whilst remaining true to their own style and musical culture. A pleasure to watch and hear.

[@johntatum8088]

Lyle on keyboards, Pat on guitar, Jaco...Michael Brecker...great band to accompany Joni!

[@daisywares1]

This happened so many years ago, and still I can't stop watching. (Also, can we talk about Michael Brecker wearing a watch, and having his wallet hanging out of his back pocket? Like he popped in out of the office for a few songs)

[@jeffkokosinski1784]

What a song writer She's bad ass

[@paolo-n2000]

This is SOOOOOO good!!!!! What a musical treat! Thanks to Joni and all the incredible musicians!

[@robinbolton6064]

This is incredible! What a lineup. I mean legends!!

[@puppiesgoarf664]

Joanie plays in very small towns I saw in a small movie theater in Grant's Pass Oregon she tours in a big RV still great voice

[@dario1837]

the best supergroup ever!

[@sweetdrahthaar7951]

Ck the recent Rick Beato vid about Joni. It sounds like an interview is coming. What an amazing assembly of musicians on this video. Wow!

[@denieledwards6893]

BRILLENT TALENT.

[@marilyncatling6866]

What a wonderful line up…..listen to Jaco!

[@hagedospe]

I love these records, young pat , lyle, jaco and all the others, a true milestone

[@joseantoniomartin3155]

What a great truth it is that we only see and hear what we want to see and hear.

[@dominicschaeffer909]

the divine grace with which she takes off her guitar.

[@ELECTIONFRAUD-mr5wf]

Even if you don't care for the genre of music the "musicianship" is amazing.

[@superfly2449]

“Attempted Election Fraud”, actually. It failed.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

she's just awesome

[@jaywinestein7768]

Great players ..Don As (rip) deep groove is fantastico..superstars across the board. These guys can sleep through this and sound superb...

[@klepetar]

what a line up...

[@SuperStrik9]

My favorite period of Joni's long and illustrious career. Magical.

[@lookingforonetruechristian7396]

Watching an interview with Graham Nash. Had not known that CSN's Our House was about Joni and Graham.

[@rickhunter-wolff]

God bless you Jacko!

[@barbryll8596]

This is a treat!! Fantastic 😊

[@scottybeegood]

Magic time