Hommage à Joni Mitchell / Isabel Sörling ; un film de Gilles le Mao ; une production du Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, scène nationale.

Paris, France : Qwest TV, 2021.

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If there was one folk-pop artist who also delights jazz fans it is the Canadian Joni Mitchell. Isabel Sörling, the most French of Swedish singers, here pays tribute to this immense writer and performer by building a sumptuous program around songs taken mainly from the albums Clouds, Blue and Hejira as well as her personal readings of "Both Sides Now," "Black Crow" and "The Circle Game," that magnificent song about the passage of time from childhood to adulthood. Isabel Sörling also comes from the world of folk while being sensitive to jazz breathing techniques and she is a composer and character, like Mitchell, who performs without artifice. As such she knows how to fit seamlessly into the icon's singular universe, especially as the suppleness of her voice, her phrasing, her sense of silences and whispering marry to the sound of her model, to the point of exuding great emotional force. For this performance, Sörling surrounds herself with the finest French jazzmen, musicians who know how to match her sober posture; they are undoubtedly proud of the comparison with Mitchell's fellow travellers like Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Larry Klein. Philippe Lesage.

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January 31, 2023

Isabel Sörling, vocals, guitar ; Pierre Perchaud, electric guitar, banjo, guitar, chorus ; Simon Tailleu, double bass, chorus ; Antoine Paganotti, drums, chorus ; Christophe Panzani, saxophones, chorus.