Joni Mitchell came into the game as a folk-adjacent singer-songwriter, and she’s one of the best ever to exist in that mode. But she’s bigger than that, too. Over her long career, Mitchell has always been a fearless explorer across genre lines, and one of her greatest powers is her ability to incorporate jazz into her work. You can hear it on plenty of her classics — Blue, Court And Spark, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Hejira, obviously Mingus. Now, Mitchell has collected her favorite of her jazz-influenced tracks on an upcoming box set called Joni’s Jazz.
