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Musically the album is creative and rewarding. Like Hejira, her last album, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter continues to move away from the tight jazz-rock style of The Hissing of Summer Lawns. Several of the extraordinary musicians who played on Hejira contribute to the new album, particularly bass player Jaco Pastorius of Weather Report and drummer John Guerin of the L.A. Express...
There is far more variety in the new album than in Hejira. Mitchell and Pastorius play together with remarkable sensitivity. Where Mitchell's guitar is driving and harsh, as it is on "Talk To Me," Pastorius plays mellifluous, moving bass lines. Where a song calls for a solid, almost rock rhythm section, like "Off Night Backstreet," Pastorius and Guerin come through with imagination as well as force...
...style of musical composition seems to be that the less apparent the structure of a work, the more underlying framework and discipline it requires if it is to be interesting, or even approachable. Admittedly, this rule is not universal. But in Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, like Hejira before it, Mitchell is reckless. The album lacks discipline, and suffers...
...round, 28 contenders had been spelled down. Gradually the words got harder-depilatory . . . asthmatic . . . contumacious . , . and one by one the victims fell. At one point, Doris Ann thought that she too was a goner: she spelled hegira with a "j". But after consulting the dictionary, the judges found that hejira was a correct alternative. By round 23 Doris Ann was still standing-with only two other girls left...
...most interesting item in the account of Ontario's return to beer concerns Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler, the general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League. In the capacity of unofficial observer, Mr. Wheeler followed the hejira across the river from Detroit to Windsor, and behind the protective coloration of an unopened bottle, examined the drinkers narrowly to discover signs of incipient intoxication...