Another concept album made by Hancock; this time intended as a tribute to the singer / author Joni Mitchell. At prominence is not lacking: Apart from Hancock on piano are Wayne Shorter ts, ss, the unfortunately quite setting Dave Holland b, which also barely protruding Guitar Neustar Loueke g and Vinnie Colaiuta dm at work and drape the vocal contributions of, inter alia, Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Luciana Souza, Leonard Cohen, and therefore the ennobled themselves. Certainly, the individual songs are sometimes quite pretty, albeit from a low variation. It is noteworthy that Tina Turner here has the opportunity to strip the verbleichende label of rock singer and actually once vorzführen her singing talent. Wayne Shorter controls in addition to the composition Nefertiti "from the later stage of the classic Miles Davis Quintet 2 (which has probably to do with Joni Mitchell?) Its fragile but still shimmering saxophone sounds in; ingredients for a concoction that then but not really warming soup is. The whole main reason does not work because when Mitchell song, text and interpretation form a unit, which developed here and thus falls apart. That's why you stick to the original probably better because Joni Mitchell is in surely on best place.
