Sister Jazz Orchestra & Jennifer Scott play Joni Mitchell
This edition of SJO’s roughly annual show saw local arrangers take on Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark, Blue, & more
The Sister Jazz Orchestra (SJO) big band and featured vocalist Jennifer Scott played West Vancouver's Kay Meek Centre last Saturday, March 7th. The show, titled Joni Mitchell: Reawakened and Resonant, consisted of a dozen songs from Mitchell's discography. Ten of the numbers were arrangements by BC artists: Jill Townsend, Dean Thiessen and Cindy Dai-Thiessen, Andrew Homzy, and SJO director Christian Morrison.
I bought my ticket quite recently, but in late November, I noted that it's a marquee show for the Kay Meek. Four years ago around the 2022 edition of the show, Morrison joined me for one of my first-ever interviews. And in the earliest days of subscriber writing, I wrote to you about that show.
The band on Saturday was only two musicians different than SJO's website-listed lineup. Caley Honeywell, whose own website bills her as "Vancouver sax lady", was in on second tenor instead of Jen Davidson. And Bella Fedrigo, the group's youngest member, was on upright and electric bass.
