“When Jaco and I first worked together there was nobody I’d rather hang with. There was an appreciation, a joie de vivre, a spontaneity”: How Joni Mitchell combined with Jaco Pastorius to create her sophisticated jazz-infused masterpiece Coyote

Joni Mitchell.

Few singer-songwriters have been quite so respected and revered by their peers as Joni Mitchell.

David Crosby called Mitchell “unquestionably the best of us” and recalled that during their brief relationship during the ’60s, he would sometimes play her one of his new songs only for Mitchell to come back with three of her own she had written the night before that were infinitely superior to his.