[25] The elements of Mitchell's self-refashioning on the
Hejira cover received even more explicit figuration on its successor, the aforementioned Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977).
Thirty towns have been cleared of slum areas since 2004 and 50,000 shacks were destroyed last year, Housing Minister Taoufiq
Hejira said in January.
THERE are those who will tell you that
Hejira is Mitchell's masterwork, the finest moment of her career.
They find themselves as "prisoner[s] of the white lines of the freeway," as Joni Mitchell put it in her legendary road-song "Coyote" of her 1976 album
Hejira, and as such are not liberated by motion, but confronted with spatial limitations not much different from those encountered at the hearth.
However, jazzy covers of Jill Scott's It's Love and Angie Stone's P*** Off hinted that
Hejira could bolster their appeal even more once they write some more original material.
Krall's tribute to fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell comes in the shape of Black Crow, from Mitchell's 1976 album
Hejira. 'At the time Joni was given a bit of a hard time for bringing jazz musicians into what she was doing,' she observes.
This 1980 concert, touring mostly behind
Hejira, features a dream band: Pat Metheny (guitar), Jaco Pastorius (bass), Lyle Mays (keys), Michael Brecker (sax), and Don Alias (drums).
Moving to Boise is not like moving to Romania, and those who make a go of it during the
hejira in the Idahoan hinterland can always move back home when their financial situations improve.
Their dates are written in the same order as ours even though their writing is not, and the
Hejira calendar can be converted to the Gregorian by deducting 3pc and adding 622.
Joni followed me through college and as a postgraduate I took
Hejira with me on travels through California, to Minnesota, Mexico City, Paris, Madrid, New York City and back to Mexico, back to Texas.
I tried to remember any specifically gay content in Joni's lyrics, and all I could recall was the David Geffen-inspired "Free Man in Paris," wandering down the Champs Elysees, looking for "that very good friend of mine." Or possibly "Amelia" from the
Hejira album, which had been written for some lesbians.
We are in the fifth century of the
Hejira: the Fatimid ruler of Cairo exhorts the Banff Hilal to head for Ifriqiyya, or present-day Tunisia.
These excavations brought to light a large number of unsuspected finds - temples, palaces, statues and inscriptions of a surprising beauty, proving that contrary to common opinion, the history of the Arabs in the peninsula did not start with Prophet Mohammed's departure from Mecca to Medina in 622 (
Hejira).
