You could hear her before you could see her: a throaty, rat-a-tat laugh — ha-ha-ha-ha — drifting through the cool canyon air. Seated in a gilded armchair near the center of a circular rotating stage, ...

The applause started as the rotating stage at the Hollywood Bowl started to turn, and by the time it revealed Joni Mitchell and her Joni Jam band, everyone in the crowd on Sunday was on their feet, ...

In her new book, “Traveling,” the music critic Ann Powers offers a highly personal, even confessional, meditation on Mitchell’s life, work and influence. By Francine Prose Francine Prose’s memoir, ...