Court and Spark boss David Geffen, who was also present. | style="width:35px; text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|1975 ||"Court and Spark" || Album of the Year || Court and Spark Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album. Released in January 1974, it infuses her folk rock style, which she developed throughout her previous five albums, with jazz inflections. It reached No. 2 in the United States and No. 1 in Canada and eventually received a Double Platinum certification by the RIAA, the highest of Mitchell's career. It also
The Blue Potato and Other Outrages... The Blue Potato and Other Outrages... The Blue Potato and Other Outrages... is an album of solo piano performances by the American jazz pianist Ran Blake recorded in 1969 and released on the Milestone label. Scott Yanow in his review for AllMusic stated, "A very emotional improviser (whose unexpected explosions of sound sometimes punctuate otherwise introspective performances), Blake is a true original. This Milestone LP, only his third recording in eight years, shows Ran Blake really finding unusual things to say on a variety of standards... On this solo piano date, Blake makes political (if nonverbal) statements on many of