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
Court and Spark Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. In 2003 it was listed at #111 in "Rolling Stone"'s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. 1973 was the first year since she began recording that Mitchell did not release a new album. Her previous offering, "For the Roses", was released in November 1972 to critical and commercial success, and Mitchell decided to spend the whole of the next year writing and recording a new album that revealed her growing interest in new sounds—particularly jazz. During 1973, her stage appearances were fewer than in previous years. She performed in April in a benefit