"Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" may be called Opus Magnum. On the album, which had been cancelled as a CD for years, the former folk bard virtuously deepened her ambitions around jazz icon Charles Mingus. Assisted by the Weather Report bassist Jaco Pastorius, who was stabbed to death during a bar brawl years later, Joni Mitchell unfolds a seductive charm in the ten tracks, but also a tension that was already hinted at on the two previous albums of the style-forming trilogy, 'The Hissing Of Summer Laws' and 'Hejira'"