In place of the usual grousing, just a few quick notes, this month.

• Has anyone noticed that the backing to Joni Mitchell’s “Help Me” has all the qualities that make Jethro Tull what they are? That flute, for instance, is right out of Aqualung. Has she gone Anglophilic on us, or merely suffered a lapse of taste? I love you madly, Joni, but please, more like “Radio” and “Robbery,” and less like this, OK?