Wild Things Run Fast [Geffen, 1982] represented a turning point for Joni Mitchell, as she moved on from the jazz of Mingus and Shadows and Light, and bassist Jaco Pastorius, and sought fresh terrain in the singer-songwriter vein. Enter Larry Klein, who was brought into the album sessions by longtime Mitchell drummer John Guerin. As if the specter of following Jaco wasn’t daunting enough, the 25-year-old Klein was also at the doorstep of his own transformation after becoming disillusioned with the chops-first mentality of many of his jazz heroes who he was backing as a sideman. The two met and sparks flew, creatively and romantically, leading long-term to their ten-year marriage and a producer artist collaboration that has yielded ten albums (and 12 Grammys collectively) and counting. But it all began in Hollywood’s A&M Studio A, for the Wild Things sessions. Remembers Klein, “I learned a tremendous amount from Joni; I was like a sponge. We’d sit and talk for four hours an