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Jack DeJohnette: Sound Travels
by John Kelman
Turning 70 and being awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship would be enough to make 2012 a special year for Jack DeJohnette, but Sound Travels transcends mere celebration of the veteran drummer/pianist/bandleader's broad swath of accomplishments since emerging, in the mid-1960s, with saxophonist Charles Lloyd's massively successful quartet. His first album to equitably balance piano and drums--including the meditative “Enter Here" and South African/gospel-tinged “Home," solo piano pieces which bookend the set, DeJohnette ...
Continue ReadingJack DeJohnette: Time and Space
by John Kelman
It begins with the sound of a resonating bell, followed by a gently cascading piano solo that gradually assumes shape and form, hovering around two chords and creating an inviting ambiance that resolves with another ringing of the bell, segueing gently into the groove-heavy “Salsa for Luisito." The track is “Enter Here," and the album is Sound Travels (Golden Beams/eOne, 2012), Jack DeJohnette's first hard CD as a leader since 2009's Music We Are, also on the drummer's Golden Beams ...
Continue ReadingJack DeJohnette - John Patitucci - Danilo Perez: Music We Are
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non sempre l'unione di grandi musicisti restituisce un suono d'insieme in grado di andare oltre le singole capacità. Fa eccezione Music We Are, un disco nel quale dall'incontro di tre giganti come Jack DeJohnette, Danilo Perez e John Patitucci, scaturiscono una serie di brani dove l'amalgama del trio esalta, e innalza, le caratteristiche di ognuno, come in un riuscito gioco d'incastri. E bastano veramente pochi ascolti per apprezzare il lavoro svolto dai tre, che fin dall'iniziale “Tango African" - brano ...
Continue ReadingJohn Surman: Brewster's Rooster
by Jeff Stockton
Over 150 years experience! That's how the band saxophonist John Surman assembled for Brewster's Rooster could be advertised. Surman first played with drummer Jack DeJohnette in the late '70s and DeJohnette and guitarist John Abercrombie first worked together earlier that decade. Rounded out by bassist Drew Gress, Surman revisits straight-ahead jazz after essaying an eclectic range of recordings. On “Hilltop Dancer," Surman's tone on baritoneis solid and assured, never tempted by the extremes available on the big horn and Abercrombie's ...
Continue ReadingJack DeJohnette: Music We Are & America
by Jeff Stockton
Jack DeJohnette/John Patitucci/Danilo Perez Music We Are Kindred Rhythm 2009 Jack DeJohnette/Wadada Leo Smith America Tzadik 2009
It's been a while since Jack DeJohnette made a CD as a leader that fit so perfectly into the jazz genre as Music We Are, a straightforward recording of his trio with ...
Continue ReadingJohn Surman: Brewster's Rooster
by John Kelman
After a string of more jazz-centric ECM releases--1992's relatively free Adventure Playground, the large ensemble of 1993's The Brass Project, and the only document of his ongoing quartet with pianist John Taylor, bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall, 1994's Stranger Than Fiction--saxophonist John Surman's subsequent output for the label has consisted of unorthodox but no less intriguing projects. From solo recordings (1995's A Biography of The Rev. Absalom Dawe) and works for saxophone/bass clarinet and string ensemble (2007's The ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: Setting Standards - New York Sessions
by Nenad Georgievski
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnetteSetting Standards - New York SessionsECM Records2008
There are plenty of pianists in this world who are masters of their instruments, but no one plays the piano like Keith Jarrett. In a career that has been going forward and upward for 40 years, there are plenty of anniversaries for various bands and landmark albums--Jarrett has enjoyed one of the most fulfilling careers ...
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