Jazz Articles about Jack DeJohnette

Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions

by Dan McClenaghan
February 1, 2008

The surprise for the folks who haven't followed the quarter century span of Keith Jarrett's Standard Trio--those who jumped onboard with, say, Live at the Blue Note (ECM, 1995), or Up For It (ECM, 2003)--will be just how good these guys were right from the very start. Things just seemed to click into place on their first trip to the studio in 1983, when Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette went into Power Station in New York to ...

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions

by C. Michael Bailey
January 20, 2008

Setting Standards is a clever repackaging of three Keith Jarrett Standards Trio releases: Standards, Vol. 1 (ECM, 1985), Standards, Vol. 2 (ECM, 1985) and Changes (ECM 1984). These releases were the ostensible ground zero for what would go on to be the pianist's Standards Trio for the next twenty-five years.

This limited release box set is a perfect introduction to both Jarrett and the trio, in addition to the concept and recognition of what a jazz standard is. ...

Setting Standards: New York Sessions

by John Kelman
January 16, 2008

It's hard to believe that Keith Jarrett's “standards" trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, has been around for a quarter of a century. It's not just the pianist's longest lasting ensemble, but one of most permanent line-ups in jazz history. To celebrate the occasion, ECM Records has released Setting Standards: New York Sessions, a three-CD set which brings together the entire output of the trio's first session, a remarkably fruitful one that resulted in not ...

Joe Henderson: Power To the People

by David Rickert
June 25, 2007

The late sixties were an exciting time for jazz, although not a lucrative one. Faced with a declining market share due to the popularity of rock music, jazz musicians were forced to find an audience by pursuing new avenues in composition and instrumentation. Joe Henderson, a much beloved player for the Blue Note label was dropped in the late sixties. Orrin Keepnews, who certainly could recognize great talent when he saw it, signed him to his newly ...

Jack DeJohnette & Foday Musa Suso: Music from the hearts of the masters

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 8, 2007

E’ prassi ormai diffusa negli ultimi anni che i musicisti di successo prima di andare in pensione si mettano completamente in proprio e così anche Jack De Johnette ha lanciato sul mercato la sua etichetta Golden Beams con tre prodotti molto personali: un disco di meditazione Music in the Key of Om (commissionatogli, a quanto pare, dalla moglie per le sue sessioni terapeutiche), uno in duo con Bill Frisell, The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers e uno in duo con ...

Trio Beyond (DeJohnette - Goldings - Scofield): Saudades

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 28, 2006

Questo bellissimo doppio album è sostanzialmente un atto di amore. Un tuffo nella memoria che esalta le splendide doti strumentali dei tre protagonisti, una esternazione vigorosa che riporta l'attenzione su una delle esperienze artistiche più stimolanti, ma ahimé anche meno fortunate, di quella stagione meravigliosa a cavallo fra la fine degli anni sessanta e l'inizio del decennio successivo. Stiamo parlando ovviamente del mitico trio messo assieme da Tony Williams con John McLaughlin e con Larry Young nella primavera del 1969, ...

Jack DeJohnette: Colors, Grooves, Golden Beams

by Paul Olson
August 14, 2006

When you hear Jack DeJohnette's playing, you know it's him. No living jazz drummer is more accomplished, better-known or more technically equipped than the 64-year-old, Chicago-born DeJohnette, and no other drummer plays with his particular blend of unerring time, power and groove. After some years as a Chicago musician (as much in demand as a pianist there as a drummer), and associations with AACM players like Roscoe Mitchell and Muhal Richard Abrams, the second half of the 1960s saw DeJohnette ...