Jazz Articles about Jack DeJohnette

Bruce Hornsby: Camp Meeting

by Troy Collins
September 8, 2007

Camp Meeting, pianist Bruce Hornsby's high profile jazz trio session with heavyweight bassist Christian McBride and iconic drummer Jack DeJohnette, may seem to have materialized out of thin air, but don't you believe them. Hornsby has been gradually building to this statement his whole career.

Last year's retrospective boxed set, Intersections (RCA), revealed the varied interests of a musician who has long charted his own path. As a touring member of the Grateful Dead and regular collaborator with ...

Bruce Hornsby: Camp Meeting

by Mark F. Turner
August 6, 2007

The funny thing about roots is that you don't know how they really look until you shake loose all of the dirt. Who knew that the “popular music" pianist/songwriter/singer, Bruce Hornsby, was a jazz musician at heart? Many may recall the Grammy Award winning artist from his 1986 platinum hit and album of the same title The Way It Is (RCA), marked by new folk sounds, social consciousness lyrics, and unorthodox yet glowing piano playing. Hornsby has sinced crossed the ...

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 ...

Jack DeJohnette with Bill Frisell: The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers

by Celeste Sunderland
August 7, 2006

Something astonishing happened on Halloween night in Seattle five years ago: Jack DeJohnette took the stage with Bill Frisell. An event so unthinkably natural had only occurred once before, at a recording session with Don Byron two years earlier. This album, recorded at the Earshot Jazz Festival, exists as testimony that when two mammoth figures join together, time can develop into something quite grand. Taking up their instruments on the starting title track, the drummer and guitarist ...