Jazz Articles about Jack DeJohnette

Steve Khan Trio: The Green Field

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 3, 2006

Dopo nove anni, Steve Khan ripropone la formula del trio e richiama in formazione John Patitucci e Jack DeJohnette. The Green Field, più che degno successore di Got My Mental, vede anche una sezione ritmica latin con la presenza di un trio di percussionisti di tutto rispetto (Ralph Irizarry, Roberto Quintero e Manolo Badrena). Così, attraverso la riproposizione di un repertorio di rilievo - il chitarrista spazia tra le brillanti interpretazioni di “Congeniality" di Ornette Coleman e “Riot" di Harbie ...

Steve Khan: The Green Field

by Woodrow Wilkins
April 2, 2006

Fusion, pop, jazz, rock, straight ahead. It doesn't seem to matter where the music goes. Steve Khan's been there, quite often traveling with some heavy hitters. Bob James, Maynard Ferguson, Steely Dan, Joe Zawinul, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard and the Brecker Brothers are just a few of the powerhouses with whom Khan has recorded or toured over his career. His skills are so well-honed that he's drawn comparisons to some of jazz's great guitarists, including Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Larry ...

Steve Khan: The Green Field

by Jim Santella
February 19, 2006

Guitarist Steve Khan brings a straight-ahead quartet to the forum with The Green Field. Recorded less than a year ago, the session draws from jazz's modern mainstream with a focus on the leader's lyrical preferences. Percussionists Ralph Irizarry and Robert Quintero sit in for four of the album's nine selections, adding considerable depth to the program's foundation.

As the only melodic voice for most of the program, Khan takes off with sweeping motions that ramble from start to ...

Steve Khan: The Green Field

by John Kelman
February 14, 2006

Nine years have passed since guitarist Steve Khan last released an album as a leader. But he hasn't been inactive, touring with artists like Terri Lyne Carrington and Greg Osby and co-leading the Caribbean Jazz Project. However, it's been far too long since he's released an album putting his immediately recognizable style front and centre. Khan may not have the cachet of peers like Pat Metheny and John Scofield, but from the first notes of the recording, it's ...

Jack DeJohnette: Music In The Key Of Om

by John Kelman
June 11, 2005

The past year has seen an upswing in the number of artist-owned labels, indicating that more artists are becoming interested in taking charge of their work. Some, like bassist Dave Holland--after a fruitful thirty-year relationship with ECM that has never impeded him from following his muse wherever it might take him--have chosen to do so in order to gain more complete ownership. Others, like trumpeter Dave Douglas--after a strong and varied run on RCA/BMG--want more complete artistic control from project ...

Music in the Key of Om & Music From The Hearts of the Masters

by Russ Musto
June 5, 2005

Jack DeJohnette Music in the Key of Om Kindred Rhythm 2005

Throughout his career Jack DeJohnette has persistently marched to the beat of his own proverbial different drummer, so it's no surprise to find the remarkable multidirectional musician initiating his own imprint to document aspects of his art that do not fit neatly into the purview of the jazz record labels for which he regularly records. His first Golden Beams release, Music In The ...

Jack DeJohnette and Foday Musa Suso: Music from the Hearts of the Masters

by AAJ Staff
May 6, 2005

Conventional wisdom has it that Africa is the home of the drum, and over the years many an American musician has looked to the Dark Continent for rhythmic inspiration. But this particular collaboration turns the tables on that assumption, so to speak, by placing veteran jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette in the company of a kora (21-stringed West African harp/lute) player from the Gambia. Foday Musa Suso is no stranger to this sort of joint effort, having worked closely with Herbie ...