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Focus on the late Jack DeJohnette

by Len Davis
November 9, 2025

Today we remember a truly wonderful musician--a creative soul whose passion and artistry touched everyone who heard him play. Throughout his life, Jack DeJohnette performed with countless bands and ensembles, always bringing a melodic sensitivity, strong rhythmic drive, and an openness to every musical style he explored. From jazz and fusion to avant-garde and beyond, he blended genres with ease, helping to shape the sound of modern music. His influence, warmth, and spirit will continue to resonate through every note ...

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Remembering Jack DeJohnette: Unlimited Imagination

by Ian Patterson
October 30, 2025

It is with sadness that All About jazz must report the passing of NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette--one of the most respected and influential of modern jazz drummers. He died of congestive heart failure on October 26, 2025. He was 83. DeJohnette belongs in the pantheon of great jazz drummers. If there were a Mount Rushmore of jazz drummers--and it would need to be one big old rock--Jack DeJohnette would certainly be there. His unique and ...

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Jack DeJohnette: Song for World Forgiveness

by Carl Medsker
October 29, 2025

On October 26, 2025, the highly musical master percussionist Jack DeJohnette died peacefully. During the journey from his birthplace, Chicago, to his adopted home, Woodstock, NY, he created an enduring, diverse and sonically scintillating legacy. From his early days with Charles Lloyd, through the electric Miles Davis period, to the legendary Standards Trio with Keith Jarrett and Gary Peacock, The Golden Quartet with Wadada Leo Smith and his own Special Edition and New Directions bands (and much more), he danced ...

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RIP Jack DeJohnette

by Frank Housh
October 29, 2025

The great Jack DeJohnette passed away on October 26, 2025. His epic career is matched only by Miles Davis, whom DeJohnette began playing with in 1969 and later introduced to fusion in 1999's Bitches Brew (Sony Records, 1970). He played with everybody, from Miles to Pat Metheny. One of my favorites was his work with Bill Evans and Eddie Gomez on Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest (Resonance Records, 2016). It was recorded in ...

Interview

Meet Jack DeJohnette

by Craig Jolley
October 28, 2025

This article was first published on All About Jazz in March 2002. One of the most creative and propulsive musicians in the history of jazz, drummer/pianist/composer Jack DeJohnette has played with most leading-edge jazz musicians of the time, usually at their request. He invariably brings out another side and a freshness in whoever he plays with. He is most noted as a drummer, but those who have heard him on his piano record (Landmark) and elsewhere realize he ...

Album Review

George Colligan: Live At The Jazz Standard

Read "Live At The Jazz Standard" reviewed by Carl Medsker

by Carl Medsker
May 31, 2025

During its relatively brief life, the Jazz Standard hosted many wonderful evenings of creative music. Artists performing in the basement beneath the barbecue restaurant ranged from Houston Person to Roy Haynes to Wadada Leo Smith. The Mingus Big Band held forth on most Monday evenings. Sadly, the club succumbed in 2021 to the economic pain caused by the pandemic. In memorium, we now have a robustly recorded live set from 2014 by the George Colligan trio. It is ...

Album Review

McCoy Tyner / Joe Henderson: Forces Of Nature: Live At Slugs'

Read "Forces Of Nature: Live At Slugs'" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
November 27, 2024

How does one go about nominating Zev Feldman for a Nobel Peace Prize? Time and again, the intrepid “Jazz Detective" tracks down unknown, unheard, un-even-hoped-for sonic artifacts, painstakingly brushes away the audio dust and grime, and puts us front and center at events that rewrite the history of jazz. Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' another Feldman's project, in collaboration with Blue Note President Don Was, is quite possibly his greatest, a double album of such excitement, beauty, and power ...