#JackDeJohnette and #DonFriedman

At JazzWax, video of Jack DeJohnette and Don Friedman at pianos in the studio for Newvelle Records. https://t.co/cbMqvZGaMZ pic.twitter.com/4E9JMyNNyS

— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) December 29, 2016

#JasonMoran, #DaveHolland #JackDeJohnette

Curious about what a trio featuring Jason Moran, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette would sound like? Read our review. https://t.co/DHNRaq1K4q

— JazzTimes Magazine (@JazzTimes) September 3, 2016

#JackDeJohnette , who turns 74 today

Happy birthday to drummer/pianist/composer Jack DeJohnette, who turns 74 today. JT reviews his latest project, “In Movement.”

— JazzTimes Magazine (@JazzTimes) August 9, 2016

For Jack DeJohnette, A Chicago Homecoming Brought A Reunion With Old Friends

Jack DeJohnette (center) called in fellow Chicago musicians (from left) Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, Larry Gray and Muhal Richard Abrams to play on his new live album, Made In Chicago. Photo:Paul Natkin/Courtesy of the artist

NPR Music
MAY 30, 2015 7:43 AM ET
Drummer Jack DeJohnette is an NEA Jazz Master who's played with everybody. He helped Miles Davis invent jazz-rock in the 1960s and '70s, and he's been the anchor in Keith Jarrett's trio for decades. But DeJohnette's latest album, Made in Chicago, takes the 71-year-old drummer back to his old stomping grounds and reunites him with some of the musicians he played with in Chicago growing up.


DeJohnette currently lives outside Woodstock, N.Y., but in 2013, the Chicago Jazz Festival invited him back to his hometown to headline Jack DeJohnette Day — and he knew just who he wanted to play with him.

"I didn't have to think," DeJohnette says. "I immediately, these are the people who came up. This is an opportunity to do this ... celebrate with my friends, who are great legends in their own right."

One of the musicians joining DeJohnette onstage at the Chicago Jazz Festival was pianist Muhal Richard Abrams. 

"We all were on the scene," Abrams says. "And we all played a lot with each other. That's just the way it was in Chicago. We used to get together to play in an original manner. That included Jack and a whole host of people."


Among those people were woodwind players Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill — boundary-pushing composers, improvisers and leaders of their own ensembles — who also joined DeJohnette for the 2013 reunion. The drummer first played with them in basements, attics and neighborhood clubs when he was a teenager in the early 1960s.

read more: http://www.npr.org/2015/05/30/410547085/for-jack-dejohnette-a-chicago-homecoming-brought-a-reunion-with-old-friends

Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette Somewhere

Now in its 30th year, the Keith Jarrett Trio is widely considered, as the NY Times recently remarked, to have set “the gold standard” for jazz groups, and this sparkling concert recording from 2009 is issued to mark a milestone anniversary. The “Somewhere” in which the ‘Standards’ trio find themselves is Lucerne, Switzerland with a performance both exploratory and in-the-tradition. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung headlined its review of the show “Kontrollierte Ekstase” – controlled ecstasy – an apt metaphor for a set that begins in improvisational “Deep Space” modulates into Miles Davis’s “Solar”, soars through the standards “Stars Fell On Alabama” and “Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea” and climaxes with an extended romp through “West Side Story”, as Bernstein’s “Somewhere” and “Tonight” are bridged by the freely associative Jarrett original “Everywhere”.

Jack DeJohnette, John Patitucci and Danilo Perez Record Together For The First Time As A Trio

Who’s playing that melodica on ‘Tango African’, the first track on Music We Are? It’s actually a drummer and he’s overdubbed himself on the instrument which has increasingly become a presence on many a jazz album, with its beguilingly innocent sound palette.

It’s a fleeting and tantalising glimpse setting the scene for a distinctive album. It’s not just any drummer as the album out on Monday 7 September is the latest group outing by the great Jack DeJohnette who for the first time teams up in the studio as a co-operative trio with stellar pianist Danilo Perez and leading bassist John Patitucci, both pillars of the Wayne Shorter Quartet. The 11-track album features four DeJohnette originals, three jointly written by the trio, two by Perez, one by Patitucci and the eighth track the ballad ‘Panama Viejo’ by Ricardo Fabrega. The album was recorded last year in New York state.

Jack DeJohnette recalls that he first worked with John Patitucci for the first time in Japan in 1991 and two years later joined Danilo Perez when the Panamanian made his debut as a leader. John Patitucci adds that DeJohnette actually introduced Perez to him around 1994. “I think it presents a fresh way of looking at the piano trio setting,” DeJohnette says. The CD also comes with a 30-minute DVD on the making of the album.
Stephen Graham
http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/component/content/article/51-2009/10948-jack-dejohnette-john-patitucci-and-danilo-perez-record-together-for-the-first-time-as-a-trio

Eliane Elias - Just One Of Those Things

Heineken Concerts 1996 Eliane Elias & Convidados Jack Dejohnette: Drums Marc Johnson: Bass Mannolo Badrena: Percussion

Tuesday 5th – Wednesday 6th May: RONNIE SCOTT’S 50TH PRESENTS... Jack Dejohnette & John Surman plus Donny McCaslin Quartet

DeJohnette’s drumming has graced recordings from the likes of Miles Davis, Charles Lloyd, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheney and John Scofield, while UK-based saxophonist Surman is a true leader in the jazz scene as a well respected international figure. Having previously recorded a duet album, 1981’s Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, these two contemporary jazz legends re-unite for two nights in the club, offering an unparalleled pan-Atlantic perspective on modern music.
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