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DeJohnette was with Miles Davis at Newport in 1969; good to know he hasn't lost his mentor's adventurous spirit.
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.
By Hank Shteamer In the early 1960s, Jack DeJohnette, a pianist from Chicago, took a weeklong gig at the Showboat club in Philadelphia with the saxophonist Eddie Harris and played his second ...
The album was a soundtrack to a Johnson documentary by William Cayton. Jack DeJohnette ... beauty in his relaxed technique. Davis's drummer at the time was Jack DeJohnette, although, through a ...
Jack DeJohnette specializes in a brand of drumming that might best be described as defiantly musical, as demonstrated by everything from his early '60s work with John Coltrane... By Billboard ...
John Scofield had just started into his guitar solo on “Hacksensack,” a Thelonious Monk tune, backed by the drummer Jack DeJohnette and the bassist Larry Grenadier. That was when the ...
Jack DeJohnette, who will perform Saturday at the Freihofer's Jazz Festival, has been named one of five recipients of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award -- the nation's ...
At age 75, Jack DeJohnette is the senior member of Hudson, an all-star quartet named for the place where its members live… the Hudson Valley in Upstate New York. DeJohnette was drawn to the area ...
US drummer Jack DeJohnette’s poised, densely textured trio re-configure recent jazz history into a rich, forward-looking aesthetic. Here powerhouse rhythms alternate with the ping of perfectly ...
For more than 50 years, Jack DeJohnette’s music has functioned as a river, flowing ceaselessly with numerous tributaries feeding into it and others breaking off from it. A thorough Jack ...
DeJohnette, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and Grammy winner who turns 75 in August, says when he moved to the Hudson Valley, Bob Dylan was still around and there were a lot of ...