Jack DeJohnette (b. 1942) — Drums. Led Gateway, Special Edition. Worked with Dave Holland, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny.
Completely versatile — rock power, free jazz liberty, acoustic delicacy, all present. From the Bitches Brew era with Miles Davis to more than thirty years alongside Keith Jarrett in the Standards Trio, he has dissolved into every context he's entered. No room is too small or too big for him.
Jack DeJohnette's albums
Bitches Brew
Miles Davis · 1970
In a Silent Way
Miles Davis · 1969
Miles's 1969–70 studio experiments fused rock's rhythmic sensibility with jazz improvisation. Bitches BrewBitches BrewMiles Davis · 1970 layered McLaughlinJohn McLaughlinジョン・マクラフリン, CoreaChick Coreaチック・コリア, HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック, and others in simultaneous collective improvisation.
From 1983, the Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット Standards Trio played as if standards were already inside them. The skeletal familiarity freed them to focus entirely on what was happening in the moment.
Miles DavisMiles Davisマイルス・デイヴィス gathered over twenty musicians in August 1969 and, paired with Teo Macero's tape editing, transformed jazz from "recorded performance" to "constructed recording." Bitches BrewBitches BrewMiles Davis · 1970 launched jazz-rock fusion.
Estival Jazz Lugano, 1986. The Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット Standards Trio — Gary PeacockGary Peacockゲイリー・ピーコック (bass), Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット (drums) — live in Switzerland. From Qwest TV.
February 1985, Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo. The Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット Standards Trio with Gary PeacockGary Peacockゲイリー・ピーコック (bass) and Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット (drums). Recorded shortly after the release of Standards (ECM, 1983), capturing the trio at a defining moment in its development.
July 9, 1990, Jazz à Vienne. The Parallel Realities tour — Herbie HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック (piano), Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー (guitar), Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット (drums), Dave HollandDave Hollandデイヴ・ホランド (bass). A miraculous meeting of four musicians each at a peak in their careers.
80/8180/81Pat Metheny · 1980 (1980) brought Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー together with Michael BreckerMichael Breckerマイケル・ブレッカー, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット. The double-album of long-form improvisation showed a darker side beyond the Pat Metheny Group's sunlit image.
Formed in 1983 with Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット, Gary PeacockGary Peacockゲイリー・ピーコック, and Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット, the Standards Trio held the same lineup for nearly three decades — a rarity. The first sessions yielded three albums in two days.
In 1979, Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット launched Special Edition, wrapping the loft-jazz vocabulary of David Murray and Arthur Blythe in an ECM sound — the apex of his work as a leader-drummer.