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Jack DeJohnette

January 01, 1970

Jack DeJohnette (born August 9, 1942)[1] is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer.

Jack DeJohnette
DeJohnette in 2015
Background information
Born (1942-08-09) August 9, 1942 (age 81)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
GenresJazz, jazz fusion, new-age
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Drums, piano, percussion, melodica
Years active1961–present
LabelsMilestone, Prestige, ECM, MCA, Blue Note, Columbia
WebsiteOfficial website

Known for his extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians including Charles Lloyd, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, John Abercrombie, Alice Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock and John Scofield, DeJohnette was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2007.[2] He has won two Grammy Awards and been nominated for five others.[3]

Biography edit

Early life and musical beginnings edit

DeJohnette was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Jack DeJohnette (1911–2011) and Eva Jeanette DeJohnette (née Wood, 1918–1984).[4] Although of predominantly African-American heritage, he has stated that he has some Native American ancestry, specifically Seminole and Crow.[5] He began his musical career as a pianist, studying from age four with Antoinette Rich, the leader of an all-female symphony orchestra in Chicago, and first playing professionally at the age of 14.[6] When Jack was 13, he switched to drums and was taught drumming techniques from a local jazz drummer, Bobby Miller Jr, who lived in the same neighborhood.[4][7] DeJohnette credits his uncle, Roy Wood, Sr. (1915–1995), a Chicago disc jockey and vice president/co-founder of the National Black Network of Black Broadcasters, as his inspiration to play music.[8]

DeJohnette played R&B, hard bop, and avant-garde music in Chicago. He led his own groups in addition to playing with Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and other eventual core members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (founded in 1965).[8] He also occasionally performed with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, and later in New York as well. In the early 1960s, DeJohnette had the opportunity to sit in for three tunes with John Coltrane and his quintet, an early foray into playing with big-name jazz musicians.[9][10]

In 1966 DeJohnette moved to New York City, where he became a member of the Charles Lloyd Quartet.[4] A band that recognized the potential influence of rock and roll on jazz, Lloyd's group was where DeJohnette first encountered pianist Keith Jarrett, who would work extensively with him throughout his career.[11] However, DeJohnette left the group in early 1968, citing Lloyd's deteriorating, "flat" playing as his main reason for leaving.[12] While Lloyd's band was where he received international recognition for the first time,[8] it was not the only group DeJohnette played with during his early years in New York, as he also worked with groups including Jackie McLean, Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter, and Bill Evans.[4] DeJohnette joined Evans' trio in 1968, the same year the group headlined the Montreux Jazz Festival and produced the album Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In November 1968, he worked briefly with Stan Getz and his quartet, which led to his first recordings with Miles Davis.[10]

The Miles Davis years edit

In 1969, DeJohnette left the Evans trio and replaced Tony Williams in Miles Davis's live band. Davis had seen DeJohnette play many times, one of which was during a stint with Evans at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London in 1968, where he also first heard bassist Dave Holland.[13] Davis recognized DeJohnette's ability to combine the driving grooves associated with rock and roll with improvisational aspects associated with jazz.[14]

DeJohnette was the primary drummer on Bitches Brew. DeJohnette and the other musicians saw the Bitches Brew sessions as unstructured and fragmentary, but also innovative: "As the music was being played, as it was developing, Miles would get new ideas...He’d do a take, and stop, and then get an idea from what had just gone on before, and elaborate on it...The recording of Bitches Brew was a stream of creative musical energy. One thing was flowing into the next, and we were stopping and starting all the time."[15] While he was not the only drummer involved in the project, as Davis had also enlisted Billy Cobham, Don Alias, and Lenny White, DeJohnette was considered the leader of the rhythm section within the group.[16] He played on the live albums that would follow the release of Bitches Brew, taken from concerts at the Fillmore East in New York and Fillmore West in San Francisco. These ventures were undertaken at the behest of Clive Davis, then president of Columbia Records.[17]

DeJohnette continued to work with Davis for the next three years, which led to collaborations with other Davis band members John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, and Holland; he also drew Keith Jarrett into the band.[8] DeJohnette contributed to such Davis albums as Live-Evil (1971), Jack Johnson (1971), and On the Corner (1972), along with sessions later released on the 1981 compilation album Directions.[18] He left the Davis group in -mid-1971, although he returned for several concerts through the rest of that year.[10]

Solo and bandleader in the 1970s and '80s edit

DeJohnette's first record, The DeJohnette Complex, was released in 1968; on the album, he played melodica as well as drums, often allowing his mentor, Roy Haynes, to sit behind the set. He also recorded, in the early 1970s, the albums Have You Heard, Sorcery, and Cosmic Chicken.[8] He released these first four albums on either the Milestone or Prestige labels,[8] and then switched to ECM for his next endeavors; ECM gave him a "fertile platform" for his "atmospheric drumming and challenging compositions."[19] He was also featured on First Light, an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, released by CTI in 1971.

The musical freedom he had while recording for ECM offered DeJohnette many dates as a sideman and opportunities to start his own groups.[19] He first formed the group Compost in 1972, but this was a short-lived endeavor, and DeJohnette cited the music as far too experimental to achieve commercial success. During this period, DeJohnette continued his career as a sideman as well, rejoining Stan Getz's quartet from 1973 to October 1974, and also enticing Dave Holland to join Getz's rhythm section.[10] This stint briefly preceded the formation of the Gateway Trio, a group that DeJohnette helped form but did not lead. This group came directly out of DeJohnette's time with Getz, as Holland joined him in this group along with guitarist John Abercrombie, both of whom would become associated with DeJohnette throughout his career.[8] His next group effort was Directions, a group formed in 1976 featuring saxophonist Alex Foster, bassist Mike Richmond, and Abercrombie, showing the links between the members of the Gateway trio. This was another short-lived group, yet it led directly to the formation of DeJohnette's next group, New Directions, which featured Abercrombie again on guitar along with Lester Bowie on trumpet and Eddie Gómez on bass. This group coexisted with another DeJohnette group, Special Edition, which was the first DeJohnette-led group to receive critical acclaim.[10] This group also helped the careers of many lesser-known young horn players, as it had a rotating front line that included David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, and John Purcell, among others.[10]

During this period, especially with Special Edition, DeJohnette offered "the necessary gravity to keep the horns in a tight orbit" in his compositions while also treating his listeners to "the expanded vocabulary of the avant-garde plus the discipline of traditional jazz compositions."[20] DeJohnette's work with Special Edition has been interrupted regularly by other projects, the most significant of which are his recordings in 1983 and tours from 1985 as a member of Keith Jarrett's trio, which was totally devoted to playing jazz standards.[10] The trio included his long-time compatriot Jarrett and bassist Gary Peacock, and all three have been members of the group for over 25 years.[8]

At the start of the 1980s, DeJohnette played on the album 80/81 with Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker. In 1981, DeJohnette performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, held in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Creative Music Studio.

1990s to the present edit

 
Jack DeJohnette in 2006

DeJohnette continued to work with Special Edition into the 1990s, but did not limit himself to that. In 1990 he toured in a quartet consisting of himself, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and his long-time collaborator Holland,[10] and released Parallel Realities with this group the same year.[8] In 1992 he released a major collaborative record, Music for the Fifth World, which was inspired by studies with a Native American elder and brought him together musically with players like Vernon Reid and John Scofield.[8] He had also, during the 1980s, resumed playing piano, which led to his 1994 tour as an unaccompanied pianist. He also began working again with Abercrombie and Holland, reviving the Gateway trio.[10] In 1990, DeJohnette was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.

In 2004, he was nominated for a Grammy award for his work on Keith Jarrett's live album The Out-of-Towners, and continued to work with that group into 2005.[8] In the next few years, DeJohnette would begin and lead three new projects, the first of which was the Latin Project consisting of percussionists Giovanni Hidalgo and Luisito Quintero, reedman Don Byron, pianist Edsel Gomez, and bassist Jerome Harris.[21] The other two new projects were the Jack DeJohnette Quartet, featuring Harris again alongside Danilo Perez and John Patitucci, and the Trio Beyond, a tribute to DeJohnette's friend Tony Williams and his trio Lifetime (consisting of Williams, Larry Young and John McLaughlin), featuring John Scofield and Larry Goldings.[22] DeJohnette also founded his own label, Golden Beams Productions, in 2005. That same year, he released Music in the Key of Om on his new label, an electronic album which he created for relaxing and meditative purposes on which he played synthesizer and resonating bells, which was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Age Album category.[22]

DeJohnette continued to make albums as a leader and sideman throughout this period as well, one of which was The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers, a collaboration that documents the first meeting of DeJohnette and guitarist Bill Frisell in 2001 and led to another tour, with Frisell and Jerome Harris.[22] The next year Trio Beyond released Saudades, a live recording of a concert commemorating Tony Williams in London in 2004. In 2008, DeJohnette toured with Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, and the Jarrett trio, and the next year won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album with Peace Time.[22] In 2010, he founded the Jack DeJohnette Group, featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone, David Fiuczynski on double-neck guitar, George Colligan on keyboards and piano, and long-time associate Jerome Harris on electric and acoustic bass guitars.[23]

In 2012, DeJohnette released Sound Travels, which included appearances by McFerrin, Quintero, Bruce Hornsby, Esperanza Spalding, Lionel Loueke, and Jason Moran.[24] The same year, he was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for his "significant lifetime contributions [which] have helped to enrich jazz and further the growth of the art form."[25]

Style edit

DeJohnette's style incorporates elements of jazz, free jazz, world music, and R&B, contributing to him being one of the most highly regarded and in-demand drummers. Initially a traditional grip player, he later switched to matched grip due to a problem with tendinitis.[26]

His drumming style has been called unique; one critic writes that he is not merely a drummer but a "percussionist, colourist and epigrammatic commentator mediating the shifting ensemble densities" and that "his drumming is always part of the music's internal construction."[27] In a 2004 interview, Modern Drummer magazine called DeJohnette's drumming "beyond technique."[19]

DeJohnette calls himself an "abstract thinker" when it comes to soloing, saying that he puts "more weight on the abstract than, 'What were you thinking in bar 33?' I don't like to think that way. I can do it, but I like to be more in the flow."[19] In terms of what he feels when he plays, DeJohnette said that when he plays, he goes "into an altered state, a different headspace. I plug into my higher self, into the cosmic library of ideas."[19] He has remarked that he has to play with a lot of restraint when playing in Keith Jarrett's trio, in order "to play with the subtlety that the music requires."[19]

Whilst DeJohnette is most famous and mostly active as a drummer, he is also a schooled pianist. He began studying piano at age four and later took piano lessons at the Chicago Conservatory of Music[28] and played both as a pianist and as a drummer in his early career. Later on, he would return to the piano, releasing solo piano albums in 1985 and 2016 and touring as an unaccompanied pianist in 1994. He has also played piano, organ and synthesizer keyboard instruments on albums on which he plays as a drummer, e.g. on Pictures (1977) or on New Directions In Europe (live in concert in 1979, released 1980).

Discography edit

Main article: Jack DeJohnette discography

As a guest edit

Awards edit

Bibliography edit

  • Barnhart, Stephen L. Percussionists: a Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.
  • Himes, Geoffrey. "Jack DeJohnette and Art Blakey", The Washington Post, June 3, 1983.
  • Hovan, C. Andrew. "Live Reviews: Jack DeJohnette Latin Project", All About Jazz, February 19, 2005 . Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  • Nicholson, Stuart. Jazz Rock: a History. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998.
  • Porter, Lewis. "Jack DeJohnette". In Barry Kernfield (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, volume 1. New York: Grove, 2002.
  • Tingen, Paul. Miles Beyond: the Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991. New York: Billboard Books, 2001.
  • , Jack DeJohnette official website. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  • "Jack DeJohnette", Modern Drummer, May 12, 2004. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  • "Sound Travels". Jack DeJohnette official website. Retrieved April 24, 2012.

References edit

  1. ^ . Riad.usk.pk.edu.pl. August 9, 1942. Archived from the original on May 27, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
  2. ^ "Modern Drummer's Readers Poll Archive, 1979–2014". Modern Drummer. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Artist: Jack DeJohnette". www.grammy.com. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d Stephen L. Barnhart, Percussionists: a Biographical Dictionary (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000), 88.
  5. ^ Porter, Christopher. "Jack DeJohnette". Jazztimes.com. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  6. ^ . Jackdejohnette.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  7. ^ "PROFILE". Montunoecards.com. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k . Jackdejohnette.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  9. ^ "Conversations with Jack DeJohnette". YouTube. March 3, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i Lewis Porter, "Jack DeJohnette," in Barry Kernfield, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, volume 1 (New York: Grove, 2002), 594.
  11. ^ Stuart Nicholson, Jazz Rock: a History (New York: Schirmer Books, 1998), 77–78.
  12. ^ Nicholson, Jazz Rock, 81.
  13. ^ Paul Tingen, Miles Beyond: the Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991 (New York: Billboard Books, 2001), 51.
  14. ^ Tingen, Miles Beyond, 55.
  15. ^ Jack DeJohnette, quoted in Tingen, Miles Beyond, 65.
  16. ^ Tingen, Miles Beyond, 65.
  17. ^ Nicholson, Jazz Rock, 115.
  18. ^ Barnhart, Percussionists, 89; Nicholson, Jazz Rock, 117.
  19. ^ a b c d e f Modern Drummer (May 12, 2004). "Jack DeJohnette". Moderndrummer.com. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  20. ^ Geoffrey Himes (June 3, 1983). "Jack DeJohnette and Art Blakey". The Washington Post. ProQuest 147551728.
  21. ^ C. Andrew Hovan (February 19, 2005). "Reviews: Jack DeJohnette Latin Project". All About Jazz. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  22. ^ a b c d . Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  23. ^ . Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
  24. ^ "Sound Travels". Jackdejohnette.com. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  25. ^ . Archived from the original on June 27, 2011. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
  26. ^ Brenda Pike (October 25, 2009). "Students Improv with Jack DeJohnette". Berklee. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  27. ^ Stuart Nicholson (August 2, 1998). "Jazz: Jack DeJohnette/Oneness: Drum major". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712.
  28. ^ Rick Mattingly. "Jack DeJohnette". Percussive Arts Society. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  29. ^ "United States Artists". Unitedstatesartists.org. January 16, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  30. ^ Muhal Richard Abrams. "NEA Jazz Masters | NEA". Arts.gov. Retrieved May 19, 2015.

External links edit

 
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jack, dejohnette, born, august, 1942, american, jazz, drummer, pianist, composer, dejohnette, 2015background, informationborn, 1942, august, 1942, chicago, illinois, united, statesgenresjazz, jazz, fusion, ageoccupation, musician, composerinstrument, drums, pi. Jack DeJohnette born August 9 1942 1 is an American jazz drummer pianist and composer Jack DeJohnetteDeJohnette in 2015Background informationBorn 1942 08 09 August 9 1942 age 81 Chicago Illinois United StatesGenresJazz jazz fusion new ageOccupation s Musician composerInstrument s Drums piano percussion melodicaYears active1961 presentLabelsMilestone Prestige ECM MCA Blue Note ColumbiaWebsiteOfficial website Known for his extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians including Charles Lloyd Freddie Hubbard Keith Jarrett Bill Evans John Abercrombie Alice Coltrane Sonny Rollins Miles Davis Joe Henderson Michael Brecker Pat Metheny Herbie Hancock and John Scofield DeJohnette was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2007 2 He has won two Grammy Awards and been nominated for five others 3 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life and musical beginnings 1 2 The Miles Davis years 1 3 Solo and bandleader in the 1970s and 80s 1 4 1990s to the present 2 Style 3 Discography 4 As a guest 5 Awards 6 Bibliography 7 References 8 External linksBiography editEarly life and musical beginnings edit DeJohnette was born in Chicago Illinois to Jack DeJohnette 1911 2011 and Eva Jeanette DeJohnette nee Wood 1918 1984 4 Although of predominantly African American heritage he has stated that he has some Native American ancestry specifically Seminole and Crow 5 He began his musical career as a pianist studying from age four with Antoinette Rich the leader of an all female symphony orchestra in Chicago and first playing professionally at the age of 14 6 When Jack was 13 he switched to drums and was taught drumming techniques from a local jazz drummer Bobby Miller Jr who lived in the same neighborhood 4 7 DeJohnette credits his uncle Roy Wood Sr 1915 1995 a Chicago disc jockey and vice president co founder of the National Black Network of Black Broadcasters as his inspiration to play music 8 DeJohnette played R amp B hard bop and avant garde music in Chicago He led his own groups in addition to playing with Richard Abrams Roscoe Mitchell and other eventual core members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians founded in 1965 8 He also occasionally performed with Sun Ra and his Arkestra and later in New York as well In the early 1960s DeJohnette had the opportunity to sit in for three tunes with John Coltrane and his quintet an early foray into playing with big name jazz musicians 9 10 In 1966 DeJohnette moved to New York City where he became a member of the Charles Lloyd Quartet 4 A band that recognized the potential influence of rock and roll on jazz Lloyd s group was where DeJohnette first encountered pianist Keith Jarrett who would work extensively with him throughout his career 11 However DeJohnette left the group in early 1968 citing Lloyd s deteriorating flat playing as his main reason for leaving 12 While Lloyd s band was where he received international recognition for the first time 8 it was not the only group DeJohnette played with during his early years in New York as he also worked with groups including Jackie McLean Abbey Lincoln Betty Carter and Bill Evans 4 DeJohnette joined Evans trio in 1968 the same year the group headlined the Montreux Jazz Festival and produced the album Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival In November 1968 he worked briefly with Stan Getz and his quartet which led to his first recordings with Miles Davis 10 The Miles Davis years edit In 1969 DeJohnette left the Evans trio and replaced Tony Williams in Miles Davis s live band Davis had seen DeJohnette play many times one of which was during a stint with Evans at Ronnie Scott s Jazz Club in London in 1968 where he also first heard bassist Dave Holland 13 Davis recognized DeJohnette s ability to combine the driving grooves associated with rock and roll with improvisational aspects associated with jazz 14 DeJohnette was the primary drummer on Bitches Brew DeJohnette and the other musicians saw the Bitches Brew sessions as unstructured and fragmentary but also innovative As the music was being played as it was developing Miles would get new ideas He d do a take and stop and then get an idea from what had just gone on before and elaborate on it The recording of Bitches Brew was a stream of creative musical energy One thing was flowing into the next and we were stopping and starting all the time 15 While he was not the only drummer involved in the project as Davis had also enlisted Billy Cobham Don Alias and Lenny White DeJohnette was considered the leader of the rhythm section within the group 16 He played on the live albums that would follow the release of Bitches Brew taken from concerts at the Fillmore East in New York and Fillmore West in San Francisco These ventures were undertaken at the behest of Clive Davis then president of Columbia Records 17 DeJohnette continued to work with Davis for the next three years which led to collaborations with other Davis band members John McLaughlin Chick Corea and Holland he also drew Keith Jarrett into the band 8 DeJohnette contributed to such Davis albums as Live Evil 1971 Jack Johnson 1971 and On the Corner 1972 along with sessions later released on the 1981 compilation album Directions 18 He left the Davis group in mid 1971 although he returned for several concerts through the rest of that year 10 Solo and bandleader in the 1970s and 80s edit DeJohnette s first record The DeJohnette Complex was released in 1968 on the album he played melodica as well as drums often allowing his mentor Roy Haynes to sit behind the set He also recorded in the early 1970s the albums Have You Heard Sorcery and Cosmic Chicken 8 He released these first four albums on either the Milestone or Prestige labels 8 and then switched to ECM for his next endeavors ECM gave him a fertile platform for his atmospheric drumming and challenging compositions 19 He was also featured on First Light an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard released by CTI in 1971 The musical freedom he had while recording for ECM offered DeJohnette many dates as a sideman and opportunities to start his own groups 19 He first formed the group Compost in 1972 but this was a short lived endeavor and DeJohnette cited the music as far too experimental to achieve commercial success During this period DeJohnette continued his career as a sideman as well rejoining Stan Getz s quartet from 1973 to October 1974 and also enticing Dave Holland to join Getz s rhythm section 10 This stint briefly preceded the formation of the Gateway Trio a group that DeJohnette helped form but did not lead This group came directly out of DeJohnette s time with Getz as Holland joined him in this group along with guitarist John Abercrombie both of whom would become associated with DeJohnette throughout his career 8 His next group effort was Directions a group formed in 1976 featuring saxophonist Alex Foster bassist Mike Richmond and Abercrombie showing the links between the members of the Gateway trio This was another short lived group yet it led directly to the formation of DeJohnette s next group New Directions which featured Abercrombie again on guitar along with Lester Bowie on trumpet and Eddie Gomez on bass This group coexisted with another DeJohnette group Special Edition which was the first DeJohnette led group to receive critical acclaim 10 This group also helped the careers of many lesser known young horn players as it had a rotating front line that included David Murray Arthur Blythe Chico Freeman and John Purcell among others 10 During this period especially with Special Edition DeJohnette offered the necessary gravity to keep the horns in a tight orbit in his compositions while also treating his listeners to the expanded vocabulary of the avant garde plus the discipline of traditional jazz compositions 20 DeJohnette s work with Special Edition has been interrupted regularly by other projects the most significant of which are his recordings in 1983 and tours from 1985 as a member of Keith Jarrett s trio which was totally devoted to playing jazz standards 10 The trio included his long time compatriot Jarrett and bassist Gary Peacock and all three have been members of the group for over 25 years 8 At the start of the 1980s DeJohnette played on the album 80 81 with Pat Metheny Charlie Haden Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker In 1981 DeJohnette performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival held in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Creative Music Studio 1990s to the present edit nbsp Jack DeJohnette in 2006 DeJohnette continued to work with Special Edition into the 1990s but did not limit himself to that In 1990 he toured in a quartet consisting of himself Herbie Hancock Pat Metheny and his long time collaborator Holland 10 and released Parallel Realities with this group the same year 8 In 1992 he released a major collaborative record Music for the Fifth World which was inspired by studies with a Native American elder and brought him together musically with players like Vernon Reid and John Scofield 8 He had also during the 1980s resumed playing piano which led to his 1994 tour as an unaccompanied pianist He also began working again with Abercrombie and Holland reviving the Gateway trio 10 In 1990 DeJohnette was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music In 2004 he was nominated for a Grammy award for his work on Keith Jarrett s live album The Out of Towners and continued to work with that group into 2005 8 In the next few years DeJohnette would begin and lead three new projects the first of which was the Latin Project consisting of percussionists Giovanni Hidalgo and Luisito Quintero reedman Don Byron pianist Edsel Gomez and bassist Jerome Harris 21 The other two new projects were the Jack DeJohnette Quartet featuring Harris again alongside Danilo Perez and John Patitucci and the Trio Beyond a tribute to DeJohnette s friend Tony Williams and his trio Lifetime consisting of Williams Larry Young and John McLaughlin featuring John Scofield and Larry Goldings 22 DeJohnette also founded his own label Golden Beams Productions in 2005 That same year he released Music in the Key of Om on his new label an electronic album which he created for relaxing and meditative purposes on which he played synthesizer and resonating bells which was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Age Album category 22 DeJohnette continued to make albums as a leader and sideman throughout this period as well one of which was The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers a collaboration that documents the first meeting of DeJohnette and guitarist Bill Frisell in 2001 and led to another tour with Frisell and Jerome Harris 22 The next year Trio Beyond released Saudades a live recording of a concert commemorating Tony Williams in London in 2004 In 2008 DeJohnette toured with Bobby McFerrin Chick Corea and the Jarrett trio and the next year won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album with Peace Time 22 In 2010 he founded the Jack DeJohnette Group featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone David Fiuczynski on double neck guitar George Colligan on keyboards and piano and long time associate Jerome Harris on electric and acoustic bass guitars 23 In 2012 DeJohnette released Sound Travels which included appearances by McFerrin Quintero Bruce Hornsby Esperanza Spalding Lionel Loueke and Jason Moran 24 The same year he was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for his significant lifetime contributions which have helped to enrich jazz and further the growth of the art form 25 Style editDeJohnette s style incorporates elements of jazz free jazz world music and R amp B contributing to him being one of the most highly regarded and in demand drummers Initially a traditional grip player he later switched to matched grip due to a problem with tendinitis 26 His drumming style has been called unique one critic writes that he is not merely a drummer but a percussionist colourist and epigrammatic commentator mediating the shifting ensemble densities and that his drumming is always part of the music s internal construction 27 In a 2004 interview Modern Drummer magazine called DeJohnette s drumming beyond technique 19 DeJohnette calls himself an abstract thinker when it comes to soloing saying that he puts more weight on the abstract than What were you thinking in bar 33 I don t like to think that way I can do it but I like to be more in the flow 19 In terms of what he feels when he plays DeJohnette said that when he plays he goes into an altered state a different headspace I plug into my higher self into the cosmic library of ideas 19 He has remarked that he has to play with a lot of restraint when playing in Keith Jarrett s trio in order to play with the subtlety that the music requires 19 Whilst DeJohnette is most famous and mostly active as a drummer he is also a schooled pianist He began studying piano at age four and later took piano lessons at the Chicago Conservatory of Music 28 and played both as a pianist and as a drummer in his early career Later on he would return to the piano releasing solo piano albums in 1985 and 2016 and touring as an unaccompanied pianist in 1994 He has also played piano organ and synthesizer keyboard instruments on albums on which he plays as a drummer e g on Pictures 1977 or on New Directions In Europe live in concert in 1979 released 1980 Discography editMain article Jack DeJohnette discography The DeJohnette Complex Milestone 1968 1969 Have You Heard Milestone 1970 Jackeyboard Trio 1973 Time amp Space Trio 1973 Sorcery Prestige 1974 Cosmic Chicken Prestige 1975 Untitled ECM 1976 Pictures ECM 1976 1977 New Rags ECM 1977 New Directions ECM 1978 Special Edition ECM 1979 1980 New Directions in Europe ECM 1979 1980 Tin Can Alley ECM 1980 1981 Inflation Blues ECM 1982 1983 Album Album ECM 1984 The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album Landmark 1985 Zebra MCA 1989 In Our Style DIW 1986 Irresistible Forces MCA Impulse 1987 Audio Visualscapes MCA Impulse 1988 Parallel Realities MCA 1990 Earthwalk Blue Note 1991 Music for the Fifth World Manhattan 1992 Extra Special Edition Blue Note 1994 Dancing with Nature Spirits ECM 1995 Oneness ECM 1997 The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers Golden Beams 2001 with Bill Frisell Music from the Hearts of the Masters Golden Beams 2005 Music in the Key of Om Golden Beams 2005 Hybrids Golden Beams 2005 The Ripple Effect Saudades ECM 2006 Trio Beyond Peace Time Golden Beams 2006 2007 Music We Are Golden Beams 2009 Sound Travels eOne Golden Beams 2012 Made in Chicago ECM 2013 2015 with Muhal Richard Abrams Larry Gray Roscoe Mitchell Henry Threadgill In Movement ECM 2016 Return Newvelle 2016 solo piano vinyl LP Hudson Motema 2017 As a guest editIf on a Winter s Night Sting 2009 drums on one song The Burning BabeAwards editFellow of United States Artists 2012 29 NEA Jazz Master 2012 30 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album Skyline 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards 3 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album Peace Time 51st Annual Grammy Awards Five additional Grammy Award nominationsBibliography editBarnhart Stephen L Percussionists a Biographical Dictionary Westport CT Greenwood Press 2000 Himes Geoffrey Jack DeJohnette and Art Blakey The Washington Post June 3 1983 Hovan C Andrew Live Reviews Jack DeJohnette Latin Project All About Jazz February 19 2005 Retrieved April 24 2012 Nicholson Stuart Jazz Rock a History New York Schirmer Books 1998 Porter Lewis Jack DeJohnette In Barry Kernfield ed The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz volume 1 New York Grove 2002 Tingen Paul Miles Beyond the Electric Explorations of Miles Davis 1967 1991 New York Billboard Books 2001 Jack DeJohnette Biography Jack DeJohnette official website Retrieved April 23 2012 Jack DeJohnette Modern Drummer May 12 2004 Retrieved April 23 2012 Sound Travels Jack DeJohnette official website Retrieved April 24 2012 References edit Jack DeJohnette Artist Info Riad usk pk edu pl August 9 1942 Archived from the original on May 27 2016 Retrieved October 11 2011 Modern Drummer s Readers Poll Archive 1979 2014 Modern Drummer Retrieved August 10 2015 a b Artist Jack DeJohnette www grammy com Retrieved July 28 2022 a b c d Stephen L Barnhart Percussionists a Biographical Dictionary Westport CT Greenwood Press 2000 88 Porter Christopher Jack DeJohnette Jazztimes com Retrieved July 26 2021 Jack DeJohnette Biography Jackdejohnette com Archived from the original on March 8 2012 Retrieved April 23 2012 PROFILE Montunoecards com Retrieved July 26 2021 a b c d e f g h i j k Jack DeJohnette Biography Jackdejohnette com Archived from the original on March 8 2012 Retrieved April 23 2012 Conversations with Jack DeJohnette YouTube March 3 2015 Retrieved September 14 2016 a b c d e f g h i Lewis Porter Jack DeJohnette in Barry Kernfield ed The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz volume 1 New York Grove 2002 594 Stuart Nicholson Jazz Rock a History New York Schirmer Books 1998 77 78 Nicholson Jazz Rock 81 Paul Tingen Miles Beyond the Electric 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Retrieved October 10 2016 Stuart Nicholson August 2 1998 Jazz Jack DeJohnette Oneness Drum major The Observer ISSN 0029 7712 Rick Mattingly Jack DeJohnette Percussive Arts Society Retrieved August 30 2023 United States Artists Unitedstatesartists org January 16 2015 Retrieved May 19 2015 Muhal Richard Abrams NEA Jazz Masters NEA Arts gov Retrieved May 19 2015 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jack DeJohnette Official website Jack DeJohnette s MySpace page At drummerworld com Jack DeJohnette at BehindTheDrums com Discography and equipment list Jack DeJohnette Interview NAMM Oral History Library 2009 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jack DeJohnette amp oldid 1195839576, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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