Jack Dejohnette News

Sometimes the drummer just steals the show -- which in the case of a force of nature such as Jack DeJohnette, is not surprising.

If Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette and Larry Grenadier placed a classified ad, it would list as job requirements exceptional technique, humor and a willingness to interact openly with any musical situation.

Releases teaming unknown musicians with high profile players can be inherently suspect.

Beautiful and absorbing though most of them are, Charles Lloyd's discs on ECM, with whom the reed player has been recording for almost twenty years, have tended to overshadow the wonderful albums he made with ...

I read two unrelated pieces in quick succession last week. The first was the accompanying essay to the great reissue of pianist Keith Jarrett's 1983 New York sessions with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, ...

Today's Birthdays: Former baseball manager Ralph Houk is 89. Jazz musician Jack DeJohnette is 66.

In fact, the man who won Grammys for Best New Artist, Best Bluegrass Recording and Best Pop Instrumental all in the space of his first five years in the biz still continues to cleverly and gratefully dodge the ...

David Liebman / Randy Brecker / Richie Beirach / Frank Tusa / Al Foster - Published: August 1, 2008 Pendulum: David Liebman/Randy Brecker/Richie Beirach/Frank Tusa/Al Foster Mosaic Select 32: Pendulum Live at ...

For all the jazz albums to be universally hailed as classics, many more deserve to be recognized as such.

For more than forty years, Charles Lloyd has been the small combo leader making distinctively impressionistic and soulful kind of small combo jazz.

Joe Henderson enjoyed widespread popularity only late in his career, when his cover albums for Verve achieved high sales figures, but since the early '60s he had been making excellent records, both as a sideman ...

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette will shortly begin their by now traditional summer tour, with concerts in France and Italy.

My friend, Jezra Kaye, sent me this review of a recent concert of a band that includes Prospect Heights bassist, Jerome Harris.

As folks gather in the dusty hills of Tennessee to enjoy a rainbow of musical offerings this weekend, it's worth sparing a thought for one of the ancestors in Bonnaroo's DNA, the Montreux Jazz Festival .

W hy has it taken, um, forever, for jazz-rock fusion masters Return to Forever to reunite? It's been 25 years -- which is like forever in the music business -- since the classic 1970s RTF lineup of pianist ...

Michael Brecker was a musicians' musician, with jaw-dropping chops and a unique and highly influential harmonic and melodic style.

Confusion reigns, briefly, when the Georgia Straight reaches Chick Corea's hotel room in Indianapolis, Indiana.

By Tom Huntington Free Press Correspondent Ten years ago, Joshua Redman decided to postpone law school and dabble in the New York music scene.

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - Tabligh Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has always been one of my favorite musicians, and that is confirmed again by the new release of his Golden Quartet, which consists of an ...

My first visit to Carnegie Hall was a treat ... until the concert began. Upon entering the venue on April 17, I lumbered up to my second-tier seat and marvelled at the surroundings. via Leader Post