Jack De Johnette RIP

[clifford_thornton]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

Love that one. Have the Japanese LP pressing with that cover as well. Probably the first place I (and most people outside of Japan) heard Hideo Ichikawa.

[felser]

37 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Love that one. Have the Japanese LP pressing with that cover as well. Probably the first place I (and most people outside of Japan) heard Hideo Ichikawa.

Definitely was for me.  I need to pull that one out and re-listen, it's been a long time.  Looong album sides on that one, 29+ minutes each.

[Guy Berger]

Incredible drummer.  Hard to imagine Miles’s music evolving from “Directions” to On the Corner without his presence, and his appearances on ECM as a sideman/leader were usually of extremely high quality.

Strong agreement on Special Edition and Album Album being the best of that band’s work, though all 4 of the ECMs are worth hearing.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

Love that one. Have the Japanese LP pressing with that cover as well. Probably the first place I (and most people outside of Japan) heard Hideo Ichikawa.

Got it when I was 16 or so, a cutout. Only kinda got it then, time took care of that.

Interesting now to hear the title track alongside some of Chick's SS material with Maupin sound like the goings on of the Lost Quintet - which at the time unless you had heard them live you HADN'T heard them!

You HAVEN'T?

Seriously don't that that was the intent, but history makes it's own jokes sometimes.

[BFrank]

4 hours ago, Milestones said:

Special Edition and Album Album, in particular, are excellent records.  

For sure

[Pim]

He was among the greatest. RIP

[ghost of miles]

Hank Shteamer on The Infinity of Jack DeJohnette.

Hard to imagine the jazz world without Jack DeJohnette in it anymore. 

[sgcim]

He even recorded and gigged with the Bill Evans Trio back in 1967-68. RIP.

[mhatta]

RIP.  Papa Joe, Buddy, Klook, Roy, Art B, Art T, Max, Sherry, Philly Joe, Elvin, Tony, Billy, Paul, and now Jack... each had their own distinct personality, and you could tell who it was just by hearing them play. They're all gone now. Am I the only one who thinks drums have become so bland lately?

 

I also quite like Jack as a modal pianist.

 

[clifford_thornton]

I quite enjoy that Jackeyboard album.

“Jazz” is in a weird place and it’s not only one instrument (or set of instruments) that has a blandness problem. But that’s another thread!

[T.D.]

After spinning the "Special Edition" box I'm listening to some more offbeat recordings with Jack:

The duet with Foday Musa Suso

Bill Evans Trio At the Montreux Jazz Festival

Nick Brignola On a Different Level (my favorite Brignola album)

[JSngry]

And then there was Compost...