Jack DeJohnette

Jazz Album Reviews: From Craft Recordings — DeJohnette, Muhammad, and Spencer

July 18, 2023
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Lost amid a flood of new music in the early ’70s, the three lps under review here never received their due.

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Jazz Review and Appreciation: Wadada Leo Smith’s “The Chicago Symphonies”

March 1, 2022
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If you are not familiar with Wadada Leo Smith as an artist or as a thinker, you could start with The Chicago Symphonies and know that you are engaging with some of his finest work.

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Jazz Albums Review: “Skyline” and “A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday” — Marching to the Beat of the Same Drummer

November 16, 2021
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The presence of veteran drummer Jack DeJohnette ties together two new releases.

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Concert Review: Hudson at the Berklee Performance Center

October 12, 2017
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It’s clear these four musicians love playing together. As long as the magic lasts, it’s well worth your hearing.

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Jazz CD Review: “Hudson” — Free Jazz in the Summer of Love

July 29, 2017
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Hudson serves up varied, fresh, and exciting free jazz that imaginatively draws on rock, funky blues, and folk music.

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Album Review: Wadada Leo Smith’s “The Great Lakes Suites” — A Miraculous Freedom

September 16, 2014
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Wadada Leo Smith’s latest album features a series of miraculous performances that give a new meaning to freedom: the sometimes lengthy and airily open improvisations take us on journeys but never seem to wander.

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Concert Review: Jack DeJohnette’s Spring Quartet — Creative Flexibility Times Four

March 8, 2014
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The point of the Spring Quartet, one assumes, is to showcase its four multi-talented members, particularly their talents as composers.

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