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Jack DeJohnette

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

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.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Chicago Symphonies, Henry Threadgill, Jack DeJohnette, Jack DeJohnette and Muhal Richard Abrams, ohn Lindberg, Petri Haussila, Tum Records, Wadada Leo Smith

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

The presence of veteran drummer Jack DeJohnette ties together two new releases.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: 5 Passion Records, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter, TUM, Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith

Concert Review: Hudson at the Berklee Performance Center

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

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hudson, Jack DeJohnette, John Medeski, John Scofield, Larry Grenadier

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

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

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Hudson, Jack DeJohnette, John Medeski, John Scofield, Larry Grenadier

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

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.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Henry Threadgill, Jack DeJohnette, John Lindberg, Ten Freedom Summers, The Great Lakes Suites, Wadada Leo Smith

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

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

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Esperanza Spaulding, Jack DeJohnette, Jack DeJohnette’s Spring Quartet, Joe Lovano, Leo Genovese

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