Jack DeJohnette

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis · 1970

In a Silent Way

Miles Davis · 1969

Miles's 1969–70 studio experiments fused rock's rhythmic sensibility with jazz improvisation. Bitches BrewBitches BrewMiles Davis · 1970 layered McLaughlinJohn McLaughlinジョン・マクラフリン, CoreaChick Coreaチック・コリア, HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック, and others in simultaneous collective improvisation.

Standards, Vol. 1

Keith Jarrett · 1983

From 1983, the Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット Standards Trio played as if standards were already inside them. The skeletal familiarity freed them to focus entirely on what was happening in the moment.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis · 1970

Miles DavisMiles Davisマイルス・デイヴィス gathered over twenty musicians in August 1969 and, paired with Teo Macero's tape editing, transformed jazz from "recorded performance" to "constructed recording." Bitches BrewBitches BrewMiles Davis · 1970 launched jazz-rock fusion.

— So What: The Life of Miles Davis, John Szwed, 2002

Estival Jazz Lugano, 1986. The Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット Standards Trio — Gary PeacockGary Peacockゲイリー・ピーコック (bass), Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット (drums) — live in Switzerland. From Qwest TV.

— Estival Jazz Lugano, 1986

February 1985, Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo. The Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット Standards Trio with Gary PeacockGary Peacockゲイリー・ピーコック (bass) and Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット (drums). Recorded shortly after the release of Standards (ECM, 1983), capturing the trio at a defining moment in its development.

— Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, 1985

July 9, 1990, Jazz à Vienne. The Parallel Realities tour — Herbie HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック (piano), Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー (guitar), Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット (drums), Dave HollandDave Hollandデイヴ・ホランド (bass). A miraculous meeting of four musicians each at a peak in their careers.

— Jazz à Vienne, 1990

80/81

Pat Metheny · 1980

80/8180/81Pat Metheny · 1980 (1980) brought Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー together with Michael BreckerMichael Breckerマイケル・ブレッカー, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット. The double-album of long-form improvisation showed a darker side beyond the Pat Metheny Group's sunlit image.

— 80/81, Wikipedia, 2024

Formed in 1983 with Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット, Gary PeacockGary Peacockゲイリー・ピーコック, and Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット, the Standards Trio held the same lineup for nearly three decades — a rarity. The first sessions yielded three albums in two days.

— Setting Standards: New York Sessions, Wikipedia, 2024

In 1979, Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット launched Special Edition, wrapping the loft-jazz vocabulary of David Murray and Arthur Blythe in an ECM sound — the apex of his work as a leader-drummer.

— Special Edition (Jack DeJohnette album), Wikipedia, 2024