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Biography

Jack DeJohnette (born 9 August 1942) is an United States|American jazz drummer , Piano|pianist , and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis , Joe Henderson , Freddie Hubbard , Keith Jarrett and Sonny Rollins .

Biography

DeJohnette was born in Chicago, Illinois|Chicago , Illinois . Besides the drums, he also studied the piano. He first became known as a member of Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd 's band, a group that pianist Keith Jarrett also was a part of at that time. He played with Bill Evans in 1968 on the acclaimed Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival , and from 1969 to 1972 played with Miles Davis . In the 1970s he recorded for Milestone Records|Milestone / Prestige Records|Prestige and ECM (record label)|ECM . He also appeared widely on ECM as a sideman. Since then he has recorded for MCA Records , Blue Note Records , and Kindred Rhythm.

DeJohnette has led several groups since the early-1970s, including Compost (band)|Compost , a jazz-rock group that did two albums for Columbia Records|Columbia with Bob Moses (musician)|Bob Moses and Harold Vick ; Directions (with John Abercrombie (guitarist)|John Abercrombie , Alex Foster (saxophonist)|Alex Foster , Warren Bernhardt , and Mike Richmond (musician)|Mike Richmond ); New Directions (with Abercrombie, Lester Bowie , and Eddie Gomez ); Gateway (band)|Gateway (with John Abercrombie (guitarist)|John Abercrombie and Dave Holland ); and Special Edition (with David Murray (jazz musician)|David Murray , Chico Freeman , Arthur Blythe , Peter Warren , and others). Since the 1980s, he has been a member of what has become known as Keith Jarrett 's Standards Trio alongside Jarrett and Gary Peacock .

Since 2003, DeJohnette has been part of Trio Beyond with fellow musicians Larry Goldings (organ) and John Scofield (guitar). The trio was set up in tribute to The Tony Williams Lifetime trio led by Williams with Larry Young (musician)|Larry Young (organ) and John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin (guitar). He also currently appears as a member of the Bruce Hornsby|Bruce Hornsby Trio . In February, 2009, DeJohnette received the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album , Peace Time .

DeJohnette's most current project as of 2010 is Jack DeJohnette Group, featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone, David Fiuczynski on double-neck guitar, George Colligan on keyboards and piano, and long-time associate Jerome Harris on electric and acoustic bass guitars.

DeJohnette successfully incorporates elements of free jazz and world music , while maintaining the deep grooves of jazz and R& B drummers. His exceptional experience of time and style, combined with astounding improvisational ingenuity, make him one of the most highly regarded and in-demand drummers. He also occasionally appears on piano, on his own recordings.

In 2012, DeJohnette will be awarded an NEA Jazz Masters|NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for his "significant lifetime contributions have helped to enrich jazz and further the growth of the art form."

Discography

As leader

The DeJohnette Complex (Milestone, 1969)

Have You Heard? (Jack DeJohnette album)|Have You Heard (Milestone, 1970)

Sorcery (Jack DeJohnette album)|Sorcery (Prestige, 1974)

Cosmic Chicken (Prestige, 1975)

Untitled (Jack DeJohnette album)|Untitled (ECM, 1976)

Pictures (Jack DeJohnette album)|Pictures (ECM, 1976)

New Rags (ECM, 1977)

New Directions (Jack DeJohnette album)|New Directions (ECM, 1978) with John Abercrombie (guitarist)|John Abercrombie , Lester Bowie and Eddie Gomez

Special Edition (Jack DeJohnette album)|Special Edition (ECM, 1979) with Arthur Blythe and David Murray (jazz musician)|David Murray

New Directions in Europe (ECM, 1980)

Tin Can Alley (album)|Tin Can Alley (ECM, 1980) with Chico Freeman , John Purcell and Peter Warren

Inflation Blues (ECM, 1982)

Album Album (ECM, 1984) with John Purcell and David Murray

The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album (1985)

Zebra (Jack DeJohnette album)|Zebra (1989) with Lester Bowie

In Our Style (DIW, 1986) with David Murray

Irresistible Forces (1987)

Audio-Visualscapes (1988)

Parallel Realities (1990) with Pat Metheny , Herbie Hancock and Dave Holland

Earthwalk (1991)

Music for the Fifth World (1992)

Extra Special Edition (1994)

Dancing with Nature Spirits (ECM, 1995)

Oneness (Jack DeJohnette album)|Oneness (ECM, 1997)

Music in the Key of Om (2005), nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award|Grammy as Best New Age Album

Music from the Hearts of the Masters (2005) with Foday Musa Suso

The Ripple Effect (album)|The Ripple Effect (2005) with Ben Surman and Foday Musa Suso

Hybrids (album)|Hybrids (2005) with Ben Surman and Foday Musa Suso

The Elephant Sleeps but Still Remembers (2006) with Bill Frisell

Peace Time (2008)

Music We Are (2009) with John Patitucci and Danilo Perez

Sound Travels (2012)

As sideman

With John Abercrombie (guitarist)|John Abercrombie

Timeless (John Abercrombie album)|Timeless (ECM, 1974)

Night (John Abercrombie album)|Night (ECM, 1984)

With George Adams (musician)|George Adams

Sound Suggestions (ECM, 1979)

With Cannonball Adderley

Lovers (Cannonball Adderley album)|Lovers (1975)

With Geri Allen

The Life of a Song (2004)

With Chet Baker

She Was Too Good to Me (1974)

With Richard Beirach

Elm (album)|Elm (ECM, 1979)

Trust (1993)

With George Benson

Beyond the Blue Horizon (1971)

Body Talk (1972)

With Joanne Brackeen

Keyed In (1979)

Special Identity (1981)

With Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker (album)|Michael Brecker (1986)

Tales from the Hudson (1996)

''Don't Try This at Home (1998)

Nearness of You (2000)

Pilgrimage (2007)

With Henry Butler

The Village (1987, Impulse& #33; Records|Impulse! )

With Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana

Illuminations (Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana album)|Illuminations (1974)

With Compost (band)|Compost

Compost (album)|Compost (1971)

Life is Round (1973)

With Bill Connors

Of Mist and Melting (ECM, 1977)

With Chick Corea

Is (1969)

Sundance (album)|Sundance (1969)

With Miles Davis

Directions (1968–70)

Bitches Brew (1969)

Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East (1970)

Live-Evil (Miles Davis album)|Live-Evil (1970)

Big Fun (Miles Davis album)|Big Fun (1970)

Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West (1970)

'' Live at the Fillmore East, March 7, 1970: It's About that Time (1970)

A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1970)

Circle in the Round (1970)

On the Corner (1972)

With Eliane Elias

Cross Currents (1987)

With Bill Evans

Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1968)

With Antonio Farao

Thorn (2000)

With Joe Farrell

Joe Farrell Quartet (1970)

Moon Germs (1972)

With Chico Freeman

The Outside Within (1981)

Freeman & Freeman (1981)

Tradition in Transition (1982)

With Jan Garbarek

Places (Jan Garbarek album)|Places (1977)

With Gateway (band)|Gateway

Gateway (Gateway album)|Gateway (1975)

Gateway 2 (1977)

Homecoming (Gateway album)|Homecoming (1994)

In the Moment (album)|In the Moment (1994)

With Mick Goodrick

In Pas(s)ing (ECM, 1978)

With Herbie Hancock

Blow-Up (soundtrack)|Blow-Up (1966)

The New Standard (1996)

With Joe Henderson

Tetragon (album)|Tetragon (1968)

Power to the People (Joe Henderson album)|Power to the People (1969)

Black Is The Color (album)|Black is the Color (1973)

Multiple (album)|Multiple (1973)

Double Rainbow: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (1995)

With Dave Holland

Triplicate (album)|Triplicate (ECM, 1988)

With Freddie Hubbard

Straight Life (Freddie Hubbard album)|Straight Life (1970)

First Light (Freddie Hubbard album)|First Light (1971)

Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine In Concert Volume One (1974)

In Concert Volume Two (Freddie Hubbard & Stanley Turrentine album)|In Concert Volume Two (1974)

Polar AC (1975)

Super Blue (1978)

With D. D. Jackson

Anthem (1999)

With Keith Jarrett

Ruta and Daitya (1971)

Standards (Jarrett album)|Standards, Vol. 1 (January 1983; studio recording)

Standards (Jarrett album)|Standards, Vol. 2 (January 1983; studio recording)

Changes (Jarrett album)|Changes (January 1983; studio recording)

Standards Live (July 1985; live recording)

Still Live (Keith Jarrett album)|Still Live (July 1986; live recording)

Changeless (album)|Changeless (October 1987; live recording), a record of free improvisation

Standards in Norway (October 1989; live recording)

Tribute (Keith Jarrett album)|Tribute (October 1989; live recording), which consists of songs played in tribute to various jazz figures associated with them

The Cure (Keith Jarrett album)|The Cure (April 1990; live recording)

Bye Bye Blackbird (Keith Jarrett album)|Bye Bye Blackbird (October 1991; studio recording), a tribute to the recently deceased Miles Davis

Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note (June 1994; live recording), a six-disc boxed set that documents three nights (six sets) in the famous New York City nightclub

'' Tokyo '96 (March 1996; live recording)

Whisper Not (Keith Jarrett album)|Whisper Not (July 1999; live recording)

Inside Out (Keith Jarrett album)|Inside Out (July 2000; live recording), a record of free improvisation

Always Let Me Go (April 2001; live recording), a double album of free improvisation

The Out-of-Towners (Standards Trio album)|The Out-of-Towners (July 2001; live recording)

Up for It - Live in Juan-les-Pins, July 2002 (July 2002; live recording)

My Foolish Heart (Keith Jarrett album)|My Foolish Heart (July 2001; a double album of a live recording, Montreux Jazz Festival 2001)

Setting Standards - New York Sessions (2008; 3CD set of the first three albums by the trio: Standards1 , Standards2 , Changes from 1983)

Yesterdays (Keith Jarrett album)|Yesterdays (2009)

With Steve Khan

Got My Mental (1996)

With Eric Kloss

Sky Shadows (1968)

To Hear is To See& #33; (1969)

Consciousness! (1970)

With Eero Koivistoinen

Picture in Three Colours (1983)

Altered Things (1992)

With Lee Konitz

Peacemeal (1969)

Satori (Konitz album)|Satori (1974)

With Steve Kuhn

Trance (Steve Kuhn album)|Trance (ECM, 1974)

With Hubert Laws

The Rite of Spring (Hubert Laws album)|The Rite of Spring (CTI, 1971)

With Dave Liebman

Trio + One (1988)

With Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd

Dream Weaver (album)|Dream Weaver (1966)

Forest Flower (1966)

Charles Lloyd in Europe (1966)

The Flowering (1966)

Love-In (1967)

Journey Within (Charles Lloyd album)|Journey Within (1967)

Charles Lloyd in the Soviet Union (1967)

Soundtrack (Charles Lloyd album)|Soundtrack (1968)

With Joe Lovano

Universal Language (Joe Lovano album)|Universal Language (Blue Note 1992)

With Harold Mabern

Straight Street (1989)

The Leading Man (1993)

With Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green

Apex (2010)

With Michael Mantler

The Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories (1976)

With Lyle Mays

Fictionary (1992)

With John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin

Electric Guitarist (1979)

With Jackie McLean

Jacknife (album)|Jacknife (1966)

'' Demon's Dance (1967)

With Pat Metheny

80/81 (1980)

Song X (1985) with Ornette Coleman

With Kalman Olah

Always (2006)

With Gary Peacock

Tales of Another (ECM, 1977)

Voice from the Past - Paradigm (ECM, 1981)

With Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)|Chris Potter

Unspoken (1997)

With Teri Roiger

Misterioso (1998)

With Sonny Rollins

Next Album (1972)

Reel Life (Sonny Rollins album)|Reel Life (1982)

Falling in Love with Jazz (1989)

'' Here's to the People (1991)

Old Flames (1993)

Sonny Rollins + 3 (1996)

This Is What I Do (2000)

With Terje Rypdal

Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette (ECM, 1978)

To Be Continued (Terje Rypdal album)|To Be Continued (ECM, 1981)

With John Scofield

Time on My Hands (John Scofield album)|Time on my Hands (1989)

With Wayne Shorter

Super Nova (Wayne Shorter album)|Super Nova (1969)

Tribute to John Coltrane: Live under the Sky (1987)

With Wadada Leo Smith

Golden Quartet (2000)

America (Tzadik, 2009)

With John Surman

The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon (ECM, 1981)

Invisible Nature (ECM, 1999)

Free and Equal (ECM, 2001)

'' Brewster's Rooster (ECM, 2008)

With Steve Swallow

Real Book (1993)

With Szakcsi Generation

8 Trios for 4 Pianists (2005)

With Bobby Timmons

Do You Know the Way? (1968)

With Ralph Towner

Batik (album)|Batik (ECM, 1978)

With Trio Beyond

Saudades (2007)

With Stanley Turrentine

Have You Ever Seen the Rain (album)|Have You Ever Seen the Rain (1975)

With McCoy Tyner

Supertrios (1977)

Together (McCoy Tyner album)|Together (1979)

13th House (1982)

With Miroslav Vitous

Infinite Search (1969)

Magical Shepard (1976)

Universal Syncopations (2003)

With Collin Walcott

Cloud Dance (ECM, 1976)

With Bennie Wallace

Twilight Time (1985)

With Peter Warren

Solidarity (1981)

With Sadao Watanabe (musician)|Sadao Watanabe

Round Trip (Sadao Watanabe album)|Round Trip (1974)

With Kenny Werner

A Delicate Balance (1997)

With Kenny Wheeler

Gnu High (1975)

Deer Wan (1977)

Double, Double You (1983)

With the World Saxophone Quartet

Selim Sivad: a Tribute to Miles Davis (1998)

With Joe Zawinul

Joe Zawinul (1971)

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