In a career that spans five decades and includes collaborations with some of the most iconic figures in modern jazz, NEA Jazz Master and Grammy Award winner Jack DeJohnette has established an unchallenged reputation as one of the greatest drummers in the history of the genre. The list of creative associations throughout his career is lengthy and diverse: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker, George Benson, Stanley Turrentine, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Freddy Hubbard, Betty Carter and so many more. Along the way, he has developed a versatility that allows room for hard bop, R&B, world music, avant-garde, and just about every other style to emerge in the past half-century.
The Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Matt Garrison Trio
Twenty years ago, DeJohnette brought saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and bassist Matthew Garrison together for the first time to perform the music of John Coltrane at The Brooklyn Museum. This configuration of historical significance has now been reborn. Representing the prestigious lineage of today’s great jazz families, The Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Matt Garrison Trio explores open improvisation in addition to their own compositions.
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Label: ECM
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In Movement (May 6, 2016)
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Posted Jun 22nd, 2016
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Posted May 16th, 2016
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Posted Apr 25th, 2016
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Posted Apr 22nd, 2016
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Posted Aug 24th, 2015
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Posted Aug 12th, 2015
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Posted Aug 6th, 2015
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Posted Jun 1st, 2015
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Posted Jul 23rd, 2014
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Posted Jun 2nd, 2014
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Posted Aug 30th, 2013
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Posted Aug 29th, 2013
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Posted Mar 4th, 2013
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Posted Feb 26th, 2013
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Posted Feb 25th, 2013
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Posted Feb 18th, 2013
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Posted Feb 1st, 2013
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Jack DeJohnette generally is regarded as one of the finest living jazz drummers, a limber musical thinker and technical dynamo, one who challenges tradition by pushing outward while digging in.
The Los Angeles Times
DeJohnette could turn matchsticks into an orchestra. He is a craftsman, carving, pushing, painting, adding layers, dissolving layers. Playing rims, mallets, skin on skin. The trio played as a true collaboration. No star turns, just discovery and nuance as only masters can pull off.
Eye On The Music
Mr. DeJohnette’s achievements can no more easily be confined to a given style than a single instrument.
Wall Street Journal
“As a drummer, he runs the gamut from refined, light touches to visceral spontaneity. He finds perfect bandmates in the always erudite and appealing playing of Ravi Coltrane and the refined musicality of Garrison’.
All About Jazz
This is a thoroughly contemporary set in its fusion of Ravi Coltrane’s lyricism (often on the piercing, silvery-toned sopranino sax), Garrison’s rockish bass sound and electronics, and DeJohnette’s dramatic punctuation … It’s a partnership that gets the best out of its powerful participants”
The Guardian