Post Tagged with: "Jack DeJohnette"

How Bruce Hornsby Showed Off His Jazz Chops With ‘Camp Meeting’

How Bruce Hornsby Showed Off His Jazz Chops With ‘Camp Meeting’

Bruce Hornsby won’t ever be mentioned with his jazz heroes. Still, he proved 15 years ago today that he could maintain some originality while honoring them.

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Philipp Gerschlauer and David Fiuczynski – Mikrojazz: Neue Expressionistische Musik (2017)

Philipp Gerschlauer and David Fiuczynski getting together for ‘Mikrojazz: Neue Expressionistische Musik’ took microtonal music to new places, and there’s never a dull moment.

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Bill Evans – Another Time: The Hilversum Concert (2017)

Great audio quality and Jack DeJohnette’s rare presence makes ‘Another Time: The Hilversum Concert’ a “new” Bill Evans album that’s also easy to recommend for reasons well beyond merely completing a catalog.

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Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski, John Scofield – Hudson (2017)

The combination of Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, John Medeski and Larry Grenadier is capable of so much; but ‘Hudson’ delivers in that it doesn’t kowtow to expectations of what kind of music these four legends should make.

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Jack DeJohnette, with Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison – In Movement (2016)

What you get when DeJohnette combines with guys named Coltrane and Garrison doesn’t exactly square up with the mental picture (or rather, mental music) most jazzbos might imagine when those three names are put together. Nonetheless, ‘In Movement’ is no less gratifying.

Pat Metheny – ’80/81′ (1980): Track by Track Through a Classic

Pat Metheny – ’80/81′ (1980): Track by Track Through a Classic

’80/81′ visits “out” material and more straight ahead jazz, with a healthy introduction to Pat Metheny’s idea of “folk jazz.”

Ornette Coleman + Pat Metheny – ‘Song X’ (1986): On Second Thought

Ornette Coleman + Pat Metheny – ‘Song X’ (1986): On Second Thought

Here is a reflection on free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and his wonderful 1985 encounter with Pat Metheny, ‘Song X.”

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Wadada Leo Smith – The Great Lakes Suite (2014)

A summit meeting of progressive jazz titans, themed around the Great Lakes.

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Something Else! sneak peek: Wadada Leo Smith, “Lake Superior” from The Great Lakes Suites (2014)

Wadada Leo Smith and his band of free jazz icons show the young guys how it’s done.

(Cross the) Heartland: Pat Metheny, “Turnaround” (1980)

(Cross the) Heartland: Pat Metheny, “Turnaround” (1980)