Jack DeJohnette - Oneness

Artist:

DeJohnette, Jack

See Also:

Clarke, Stanley Watts, Ernie Frisell, Bill Metheny, Pat Liebman, David Murray, David (Saxophone) Brecker, Michael Haden, Charlie Peacock, Gary John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette - Gateway [9/30] Bruce Hornsby/Jack DeJohnette/Christian McBride - Camp Meeting [8/7] * Abercrombie/Sam Dress/Jack DeJohnette/Surman - Brewster`s Rooster [8/4] * Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - Inside Out Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - Up For It Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - My Foolish Heart [10/16] * Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - Setting Standards: New York Sessions [Box] * Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - Tokyo `96 Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette/Keith Jarrett Trio - Tokyo 1996 Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette - Rypdal, Vitous, DeJohnette [10/28]

Description:

Personnel: Jack DeJohnette (drums, percussion); Michael Cain (piano); Jerome Harris (electric guitar, bass); Don Alias (percussion).
Recorded at Right Track Recording Studios, New York, New York in January 1997.
Jack DeJohnette is back on ECM and all`s right with the world. This time around he is joined by Don Alias playing lots of decidedly Latin percussion instruments, and yet the music doesn`t sound at all Latin. The rhythms have been extracted from that tradition and placed against producer Manfred Eicher`s icy, nighttime skyline, DeJohnette`s tapping ride cymbal defining the placement of the stars. DeJohnette`s early free jazz days in Chicago continue to inform his music and keep it suprising and mysterious.
The song forms on this album allow for plenty of improvisation and much of the entertainment comes from listening to how each musician responds to the ideas suggested to him. In the latter stages of "Priestesses of the Mist," the metallic connection between piano strings and cymbals is explored in a rhythmic improvisation, and in "Free Above the Sea" one is reminded of Japanese Kabuki by the isolated woodblock and plucked strings. In "From the Heart," DeJohnette`s fascinating baroque cymbal work can be heard adorning the main body of the piece until, for a brief moment, the band breaks into a full-fledged swinging section.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Welcome Blessing / Free Above Sea
2. Priestesses of the Mist
3. Jack In
4. From the Heart
5. C.M.A.

Album Information

Release Date:

06/06/2000

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Jazz Instrument

Subgenre:

Drums

Label:

ECM Records (USA)

Producer:

Manfred Eicher

Catalog Number:

537 343

Original Release Year:

1997

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

DDD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

63 : 22

Guest Artist:

Jerome Harris; Michael Cain; Don Alias

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