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Double Bass Jack DeJohnette RIP.
- Thread starter Don Kasper
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Suckitude. An artist of the highest order. RIP, Jack DeJohnette.
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Ugh. This really hurts. I am lucky to have heard him in person a bunch of times, each time a music lesson that nobody else could ever teach.
To me , this man was in a class by himself. Godspeed my brother.
A sad loss, for sure. That Charles Lloyd Forest Flower record was one of the first jazz records I really fell in love with. I saw him several times with the Standards Trio, and we saw his 2013 “AACM homecoming” with Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams and Larry Gray that got released as Made In Chicago. One of my favorites was seeing him with Joe Lovano, Esperanza Spalding, and Leo Genovese. That was a really fine quartet. There’s a good video of a whole concert of that band in Paris.
Jack was one of my all time favorites. He was truly great, one of the masters. In the 80’s-90’s he was just unbelievable. The Keith Jarrett trio was huge for me and my cohort when I got to college in 1990. At that point Jack DeJohnette was THE cutting edge of great jazz drummers. Pat Metheny 80/81 and the first Michael Brecker album were in heavy rotation back then. Gateway with Dave Holland and John Abercrombie was also a big one for me. This is a tough one. RIP
I saw him live a few times over the years and one thing that always struck me was how relaxed he was behind the kit. Most of the best drummers are pretty loose in a way but somehow wound up at the same time. But the rhythm seemed to come to him as natural as breathing.
And another thing: his use of cymbals is a study in itself.
And another thing: his use of cymbals is a study in itself.
I think the fact that we're discussing his death so intensely in our forum says a lot about how great a musician and person he was, and not just a masterful drummer. He greatly influenced us as bassists with his music and showed us new aspects of bass/drum interplay and beyond.
As I rotate through favorite bass players, it finally hit me how many of those players on those favorite tracks had JD playing. What an artist and that ride cymbal….
Growing up without a good jazz station within my California farm town, I didn't have a good way to pick out recent records on forays into SF or Berkeley. Not yet a bassist, I used the strategy of buying albums with Jack DeJohnette drumming. I was rarely disappointed.
RIP
RIP
Super crappy but 83 years of that life was a solid run. Rest In Power.
Like Corea (and like Roy Haynes), we all thought he'd live to 100.
The Telegraph weighs in . . .
www.telegraph.co.uk
The Telegraph weighs in . . .
Jack DeJohnette, giant of jazz drumming who played on Miles Davis’s epoch-making Bitches Brew
‘Jack gave me a certain deep groove that I just loved to play over,’ wrote Davis in his memoir
www.telegraph.co.uk
