11 h. ago Jack DeJohnette, acclaimed jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis, dies at 83

Acclaimed jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has died at 83

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12 h. ago Jack DeJohnette was more than a jazz drummer – his staggering range made him a superhuman force in music

With a complex playing style that was nevertheless generous towards other musicians, the US musician was in a category all of his own• Jack DeJohnette dies aged 83My interview with Jack DeJohnette didn’t start well. It was the summer of 2000 and DeJohnette was in London to play with Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio. Referring to him in my first question as a “drummer” felt reasonable enough, but DeJohnette didn’t appreciate being pigeonholed and shot back instantly: “I’m a complete musician.” A few days later, sitting in the Royal Festival Hall watching the Standards Trio, a moment of transcendent magic thrilled me as Jarrett sustained a long sequence of repeated notes high up on the piano and DeJohnette powered the music forwards with a labyrinthian drum solo as harmonically searching as anything Jarrett had played. Complete musician indeed.“The idea of improvisation,” DeJohnette told me, “is tied up in the very nature of our existence. We don’t expect our life to evolve without chan...

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14 h. ago Jack DeJohnette death: Jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis dies aged 83

He worked with musicians including Alice Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Charles Lloyd

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16 h. ago Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83

Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleaderJack DeJohnette, the jazz drummer celebrated as one of the genre’s true greats – who worked with stars including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Charles Lloyd – has died aged 83. A press representative for ECM, the record label that released many of his recordings, confirmed the news though no cause of death was given.Able to bring dynamic, highly musical playing to open-minded free jazz, R&B-leaning instrumental grooves and everything in between, DeJohnette is perhaps best known as the drummer in Davis’s fusion period, contributing to albums such as Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson and On the Corner. He was also celebrated as a regular sideman and bandleader on elegant, progressive fusion releases from ECM in the 1980s. Continue reading...

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The Essex Serpent author offers a moving account of her father-in-law’s final illness that will resonate widelyThe novelist Sarah Perry’s father-in-law, David, died of oesophageal cancer in 2022. This book tells the story of his dying, from the last time she saw him well, on a trip to Great Yarmouth at the end of summer, to his death less than two months later, just nine days after being diagnosed.It’s not easy to account for what makes this book so special. Its main character is as unpromisingly ordinary as its title suggests, and some may even find him a little boring. David Perry is the kind of man who spends hours sorting his beloved stamp collection into albums with the aid of long-tipped forceps and magnifying glasses, or filling in his Sudoku puzzle books, or reading the latest copy of the Antiques Gazette, looking intently at porcelain dogs and chased silver punch-bowls. Continue reading...

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