"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."
"Jack 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, while his personal assistant added that he died from congestive heart failure. Able to bring dynamic, highly musical playing to open-minded free jazz,"
"He dropped out of college and moved to New York in the mid-1960s to pursue music more seriously, packing his drums along with just $28 to his name. He quickly picked up work with Freddie Hubbard and Jackie McLean, and then a more sustained collaboration with Charles Lloyd in his quartet where he played alongside Keith Jarrett one of his frequent collabo"
Born in Chicago in 1942, Jack DeJohnette learned piano as a child and added drums in his teens. He moved from doo-wop and rock'n'roll into jazz, leading a trio from the late 1950s and working with Sun Ra and Chicago avant-garde musicians. He filled in for Elvin Jones with John Coltrane in Chicago and relocated to New York in the mid-1960s with $28 and his drums. He worked with Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean and Charles Lloyd, collaborated with Keith Jarrett, and performed across free jazz, R&B-leaning grooves and fusion, contributing to landmark Miles Davis albums and releasing progressive fusion records on ECM. He died aged 83 from congestive heart failure.
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