Biography

DeJohnette came on the scene in the '60s, playing with John Coltrane, Charles Lloyd, Thelonious Monk, Keith Jarrett, and others. In 1969 he played on Miles Davis 's BITCHES BREW. In the '70s he became virtually a session drummer for ECM Records, recording with Jan Garbarek, John Abercrombie and others. With Abercrombie and Dave Holland, he formed the trio Gateway. In 1978 he formed New Directions, which involved Abercrombie and Lester Bowie, and in 1980 formed the acclaimed Special Edition. Subsequently, he joined Jarrett's long-running Standards Trio.

Top Tracks

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• Cobilla

• Healing Song For Mother Earth

• How's Never?

• Kaira

• May Dance

• Miles' Mode

• Mirror Image

• Ocean Wave

• Ode To South Africa

• One For Eric

• Oneness

• Panama Viejo

• Peace Time

• Picture 5

• Salsa For Luisito

• Sonny Light

• Sorcery, No. 1

• Storm Clouds And The Mist

• Tango African

• The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers...

• Third World Anthem

• Time Warps

• Voice Of The Kudrus

• Welcome Blessing

• Zoot Suite

Discography

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• Sound Travels

  Entertainment One Music

  2012

• Music We Are

  Kindred Rhythm

  2009

• Peace Time

  Now Forward Music Inc.

  2007

• The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers

  Kindred Rhythm / Golden Beams/Kindred Rhythm

  2006

• Music in the Key of Om

  Kindred Rhythm/Golden Beams

  2005

• Music from the Hearts of the Masters

  Kindred Rhythm/Golden Beams

  2005

• Oneness

  ECM

  1996

• Dancing with Nature Spirits

  ECM

  1995

• Extra Special Edition

  1994

• Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Jack DeJohnette

  Jazz Alliance / Jazz Alliance

  1992

• With Werner Pirchner and Harry Peppi

  ECM

  1983

• Inflation Blues

  ECM

  1982

• Tin Can Alley

  ECM

  1980

• Pictures

  ECM

  1976

• Cosmic Chicken

  Prestige Records

  1975

• Sorcery

  Original Jazz Classics

  1974

• Compost

  Columbia

  1972

• Have You Heard?

  Epic

  1970