Jack DeJohnette and Piano Trios

[AllenLowe]

and lets not forget the pod people -

[Justin V]

No one appears to have mentioned this pianist on the board, but Hungarian pianist Kalman Olah has a trio date with Jack and Ron McClure. Jack cooks, and Olah, a winner of the 2006 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition, is impressive.

[JSngry]

Oddly enough, nobody's mention this piano trio:

[king ubu]

@Chuck - I realize this is an old thread, but ... no love for Harold Mabern?

[Pete C]

The Kenny Werner album is very good.

I'm not a big Mabern fan, but I'll say one thing for him: he can make himself heard in a noisy bar.

[MomsMobley]

the Mabern records are decent if inessential; if you feel that way about Harold's whole career (understandable), I'll add he's a FASCINATING and excellent interviewee, great source of Phineas Newborn lore so I cut him a little slack...

HOWEVER, I had occasion last night to listen to three hours of live 'peak' Jarrett ('American Quartet') on wkcr.org presented by the estimable Mitch Goldman and, in answer to the age old question, is it worth suffering Jarrrett (and, to a lesser extent, suffering Motian also) to hear the great Dewey Redman, sorry to say--

It. Is. Not. Even. Close.

Jarrett is so goddamn insipid-- cutesy-pie gospel ostinato bullshit with totally misplaced ersatz 'classical' tone production (no wonder his later Shostakovich, Bach and Mozart are laughable... I guess if you're an ofay scared of gospel per se and 'jazz' fan ig'nant of or antagonistic to 'long-hair' music this was a breath of fresh something but for the rest of us, it's utter GARABGE and ** never ** got better, no matter one's po' mouth rationalization that well, its success let Manfred do lots of other things...

About the only HOT moment of the whole program was when Mitch highlighted an especially hot Dewey mussette solo but otherwise, rather than make me reconsider Jarrett, it made me question Dewey's contributions to the mess. Semi-interesting to realize much of Motian's later banality was already present here too, bleh.

In penance, I listened to Hampton Hawes' THE SERMON four times in a row, then watched this--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbb63TIseiU

Sonny Criss' Cravat >>>>>> Jarrett's career

Here is what I discovered are the piano trio recordings by Jack DeJohnette excluding the Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans sessions.

The ones I have on CD are marked with an *.

Cedar Walton/Ron Carter/ Jack DeJohnette - Limetree (1983) *

Niels Lan Doky - The Target - Storyville (1986) *

Elaine Elias - Cross Currents - Denon (1987) *

Laurent De Wilde - Odd And Blue - Ida (1989) *

Elaine Elias - Plays Jobim - Blue Note (1989) *

Harold Mabern - Straight Street - DIW/Columbia (1989) *

Joanne Brackeen - Where Legends Dwell - Ken (1991)

Lyle Mays - Fictionary - Geffen (1992)

Marian McPartland - Piano Jazz - The Jazz Alliance (1992)

Harold Mabern - Lookin' On The bright Side - DIW (1993) *

Richie Beirach - Trust - Transheart (1993)

Kenny werner - A Delicate balance - RCA (1997)

Sadly, nothing there I'd want to buy.

Edited July 31, 2012 by MomsMobley

[Hot Ptah]

anybody here ever met him? the reason I ask is that in the early 1990s I was at Tower Records in NYC and I looked over and there he was standing next to me. I said "are you Jack DeJohnette?" and he looked at me, shook his head as in yes, very slowly, amd glared at me like an angry guy on the street; and than just stared at me like he wanted to kill me. I thanked him for his time and than ran away.

very weird...

He had the same type of look on his face as he had to walk down the center aisle of the audience seating area, before and after a performance in a small hall in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1981. It was an angry look, rather scary. I have never forgotten it.

He had John Purcell, Chico Freeman and Peter Warren with him for that performance, and played great.

[Pete C]

I thought he was a mellow Woodstock guy.

A musician I know who worked with him in an odd mix of players had only the nicest things to say about Jack. But maybe he's trying to channel some of the Jarrett/Peacock anger.

Edited July 31, 2012 by Pete C

[JSngry]

People's lifestyle choices often change as they get older.

[Peter Friedman]

Here is what I discovered are the piano trio recordings by Jack DeJohnette excluding the Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans sessions.

The ones I have on CD are marked with an *.

Cedar Walton/Ron Carter/ Jack DeJohnette - Limetree (1983) *

Niels Lan Doky - The Target - Storyville (1986) *

Elaine Elias - Cross Currents - Denon (1987) *

Laurent De Wilde - Odd And Blue - Ida (1989) *

Elaine Elias - Plays Jobim - Blue Note (1989) *

Harold Mabern - Straight Street - DIW/Columbia (1989) *

Joanne Brackeen - Where Legends Dwell - Ken (1991)

Lyle Mays - Fictionary - Geffen (1992)

Marian McPartland - Piano Jazz - The Jazz Alliance (1992)

Harold Mabern - Lookin' On The bright Side - DIW (1993) *

Richie Beirach - Trust - Transheart (1993)

Kenny werner - A Delicate balance - RCA (1997)

I agree with Mom's that the Harold Mabern's are decent but not essential.

Actually the CD on the list that I fand most appealing is the Cedar Walton.

Though not my favorite Cedar Walton Trio CD, it is nonetheless quite good.

[CJ Shearn]

Jack was great when I met him. He was understandably very tired after the gig.