American jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette, who worked with Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett, died on Sunday, aged 83, in Kingston, New York, the Associated Press reported this Monday, October 27.
Born in Chicago in 1942, Jack DeJohnette was part of the main jazz formations from the 1960s onwards, playing with musicians such as Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis, notably on the trumpeter’s album “Bitches Brew”, which marked fusion music at the turn of the 1970s.
DeJohnette was part of pianist Keith Jarrett’s trio, with double bassist Gary Peacock, jointly releasing some of the most critically celebrated albums of the last 40 years, such as “Bye, bye, Blackbird”, a tribute to Miles Davis, “Still Live”, “Somewhere”, “After The Fall”, “Always Let Me Go” and both volumes of “Standards”.
Pianist Bill Evans, saxophonist Jackie McLean and singers Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter are among other jazz musicians with whom he worked.
DeJohnette performed several times in Portugal, especially at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Jazz em Agosto festival, as happened in 2010, in a duo with saxophonist John Surman.
In 2018, he closed the Mimo festival, in Amarante, with the Hudson quartet, formed to celebrate the drummer’s 75th birthday, accompanied by bassist Scott Colley, keyboardist John Medeski and guitarist John Scofield.
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