Special Edition (Jack DeJohnette album)
Occupation
- Drums, piano, melodica: Jack DeJohnette
- Tenor saxophone, bass clarinet: David Murray
- Alto Saxophone: Arthur Blythe
- Bass, Cello: Peter Warren
Special Edition is a jazz album by Jack DeJohnette, was recorded in March 1979 in New York City and in 1980 appeared on ECM. DeJohnette Special Edition used as a term of his former band project, whose first album he presented it.
The album
After DeJohnette had in the second half of the 1970s with his band project New Directions with John Abercrombie, Lester Bowie, and Eddie Gomez and in a trio gateway ( with Abercrombie and Dave Holland ) worked and released an album as a percussion soloist, he started in 1979 with Special Edition. This band was his " link to the world of wind instruments ." In the quartet DeJohnette took the two saxophonists David Murray ( tenor) and Arthur Blythe ( alto); Murray also played bass clarinet; both were at that time members of the World Saxophone Quartet. Added to this was the bassist and cellist Peter Warren. The repertoire consisted of three original compositions by the band leader and two tracks John Coltrane, Central Park West and India.
The album begins with One for Eric, " perfectly presented in the spirit of Eric Dolphy's " with Murray on bass clarinet. It became " the humorous homage, the much quoted by Dolphy large interval jumps on his conception of compositional ranking to nervous melody lines and further led. "
The following Zoot Suite, which reminded Ian Carr at the sound of a Jump- band from the 1940s, is dominated by the 4/4 taktigen bass groove, while Blythe repeat the head- lines on alto and Murray on tenor saxophone. Jack DeJohnettes Melodicaspiel initiates Coltrane ballad Central Park West to Peter Warren on cello. At the beginning of India DeJohnette plays first a piano accompaniment that picks up the motives of Indian music of Coltrane's composition; to Murray's clarinet playing he sits back on the drums, to Blythe and Murray on Old or on the bass clarinet. The last title Journey to the Twin Planet is a free- ranging improvisation, with Blythe's squeaky and old Murray's tenor with overblowing, and the last part with DeJohnettes melodica, which is reminiscent of electronic music. The bridge between the two parts is a " rugged, wild and free bop [ game ], which leads to a smoother, putative another planet ."
"Special Edition became after this acoustic foundation stone for the starting point of many other albums and tours, " wrote Ralf Dombrowski. Under the band name DeJohnette took until the 1990s, still more albums, including with Chico Freeman, John Purcell, Howard Johnson, Gary Thomas and Greg Osby.
Reception
The first Special Edition album experienced mostly positive response; the critics of Stereo Review wrote in the album's release in 1980: "In this ' Special Edition', Jack DeJohnette Has givenName us a wonderful surrealistic portrait of jazz Itself. "
The critic Michael G. Nastos awarded the album at Allmusic with the highest grade and called the sound of the first ( greatest ) by Jack DeJohnettes Special Edition ensembles:
The album was " revolutionary in many ways in modern contemporary and creative improvised music in 1980 " was. DeJohnette he said, can drive the two players with " his hard hitting drumming ", and if it fit the mood, he Change servicekit to piano or melodica, during which Peter Warren to all lay the foundation.
Ian Carr also raised in jazz - Rough Guide to the album as one of the most important in the discography of the band leader out and called it "a deft album with much variety of idiom and style. " Among the highlights of the album was one of Carr One for Eric because of its complex topic and the dynamic rhythms, coupled with Murray's bass clarinet, on the other hand Zoot Suite.
Richard Cook and Brian Morton, the album with the second highest vote -sided in their Penguin Guide to Jazz, lay emphasis on the achievements of the two woodwinds Murray and Blythe out, especially given the fact that the latter spent the following years in a creative depth. One for Eric was "a richly imaginative tribute to Dolphy. "
Ralf Dombrowski recorded the album 'and the five artfully shifting between composition and improvisation pieces " in its basic nightclub jazz, and highlighted the role DeJohnettes as the center of the musical show ," that on the pulse addition in constant recourse to the experiments of other designed an additional level of musical- rhythmic commentary. "
Title list
- Jack DeJohnette: Special Edition (ECM 1152, Trio Records PAP - 9196 (Japan), ECM Records 827694-2 ) [A 1]