| Dejohnette, Jack / Sound Travels |
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| Album: | Sound Travels | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Dejohnette, Jack | Added: | 01/2012 | |
| Label: | Eone Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2012-03-02 | Pull Date: | 2012-05-05 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 6 May | 15 Apr | 8 Apr | 1 Apr | 25 Mar | 18 Mar | 11 Mar | 4 Mar |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 04, 2013: | No Cover, No Minimum: Top Jazz of 2012 Salsa For Luisito | 4. | Apr 14, 2012: | The Mongrel's Stoop Salsa For Luisito | |
| 2. | Aug 28, 2012: | Rebop New Muse | 5. | Apr 13, 2012: | The Songsmith Show Enter Here | |
| 3. | May 04, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum New Muse | 6. | Apr 10, 2012: | Rebop Enter Here |
| Album Review |
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| Be Sharp Reviewed 2012-02-26 | ||
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Drumming legend Jack DeJohnette’s 50-year career has included long stints with Charles Lloyd, Miles, Sonny, Freddie, Keith Jarrett, dozens more. A huge part of jazz-rock fusion (starting w Miles’ “Bitches Brew” band), he’s done hard, soft, world & New Age. Here he plays drums & piano (quite well!) and leads a good band, incl the omnipresent Esperanza Spalding on bass & vox, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, and guitarist Lionel Loueke, on an album featuring a variety of light, likable styles. Nothing’s pathfinding here, but it’s very elegant and tasteful, like perfect dinner music (meant without sarcasm). No FCC issues. 1 * Mid slow. An invocation. Pretty solo piano. Peaceful & calming. Starts & ends with a resonating bell. Could as well be played on a classical program as on a jazz one. (2:24) 2 *** Mid-tempo. Fun salsa. Trumpet leads at times, but mostly it’s Latin perc & piano backing Spalding’s delightful scatting, then her & Jack’s duet singing in Spanish. (6:56) 3 *** What a gas! Co-written & sung well by Bruce Hornsby (but Jack plays piano). Hardly jazz, it’s more jam band: a bit country, a bit bluesy. Good electric guitar. Soprano sax fills the roll of a harmonica. A real fun song. RIYL Southern-fried bluesy rock: Allmans, maybe Delbert McClinton or, say, Bruce Hornsby. Even a bit of Grateful Dead here. (4:50) 4 ** Mid-tempo, but very propulsive & forceful. Straightforward modern jazz. Soprano sax & trumpet trade improvisational solos, sometimes with some off-major modality, the trumpet with something of a Spanish accent. (6:06) 5 * Mid fast. Another playful Latin number, but with a bit less energy than #2. There’s some nice bossa nova guitar. Strong tenor sax. A pool-side band could play this one, while you sip a rum drink and watch people do the limbo. (5:41) 6 Medium fast. Horns take a break. Not much of a melody; the rhythm section (piano, guitar, bass & drums) plays rhythm. Interesting but brief. (1:43) 7 Mid-tempo. Bobby McFerrin guests for some Bobby McFerrin-style scat singing; he’s accomp’d by conga & piano. Pleasant, almost dreamy; tends toward easy listening. (5:59) 8 Mid-fast. Some middle-age, smooth jazz, easy listening thing. A yawner. (8:05) 9 ** Very nice solo piano by DeJohnette. Some folk and some blues hints. (4:34) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Enter Here | 5. | Sonny Light | |||
| 2. | Salsa For Luisito | 6. | Sound Travels | |||
| 3. | Dirty Ground | 7. | Oneness | |||
| 4. | New Muse | 8. | Indigo Dreamscapes | |||
| 9. | Home | |||||