Jack DeJohnette

drums, piano, melodica · 1942–2025 · Chicago

First coming to notice in Charles Lloyd's quartet, where he met Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette is the main drummer on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew. He then formed Special Edition and, from the 1980s, the Standards trio with Jarrett and Gary Peacock.

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Styles

• ECM and European jazz
• Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk

Landmark tracks

• One for Eric (1980)

Sources

• Source

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