Martin Johnson
speaker
72 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Jun
Martin Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Dijonette recorded the date.
It was released last year as Forces of Nature, a showcase of exceptional late 60s jazz.
A few years later, he reunited with Henderson on his classic 1969 recording, Power to the People, which features an extraordinary band.
Here's Dejanette mixing it up with pianist Herbie Hancock.
Hancock recently said of Dijonet, he always played the drums with a pianist's sense of melody, color, and harmony.
During the 70s, Dejanette's drums became one of the defining sounds of the then-new label, ECM Records, and he appeared on many recordings in several contexts, as a sideman, a co-leader, and as the founder and leader of bands like Directions, New Directions, and notably Special Edition, where he was often the elder, honing and challenging younger saxophonists like Chico Freeman, David Murray, and John Purcell.
Let's listen to Dijonet lead Purcell and Freeman on Tin Can Alley.
Pianist Keith Jarrett was one of Dijonet's most frequent collaborators.
They played together with Charles Lloyd in the 60s, then with Miles Davis a few years later.
For more than 30 years, starting in the early 80s, Dejanette, Jarrett, and bassist Gary Peacock played as the Standards Trio, reinventing classic works.
It became one of the most loved bands in jazz.
Dijonet told the podcast The American Radio Show that the trio's longevity owed to their strategy of playing every piece as if it were new, playing it for the first time.
Let's hear how he framed Jarrett's solo on The Way You Look Tonight.
And now let's hear Dejanette's solo.
It appears that Jarrett, who often vocalizes during his own solos, is cheering his bandmate on.
In 2013, Dijonet returned to his roots on the Chicago avant-garde scene, assembling a unique ensemble featuring several titans of the Windy City avant-garde.
Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, plus saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill.
The band played at the Chicago Jazz Festival, and the concert was documented on a recording called Made in Chicago.
Let's hear Dijonet duet with Abrams, one of his early mentors, on Museum of Time.
Dijonet never stopped exploring new musical vistas.
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