1988 studio album by Jack DeJohnette
Audio-Visualscapes is an album by Jack DeJohnette 's Special Edition, featuring Greg Osby , Gary Thomas , Mick Goodrick , and Lonnie Plaxico , recorded in 1988 and released on the MCA /Impulse! label.[ 1] [ 2]
Critical reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [ 3]
The New York Times called the album "raw and tumultuous, hardly the work of someone settling into an easy middle age of refinement."[ 4] The Boston Globe and The San Diego Union-Tribune considered it one of the best jazz albums of 1988.[ 5] [ 6]
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "This single-CD (formerly a double-LP) from Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition contains music that mixes together advanced hard bop, fusion, M-Base funk and avant-garde jazz... The results are sometimes unsettling but rarely dull, well worth several listens."[ 3]
Track listing
All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated
Side one
"PM's AM" - 5:50
"Donjo " (Greg Osby) - 6:20
"Master Mind" (Osby) - 8:07
Side two
"Slam Tango" - 6:06
"The Sphinx" (Ornette Coleman ) - 15:22
Side three
"One For Eric" - 12:10
"Brown, Warm & Wintery" - 5:45
Side four
"Audio-Visualscapes" (DeJohnette, Lonnie Plaxico, Osby, Mick Goodrick, Gary Thomas) - 14:25
Recorded at Grog Kill, Woodstock NY on February 1–3, 1988
Personnel
References
^ Jack DeJohnette discography accessed 11 September 2009
^ Snider, Eric (16 Oct 1988). "Barriers ... and how to break them". St. Petersburg Times . p. 2F.
^ a b AllMusic Review
^ Watrous, Peter (11 Sep 1988). "Two Jazz Veterans Work with New Recruits". The New York Times . p. A32.
^ "1988 Records". Calendar. The Boston Globe . 22 Dec 1988. p. 10.
^ Varga, George (1 Jan 1989). "Best Jazz Albums of 1988". The San Diego Union-Tribune . p. E3.