“This is the most explicit and boldest expression of what I believe,” Joel Ross said of his latest album, Gospel Music.
(Photo: Jati Lindsay)Mar 17, 2026 11:31 AM
On a stormy afternoon in January, Joel Ross led a quartet at the Louis Armstrong House Museum’s small jazz room in Queens, offering a reading of the vibraphonist’s…
Jack DeJohnette has never been willing to sit still long enough to be categorized.
(Photo: DownBeat Archive)Oct 28, 2025 10:16 AM
Editor’s Note: Jack DeJohnette is the kind of percussionist who might appear on any given night behind a major artist and, by so doing, raise the level of group interplay about seven notches. Such was the case at Newport ’74 when he showed up quite unexpectedly behind Freddie Hubbard at Carnegie Hall. All of a sudden a formerly ho-hum rhythm section was transformed into one of high excitement, distinctive originality and exquisite empathy.
But Jack DeJohnette is far more than just a drummer who sits in someone else’s band, or even someone who…
