Cha Wa’s album Rise Up makes a joyful noise of redemption and freedom that propels the band on to the world stage.
(Photo: Rachel Brennecke)Dec 16, 2025 2:04 PM
Four years in the making, Rise Up, the latest album from the Afro-Indigenous funk collective Cha Wa, was released on Aug. 29, a date forever seared into the memory of their home…
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…
