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Music|Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/jack-dejohnette-dead.html
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Jack DeJohnette, a drummer whose command and versatility made him one of the standout jazz instrumentalists of the past five decades and an indispensable figure in era-defining bands like Charles Lloyd’s mid-1960s quartet, Miles Davis’s electrified group of the late 1960s and early ’70s, and Keith Jarrett’s long-running acoustic trio, died on Sunday in Kingston, N.Y. He was 83.
A family representative, Joan Clancy, said the cause of death, in a hospital, was congestive heart failure.
Mr. DeJohnette rose to prominence in the second half of the 1960s, when jazz was expanding in multiple directions, absorbing textures from rock, R&B and various international traditions, and embracing fearless abstraction. His approach, which could be hushed or explosive, swinging or fiercely funky, built bridges between the old and the new.
“I’m like a colorist on the drums,” he said in a 2015 video interview,” going on to liken himself to a “painter.” “So I can work within time, but I can also be free of it, more elastic in that sense.”
Having started out as a pianist, Mr. DeJohnette also grew into an accomplished bandleader and composer, heading a series of fresh and innovative groups starting in the 1970s, including New Directions and Special Edition.
