Special Edition (Jack DeJohnette album)

Special Edition
Studio album by
Jack DeJohnette
Released1980
RecordedMarch 1979
StudioGeneration Sound Studios
New York City
GenreJazz
Length39:06
LabelECM 1152
ProducerJack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette chronology
Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette
(1978) 		Special Edition
(1980) 		In Europe
(1980)

Special Edition is an album by American jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette recorded in March 1979 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features reed players David Murray and Arthur Blythe and bassist and cellist Slip Warren.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Tom HullB+ ((2-star Honorable Mention)(2-star Honorable Mention))[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "The first (and mightiest) of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition ensembles offered a sound that in many ways was revolutionary in modern contemporary and creative improvised music circa 1980... This CD deserves a definitive five-star rating for the lofty place it commands in the evolution of jazz headed toward new heights and horizons".[1]

A JazzTimes reviewer selected it in 2012 as one of DeJohnette's key albums.[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated
  1. "One for Eric" - 9:52
  2. "Zoot Suite" - 11:29
  3. "Central Park West" (John Coltrane) - 3:16
  4. "India" (Coltrane) - 6:02
  5. "Journey to the Twin Planet" - 8:42

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Yanow, Scott AllMusic Review accessed 31 August 2009
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 60. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 365. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Hull, Tom (28 February 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  5. ^ Milkowski, Bill (April 6, 2012). "DeJohnography". JazzTimes. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
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