“We’re going to do what we want to do; that’s how we got a fanbase in the first place,” says Snarky Puppy leader Michael League.
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Dreams are slippery things. From devout Jungians to the astrologers of TikTok, every new generation seeks to uncover what dreams might reveal about the self. When he set out to…
Jack DeJohnette has never been willing to sit still long enough to be categorized.
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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…
