Album Album

1984 studio album by Jack DeJohnette

Album Album

Studio album by

Jack DeJohnette

Released| 1984
Recorded| June 1984
Genre| Post bop
Avant-garde jazz
Free funk
Length| 42:09
Label| ECM
Producer| Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette chronology
| Inflation Blues
(1983)  | Album Album
(1984)  | The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album
(1985)

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Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [2]

Album Album is a 1984 jazz album by Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition featuring five compositions by DeJohnette and a cover of Thelonious Monk's "Monk's Mood".[4] A JazzTimes reviewer selected it in 2012 as one of DeJohnette's key albums.[5]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except where noted.

### Side one

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1. "Ahmad the Terrible" – 6:08
2. "Monk's Mood" (Thelonious Monk) – 7:41
3. "Festival" – 6:08

### Side two

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1. "New Orleans Strut" – 6:49
2. "Third World Anthem" – 10:51
3. "Zoot Suite" – 5:02

## Personnel

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* Jack DeJohnette - synthesizer, guitar, drums, keyboards
* Howard Johnson - tuba, baritone saxophone
* David Murray - tenor saxophone
* John Purcell - alto saxophone and soprano saxophone
* Rufus Reid - bass guitar and double bass
* Dave Baker – recording engineer

## References

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1. ^ Album Album at AllMusic
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. ^ Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; Priestley, Brian; Alexander, Charles (2004). The Rough Guide to Jazz. Rough Guides. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-84353-256-9. "New Directions (John Abercrombie album)."
5. ^ Milkowski, Bill (April 6, 2012). "DeJohnography". JazzTimes. Retrieved May 30, 2020.

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Studio albums|

* The DeJohnette Complex (1969)
* Have You Heard (1970)
* Sorcery (1974)
* Cosmic Chicken (1975)
* Untitled (1976)
* Pictures (1976)
* New Rags (1977)
* New Directions [with John Abercrombie, Lester Bowie and Eddie Gómez] (1978)
* New Directions in Europe (1980)
* The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album (1985)
* Zebra [with Lester Bowie] (1989)
* In Our Style [with David Murray] (1986)
* Parallel Realities [Trio with Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock] (1990)
* Music for the Fifth World [with Vernon Reid and John Scofield] (1992)
* Dancing with Nature Spirits [with Michael Cain and Steve Gorn] (1995)
* Oneness (1997)
* Music in the Key of Om (2005)
* The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers (2006)
* Peace Time (2007)
* America [with Wadada Leo Smith] (2008)
* Music We Are [with John Patitucci and Danilo Pérez] (2009)
* Sound Travels (2012)
* Made in Chicago (2015)
* In Movement [with Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison]  (2016)
* Return (2016)
* Hudson [wth John Medeski, John Scofield and Larry Grenadier] (2017)

Special Edition|

* Special Edition [with Arthur Blythe and David Murray] (1979)
* Tin Can Alley [with Chico Freeman, John Purcell and Peter Warren] (1980)
* Inflation Blues [with Baikida Carroll] (1982)
* Album Album [with John Purcell and David Murray] (1984)
* Irresistible Forces [with Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Lonnie Plaxico, Mick Goodrick and Naná Vasconcelos] (1987)
* Audio-Visualscapes (1988)
* Earthwalk (1991)
* Extra Special Edition [with Bobby McFerrin] (1994)

Gateway|

* Gateway (1976)
* Gateway 2 (1978)
* Homecoming (1995)
* In the Moment (1996)

Trio Beyond|

* Saudades (2006)

with Keith Jarrett|

* Ruta and Daitya (1973)
* Standards Live (1986)
* Still Live (1988)
* Tribute (1990)
* Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note (1995)
* Tokyo '96 (1998)
* Whisper Not (2000)
* Inside Out (2001)
* The Out-of-Towners (2004)
* Yesterdays (2009)
* Somewhere (2013)

Related articles|

* Discography
* One Night with Blue Note

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David Murray

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.

As leader
or co-leader|

* Low Class Conspiracy (1976)
* Flowers for Albert (1976)
* Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club (1977)
* Let the Music Take You (1978)
* Last of the Hipman (1978)
* Interboogieology (1978)
* 3D Family (1978)
* Sweet Lovely (1979)
* Solo Live (1980)
* Ming (1980)
* Home (1981)
* Murray's Steps (1982)
* Morning Song (1983)
* Live at Sweet Basil Volume 1 (1984)
* Live at Sweet Basil Volume 2 (1984)
* Children (1984)
* Sketches of Tokyo (with John Hicks, 1985)
* New Life (1985)
* I Want to Talk About You (1986)
* Recording N.Y.C. 1986 (1986)
* In Our Style (with Jack DeJohnette, 1986)
* The Hill (1986)
* Hope Scope (1987)
* The Healers (with Randy Weston, 1987)
* Lovers (1988)
* Deep River (1988)
* Ballads (1988)
* Spirituals (1988)
* Tenors (1988)
* Ming's Samba (1988)
* Lucky Four (1988)
* Daybreak (with Dave Burrell, 1989)
* Special Quartet (1990)
* Remembrances (1990)
* Shakill's Warrior (1991)
* David Murray Big Band (1991)
* David Murray/James Newton Quintet (1991)
* Black & Black (1991)
* In Concert (with Dave Burrell, 1991)
* Fast Life (1991)
* Ballads for Bass Clarinet (1991)
* Death of a Sideman (1991)
* Real Deal (1991)
* A Sanctuary Within (1991)
* South of the Border (1992)
* Picasso (1992)
* MX (1992)
* Body and Soul (1993)
* Brother to Brother (with Dave Burrell, 1993)
* Jazzosaurus Rex (1993)
* Saxmen (1993)
* For Aunt Louise (1993)
* Love and Sorrow (1993)
* Shakill's II (1993)
* Windward Passages (Black Saint) (with Dave Burrell, 1993)
* David Murray Quintet (1994)
* The Tip (1994)
* Jug-A-Lug (1994)
* Flowers Around Cleveland (1995)
* Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead (1996)
* Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen (1996)
* Fo Deuk Revue (1996)
* Creole (1997)
* Speaking in Tongues (1997)
* Seasons (1998)
* Octet Plays Trane (1999)
* Like a Kiss that Never Ends (2000)
* Yonn-Dé (2001)
* Silence (with Mal Waldron, 2001)
* Now Is Another Time (2001–2)
* Waltz Again (2002)
* Gwotet (2003)
* Sacred Ground (2006)
* Plays Nat King Cole en Español (2010)
* Be My Monster Love (2012)

With James Blood Ulmer/
Music Revelation Ensemble|

* Are You Glad to Be in America? (1980)
* Free Lancing (1981)
* Music Revelation Ensemble (1988)
* Elec. Jazz (MRE, 1990)
* After Dark (MRE, 1991)

With the
World Saxophone Quartet|

* Point of No Return (1977)
* Steppin' (1978)
* Live in Zurich (1981)
* W.S.Q. (1981)
* Revue (1982)
* Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music (1985)
* Plays Duke Ellington (1986)
* Dances and Ballads (1987)
* Rhythm and Blues (1988)
* Metamorphosis (1990)
* Breath of Life (1992)
* Moving Right Along (1993)
* Four Now (1995)
* Takin' It 2 the Next Level (1996)
* Selim Sivad: A Tribute to Miles Davis (1998)
* Requiem for Julius (1999)
* 25th Anniversary: The New Chapter (2000)
* Experience (2003)
* Political Blues (2006)

With others|

* Cold Sweat Plays J. B. (Craig Harris, 1988)
* Special Edition (Jack DeJohnette, 1979)
* Album Album (Jack DeJohnette, 1984)
* Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge (James Carter, 2001)
* The Jazzpar Prize (Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra, 1991)
* Love Outside of Dreams (Kahil El'Zabar, 1997)
* One World Family (Kahil El'Zabar, 2000)
* We Is (Kahil El'Zabar, 2000)
* Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane (McCoy Tyner, 1984)
* 44th Street Suite (McCoy Tyner, 1991)

Soundtracks|

* Kansas City (1996)

Related articles|

* David Murray discography

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