Album Album

Album Album

Studio album by

Jack DeJohnette

Released

1984

Recorded

June 1984

Genre

Post bop
Avant-garde jazz
Free funk

Length

42:09

Jack DeJohnette chronology

Inflation Blues
(1983)

Album Album
(1984)

The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album
(1985)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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]

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Transcription

Track listing

All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except where noted.

Side one

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

Side two

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

Personnel

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

^ Album Album at AllMusic
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 60. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 365. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ 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).
^ Milkowski, Bill (April 6, 2012). "DeJohnography". JazzTimes. Retrieved May 30, 2020.

v t e Jack DeJohnette
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 (2008) Music We Are (2009) Sound Travels (2012) Made in Chicago (2015) In Movement (2016) Return (2016) Hudson (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

v t e 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)
Film soundtracks	Kansas City (1996)
Related articles	David Murray discography

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