Celebrating Jack DeJohnette

They are featured on “Directions” with DeJohnette really pushing the musicians.

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“Shadowdance” from 1990 features the super group of DeJohnette, guitarist Pat Metheny, keyboardist Herbie Hancock, and bassist Dave Holland.

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In June 2015, DeJohnette recorded his first and only solo piano album, Return; he is featured here performing his tender “Ode To Satie.”

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The recent passing of Jack DeJohnette on Oct. 26, 2025 at the age of 83 leaves a major gap in the jazz and music worlds.

Whether playing with Jackie McLean, the Charles Lloyd Quartet, Miles Davis, the Keith Jarrett Trio, or countless others as a stimulating and inventive drummer, or leading Directions, New Directions, Special Edition or any of his later groups (often doubling on piano which was his first instrument), DeJohnette was always a major asset.

To celebrate his legacy, here are three film clips of Jack DeJohnette in a variety of settings.

In 1969, Miles Davis led a quintet that also included tenor-saxophonist Wayne Shorter, keyboardist Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland and DeJohnette that never made a studio recording.

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