Jazz musician Jack DeJohnette, who performed with such luminaries as Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra and Keith Jarrett, has died. He was 83.
A family representative told the New York Times that DeJohnette died on Sunday at a hospital in Kingston, N.Y. The cause of death was congestive heart failure.
Born in Chicago, DeJohnette initially learned piano as a child but later took up drums after a family friend left their kit in the family’s basement.
He first got noticed in the mid-1960s, playing drums as a member of the Charles Lloyd Quartet. He then worked with Bill Evans, Stan Getz and Jackie McLean before releasing his own album, “The DeJohnette Complex,” in 1968.
Miles Davis then recruited him for his group and he can be heard on the classic 1969 fusion jazz album “Bitches Brew.” He went on to play on a number of subsequent Davis albums, including “On the Corner,” “Jack Johnson,” “Big Fun” and “Live-Evil.”
He later was a member of the Standards trio, which included Jarrett and bassist Gary Peacock. The group would record and perform together over a 25-year period.
DeJohnette also put out numerous live and studio albums over the course of his career, and founded another trio with Ravi Coltrane and Matt Garrison in 2016.
He won two Grammy Awards: One in 2009 for New Age Album and in 2022 for Jazz Instrumental Album. Rolling Stone once listed DeJohnette as one of the top 100 drummers of all time.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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