Audio-Visualscapes

Audio-Visualscapes
Audio-Visualscapes
Studio album by Jack DeJohnette
Released	1988
Recorded	February 1–3, 1988
Studio	Grog Kill, Woodstock, NY
Genre	Jazz, jazz fusion
Length	74:05
Label	MCA/Impulse!
Producer	Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette chronology

Audio-Visualscapes is an album by Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, featuring Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Mick Goodrick, and Lonnie Plaxico, recorded in 1988 and released on the MCA/Impulse! label.^[1]^[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]

The New York Times called the album "raw and tumultuous, hardly the work of someone settling into an easy middle age of refinement."^[4] The Boston Globe and The San Diego Union-Tribune considered it one of the best jazz albums of 1988.^[5]^[6]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "This single-CD (formerly a double-LP) from Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition contains music that mixes together advanced hard bop, fusion, M-Base funk and avant-garde jazz... The results are sometimes unsettling but rarely dull, well worth several listens."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated

Side one

"PM's AM" - 5:50
"Donjo" (Greg Osby) - 6:20
"Master Mind" (Osby) - 8:07

Side two

"Slam Tango" - 6:06
"The Sphinx" (Ornette Coleman) - 15:22

Side three

"One for Eric" - 12:10
"Brown, Warm & Wintery" - 5:45

Side four

"Audio-Visualscapes" (DeJohnette, Lonnie Plaxico, Osby, Mick Goodrick, Gary Thomas) - 14:25

Personnel

Jack DeJohnette – drums, synthesizer (sampled grand piano, expander, drum machine)
Gary Thomas – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet (through voice processor and Vocoder)
Greg Osby – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone (through Pitch Rider)
Lonnie Plaxico – electric bass, upright bass
Mick Goodrick – electric guitar

References

^ Jack DeJohnette discography accessed 11 September 2009
^ Snider, Eric (October 16, 1988). "Barriers ... and how to break them". St. Petersburg Times. p. 2F.
^ ^a ^b AllMusic Review
^ Watrous, Peter (September 11, 1988). "Two Jazz Veterans Work with New Recruits". The New York Times. p. A32.
^ "1988 Records". Calendar. The Boston Globe. December 22, 1988. p. 10.
^ Varga, George (January 1, 1989). "Best Jazz Albums of 1988". The San Diego Union-Tribune. p. E3.

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[1] Jack DeJohnette discography accessed 11 September 2009

[2] Snider, Eric (October 16, 1988). "Barriers ... and how to break them". St. Petersburg Times. p. 2F.

[AM-3] AllMusic Review

[4] Watrous, Peter (September 11, 1988). "Two Jazz Veterans Work with New Recruits". The New York Times. p. A32.

[5] "1988 Records". Calendar. The Boston Globe. December 22, 1988. p. 10.

[6] Varga, George (January 1, 1989). "Best Jazz Albums of 1988". The San Diego Union-Tribune. p. E3.

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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)
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Trio Beyond	Saudades (2006)
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