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]

Audio-Visualscapes
Studio album by
Released1988
RecordedFebruary 1–3, 1988
GenreJazz
Length74:05
LabelMCA/Impulse!
ProducerJack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette chronology
Irresistible Forces
(1987)
Audio-Visualscapes
(1988)
Parallel Realities
(1990)

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

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All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated

Side one

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

Side two

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

Side three

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  1. "One For Eric" - 12:10
  2. "Brown, Warm & Wintery" - 5:45

Side four

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  1. "Audio-Visualscapes" (DeJohnette, Lonnie Plaxico, Osby, Mick Goodrick, Gary Thomas) - 14:25
    • Recorded at Grog Kill, Woodstock NY on February 1–3, 1988

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Jack DeJohnette discography accessed 11 September 2009
  2. ^ Snider, Eric (16 Oct 1988). "Barriers ... and how to break them". St. Petersburg Times. p. 2F.
  3. ^ a b AllMusic Review
  4. ^ Watrous, Peter (11 Sep 1988). "Two Jazz Veterans Work with New Recruits". The New York Times. p. A32.
  5. ^ "1988 Records". Calendar. The Boston Globe. 22 Dec 1988. p. 10.
  6. ^ Varga, George (1 Jan 1989). "Best Jazz Albums of 1988". The San Diego Union-Tribune. p. E3.