Music for the Fifth World
1993 studio album by Jack DeJohnette
Music for the Fifth World | ||||
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Studio album by Jack DeJohnette | ||||
Released | 1993 | |||
Recorded | February 1992 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 60:09 | |||
Label | Manhattan | |||
Producer | Jack DeJohnette | |||
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Music for the Fifth World is an album by Jack DeJohnette, featuring performances with Will Calhoun, Michael Cain, Vernon Reid, Lonnie Plaxico and John Scofield plus vocalists, recorded in 1992 and released on the Manhattan label in 1993.[2]
Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "The music is stimulating if not as essential as DeJohnette's earlier work with Special Edition".[1] A JazzTimes reviewer selected it in 2012 as one of DeJohnette's key albums and described it as an "ambitious homage to Native American culture".[3]
Track listing
- All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated
- "Fifth World Anthem" – 9:27
- "Dohiyi Circle No. 1" (Joan Henry) – 2:56
- "Miles" – 8:15
- "Two Guitar Chant/Dohiyi (DeJohnette, Henry) – 5:16
- "Deception Blues" – 4:55
- "Witchi-Tai-To" (Jim Pepper additional lyrics by Henry) – 6:11
- "Darkness to Light" – 12:34
- "Dohiyi Circle No. 2" (Henry) – 2:25
- "Aboriginal Dream Time" – 8:10
- Recorded at Clinton Studios, N.Y in February, 1992
Personnel
- Jack DeJohnette – drums, vocals, ceremonial drum, keyboards, keyboard bass, synthesizer, percussion
- Vernon Reid – guitar, vocals
- John Scofield – guitar
- Will Calhoun – drums, vocals, ceremonial drum
- Lonnie Plaxico – bass
- Michael Cain – piano, synthesizer
- Robert Rosario – vocals, ceremonial drum
- Denis Yerry – ceremonial drum
- Joan Henry – percussion, vocals
- Farah DeJohnette, Ethel Calhoun – vocals
References
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- 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 [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 (1976)
- Gateway 2 (1978)
- Homecoming (1995)
- In the Moment (1996)
- Saudades (2006)
- 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)