The concert is sold out.
Is it already four years ago? In 2012, the legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette, just turned 70, and a star studded band played the opening concert of the 14th Enjoy Jazz Festival at the Heidelberg Castle. Because this is so, we will not go into the usual obligatory namedropping (Miles Davis, Charles Lloyd, Keith Jarrett), and assume that DeJohnette’s significant influence on the history of jazz since about the mid 60ies is known to the reader. We will instead talk about what he has been doing recently. For example, he recorded a vinyl-only solo piano album for the industrious indie label Newvelle, and released a rather fresh sounding concert with old pals from AACM times, like Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams and Henry Threadgill (“Made in Chicago”), and just recently he recorded an extremely supreme and inspired trio album with Ravi Coltrane and Matt Garrison, sons of his old companions John and Jimmy. It is titled “In Movement” and also relishes talking about keeping moving. The newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung was enraptured and wrote that “In Movement” shows what jazz can still be, even in times of electronic options and ‘retro-bliss: an awakening into freedom and starting out.
