Made in Chicago Live at the Chicago Jazz Festival (2015)/ Jack DeJohnette & Muhal Richard Abrams & Larry Gray & Roscoe Mitchell & Henry Threadgill

In de top 3 van beste jazzplaten van 2015, volgens de invloedrijke NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll 2015, samengesteld door tientallen Amerikaanse jazzcritici. "Jack DeJohnette is best known for his work with Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis and his own Special Edition band but here is a rekindling of DeJohnettes early Chicago life, reconvening with sax-playing schoolfriends Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill, and Chicago free-jazz guru Muhal Richard Abrams. It was recorded live at the citys jazz festival in 2013, and has the spirit and Albert Ayler-influenced horn sounds of archetypal 1960s African-American free-jazz but it is anchored by varied compositions and DeJohnettes loose, flowing drumming. Mitchells "Chant" has wild sax lines rising out of a four-note motif; Threadgills "Leave Dont Go Away" unleashes DeJohnette at his free-funkiest and Abrams in chord-hammering, Cecil Taylor-like mood. Not always comfortable listening, but its an intriguing reunion of jazz pioneers." (John Fordham, The Guardian)