I’ll be posting some great interviews from jazz mega-site jazz.com this week, and today’s is a 2009 interview with the living legend Jack DeJohnette. A couple of excerpts from his talk with Ted Panken:
“I’ve always been curious about mixing different things, like an alchemist,” Jack DeJohnette told me several years ago. “Different genres of music have always cross-pollinated, but the rate is speeded up now.”
“I’m more refined now, but much looser in another way,” DeJohnette reflected in 2005. “I’m taking in much more. My heart is more open, and I’m free to do whatever I want. So playing music is more joyful to me.”
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