"Jack DeJohnette, the prolific and versatile jazz drummer who played with Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Charles Lloyd, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis - including on Davis' groundbreaking 1970 album "Bitches Brew," which helped kick off the jazz fusion era - died Sunday. He was 83. His death was announced in a post on Instagram, which said he died at a hospital in Kingston, N.Y., near his home in Woodstock. DeJohnette's wife, Lydia, told NPR the cause was congestive heart failure."
"As a member of Davis' band in the late '60s and early '70s - a group that also counted Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Billy Cobham among its members - DeJohnette pumped out psychedelic rock and funk rhythms that put Davis' music in conversation with that of artists like James Brown and Sly Stone. In addition to "Bitches Brew," which was inducted this year into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry,"
Jack DeJohnette died at 83 in a Kingston, N.Y., hospital from congestive heart failure, his wife Lydia told NPR. He performed with Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Charles Lloyd, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis. He contributed to Miles Davis' groundbreaking 1970 album "Bitches Brew" and played on "At Fillmore," "Live-Evil" and "On the Corner." As a member of Davis' late-'60s/early-'70s band he fused psychedelic rock and funk rhythms with jazz. He won two Grammy Awards from six nominations and was named a Jazz Master by the NEA in 2012. He was born Aug. 9, 1942, in Chicago, learned piano as a child, worked with Sun Ra and the AACM, and moved to New York in the mid-1960s to join Charles Lloyd's quartet.
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