Audio-Visualscapes
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{{Infobox album|
| name = Audio-Visualscapes
| type = Album
| artist = Jack DeJohnette
| cover = Audio-Visualscapes.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1988
| recorded = February 1–3, 1988
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 74:05
| producer = Jack DeJohnette
| prev_title = Irresistible Forces
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = Parallel Realities
| next_year = 1990
}}
Audio-Visualscapes is an album by Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, featuring Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Mick Goodrick, and Lonnie Plaxico, recorded in 1988 and released on the MCA/Impulse! label.[http://riad.usk.pk.edu.pl/~pmj/dejohnette/audio.txt Jack DeJohnette discography] accessed 11 September 2009{{cite news |last1=Snider |first1=Eric |title=Barriers ... and how to break them |work=St. Petersburg Times |date=16 Oct 1988 |page=2F}}
Critical reception
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|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r137575 AllMusic Review]
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The New York Times called the album "raw and tumultuous, hardly the work of someone settling into an easy middle age of refinement."{{cite news |last1=Watrous |first1=Peter |title=Two Jazz Veterans Work with New Recruits |work=The New York Times |date=11 Sep 1988 |page=A32}} The Boston Globe and The San Diego Union-Tribune considered it one of the best jazz albums of 1988.{{cite news |title=1988 Records |work=The Boston Globe |date=22 Dec 1988 |department=Calendar |page=10}}{{cite news |last1=Varga |first1=George |title=Best Jazz Albums of 1988 |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |date=1 Jan 1989 |page=E3}}
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "This single-CD (formerly a double-LP) from Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition contains music that mixes together advanced hard bop, fusion, M-Base funk and avant-garde jazz... The results are sometimes unsettling but rarely dull, well worth several listens."
Track listing
:All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated
= Side one =
- "PM's AM" - 5:50
- "Donjo" (Greg Osby) - 6:20
- "Master Mind" (Osby) - 8:07
= Side two =
- "Slam Tango" - 6:06
- "The Sphinx" (Ornette Coleman) - 15:22
= Side three =
- "One For Eric" - 12:10
- "Brown, Warm & Wintery" - 5:45
= Side four =
- "Audio-Visualscapes" (DeJohnette, Lonnie Plaxico, Osby, Mick Goodrick, Gary Thomas) - 14:25
- Recorded at Grog Kill, Woodstock NY on February 1–3, 1988
Personnel
References
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