Audio-Visualscapes


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.

Critical reception

The [New York Times] called the album "raw and tumultuous, hardly the work of someone settling into an easy middle age of refinement." The Boston Globe and The [San Diego Union-Tribune] considered it one of the best jazz albums of 1988.
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "This single-CD 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
  1. "PM's AM" - 5:50
  2. "Donjo" - 6:20
  3. "Master Mind" - 8:07
Side two
  1. "Slam Tango" - 6:06
  2. "The Sphinx" - 15:22
Side three
  1. "One for Eric" - 12:10
  2. "Brown, Warm & Wintery" - 5:45
Side four
  1. "Audio-Visualscapes" - 14:25

    Personnel