correction: oops, that's Ron McClure on bass!

I haven't even touched on so much ... including his work with the Keith Jarrett trio ... like I said, it would take days to post my favorite moments. Please share your own! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3CZ...

Don't sleep on Jack's albums as a leader! I recommend Special Edition highly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JkV... (with David Murray, Arthur Blythe and Peter Warren)

Here's another ECM favorite, with Jan Hammer and John Abercrombie. Hammer had recorded this tune a few years earlier with Elvin Jones, that version is also great :3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOZA...

Speaking of ECM, Jack was an MVP over the label's lifetime, playing on dozens of records. Here he is on Collin Walcott's first album as a leader, a beautiful record all around www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCws...

Jack of course was also an excellent pianist and composer, here is one of his tunes recorded by the Gateway trio: John Abercrombie and Dave Holland (1975) www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6pe...

Here's a deep cut from Chick Corea's catalogue - 'The Brain' with Jack, Bennie Maupin and Dave Holland (1969) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcnF...

Wouldn't want to skip over his work with Charles Lloyd though! Here's Jack with Charles, Keith Jarrett, and Cecil McBee:

Jack was one of the MVP drummers in this early period of jazz-rock or "fusion". Here he is with Joe Henderson, John McLaughlin and Miroslav Vitous:

8 months later the band had changed. Grossman was replaced by Gary Bartz, Keith Jarrett replaced Chick Corea, and Michael Henderson had replaced Dave Holland. (John McLaughlin sat in on this gig as well). Bartz's solo here starting at about 5:00 has some of my favorite Jack moments.

For more info: www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/m...

Fun fact: This photo was used on the back cover of "Miles in the Sky" www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rD...

Whoops, I forgot to tag #JazzSky for the short thread above about Bill Dixon ☝️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uKF...

He recorded numerous albums for Soul Note in the decades that followed, many of which featured his drawings and paintings. In 2010 he died at 84.

Dixon was a brilliant musician and his advocacy for Black music, outside academia and within it, will be an inspiration for generations to come.

In 1968 he worked at Bennington College, VT where he collaborated with the dancer Judith Dunn, and in 1974-75 started the Black Music Division libraryguides.bennington.edu/blackmusic

He recorded Intents And Purposes, his first album as a leader, in 1966 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W10e... featuring Byard Lancaster, Jimmy Garrison, Reggie Workman, George Marge, Robin Kenyatta, and others. www.discogs.com/master/85919...

In 1962 he had a quartet with Archie Shepp that recorded for Savoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DIU... Later in the 60s, he organized the October Revolution and formed the Jazz Composer's Guild with Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor, Michael Mantler, Sun Ra, and a number of other prominent NY improvisers/writers.

In the late 50's and early 60's, Dixon headed the United Nations Jazz Society which advocated for the music and sponsored performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and others. See this article for an example: www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

He did everything right
and they indicated him :(