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.^[1][2]

Audio-Visualscapes
Studio album by Jack DeJohnette
Released	1988
Recorded	February 1–3, 1988
Genre	Jazz
Length	74:05
Label	MCA/Impulse!
Producer	Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette chronology
Irresistible Forces (1987) Audio-Visualscapes (1988) Parallel Realities (1990)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]

The New York Times called the album "raw and tumultuous, hardly the work of someone settling into an easy middle age of refinement."^[4] The Boston Globe and The San Diego Union-Tribune considered it one of the best jazz albums of 1988.^[5][6]

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."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated

Side one

1. "PM's AM" - 5:50
2. "Donjo" (Greg Osby) - 6:20
3. "Master Mind" (Osby) - 8:07

Side two

1. "Slam Tango" - 6:06
2. "The Sphinx" (Ornette Coleman) - 15:22

Side three

1. "One For Eric" - 12:10
2. "Brown, Warm & Wintery" - 5:45

Side four

1. "Audio-Visualscapes" (DeJohnette, Lonnie Plaxico, Osby, Mick Goodrick, Gary Thomas) - 14:25

• • Recorded at Grog Kill, Woodstock NY on February 1–3, 1988

Personnel

• Jack DeJohnette – drums, electronic keyboards
• Gary Thomas – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
• Greg Osby – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Lonnie Plaxico – electric bass, acoustic bass
• Mick Goodrick – electric guitar

References

1. Jack DeJohnette discography accessed 11 September 2009
2. Snider, Eric (16 Oct 1988). "Barriers ... and how to break them". St. Petersburg Times. p. 2F.
3. AllMusic Review
4. Watrous, Peter (11 Sep 1988). "Two Jazz Veterans Work with New Recruits". The New York Times. p. A32.
5. "1988 Records". Calendar. The Boston Globe. 22 Dec 1988. p. 10.
6. Varga, George (1 Jan 1989). "Best Jazz Albums of 1988". The San Diego Union-Tribune. p. E3.