Track Listing

1. Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
2. Cat and Mouse
3. Entranced Androids
4. Garden of Chew Man Chew
5. Otherworldly Dervishes
6. Through the Warphole
7. Storm Clouds and the Mist
8. Cartune Riots
9. Ode to South Africa
10. One Tooth Shuffle
11. After the Rain

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #137385 in Music
• Released on: 2006-02-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Album Description
Back in October 2001, Jack DeJohnette had a day off during a tour with Keith Jarrett. So he seized the opportunity for a duo concert with guitar visionary Bill Frisell, at the Earshot Festival in Seattle. Some time passed before the two greats listened back to the tapes. Satisfied, they resolved to prepare the material for release. "The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers" stands as a milestone work for both artists who are known for their freedom in creativity. It echoes their most famous projects while pointing the music in a forward direction.

About the Artist
Jack DeJohnette made jazz history with Miles Davis on the epochal "Bitches Brew." He is a longtime member of Keith Jarrett's "standards" trio with bassist Gary Peacock. Before founding his Golden Beams label, he led countless sessions for ECM Records, in fact playing on "more ECM sessions than any other musician," according to the critic Nate Chinen. Devoting his November '05 Jazz Times column to DeJohnette, Chinen also praises the drummer's "lyrical yearning" and "profound and seemingly natural elasticity." The Elephant Sleeps is the latest of a number of inspired duo sessions in his discography, including Ruta and Daitya (with Jarrett, 1971), "Pictures" (with John Abercrombie, 1976), "Invisible Nature" (with John Surman, 2002) and 2005's "Music from the Hearts of the Masters" (with Foday Musa Suso, on Golden Beams). He has been called by Ben Ratliff of The New York Times as "one of the most important musicians in the last 40 years of jazz." Bill Frisell emerged as an ECM artist in the early 1980s and has since been acknowledged as one of the most innovative musicians in any genre, on any instrument. "He dips into and skips across blues, roots, country, folk, rock, bluegrass and electronic squeaks and squonks," writes Richard Seven of the Seattle Times. Frisell's long association with the Nonesuch label has resulted in such superb recordings as "Nashville," "Ghost Town," Blues Dream, "The Intercontinentals," Unspeakable and the double-live album "East/West." Frisell is also a member of Paul Motian's historic trio with saxophonist Joe Lovano. His other collaborators over the years include Paul Bley, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Julius Hemphill and Elvis Costello. According to Francis Davis of The Atlantic Monthly, "Frisell's music seems haunted and disquieted. evocative not just of rivers and prairies and small-town parades but of lost highways, dead-end streets, and heartbreak hotels."