Jazz Live

PASIC – the largest drum and percussion event in the world

At his PASIC ’95 performance, Jack DeJohnette started with the cymbals, rolling on each one in turn and then combining rolls and crashes, building in intensity, swelling and retreating in the manner of ocean waves. Gradually he started incorporating the drums—a tom roll here, a snare crack there. Soon he was bouncing rhythmic figures around the different components of the kit. He might play a rhythm on a cymbal, answer it with the snare drum, embellish it with the toms, counterpoint it on the bass drum. You couldn’t classify the solo in terms of a musical genre. It had the finesse of jazz, the power of rock, and rhythms that crossed all musical borders.