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Where to start with Jack DeJohnette
Start with Silver Hollow — New Directions, 1978. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 10 Jack DeJohnette tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 10 Jack DeJohnette tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 10 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The dates here run from 1974 to 2024. They are the dates attached to the releases in this room rather than recording dates, so the later ones are likely reissues — but 50 years is still more than one version of the artist.
The head/body knob swings 40 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Silver Hollow — New Directions, 1978. Of the 10 Jack DeJohnette tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the cerebral end
Central Park West — Special Edition, 1980. The lowest head/body reading of any Jack DeJohnette track in the room (30 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
Jack In — Parallel Realities, 2024. The highest head/body reading here, at 70 out of 100 — a 40-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Jack DeJohnette sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Jack DeJohnette's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 50 | 40–62 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 53 | 35–72 | ambient → driving |
| density | 50 | 38–65 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 46 | 30–70 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Special Edition | 1980 | 2 |
| New Directions | 1978 | 2 |
| In Movement | 2016 | 1 |
| Made In Chicago | 2015 | 1 |
| Pictures | 1977 | 1 |
| Sorcery | 1974 | 1 |
| Parallel Realities | 2024 | 1 |
| Music For The Fifth World | 2015 | 1 |
Every Jack DeJohnette track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Sorcery #1 | Sorcery | 1974 |
| Picture 1 | Pictures | 1977 |
| Silver Hollow | New Directions | 1978 |
| Where Or Wayne | New Directions | 1978 |
| Central Park West | Special Edition | 1980 |
| One For Eric | Special Edition | 1980 |
| Museum of Time | Made In Chicago | 2015 |
| Two Guitar Chant / Dohiyi | Music For The Fifth World | 2015 |
| Rashied | In Movement | 2016 |
| Jack In | Parallel Realities | 2024 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Jack DeJohnette's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Miles Davis — jazz, 34 tracks
- Where to start with Herbie Hancock — jazz, 16 tracks
- Where to start with Thelonious Monk — jazz, 23 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Jack DeJohnette as a solo artist, from the United States and born in 1942. Its contributors tag the artist jazz, new age, jazz fusion, post-bop and avant-garde jazz. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Jack DeJohnette tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 10, across 8 albums. 10 of them carry a date, running from 1974 to 2024. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 10 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 10 of these 10 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.