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