Jack DeJohnette, a jazz icon who made his home in Woodstock for half a century and became one of the Hudson Valley’s most visible musical citizens, died Sunday, October 26, 2025 at Kingston Hospital. He was 83. The cause was congestive heart failure, his family said.

A Chicago native with a background in classical piano who rose to worldwide renown as a drummer with Miles Davis and the Keith Jarrett Standards Trio, DeJohnette was an outsized musical presence in Ulster County — fundraising on local stages, mentoring new generations of musicians, and treating Woodstock as both workshop and home.

DeJohnette first came to prominence in the late 1960s, drumming on Davis’s breakthrough fusion sessions and quickly becoming after his work with the Charles Lloyd Quartet a first-call collaborator

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