Sound Travels

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Sound Travels is an album by drummer and composer Jack DeJohnette recorded in 2011 and released on the eOne Music/Golden Beams label.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
All About Jazz
PopMatters

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states "Sound Travels is a current, understated, well-disciplined glimpse into DeJohnette's current musical world view, which is worth celebrating for its own sake". All About Jazz reviewer John Kelman said, "As he heads into his eighth decade on the planet and approaches his sixth in music, DeJohnette is clearly healthy, happy and on a creative roll. Sound Travels is a powerful celebration, culmination and affirmation of an artist who may be paying it forward to his younger players, but remains the humble and appreciative reciprocal recipient on a collaborative date where there's little to prove but plenty to say". PopMatters' John Garratt said "Sound Travels may not contribute new and radical ideas to Jack DeJohnette’s overall canon of works, but it is a fun, catchy by-product of his “me-time,” relaxed and competing for nothing".

Track listing

All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except where noted.

1. "Enter Here" – 2:14
2. "Salsa for Luisoto" (DeJohnette, Bruce Hornsby) – 6:56
3. "Dirty Ground" – 4:49
4. "New Muse" – 6:02
5. "Sonny Light" – 5:41
6. "Sound Travels" – 1:42
7. "Oneness" – 5:57
8. "Indigo Dreamscapes" – 8:02
9. "Home" – 4:34

Personnel

• Jack DeJohnette – drums, piano, resonating bells
• Ambrose Akinmusire – trumpet (tracks 2, 4 & 5)
• Tim Ries – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone (tracks 3–5 & 8)
• Lionel Loueke – electric guitar (tracks 2, 3 & 6)
• Esperanza Spalding – bass, electric bass, vocals (tracks 2–6 & 8)
• Luisito Quintero – percussion, vocals (tracks 2, 3 & 5–8)
• Jason Moran – piano (track 8)
• Bruce Hornsby – vocals (track 2)
• Bobby McFerrin – vocals, percussion (track 7)