| Audio-Visualscapes | ||||
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| Released | 1988 | |||
| Recorded | February 1–3, 1988 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 74:05 | |||
| Label | MCA/Impulse! | |||
| Producer | Jack DeJohnette | |||
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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]
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| 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]
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