Tin Can Alley (album)

Tin Can Alley
Tin Can Alley
Studio album by Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition
Released	1981
Recorded	September 1980
Studio	Tonstudio Bauer; Ludwigsburg, West Germany
Genre	Jazz
Label	ECM 1189
Producer	Manfred Eicher
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Released1981

RecordedSeptember 1980

StudioTonstudio Bauer
Ludwigsburg, West Germany

GenreJazz

Tin Can Alley is a studio album by Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, recorded in September 1980 and released on ECM Records the following year. The quartet features saxophonists Chico Freeman and John Purcell and bassist Peter Warren.^[1]

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]

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Studio albums	The DeJohnette Complex (1969) Have You Heard (1970) Sorcery (1974) Cosmic Chicken (1975) Untitled (1976) Pictures (1976) New Rags (1977) New Directions [with John Abercrombie, Lester Bowie and Eddie Gómez] (1978) New Directions in Europe (1980) The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album (1985) Zebra [with Lester Bowie] (1989) In Our Style [with David Murray] (1986) Parallel Realities [Trio with Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock] (1990) Music for the Fifth World [with Vernon Reid and John Scofield] (1992) Dancing with Nature Spirits [with Michael Cain and Steve Gorn] (1995) Oneness (1997) Music in the Key of Om (2005) The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers (2006) Peace Time (2007) America [with Wadada Leo Smith] (2008) Music We Are [with John Patitucci and Danilo Pérez] (2009) Sound Travels (2012) Made in Chicago (2015) In Movement [with Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison] (2016) Return (2016) Hudson [wth John Medeski, John Scofield and Larry Grenadier] (2017)
Special Edition	Special Edition [with Arthur Blythe and David Murray] (1979) Tin Can Alley [with Chico Freeman, John Purcell and Peter Warren] (1980) Inflation Blues [with Baikida Carroll] (1982) Album Album [with John Purcell and David Murray] (1984) Irresistible Forces [with Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Lonnie Plaxico, Mick Goodrick and Naná Vasconcelos] (1987) Audio-Visualscapes (1988) Earthwalk (1991) Extra Special Edition [with Bobby McFerrin] (1994)
Gateway	Gateway (1976) Gateway 2 (1978) Homecoming (1995) In the Moment (1996)
Trio Beyond	Saudades (2006)
with Keith Jarrett	Ruta and Daitya (1973) Standards Live (1986) Still Live (1988) Tribute (1990) Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note (1995) Tokyo '96 (1998) Whisper Not (2000) Inside Out (2001) The Out-of-Towners (2004) Yesterdays (2009) Somewhere (2013)
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