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John Scofield: This Meets That And More
by R.J. DeLuke
Guitarist John Scofield is an unassuming chap, seemingly at ease with himself and most things around him. He's ever congenial. Clever and well-grounded. Catch him wearing spectacles, and his look is professorial.But don't, for a minute, think Scofield isn't serious about music. The status he's achieved in the music world was accomplished with hard work, listening to the people and sounds around him, absorbing many influences, then putting it forth—through his instrument and through composition—in a way that ...
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by J Hunter
John Scofield has been keeping good company: The legendary guitarist followed up his Grammy-nominated turn with the super group Trio Beyond by recording with Medeski, Martin & Wood and touring with Phil Lesh & Friends. Even Scofield's Ray Charles tribute That's What I Say (Verve, 2005) was an all-star bash featuring Mavis Staples and Dr. John. With This Meets That, Scofield has the spotlight all to himself, and the results are very good.
Although Steve Swallow ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo eccellente This Meets That si segnala come uno degli album più riusciti del chitarrista John Scofield. La formula che ne sta alla base (il suo trio elettrico affiancato in molti brani da una sezione di fiati arrangiati dallo stesso Scofield) si dimostra perfettamente in grado di assecondare la voglia di guardare in avanti (tenendo però sempre d’occhio il passato) del celebre cinquantaseienne chitarrista di Dayton, Ohio. La base di questo ottimo modo di procedere sta nell’interplay ormai leggendario che ...
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by Doug Collette
John Scofield Trio and the ScoHorns The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire October 6th, 2007
John Scofield radiates such infectious joy when he plays, it's well nigh impossible not to share it. Whether it's on stage with MMW, Phil Lesh or fronting a group of his own, as he did October 6th at Dartmoth College, the venerable guitarist draws in his co-musicians no less ...
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by Doug Collette
The first tones you hear on This Meets That are those of John Scofield's guitar as if it's being tuned to a particular frequency. Listening to the CD it becomes clear there is, in fact, a wavelength into which all the musicians involved have locked.
No doubt bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Bill Stewart know that wavelength well, having worked with Scofield in the past, including Enroute (Verve, 2004). Yet it's crucial to appreciating This Meets That that it's not ...
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by John Kelman
It was inevitable. Guitarist John Scofield has, for the past decade, alternated regularly between albums aimed at the groove-centric (and broader) demographic he first captured with A Go Go (Verve, 1998) and discs appealing to a more committed jazz audience. Scofield has always represented a unique combination of advanced harmony, allowing him to seamlessly migrate between playing “in" and “out," visceral funk and blues concerns. The “This" and “That" music, referred to in the title This Meets That, is even ...
Continue ReadingJohn Scofield: Sco'in For It
by Terrell Kent Holmes
One would shortchange guitar maestro John Scofield substantially by describing him simply as a jazz musician. He has played in various genres from fusion to straight ahead to soul jazz. He made his first recordings as a leader in the mid-1970s and several years later landed the gig of his career by joining Miles' band shortly after Davis' emergence from the shadows of a self-imposed exile. Today, at 54, Scofield continues to grow by expanding into new territories. He has ...
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