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"This Meets That" Live: John Scofield On Tour
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 ...
Continue ReadingJohn Scofield: This Meets That
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 ...
Continue ReadingTrio Beyond (DeJohnette - Goldings - Scofield): Saudades
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo bellissimo doppio album è sostanzialmente un atto di amore. Un tuffo nella memoria che esalta le splendide doti strumentali dei tre protagonisti, una esternazione vigorosa che riporta l'attenzione su una delle esperienze artistiche più stimolanti, ma ahimé anche meno fortunate, di quella stagione meravigliosa a cavallo fra la fine degli anni sessanta e l'inizio del decennio successivo. Stiamo parlando ovviamente del mitico trio messo assieme da Tony Williams con John McLaughlin e con Larry Young nella primavera del 1969, ...
Continue ReadingJohn Scofield: Music of Ray Charles - Gatineau, Canada 10/15/05
by John Kelman
John Scofield Plays the Music of Ray Charles Theatre, Casino du Lac Leamy Gatineau, Quebec October 15, 2005
With the passing of singer Ray Charles last year, it's no surprise that a proliferation of tribute albums have been coming out of the woodwork. In the jazz world, it's safe to say that there's no guitarist of significance better-suited for adapting the soulfulness and groove of Charles' music to a looser improvisational context than John ...
Continue ReadingJohn Scofield: That's What I Say: John Scofield Plays The Music of Ray Charles
by David Miller
Over the past decade, John Scofield has put out three types of albums. First, there are the acoustic post bop outings: Quiet, Works For Me, and his latest release, EnRoute. Second, there are the funk-jazz records: Grace Under Pressure, Hand Jive, and Groove Elation. And finally, there are the funky acid-soul-jazz records, A Go Go, Bump, Uberjam and Up All Night. That's What I Say falls squarely between the latter two categories. While it has the bluesy foundations of Hand ...
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