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John Scofield: Uncle John's Band
by Neil Duggan
Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead's bassist for over 30 years, claimed their basic inspiration came from the musical unions he saw in the Miles Davis Quartet along with the John Coltrane Quartet from the early 1960s. John Scofield and Lesh have played together on many occasions. So perhaps it is no surprise that the Grateful Dead anthem, “Uncle John's Band," written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter, originally released on their album, Workingman's Dead (Warner Bros. 1970), should serve ...
read moreJohn Scofield Band, Michael Manring, Jeff Lorber Fusion, Mark Lettieri
by Len Davis
Our program today begins with the John Scofield Band Live in 1990 with Dennis Chambers and Gary Grainger. A live recording in Melbourne from 2007 with Frank Gambale = 6931}, {{m: Virgil Donati and Ric Fierabracci, Live In Australia. Scott McGill, Michael Manring and Vic Stevens live from 2001. Michael Manring from The Book of Flame and drummer Michael Shrieve from Two Doors 1998. Some excellent progressive rock from bassist Antoine Fafard from Sphere and some jazzy sounds from the ...
read moreFestival International de Jazz de Montréal 2023
by Mark Sullivan
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec June 29-July 3, 2023 The 2023 festival continued the broad offering of free shows that was so prominent last year. They were frequently strong enough to vie with the ticketed concerts (which were also quite diverse and featured marquee artists from jazz and adjacent fields, as always). The festival is proud to boast that two-thirds of the concerts are free. They are certainly not all “free jazz," but ...
read moreM. E. B.: That You Not Dare To Forget
by Doug Collette
With all due respect to Lettuce's A Tribute to Miles Davis--Witches Stew (Self Produced, 2017) and the all-star ensemble dubbed Bitches Brew Revisited, M.E.B. (formerly known as Miles Electric Band) is an inordinately creative homage to Miles Davis. And given the continually experimental path The “Man With The Horn" chose to follow throughout his career, it is no doubt one of which he would approve. That You Not Dare To Forget is a slightly less than half-hour audio ...
read moreInside Scofield
by Mike Jacobs
John Scofield Inside Scofield I'm Filming Productions 2022 With jazz being an increasingly marginalized art form (at least in the commercial sense), any news of serious documentary work about one of its more iconic practitioners is likely to garner an immediate hallelujah from the chorus. Perhaps this is doubly so when the subject is someone like guitarist John Scofield—a contemporary jazz hero who has yet to receive such treatment. But then, as always, there follows ...
read moreHal Galper: Ivory Forest Redux
by Paul Rauch
There are a myriad of reasons as to why two musicians may have a special chemistry. They may be aesthetic pertaining to style, or philosophical in terms of what direction their personal musical journeys are headed. For pianist Hal Galper and guitarist John Scofield, two recordings on the German Enja label in 1979 and 1980 demonstrated in no uncertain terms, that the two were well grounded in musical paths that while being decidedly different, coalesced peacefully in a hub of ...
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by Ian Patterson
John Scofield Inside Scofield I'm Filming Productions 2022 “I've been lucky," says John Scofield, two thirds of the way through Joerg Steineck's documentary on the guitarist. “I've been in the right place at the right time, and I've also made good use of the luck that was handed to me." Of course, there may have been an element of luck in Scofield finding himself playing with Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, touring with ...
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