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John Scofield Trio al Roma Jazz Festival
by Mario Calvitti
John Scofield Trio Auditorium Parco della Musica Roma Jazz Festival 2023 Roma 2.11.2023 La nuova edizione del Roma Jazz Festival si è aperta con il trio del chitarrista John Scofield, attualmente in tour per la presentazione del suo nuovo album di fresca pubblicazione, Uncle John's Band, registrato durante l'estate in compagnia di Vicente Archer al contrabbasso e Bill Stewart alla batteria, che sono al suo fianco anche in questa occasione. ...
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by Mario Calvitti
Dopo la parentesi del primo disco realizzato in completa solitudine, il chitarrista John Scofield torna alla formazione per lui più abituale del trio, ma non lo stesso con cui aveva inciso Swallow Tales sempre per la label tedesca. Al posto di Steve Swallow troviamo infatti il contrabbassista Vicente Archer, mentre alla batteria siede nuovamente il fido Bill Stewart. È una nuova formazione per Scofield, anche se i tre insieme al pianista e organista Gerald Clayton avevano registrato Combo 66 nel ...
Continue ReadingFassa Wonders
by Paolo Peviani
Fassa Wonders Milano Organics SkyGarden Rooftop 7.11.2023 Preceduta da un set del quartetto della chitarrista e cantante Francesca Bertazzo, con Roberto Gorgazzini al pianoforte, Beppe Pilotto al contrabbasso, Enrico Tommasini alla batteria, si è tenuta a Milano, nella bella cornice dell'Organics SkyGarden Rooftop, la presentazione delle iniziative per la stagione 2023/24 della Val di Fassa. Filo conduttore della stagione: Fassa Wonders. Titolo evocativo delle meraviglie di questa parte delle Dolomiti (Sasso ...
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by Ian Patterson
John Scofield's entire oeuvre can be roughly divided into groove-based or straight-ahead recordings. Yet even in maximum groove propulsion, as on A Go Go (Verve, 1998), to cite one stellar example, Scofield's grounding in straight-ahead jazz is never far from the surface. On the flip side, his most conventional jazz is always rhythmically vital. Uncle John's Band, the guitarist's third ECM album as leader, following Swallow Tales (2020) and John Scofield (2022), falls squarely in the latter category. And it ...
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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 ...
Continue ReadingJohn 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 ...
Continue ReadingFestival 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 ...
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