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Sco in Baton Rouge, Okazaki vs. Monk, Sax-less Trane covers & more
by Marc Cohn
This week we fired up the locals for the super John Scofield Baton Rouge concert on October 4th; did a Miles Okazaki/Thelonious Monk compare & contrasts with two of Monk's most challenging compositions; played sax-less Trane covers from guitarist Simone Manunza & Jessica Williams solo at the 88s; and spun some 21st century jazz that caught our fancy. All of that, while Lady J was on the other side of the glass waiting for a slow dance. ...
Continue ReadingJohn Scofield alla Casa del Jazz di Roma
by Mario Calvitti
John Scofield Casa del Jazz Summertime 2017 Roma 18.07.2017 Per il suo più recente tour europeo, che lo ha portato anche in Italia per tre date (la prima a Roma, dove lo abbiamo ascoltato), il chitarrista John Scofield ha rispolverato un progetto di qualche anno fa, presentandosi con la Überjam Band, un quartetto che aveva pubblicato tre album tra il 2002 e il 2013. Ad accompagnarlo, Avi Bortnick alla chitarra ritmica e live ...
Continue ReadingJohn Scofield Uberjam Band at Fano Jazz by The Sea 2017
by Andrea Rotili
Adriano Pedini: Organizzatore di Fano Jazz by the Sea
by Libero Farnè
Ha raggiunto un quarto di secolo Fano Jazz by the Sea, uno dei festival jazz più importanti sulla costa adriatica italiana. I suoi obiettivi e criteri, le sue peculiarità ambientali e stilistiche, il suo pubblico e i suoi finanziamenti sono i temi principali affrontati in questa intervista da Adriano Pedini, che dell'evento marchigiano preferisce essere considerato “organizzatore" anziché direttore artistico. Le sue risposte entusiastiche, ma anche ricche di spunti e di dettagli specialistici, testimoniano la passione e la professionalità con ...
Continue ReadingJohn Scofield: Jazz Inspires You To Try Something Different
by Nenad Georgievski
In a career that has spanned over several decades with releases that have encompassed various types of musical styles and sounds, guitarist John Scofield has always managed to emphasize the importance of melody by building fragments of hummable tunes around musically abstract compositions. His record Country for Old Men (Impulse!, 2016)--the title is a play on the Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men--is comprised of classic country songs, where he pays tribute to songwriters including George Jones, Hank ...
Continue ReadingJohn Scofield's Country for Old Men at the Ardmore Music Hall
by Mike Jacobs
John Scofield's Country for Old Men The Ardmore Music Hall Ardmore, PA September 24, 2016 There are probably only are a handful of guitarists with a catalog as deep and stylistically diverse as John Scofield's. One of the obvious perils that these artists encounter when touring is facing an audience with fans from different stages of their careers--with different expectations. Short of doing an exhaustive retrospective every time out, this can almost guarantee a certain ...
Continue ReadingJohn Scofield: Country for Old Men
by John Kelman
When guitarist Bill Frisell first began a more decided focus on roots music, bluegrass and country & western music with the release of 1996's Nashville (Nonesuch), despite being largely very well-received, jazz purists rankled when the largely bluegrass/folk-informed album began to garner awards like Downbeat Magazine's Best Jazz Album of the Year. While Frisell's oftentimes Americana-tinged work has, in the ensuing years, become more fully accepted for the wonderful music that it is, fellow six-stringer John Scofield is unlikely to ...
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