Jazz Articles about Scott Hughes

Scott Hughes: Brown Bag

by John W. Patterson
June 1, 2000

Hughes is back after an earlier strong release called Lapse. As I love to hear, he has greatly improved his art on this latest effort. I was actually quite shocked to hear the wonderful amount of fusion happening this go round. Hughes is more than deft with the olde digits and can lay down some mean riff-rock jams but this time his jazzier finesse comes through more clearly. He even approaches Allan Holdsworth in phrasings and voicings but a split ...