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2000 Rewind
by Chris M. Slawecki
You can drive yourself crazy trying to determine the “best" releases of this or any other year. But this past year, perhaps like every year, presented admirable music of excellent quality that did not stir my passions. And it also brought music of dubious quality that I enjoyed almost despite myself (this year, heaven forgive me, ...
Steady Groovin'
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Kool, Do Like Eddie, Chariots, Lazy, Camp Out, 7th Floor, Carlos, Big Top, She's So Lucky, Twang, Fat Lip
John Scofield: Steady Groovin'
by AAJ Staff
By releasing Steady Groovin' , Blue Note is sending out a reminder. Steady Groovin' contains no new tracks. What it does contain, though, are 11 of John Scofield's funk-based compositions from his 6 Blue Note CD's, two of which are based solely on his recently recognized mastery of the jazz jam groove: Groove Elation ...
John Scofield: Bump
by Scott Morrow
John Scofield, who's played with everyone from Miles and Mingus to Medeski Martin and Wood, has finally gone and done released a classic of 21st century groove jazz. Not exactly the Hammond-style soul jazz of it's predecessor A Go Go, Bump -- one of those rare cases where the sequel surpasses the original -- attains pure ...
John Scofield: Bump
by David Adler
John Scofield continues to venture deeper into simple, stripped-down groove music — and farther away from jazz. Bump is practically a dance record. Mark De Bli Antoni’s keyboard sampler even appears on several tracks; on “Drop and Roll" it’s poorly integrated and sounds like filler. Don’t get me wrong: Boundary-smashing experimentation is good for jazz, and ...
John Scofield: Bump
by C. Andrew Hovan
Ever since he signed with the Verve label a few years back, guitarist John Scofield has been on the upswing of the trendy movement we’ll call, for lack of a better term, the “Acid Jazz" scene. He scored really big with A Go Go, his critically-acclaimed 1998 collaboration with the supergroup Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Now ...
A Go Go
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1998
Track listing: A Go Go; Chank; Boozer; Southern Pacific; Jeep on 35; Kubrick; Green Tea; Hottentot; Chicken Dog; Deadzy.
