Search results for "John Scofield"

Adam Levy: Dear John (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

Adam Levy might be best known for his guitar work in Norah Jones's touring band, yet Levy has been adding tasteful, a...

John Scofield with Medeski Martin & Wood: Chank (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 01, 08

John Scofield and Medeski Martin & Wood are a match made in jazz-funk heaven, and A Go Go is arguably the best record...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD

Avant Gardism comes in all shapes and sizes today. The new generation of musicians is working within the concepts o...

John Scofield (featuring Medeski, Martin and Wood): Boozer (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music August 18, 09

During the late 1990s, there was a pseudo revival in the jam band scene with the arrival of bands like Medeski, Marti...

John Scofield: You Bet (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Early in his career, John Scofield performed with jazz-funk legends George Duke and Billy Cobham before joining Miles...

John Scofield: Let's Say We Did (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 20, 08

What do you get when you mix fusion, funk, soul and bop? Perhaps a guitarist sounding like John Scofield. Add a pench...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JAZZ GUITAR

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Lee Konitz & John Scofield: Some Blues (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

Some might think that John Scofield is as far from Lee Konitz as can be. Wrong! First, each has played with Miles Dav...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE LEE KONITZ DUETS

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John Scofield: Shoe Dog (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 31, 07

Jazzmen, from Charlie Christian to Wes Montgomery, defined the sound of the electric guitar: clear, swinging and sop...

John Scofield: Groove Elation (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 12, 08

It's a straight blues disguised as a Mardi Gras romp. Muhammad's flawless Big Easy beat, Irwin's old- school bass and...

John Scofield: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 07, 09

Scofield took a tried and true gospel tune and gave it a tight, soul blues treatment with just a dash of The Big Easy...

John Scofield (featuring Medeski, Martin and Wood): Green Tea (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 18, 09

Riding the wave of grooves that come on just about every song off of this album, MMW and Scofield dig deep for their ...

John Scofield: I'll Take Les (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 02, 08

The "Les" in the title is Les McCann, and this clever reworking of McCann's hit "Compared to What," sans vocal but in...

John Scofield: Big Fan (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 31, 08

Continuing the bop explorations of the prior year's brilliant Time On My Hands, Scofield takes the Parker/ Gillespie ...

John Scofield with Medeski Martin & Wood: Hottentot (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 01, 08

While most of A Go Go is chilled and relaxed, "Hottentot" turns up the heat, steadily burning until it's a raging inf...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD

Avant Gardism comes in all shapes and sizes today. The new generation of musicians is working within the concepts o...

John Scofield: The Low Road (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 21, 08

This is great Scofield! A bit more polished than some time ago, perhaps, but still it's good to hear Sco in this vein...

McCoy Tyner & John Scofield: Mr. P.C. (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 23, 08

McCoy Tyner has often returned to songs from his stint in the legendary John Coltrane Quartet. However, this Coltran...

Larry Coryell with John Scofield and Joe Beck: Zimbabwe (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music May 13, 08

Recorded roughly around the time that Larry Coryell joined another, better known acoustic guitar trio in its first in...

John Scofield: All The Things You Are (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

When "All the Things…" was penned by Kern & Hammerstein, guitars were hardly amplified, much less hooked up to any ki...

Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood: In Case the World Changes Its Mind (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music May 01, 08

The first release on their new Indirecto label, Out Louder reunites MMW with their pal John Scofield and rekindles th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD

Avant Gardism comes in all shapes and sizes today. The new generation of musicians is working within the concepts o...

Miles Davis: You're Under Arrest (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 24, 09

Written by guitarist extraordinaire John Scofield, Miles Davis's "You're Under Arrest" places the focus squarely upon...

Lettuce: The Flu (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music February 14, 09

Down and dirty, nasty stinky-funky horn bands from the '60s – how we miss them, or should. While most people are fami...

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