He recorded the 1997 album A Go Go with avant-garde jazz trio Medeski, Martin & Wood.Īlso during this period he began to work with British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage.
The group toured extensively, and the albums Hand Jive and Groove Elation feature this funk/ groove/soul-jazz dimension in Scofield's music with tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris, percussionist Don Alias, and trumpeter Randy Brecker. In 19, he formed a group with organist/pianist Larry Goldings, bassist Dennis Irwin, and alternately drummers, Bill Stewart and Idris Muhammad. Near the end of his time with Blue Note, Scofield returned to a sound that included more funk and soul jazz. Stewart rejoined Scofield and Steve Swallow for I Can See Your House from Here, a collaboration with Pat Metheny. In 1992, Scofield released Grace Under Pressure, featuring guitarist Bill Frisell, with Charlie Haden on bass and Joey Baron on drums. Bill Stewart became the group's drummer and played on Meant to Be (1991) and What We Do (1993). Time on My Hands (1990), with Joe Lovano, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnette, showcased Scofield's guitar and Mingus-influenced writing. This "most auspicious since John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana" recorded two albums, Bass Desires (1986) and Second Sight (1987).Īt the beginning of the 1990s, Scofield formed a quartet that included Joe Lovano with whom he recorded several albums for Blue Note. Marc Johnson formed Bass Desires with Peter Erskine, and Bill Frisell. The band released the albums Blue Matter, Loud Jazz and Pick Hits Live. He started what is referred to as his Blue Matter Band, with Dennis Chambers on drums, Gary Grainger on bass, and Mitchel Forman, Robert Aries, or Jim Beard on keyboards. After he left Davis, he released Electric Outlet (1984) and Still Warm (1985) He contributed tunes and guitar to three of Davis's albums, Star People, Decoy, and You're Under Arrest. In 1982, he joined Miles Davis, with whom he remained for three and a half years. In 1979 he formed a trio with his mentor Steve Swallow and Adam Nussbaum which, with drummer Bill Stewart replacing Nussbaum, became the signature group of Scofield's career. He recorded with pianist Hal Galper on Rough House in 1978 and then on Galper's album Ivory Forest (1980), where he played a solo rendition of "Monk's Mood" by Thelonious Monk. In 1976 Scofield signed with Enja, which released his first album, John Scofield, in 1977. He recorded with Charles Mingus in 1976 and replaced Pat Metheny in Gary Burton's quartet. He joined the Billy Cobham/ George Duke Band soon after and spent two years playing, recording, and touring with them. Educated at the Berklee College of Music, Scofield left school to record with Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan. (1920s-50s): transformation from a community-based form to an art that spread worldwide, influenced other genres & styles, and was performed by uniquely voiced performers as dance music and as an object of modernist intellectual interestģ.Scofield's family left Ohio and moved to Wilton, Connecticut, where he discovered his interest in music. (1890s-1920s): genesis of jazz in the black South (esp NO), where musical & cultural mixes resulted in an improvised, bluesy music that helped build social bonds in a variety of social gatherings & appeal to a broad range of culturally, racially, geographically diverse populationsĢ. jazz has gone through 4 broad stages that mark its place in the cultural worldġ. record, big hit), Now's The Time (12 bar blues) Dizzy Gillepsie, Curly Russel, Max Roach), Embraceable You (more aggressive), Just Friends (fav. *Charlie Parker's Re Boppers-Koko (based on chord progression of Ray Noble's Cherokee, incl. then created arrangements for small string orchestra suing great arrangers (said quality of musician is what should be judged) after going to Cali, returned to NY to form a group w/Miles Davis (unhappy w/commercial attention bebop was getting) worked with Jay McShann in Kansas, then join Earl Hines' Big Band and then Billy Eckstine's band in small group format got a job w/dance band, later got in accident & became addicted to heroin & fired built a system that was conveyed in his improvisations & compositions, which embodied: new ways of selecting/accenting notes compatible w/chords, accenting notes to have a highly syncopated character, methods for adding chords to existing chord progressions/implying additional chords for improvised lines most important saxophonist (master improviser w/complete command of instrument), grew up w/blues
0 kommentar(er)
