Bar Talk is an album by jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 musician John Scofield

John Scofield

John Scofield , often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham,...

. It was recorded in August, 1980 at Celebration Studios in New York City and produced by Mark Bingham

Mark Bingham (musician/music producer)

Mark Bingham is an American music producer/composer/musician/engineer.In 1966 , Bingham was signed to a publishing contract with Elektra Records. After a brief stint at Elektra in Los Angeles and one single released on Warner Bros., he returned to Bloomington where he attended Indiana University...

 and John Scofield. The John Scofield Trio featured on this album went on to release two live albums which were recorded sixteen months later in Munich, Germany ('Out Like a Light' and 'Shinola'). Bar Talk is stylistically very close to the later live recordings and features four Scofield compositions ('New Strings Attached', 'How to Marry a Millionaire', 'Fat Dancer', and 'Nature Calls') along with one by Steve Swallow ('Never') and Gary Campbell's 'Beckon Call'. Four of the six tracks from the album appeared as bonus tracks on the 1990 CD release of Scofield's Who's Who album.

Track listing

1. "Beckon Call"
2. "New Strings Attached"
3. "Never"
4. "How to Marry a Millionaire"
5. "Fat Dancer"
6. "Nature Calls"

Personnel

• John Scofield - electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• Steve Swallow
  Steve Swallow
  Steve Swallow is a jazz double bass and bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.One of the leading bassists in jazz, Swallow is noted for collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton and Carla Bley...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Adam Nussbaum
  Adam Nussbaum
  -Biography:Nussbaum grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut and started to play drums at age 12 after studying piano for five years. He also played bass and saxophone as a teenager. He moved to New York City in 1975 to attend The Davis Center for Performing Arts at City College...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....