John Scofield
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John Scofield often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz
guitar
ist 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
, Medeski Martin & Wood
, George Duke
, Jaco Pastorius
, John Mayer
, and many other well known artists. At ease in the bebop
idiom, Scofield is also well versed in jazz fusion
, funk
, blues
, soul
, and other forms of modern American music.
; it was here that he discovered his interest in music.
Educated at the Berklee College of Music
, Scofield eventually left school to record with Chet Baker
and Gerry Mulligan
. He joined the Billy Cobham/George Duke Band soon after and spent two years playing, recording and touring with them. Scofield recorded with Charles Mingus
in 1976, and replaced Pat Metheny
in Gary Burton
's quartet. In autumn 1976 he signed a contract with Enja Records
, and he released his first album, John Scofield, in 1977. Around this time, he toured and recorded with Pianist Hal Galper
, first on his own solo album Rough House
in 1978, and Galper's album Ivory Forest (1980), where he is heard playing a solo rendition of Thelonious Monk's
"Monk's Mood". In 1979 he formed a trio with his mentor Steve Swallow
and Adam Nussbaum
which, with drummer Bill Stewart
replacing Nussbaum, has become the signature group of Scofield's career. In 1982, he joined Miles Davis, with whom he remained for three and a half years. He contributed tunes and guitar work to three Davis recordings, Star People, You're under Arrest and Decoy.
While still with Davis, he released the first of his Gramavision recordings Electric Outlet
(1984). Still Warm
(1985) followed after he left Davis's group. At the end of the Davis tenure, he started what is now referred to as his Blue Matter Band - with Dennis Chambers
on drums, Gary Grainger on bass and at times either Robert Aries or Jim Beard
on keyboards - releasing Blue Matter, Loud Jazz and Pick Hits Live.
At the beginning of the 1990s, he formed his quartet that included Joe Lovano
with whom he recorded several important albums for Blue Note Records
. Time on My Hands
(1990), with Lovano, Charlie Haden
and Jack DeJohnette
, showcased Scofield's guitar and Mingus-influenced writing. Bill Stewart subsequently became the group's drummer, and played on Meant To Be
(1991) and What We Do
(1993). In 1992, Scofield released Grace Under Pressure
, featuring fellow guitarist Bill Frisell
, with Charlie Haden on bass and Joey Baron
on drums. Stewart rejoined with Scofield and bassist Steve Swallow
for the 1994 collaboration with Pat Metheny
, I Can See Your House from Here.
Towards the end of his tenure with Blue Note, Scofield returned to a more funk
and soul jazz
-oriented sound, a direction which has dominated much of his subsequent output. In 1994 and 1995, Scofield formed a core group that included organist/pianist Larry Goldings
, bassist Dennis Irwin
, and alternately drummers, Bill Stewart and Idris Muhammad
. The group toured extensively, and the albums Hand Jive and Groove Elation feature this funk/groove/soul dimension in Scofield's music, bringing in tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris
, percussionist Don Alias
, trumpeter Randy Brecker
, and others. He recorded the acclaimed 1997 album A Go Go with the avant garde jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood
. Also during this period, his relationship began with British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage
. First as a soloist on Turnage's Blood on the Floor: Elegy for Andy, the two paired up to create Scorched, Turnage's orchestrations of Scofield compositions largely form the Blue Matter period. Scorched, a recording available on Deutsche Grammophon
, debuted in Frankfurt, Germany.
He released Überjam
in 2002 and Up All Night
in 2004, two albums on which he experiments with drum n bass and other modern rhythms. John Scofield has also worked and recorded in Europe with nu-fusionist Bugge Wesseltoft
New Conception of Jazz in 2001/2 and 2006. Late 2004 saw the release of EnRoute: John Scofield Trio LIVE
, which features the jazz trio of John Scofield, the venerable Steve Swallow on bass and Bill Stewart on drums. It was recorded live at The Blue Note in NYC in December 2003. The next year, he released That's What I Say - JS plays the music of Ray Charles - Scofield with an all-star guest studded collection of Ray Charles
material. This led to a series of performances with Mavis Staples
, Gary Versace on organ, John Benitez on bass, and Steve Hass
on drums.
After sitting in for two engagements in December (3rd & 4th) of 2005 with Phil Lesh and Friends
, Scofield has since played numerous shows with the band. Most recently, on June 3 at Mountain Jam, which took place in Hunter, NY the first weekend of June 2007.
On September 26, 2006 he released Out Louder
, his second collaborative effort album with avant garde jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood
. The group, known collectively as MSMW toured extensively worldwide in 2006 and 2007, with sporadic engagements planned in the future. Scofield also performs as a duo with John Medeski - aptly named The Johns and another groove trio with Scofield, Medeski and drummer Adam Deitch.
September 18, 2007 saw This Meets That
released on EmArcy Records - Universal Music's jazz label, a record featuring his trio with Steve Swallow and Bill Stewart. This time John added a horn section to expand the sound of his trio.
Never one to follow an expected path, in recent years Scofield launched a personal search for musical inspiration beyond the standard 12 bar blues and found it in "old time gospel music - the closest relative to and inspiration for the R& B.” His 2009 release Piety Street
with bass legend George Porter, Jr.
and singer/keyboardist Jon Cleary. The collaboration heard on the 2010 release 54
had its origins back in the 90's when Vince Mendoza asked John Scofield to play on his first album. John has since been featured on two of Vince’s records and his guitar sound and improvisational skills work well within Vince’s concept. When Mendoza assumed directorship of The Metropole Orchestra, he and Scofield decided to collaborate again with a primary focus on Mendoza’s arrangements of Scofield compositions as performed with The Metropole Orchestra.
In a return to Scofieldesque "straight ahead" jazz, he went to the studio in January 2011 with pianist/organist Larry Goldings
, bassist Scott Colley
and drummer Brian Blade
, laying the tracks for a ballads album scheduled for a May 2011 release on EmArcy Records.
In April 2010, Scofield was named an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
Scofield is currently serving as an adjunct faculty member in the Jazz Department at New York University
's Steinhardt School of Education
.
He married Susan Scofield in 1978. They are the parents of music producer Jean Scofield (b. 1981) and writer Evan Scofield (b. 1987).
guitars. His signature guitar, the JSM100, is based on his longtime stage and recording guitar, a 1981 Ibanez
AS200 which he believes to be one of the best semi-acoustics ever built. He gets his tone by running a Pro Co RAT
through either a Vox AC30
or Mesa Boogie
amplifier. Some of his effects include an Ibanez CS9 Analog Chorus, a Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler, and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. Some of his additional effects include a DigiTech XP100 Whammy/Wah
, a Boss EQ Pedal, a Boss Loop Station, and a Boomerang phrase sampler pedal. John Scofield uses Dunlop Delrin 2 mm picks.
With Teodross Avery
With Paul Bley
With Gary Burton
With Billy Cobham
With Joe Beck
& Larry Coryell
With the George Adams
-Don Pullen
Quartet
With Miles Davis
With John Ellis:
With David Friesen
With Bill Goodwin
With Jon Gordon
With Herbie Hancock
With Jimmy Haslip
With Roy Haynes
With Joe Henderson
With Ron Holloway
With Marc Johnson
With Lee Konitz
With Manhattan Jazz Quintet
With Gary Marks
With Charles Mingus
With Gerry Mulligan
and Chet Baker
With John Patitucci
With Phil Lesh and Friends
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Harvie Swartz
With Tommy Smith
:
With Gary Thomas
With Mark Antony Turnage
With Bugge Wesseltoft
With Lenny White
With Jack DeJohnette
With Keller Williams
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...
guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
ist and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
, Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman is an American saxophonist and flautist. In June 2010, he received a NEA Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.-Biography:...
, Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
, Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
, Joey Defrancesco
Joey DeFrancesco
Joey DeFrancesco is an American jazz organist, trumpeter, and vocalist. Down Beat's Critics and Readers Poll selected him as the top jazz organist every year since 2003.DeFrancesco was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania...
, Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
, Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
, Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell
William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
, Pat Martino
Pat Martino
Pat Martino is an Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer within the post bop, fusion, mainstream jazz, soul jazz and hard bop idioms.-Biography:...
, Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.-Biography:...
, Phil Lesh
Phil Lesh
Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
, Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham
William C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....
, Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood is an American jazz trio formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards and piano, Billy Martin on drums and percussion, and Chris Wood on double bass and bass guitar....
, George Duke
George Duke
George Duke is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music...
, Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius
John Francis Anthony Pastorius III , known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged as a virtuoso electric bass player....
, John Mayer
John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...
, and many other well known artists. At ease in the bebop
Bebop
Bebop differed drastically from the straightforward compositions of the swing era, and was instead characterized by fast tempos, asymmetrical phrasing, intricate melodies, and rhythm sections that expanded on their role as tempo-keepers...
idiom, Scofield is also well versed in jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
, funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
, blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
, soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
, and other forms of modern American music.
Biography
Early in his life, Scofield's family left Ohio and relocated to the small, then mostly rural location of Wilton, ConnecticutWilton, Connecticut
Wilton is a town nestled in the Norwalk River Valley in southwestern Connecticut in the United States. It is located in Fairfield County. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 18,062. In 2007, it was voted as one of CNN Money's "Best Places to Live" in the United States.Located along...
; it was here that he discovered his interest in music.
Educated at the Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...
, Scofield eventually left school to record with Chet Baker
Chet Baker
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...
and Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also...
. He joined the Billy Cobham/George Duke Band soon after and spent two years playing, recording and touring with them. Scofield recorded with Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
in 1976, and replaced Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
in Gary Burton
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets. This approach caused Burton to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated...
's quartet. In autumn 1976 he signed a contract with Enja Records
Enja Records
Enja Records is a German jazz record label based in Munich, Germany. It was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971....
, and he released his first album, John Scofield, in 1977. Around this time, he toured and recorded with Pianist Hal Galper
Hal Galper
-Biography:He studied classical piano as a boy, but switched to jazz which he studied at the Berklee College of Music from 1955 to 1958. He hung out at Herb Pomeroy's club, The Stable, hearing local Boston musicians like Jackie Byard, Alan Dawson and Sam Rivers. Galper started sitting in and became...
, first on his own solo album Rough House
Rough House (John Scofield album)
-Personnel:*John Scofield - guitar*Hal Galper - piano*Stafford James - bass*Adam Nussbaum - drums...
in 1978, and Galper's album Ivory Forest (1980), where he is heard playing a solo rendition of Thelonious Monk's
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...
"Monk's Mood". In 1979 he formed a trio with his mentor 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...
and 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...
which, with drummer Bill Stewart
Bill Stewart (musician)
William Harris "Bill" Stewart is an American jazz drummer. Stewart is a versatile player who has performed with a broad array of musicians, from Maceo Parker to Jim Hall...
replacing Nussbaum, has become the signature group of Scofield's career. In 1982, he joined Miles Davis, with whom he remained for three and a half years. He contributed tunes and guitar work to three Davis recordings, Star People, You're under Arrest and Decoy.
While still with Davis, he released the first of his Gramavision recordings Electric Outlet
Electric Outlet
-Track listing:All tracks by John Scofield# "Just My Luck" – 5:21# "Big Break" – 5:15# "Best Western" – 5:41# "Pick Hits" – 6:03# "Filibuster" – 5:51# "Thanks Again" – 4:50# "King For A Day" – 2:28# "Phone Home" – 5:12-Personnel:...
(1984). Still Warm
Still Warm
-Track listing:#Techno#Still Warm#High And Mighty#Protocol#Rule Of Thumb#Picks And Pans#Gil B643-Personnel:*John Scofield - guitar*Don Grolnick - keyboards*Darryl Jones - bass*Omar Hakim - drums...
(1985) followed after he left Davis's group. At the end of the Davis tenure, he started what is now referred to as his Blue Matter Band - with Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers is an American drummer who has recorded and performed with John Scofield, George Duke, Brecker Brothers, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin, Niacin, Mike Stern, Greg Howe, and many others. Despite a lack of formal training, Chambers has become well known among...
on drums, Gary Grainger on bass and at times either Robert Aries or Jim Beard
Jim Beard
James Arthur Beard is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist, contemporary instrumental composer, arranger and record producer.- Life and career :...
on keyboards - releasing Blue Matter, Loud Jazz and Pick Hits Live.
At the beginning of the 1990s, he formed his quartet that included Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano
Joseph Salvatore "Joe" Lovano is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls...
with whom he recorded several important albums for Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
. Time on My Hands
Time on My Hands (John Scofield album)
Time on My Hands is a studio album by jazz musician John Scofield.-Track listing:#Wabash III#Since You Asked#So Sue Me#Let's Say We Did#Flower Power#Stranger To The Light#Nocturnal Mission#Farmacology#Time And Tide#Be Hear Now#Fat Lip...
(1990), with Lovano, Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden
Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman...
and Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...
, showcased Scofield's guitar and Mingus-influenced writing. Bill Stewart subsequently became the group's drummer, and played on Meant To Be
Meant to Be (John Scofield album)
Meant to Be is a studio album by jazz group The John Scofield Quartet.-Track listing:All tunes composed by John Scofield.#"Big Fan" - 6:03#"Keep Me In Mind" - 6:00#"Go Blow" - 8:19#"Chariots" - 6:02#"The Guinness Spot" - 6:35#"Mr...
(1991) and What We Do
What We Do
What We Do is a studio album by jazz group The John Scofield Quartet.-Track listing:All tracks written by John Scofield.#"Little Walk" – 6:34#"Camp Out" – 8:01#"Big Sky" – 6:05#"Easy For You" – 6:41#"Call 911" – 7:27#"Imaginary Time" – 6:08...
(1993). In 1992, Scofield released Grace Under Pressure
Grace Under Pressure (John Scofield album)
-Track listing:All tracks composed by John Scofield#You Bet#Grace Under Pressure#Honest I Do#Scenes From A Marriage#Twang#Pat Me#Pretty Out#Bill Me#Same Axe#Unique New York-Personnel:*John Scofield - electric guitar*Randy Brecker - flugelhorn...
, featuring fellow guitarist Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell
William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
, with Charlie Haden on bass and Joey Baron
Joey Baron
Joey Baron is an American avant-garde jazz drummer probably best known for his work with Bill Frisell, Stan Getz, Steve Kuhn, and John Zorn...
on drums. Stewart rejoined with Scofield and bassist 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...
for the 1994 collaboration with Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
, I Can See Your House from Here.
Towards the end of his tenure with Blue Note, Scofield returned to a more funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
and soul jazz
Soul jazz
Soul jazz is a development of jazz incorporating strong influences from blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often an organ trio featuring a Hammond organ.- Overview :Soul jazz is often associated with hard bop. Mark C...
-oriented sound, a direction which has dominated much of his subsequent output. In 1994 and 1995, Scofield formed a core group that included organist/pianist Larry Goldings
Larry Goldings
-Life and career:Goldings was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a classical music enthusiast, and Larry studied classical piano until the age of twelve. While in high school at Concord Academy, he attended a program at the Eastman School of Music. During this period Erroll Garner,...
, bassist Dennis Irwin
Dennis Irwin
Dennis Irwin was an American jazz double bassist. He toured and recorded with John Scofield and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra among others, and played on over 500 albums.-Biography:...
, and alternately drummers, Bill Stewart and Idris Muhammad
Idris Muhammad
Idris Muhammad is a jazz drummer. He changed his name in the 1960s upon his conversion to Islam. He is known for his funky playing style. He has released a number of albums as leader, and has played with a number of jazz legends including Lou Donaldson, Johnny Griffin, Pharoah Sanders and Grover...
. The group toured extensively, and the albums Hand Jive and Groove Elation feature this funk/groove/soul dimension in Scofield's music, bringing in tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris
Eddie Harris
Eddie Harris was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ...
, percussionist Don Alias
Don Alias
Charles 'Don' Alias was an American jazz percussionist.Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums...
, trumpeter Randy Brecker
Randy Brecker
Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...
, and others. He recorded the acclaimed 1997 album A Go Go with the avant garde jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood is an American jazz trio formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards and piano, Billy Martin on drums and percussion, and Chris Wood on double bass and bass guitar....
. Also during this period, his relationship began with British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage is a prolific English composer of classical music. His initial musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller...
. First as a soloist on Turnage's Blood on the Floor: Elegy for Andy, the two paired up to create Scorched, Turnage's orchestrations of Scofield compositions largely form the Blue Matter period. Scorched, a recording available on Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label which was the foundation of the future corporation to be known as PolyGram. It is now part of Universal Music Group since its acquisition and absorption of PolyGram in 1999, and it is also UMG's oldest active label...
, debuted in Frankfurt, Germany.
He released Überjam
Überjam
Überjam is an album by the John Scofield Band which was released on January 29, 2002 on Verve Records. Many unique musical styles are performed throughout Überjam, including Jazz fusion, Jazz-funk, drum and bass, and Acid Jazz....
in 2002 and Up All Night
Up All Night (John Scofield album)
-Track listing:#Philiopiety#Watch Out For Po-Po#Creeper#Watcha See Is Watcha Get#I'm Listening#Thikhathali#Four On The Floor#Like The Moon#Freakin' Disco#Born In Troubled Times#Every Night is Ladies Night-Personnel:...
in 2004, two albums on which he experiments with drum n bass and other modern rhythms. John Scofield has also worked and recorded in Europe with nu-fusionist Bugge Wesseltoft
Bugge Wesseltoft
Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer. He has his own label named Jazzland Records. In the 1990s, Bugge has made a transition from Nordic jazz traditions exemplified by the ECM record label to a style sometimes referred to as "future jazz" or...
New Conception of Jazz in 2001/2 and 2006. Late 2004 saw the release of EnRoute: John Scofield Trio LIVE
EnRoute: John Scofield Trio LIVE
EnRoute: The John Scofield Trio LIVE is an album by The John Scofield Trio recorded at the New York's Blue Note club in December 2003.-Tracks:#"Wee" – 8:24#"Toogs" – 7:26#"Name That Tune" – 6:30...
, which features the jazz trio of John Scofield, the venerable Steve Swallow on bass and Bill Stewart on drums. It was recorded live at The Blue Note in NYC in December 2003. The next year, he released That's What I Say - JS plays the music of Ray Charles - Scofield with an all-star guest studded collection of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
material. This led to a series of performances with Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.-Biography:...
, Gary Versace on organ, John Benitez on bass, and Steve Hass
Steve Hass
Steve Hass is a professional studio/touring drummer and producer who has worked with such artists as Cher, John Scofield, The Manhattan Transfer, Ravi Coltrane, Miri Ben-Ari, Christian McBride, Danillo Perez, John Patitucci, Richard Bona, Wayne Krantz, The BBC Big Band, Suzanne Vega, Jennifer...
on drums.
After sitting in for two engagements in December (3rd & 4th) of 2005 with Phil Lesh and Friends
Phil Lesh and Friends
Phil Lesh and Friends is an American rock band formed and led by Phil Lesh, former bassist of the Grateful Dead.Phil & Friends is not a traditional group in that several different lineups of musicians have played under the name, including groups featuring members of Phish, Little Feat, and the Zen...
, Scofield has since played numerous shows with the band. Most recently, on June 3 at Mountain Jam, which took place in Hunter, NY the first weekend of June 2007.
On September 26, 2006 he released Out Louder
Out Louder
Out Louder is an album produced as a collaboration between Medeski Martin & Wood and John Scofield. It is the first album released under the name "Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood," since 1998's A Go Go was released under Scofield's name alone...
, his second collaborative effort album with avant garde jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood is an American jazz trio formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards and piano, Billy Martin on drums and percussion, and Chris Wood on double bass and bass guitar....
. The group, known collectively as MSMW toured extensively worldwide in 2006 and 2007, with sporadic engagements planned in the future. Scofield also performs as a duo with John Medeski - aptly named The Johns and another groove trio with Scofield, Medeski and drummer Adam Deitch.
September 18, 2007 saw This Meets That
This Meets That
-Track listing:#The Low Road#Down D#Strangeness in the Night#Heck of a Job#Behind Closed Doors#House of the Rising Sun#Shoe Dog#Memorette#Trio Blues#Pretty Out# Satisfaction -Personnel:...
released on EmArcy Records - Universal Music's jazz label, a record featuring his trio with Steve Swallow and Bill Stewart. This time John added a horn section to expand the sound of his trio.
Never one to follow an expected path, in recent years Scofield launched a personal search for musical inspiration beyond the standard 12 bar blues and found it in "old time gospel music - the closest relative to and inspiration for the R& B.” His 2009 release Piety Street
Piety Street
Piety Street is a studio album by jazz musician John Scofield. It was recorded in New Orleans with local musicians including Meters bassist George Porter, Jr. and Jon Cleary....
with bass legend George Porter, Jr.
George Porter, Jr.
George Porter, Jr. is a musician best known as the bassist and singer of The Meters. Along with Art Neville, Porter formed the group in the mid 60's and came to be recognized as one of the progenitors of funk. The Meters disbanded in 1977, but reformed in 1989...
and singer/keyboardist Jon Cleary. The collaboration heard on the 2010 release 54
54
Year 54 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Marcellus...
had its origins back in the 90's when Vince Mendoza asked John Scofield to play on his first album. John has since been featured on two of Vince’s records and his guitar sound and improvisational skills work well within Vince’s concept. When Mendoza assumed directorship of The Metropole Orchestra, he and Scofield decided to collaborate again with a primary focus on Mendoza’s arrangements of Scofield compositions as performed with The Metropole Orchestra.
In a return to Scofieldesque "straight ahead" jazz, he went to the studio in January 2011 with pianist/organist Larry Goldings
Larry Goldings
-Life and career:Goldings was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a classical music enthusiast, and Larry studied classical piano until the age of twelve. While in high school at Concord Academy, he attended a program at the Eastman School of Music. During this period Erroll Garner,...
, bassist Scott Colley
Scott Colley
Scott Colley is an American jazz bassist and Composer.Scott has performed extensively in bands led by: Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Andrew Hill, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, Pat Metheny, Carmen McRae, Edward Simon, Adam Rogers, Brian Blade, David Binney, Antonio Sanchez, Kenny Werner...
and drummer Brian Blade
Brian Blade
Brian Blade in Shreveport, Louisiana is an American jazz drummer, composer, session musician, and singer-songwriter.-Early years:...
, laying the tracks for a ballads album scheduled for a May 2011 release on EmArcy Records.
In April 2010, Scofield was named an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
Scofield is currently serving as an adjunct faculty member in the Jazz Department at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
's Steinhardt School of Education
Steinhardt School of Education
The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development is one of 16 divisions within New York University and is the oldest professional school of education in the United States.- History :...
.
He married Susan Scofield in 1978. They are the parents of music producer Jean Scofield (b. 1981) and writer Evan Scofield (b. 1987).
Equipment
Scofield endorses IbanezIbanez
is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce...
guitars. His signature guitar, the JSM100, is based on his longtime stage and recording guitar, a 1981 Ibanez
Ibanez
is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce...
AS200 which he believes to be one of the best semi-acoustics ever built. He gets his tone by running a Pro Co RAT
Pro Co Rat
The Pro Co "The RAT" is a guitar effects pedal produced by Pro Co Sound. The original RAT was developed in the basement of Pro Co's Kalamazoo, Michigan facility in 1978...
through either a Vox AC30
Vox AC30
The Vox AC30 is a guitar amplifier manufactured by Vox and known for its "jangly" high-end sound. First introduced in 1958 due to the growing demand for higher-wattage amplifiers, it became an iconic amplifier for British musicians and soon for others....
or Mesa Boogie
Mesa Boogie
Mesa/Boogie is a company in Petaluma, California that makes amplifiers for guitars and basses. It has been in operation since 1969....
amplifier. Some of his effects include an Ibanez CS9 Analog Chorus, a Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler, and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. Some of his additional effects include a DigiTech XP100 Whammy/Wah
Digitech Whammy
-Overview:The WH-1 Whammy pedal, the original whammy, first engineered and manufactured in 1989 by IVL Technologies and discontinued in 1993, remains the most sought-after.-Controls:...
, a Boss EQ Pedal, a Boss Loop Station, and a Boomerang phrase sampler pedal. John Scofield uses Dunlop Delrin 2 mm picks.
Discography
As leader and co-leader
- John Scofield LiveJohn Scofield LiveJohn Scofield Live is a live album by jazz musician John Scofield.-Track listing:#V.#Gray And Visceral#Leaving#Air Pakistan#Jeanie#Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise-Personnel:*John Scofield - electric guitar*Richie Beirach - piano...
(1977) - Enja Records - John Scofield aka East Meets WestEast Meets West (John Scofield album)East Meets West is the debut studio album by jazz musician John Scofield. It was originally issued as a self-titled album featuring a photo of John Scofield standing next to the Hudson river...
(1977) - Trio Records/Black-Hawk Records, Bellophon Records - Rough HouseRough House (John Scofield album)-Personnel:*John Scofield - guitar*Hal Galper - piano*Stafford James - bass*Adam Nussbaum - drums...
(1978) - Enja Records - Who's Who?Who's Who?Who's Who? is a studio album by jazz musician John Scofield. It features two different bands, one acoustic and one electric. The acoustic group, featuring Scofield's then-employer Dave Liebman on saxophones, Eddie Gomez on bass, and Billy Hart on drums, recorded 'The Beatles' and 'How the West Was...
(1979) - Arista/Novus - Bar TalkBar TalkBar Talk is an album by jazz musician John Scofield. It was recorded in August, 1980 at Celebration Studios in New York City and produced by Mark Bingham 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...
(1980) - Jive/NovusArista RecordsArista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records... - Out Like a LightOut Like a Light-Personnel:*John Scofield - electric guitar*Steve Swallow - bass*Adam Nussbaum - drums-Notes:Out Like a Light is the sister album to Shinola as both recordings contain material from the Munich concerts of December 1981....
(1981) - Enja Records - ShinolaShinola (John Scofield album)-Personnel:*John Scofield - electric guitar*Steve Swallow - bass*Adam Nussbaum - drums...
(1981) - Enja RecordsEnja RecordsEnja Records is a German jazz record label based in Munich, Germany. It was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971.... - Electric OutletElectric Outlet-Track listing:All tracks by John Scofield# "Just My Luck" – 5:21# "Big Break" – 5:15# "Best Western" – 5:41# "Pick Hits" – 6:03# "Filibuster" – 5:51# "Thanks Again" – 4:50# "King For A Day" – 2:28# "Phone Home" – 5:12-Personnel:...
(1984) - Gramavision - Still WarmStill Warm-Track listing:#Techno#Still Warm#High And Mighty#Protocol#Rule Of Thumb#Picks And Pans#Gil B643-Personnel:*John Scofield - guitar*Don Grolnick - keyboards*Darryl Jones - bass*Omar Hakim - drums...
(1985) - Gramavision - Blue MatterBlue MatterBlue Matter is a studio album by jazz musician John Scofield recorded in 1986.-Track listing:All tracks by John Scofield# "Blue Matter" – 5:47# "Trim" – 7:33# "Heaven Hill" – 4:28# "So You Say" – 4:34# "Now She's Blonde" – 5:32# "Make Me" – 2:53...
(1986) - Gramavision - Loud JazzLoud Jazz-Track listing:#Tell You What#Dance Me Home#Signature Of Venus#Dirty Rice#Did It#Wabash#Loud Jazz#Otay#True Love#Igetthepicture#Spy Vs. Spy-Personnel:*John Scofield - electric guitar*Robert Aries, George Duke - keyboards*Gary Grainger - electric bass...
(1987) - Gramavision - Pick Hits LivePick Hits LivePick Hits Live is a live album by jazz musician John Scofield.-Track listing:#Pick and Pans#Pick Hits#Heaven Hill#Protocol#Blue Matter#Thanks Again#Trim#Georgia On My Mind#Make Me-Personnel:*John Scofield - guitar*Robert Aries - keyboards...
(1987) - Gramavision - Flat OutFlat Out (John Scofield album)-Track listing:#"Cissy Strut" #"Secret Love" #"All The Things You Are" #"In The Cracks" #"Softy" #"Science And Religion" #"The Boss's Car"...
(1989) - Gramavision - Time on My HandsTime on My Hands (John Scofield album)Time on My Hands is a studio album by jazz musician John Scofield.-Track listing:#Wabash III#Since You Asked#So Sue Me#Let's Say We Did#Flower Power#Stranger To The Light#Nocturnal Mission#Farmacology#Time And Tide#Be Hear Now#Fat Lip...
(1990) - Blue Note - Meant To BeMeant to Be (John Scofield album)Meant to Be is a studio album by jazz group The John Scofield Quartet.-Track listing:All tunes composed by John Scofield.#"Big Fan" - 6:03#"Keep Me In Mind" - 6:00#"Go Blow" - 8:19#"Chariots" - 6:02#"The Guinness Spot" - 6:35#"Mr...
(1991) - Blue Note - Grace Under PressureGrace Under Pressure (John Scofield album)-Track listing:All tracks composed by John Scofield#You Bet#Grace Under Pressure#Honest I Do#Scenes From A Marriage#Twang#Pat Me#Pretty Out#Bill Me#Same Axe#Unique New York-Personnel:*John Scofield - electric guitar*Randy Brecker - flugelhorn...
(1992) - Blue Note - What We DoWhat We DoWhat We Do is a studio album by jazz group The John Scofield Quartet.-Track listing:All tracks written by John Scofield.#"Little Walk" – 6:34#"Camp Out" – 8:01#"Big Sky" – 6:05#"Easy For You" – 6:41#"Call 911" – 7:27#"Imaginary Time" – 6:08...
(1993) - Blue Note - I Can See Your House From HereI Can See Your House from Here (album)I Can See Your House From Here is a 1994 jazz album by John Scofield & Pat Metheny.John Scofield is on the left channel and Pat Metheny is on the right channel of this stereo recording.-Tracks:#"I Can See Your House From Here" – 7:43...
(1994) - w/Pat MethenyPat MethenyPatrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
- Blue Note - Hand Jive (1994) - Blue Note
- Groove ElationGroove Elation (John Scofield album)-Track listing:#Lazy#Peculiar#Let The Cat Out#Kool#Old Soul#Groove Elation#Carlos#Soft Shoe#Let It Shine#Bigtop-Personnel:*John Scofield - acoustic & electric guitar*Billy Drewes - tenor saxophone, flute...
(1995) - Blue Note - QuietQuiet (John Scofield album)-Tracks:All compositions and arrangements by John Scofield, except "Away" which was composed and arranged by Steve Swallow#After The Fact#Tulle#Away With Words#Hold That Thought#Door #3#Bedside Manner#Rolf And The Gang#But For Love#Away-Personnel:...
(1996) - Verve - A Go GoA Go Go (John Scofield album)A Go Go, one of John Scofield's early funk/jazz endeavors was released on April 7, 1998. This album is also his first collaboration with avant garde jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood.- Track listing :All compositions by John Scofield.#A Go Go#Chank...
with Medeski Martin & WoodMedeski Martin & WoodMedeski Martin & Wood is an American jazz trio formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards and piano, Billy Martin on drums and percussion, and Chris Wood on double bass and bass guitar....
(1998) - Verve - BumpBump (album)Bump is an experimental Jazz fusion album by John Scofield. It was released on March 14, 2000 by Verve Records. The album was produced by Lee Townsend and recorded & mixed by Joe Ferla and Kevin Killen, executive producer was Susan Scofield.-Track listing:...
(2000) - Verve - Works For MeWorks for Me (John Scofield album)Works For Me is an album by John Scofield which was released on January 30, 2001 by Verve Records. It was produced by Richard Seidel and recorded & mixed by James Farber.-Track listing:#I'll Catch You#Not You Again#Big J#Loose Canon#Love You Long Time...
(2001) - Verve - ÜberjamÜberjamÜberjam is an album by the John Scofield Band which was released on January 29, 2002 on Verve Records. Many unique musical styles are performed throughout Überjam, including Jazz fusion, Jazz-funk, drum and bass, and Acid Jazz....
(2002) - Verve - Oh!Oh! (ScoLoHoFo album)Oh! is an album by jazz super group ScoLoHoFo, released in 2003. It features tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, guitarist John Scofield, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Al Foster.-Track listing:#Oh!#Right About Now#The Winding Way#Bittersweet...
(2003) - as ScoLoHoFo - Blue NoteBlue Note RecordsBlue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters... - Up All NightUp All Night (John Scofield album)-Track listing:#Philiopiety#Watch Out For Po-Po#Creeper#Watcha See Is Watcha Get#I'm Listening#Thikhathali#Four On The Floor#Like The Moon#Freakin' Disco#Born In Troubled Times#Every Night is Ladies Night-Personnel:...
(2003) - Verve - ScorchedScorched (album)Scorched is the live recorded premiere of the composition by Mark-Anthony Turnage commissioned by the Society of Friends and Patrons of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2002. Turnage recomposed and orchestrated original compositions by jazz guitarist John Scofield for symphony orchestra...
(2004) - w/Mark-Anthony TurnageMark-Anthony TurnageMark-Anthony Turnage is a prolific English composer of classical music. His initial musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller...
- DG Deutsche GrammophonDeutsche GrammophonDeutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label which was the foundation of the future corporation to be known as PolyGram. It is now part of Universal Music Group since its acquisition and absorption of PolyGram in 1999, and it is also UMG's oldest active label... - EnRoute: John Scofield Trio LIVEEnRoute: John Scofield Trio LIVEEnRoute: The John Scofield Trio LIVE is an album by The John Scofield Trio recorded at the New York's Blue Note club in December 2003.-Tracks:#"Wee" – 8:24#"Toogs" – 7:26#"Name That Tune" – 6:30...
(2004) - Verve - That's What I Say: John Scofield Plays the Music of Ray CharlesThat's What I Say: John Scofield Plays the Music of Ray CharlesThat's What I Say: John Scofield Plays the Music of Ray Charles is a Ray Charles tribute album by John Scofield.-Track listing:#"Busted"#"What'd I Say"#"Sticks And Stones"#"I Don't Need No Doctor"#"Cryin' Time"#"I Can't Stop Loving You"...
(2005) - VerveVerve RecordsVerve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve... - SaudadesSaudadesSaudades is the name of the debut double-disc album released by Trio Beyond in 2006 on ECM records. Saudades is a Portuguese word meaning sadness or longing for times past, or in a musical context, blues.-Reception:...
(2006) - as Trio BeyondTrio BeyondTrio Beyond is a jazz fusion/free jazz band, formed in 2003.The trio was formed by drummer Jack DeJohnette and guitarist John Scofield, after conversations between the pair about how important Tony Williams was for them in that he provided musical influence as drummer and bandleader.Organist Larry...
- ECM - Out LouderOut LouderOut Louder is an album produced as a collaboration between Medeski Martin & Wood and John Scofield. It is the first album released under the name "Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood," since 1998's A Go Go was released under Scofield's name alone...
(2006) - as Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood - Indirecto - This Meets ThatThis Meets That-Track listing:#The Low Road#Down D#Strangeness in the Night#Heck of a Job#Behind Closed Doors#House of the Rising Sun#Shoe Dog#Memorette#Trio Blues#Pretty Out# Satisfaction -Personnel:...
(2007) - Emarcy RecordsEmArcy RecordsEmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company.... - Piety StreetPiety StreetPiety Street is a studio album by jazz musician John Scofield. It was recorded in New Orleans with local musicians including Meters bassist George Porter, Jr. and Jon Cleary....
(2009) - Emarcy RecordsEmArcy RecordsEmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company.... - 54 (2010) - w/Vince Mendoza & The Metropole Orkestra - Emarcy RecordsEmArcy RecordsEmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company....
- A Moment's PeaceA Moment's Peace- Track listing :# Simply Put# I Will# Lawns# Throw It Away# I Want To Talk About You# Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You# Johan# Mood Returns# Already September# You Don't Know What Love Is# Plain Song# I Loves You Porgy- Personnel :...
(2011) - Emarcy RecordsEmArcy RecordsEmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company....
Compilations
- Best of John ScofieldBest of John ScofieldThe Best of John Scofield is a compilation album by jazz musician John Scofield. All tracks except "Tom Thumb" can be found on Scofield recordings during his tenure on Blue Note Records from November 1989 until June 1995....
(1989) - Blue Note - Slo Sco:The Best of the BalladsSlo Sco:The Best of the BalladsSlo Sco: The Best of the Ballads is a compilation album by jazz musician John Scofield. The tracks found on this album have been taken from previously released Scofield recordings during his tenure on Gramavision Records from 1984 until 1989.-Musicians:...
(1990) - Gramavision - Liquid Fire: The Best of John ScofieldLiquid Fire: The Best of John ScofieldLiquid Fire: The Best of John Scofield is a compilation album by jazz musician John Scofield. The tracks found on this album are a mixture of exact versions found on previously released Scofield recordings, and two tracks taken from live performances during his tenure on Gramavision Records from...
(1994) - Gramavision - Steady Groovin': The Blue Note Groove SidesSteady Groovin' (John Scofield album)Steady Groovin': The Blue Note Groove Sides is a compilation album by jazz musician John Scofield. The tracks found on this album are the exact versions found on previously released Scofield recordings during his tenure on Blue Note Records from November 1989 until June 1995.-Musicians:This John...
(2000) - Blue Note
As a sideman
Teodross Avery
Teodross Avery is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, who has released albums for the record labels GRP Records and Impulse! Records.-References:...
- My Generation (1996) - Impulse!Impulse! RecordsImpulse! Records was an American jazz record label, originally established in 1960 by producer Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records, based in New York City...
With Paul Bley
Paul Bley
Paul Bley, CM is a pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing.-Biography:...
- HotHot (Paul Bley album)Hot is a live album by Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1985 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 2½ stars stating "Excellent playing by Bley keeps things moving on this '85 date...
(Soul Note, 1985)
With Gary Burton
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets. This approach caused Burton to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated...
- Times Like TheseTimes Like These (Gary Burton album)Times Like These is an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton recorded in 1988 and released on the GRP label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Burton sounds fine on the diverse material...
(GRP, 1988)
With Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham
William C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....
- A Funky Thide of SingsA Funky Thide of SingsA Funky Thide of Sings is a 1975 studio album by Billy Cobham.-Track listing:#"Panhandler" – 3:50#"Sorcery" – 2:26#"A Funky Thide of Sings" – 3:23#"Thinking of You" – 4:12...
(1975) - AtlanticAtlantic RecordsAtlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz... - Life & Times (1976) - Wounded Bird Records
With Joe Beck
Joe Beck
Joe Beck was an American guitarist who had been notable in jazz for more than 30 years.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beck also briefly flirted with rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
& Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist.-Biography:Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands The Jailers, The Rumblers, The Royals, and The Flames. He also played with The Checkers from nearby...
- Tributaries (1978) - Arista Novus
With the George Adams
George Adams (musician)
George Rufus Adams was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. He is best known for his work with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Roy Haynes and in the quartet he co-led with pianist Don Pullen, featuring bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Dannie Richmond...
-Don Pullen
Don Pullen
Don Pullen was an American jazz pianist and organist. Pullen developed a strikingly individual style throughout his career. He composed masterworks ranging from blues to bebop and modern jazz...
Quartet
- Live at MontmartreLive at Montmartre-Track listing:# "I.J." - 8:07# "Flame Games" - 11:30# "Well, I Guess We'll Never Know" - 8:27# "Forever Lovers" - 10:53# "Song Everlasting" - 11:23*Recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen on April 4 & 5, 1985...
(Timeless, 1985)
With Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
- You're Under Arrest (1985) - ColumbiaColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
- DecoyDecoy (album)Decoy is a 1984 album by jazz musician Miles Davis, recorded in 1983.It features keyboardist Robert Irving III and guitarist John Scofield contributing most of the compositions and the other solos...
(1984) - Sony Music - Star PeopleStar PeopleStar People is a 1983 album recorded by Miles Davis and issued by Columbia Records. To date, Columbia has not issued Star People on CD in North America, although it is available there as part of the box set Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection; CBS/Sony have issued the album on CD in...
(1983) - Sony Music
With John Ellis:
- One Foot In The Swamp (2005) - Hyena
With David Friesen
David Friesen
David Friesen is an American jazz bassist born in Tacoma, Washington. Friesen plays the double bass as well as the Oregon bass, which is an electrified acoustic bass....
- Two for the ShowTwo for the Show (David Friesen album)-Track listing:# "Airegin" - Friesen / Michael Brecker# "True Blue" - Friesen / John Scofield# "I Want To Be Happy" - Friesen / Clark Terry# "In Times Past" - Friesen / Denny Zeitlin# "Alone Together" - Friesen / Bud Shank...
(1994) - ITM Pacific
With Bill Goodwin
Bill Goodwin
Bill Goodwin was for many years the announcer and regular character of the Burns and Allen radio program, and subsequently The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on television from 1950-51...
- Solar Energy (1981) - Omni Sound Jazz
With Jon Gordon
- Possibilities (2000) - Double-Time
With Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
- The New StandardThe New Standard (album)The New Standard is the fortieth album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released in 1996 on Verve. It consists of jazz-fusion renditions of classic and contemporaneous rock and R&B songs.-Track listing:...
(1995) - Verve
With Jimmy Haslip
Jimmy Haslip
Jimmy Haslip is an American electric bass player and record producer best known as a founding and current member of the pioneering fusion group Yellowjackets...
- A R C (1993) - UMG
With Roy Haynes
Roy Haynes
Roy Owen Haynes is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz, and in a career lasting more than 60 years has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz...
- Love Letters (2003) - Columbia
With Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
- So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)So Near, So Far is a 1993 album by jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson, the second of the five albums he recorded with Verve Records during the end of his career...
(1993) - Verve - Porgy & BessPorgy & Bess (Joe Henderson album)Porgy & Bess is a 1997 album by jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson, released on Verve Records. It contains Henderson's arrangements of music from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess.-Personnel:*Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone*Conrad Herwig, trombone...
(1997) - Verve
With Ron Holloway
Ron Holloway
Ronald Edward "Ron" Holloway is an American tenor saxophonist. He is listed in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz where veteran jazz critic Ira Gitler described Holloway as a "bear-down-hard-bopper who can blow authentic R&B and croon a ballad with warm, blue feeling." Holloway is the recipient...
- Struttin (1995) - Milestone RecordsMilestone RecordsMilestone Records is a United States based jazz record label, founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City. The company was incorporated into Fantasy Records in 1972, since then it has been used for reissues as well as for new recordings....
With Marc Johnson
- Shades of JadeShades of Jade (album)Shades of Jade is a 2005 album by jazz bassist Marc Johnson.-Track listing:#"Ton Sur Ton"#"Apareceu"#"Shades of Jade"#"In 30 Hours"#"Blue Nefertiti"#"Snow"#"Since You Asked"#"Raise"#"All Yours"#"Don't Ask of Me"-Personnel:...
(2005) - ECMECM (record label)ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres... - Second SightSecond Sight (Marc Johnson album)Second Sight is a 1987 studio album by jazz bassist Marc Johnson released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "This advanced unit performs eight group originals that cover a wide variety of moods, from introspective, spacy pieces to ones...
(1987) - ECM - Bass DesiresBass Desires (album)Bass Desires is a 1985 studio album by jazz bassist Marc Johnson released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The pairing of electric guitarists Bill Frisell and John Scofield had to be one of the most auspicious since John...
(1986) - ECM
With Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings...
- Rhapsody II (1993) - Evidence
With Manhattan Jazz Quintet
Manhattan Jazz Quintet
The Manhattan Jazz Quintet is a jazz ensemble consisting of David Matthews on piano, Lew Soloff on trumpet, Victor Lewis on drums, Andy Snitzer on saxophone, and Charnett Moffett on bass...
- Manhattan Blues (1990) – Sweet Basil
With Gary Marks
- Gathering (1974) - Arewea Records
With Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
- Three of Four Shades of Blue (1977) - Collectables RecordsCollectables RecordsCollectables is a reissue record label founded in 1980 by Jerry Greene. Greene was previously associated with New York City's Times Square Record Shop, Philadelphia's Record Museum retail chain, and the Lost Nite and Crimson record labels....
With Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also...
and Chet Baker
Chet Baker
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...
- Carnegie Hall Concert (1974) - CTI RecordsCTI RecordsCTI Records was a jazz record label founded in 1967 by producer/A&R manager Creed Taylor. Initially, CTI was a subsidiary of A&M Records, but the label went independent in 1970...
With John Patitucci
John Patitucci
John Patitucci is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.-Biography:Patitucci is of Italian descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age ten, composing and performing at age 12, as well as the acoustic bass at...
- NowNow (John Patitucci album)- Track listing :# "Now" – 9:11# "Grace" – 8:55# "Out of the Mouths of Babes" – 6:17# "Hope" – 6:03# "Labor Day" – 9:30# "Espresso" – 8:59# "Forgotten but Not Gone" – 7:40# "Search for Peace" – 5:27# "Giant Steps" – 4:31...
(1998) - Concord JazzConcord JazzConcord Jazz is a subsidiary of Concord Records, owned by Concord Music Group.-Dozens of albums:*Charlie Byrd*Ruby Braff*Dave McKenna*Marian McPartland*Rosemary Clooney*Scott Hamilton*Tito Puente*George Shearing*Gene Harris*Mel Tormé*Monty Alexander...
With Phil Lesh and Friends
Phil Lesh and Friends
Phil Lesh and Friends is an American rock band formed and led by Phil Lesh, former bassist of the Grateful Dead.Phil & Friends is not a traditional group in that several different lineups of musicians have played under the name, including groups featuring members of Phish, Little Feat, and the Zen...
- Live at the WarfieldLive at the WarfieldLive at the Warfield is a two CD album by the rock group Phil Lesh and Friends. It was recorded live at the Warfield in San Francisco, California, on May 18 and May 19, 2006....
(2006) - ImageImage EntertainmentImage Entertainment, Inc. is an independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming and film & television productions in North America, with approximately 3,000 exclusive DVD titles and approximately 250 exclusive CD titles in domestic release, and approximately 450...
With Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
- RhythmstickRhythmstickRhythmstick is a 1990 album and video by Dizzy Gillespie and CTI Records All-Stars.-Tracklisting:#"Barbados" #"Friday Night at the Cadillac Club" #"Nana" #"Caribe"...
(1990)
With Harvie Swartz
Harvie Swartz
Harvie S is an American jazz double-bassist.S learned piano as a child and did not begin playing bass until 1967, when he was nineteen years old. He attended Berklee College of Music and played in and around Boston with Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Mose Allison, and Chris Connor...
- In a Different Light (1990) - Blue Moon
With Tommy Smith
Tommy Smith (saxophonist)
Tommy Smith is a jazz saxophonist, composer and educator. The late jazz critic Richard Cook said of him, 'Of the generation which emerged in the mid-80s, he might be the most outstandingly talented'.-Biography:...
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- Blue Smith (1999) - Linn RecordsLinn RecordsLinn Records is a Glasgow-based record label which specialises in classical, jazz and Scottish music. It is part of Linn Products.-History:While Linn engineers were testing their flagship product, the Sondek LP12 turntable, they became frustrated with some of the specialist test LPs they were using...
With Gary Thomas
Gary Thomas
Gary Thomas is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist from Baltimore, Maryland. He is a member of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition band and has worked with John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Greg Osby, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Coltrane, Cassandra...
- By Any Means Necessary (1989) - JMTJMT RecordsJMT Records was a record label that specialised in contemporary jazz. It was run by Stefan Winter.JMT recorded artists included Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson, Greg Osby, and Django Bates. The entire JMT catalogue is being re-released by Winter & Winter, Stefan Winter's new label....
With Mark Antony Turnage
- Blood On The Floor (album) (1998) - Decca RecordsDecca RecordsDecca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
With Bugge Wesseltoft
Bugge Wesseltoft
Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer. He has his own label named Jazzland Records. In the 1990s, Bugge has made a transition from Nordic jazz traditions exemplified by the ECM record label to a style sometimes referred to as "future jazz" or...
- New Conception Of Jazz Live (2003) - JazzlandJazzland Records (1997)Jazzland Recordings is a Norwegian jazz and nu-jazz label based in Oslo, Norway. It was founded in 1997 by pianist Bugge Wesseltoft to release his "New Conception Of Jazz". It is currently a subsidiary of Universal Music Group and operated as a standalone label...
With Lenny White
Lenny White
Leonard White III, better known as Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer, who is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:...
- Present Tense (1995) - Hip Bop
With Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...
- Music for the Fifth WorldMusic for the Fifth WorldMusic for the Fifth World is an album by Jack DeJohnette, featuring performances with Will Calhoun, Michael Cain, Vernon Reid, Lonnie Plaxico and John Scofield plus vocalists, recorded in 1992 and released on the Manhattan label in 1993...
(1992) - CapitolCapitol RecordsCapitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
With Keller Williams
Keller Williams
Keller Williams is an American musician from Fredericksburg, Virginia, who began performing in the early 1990s. He is also known by the names K-Dub or just Keller, when performing. Williams' music combines elements of bluegrass, folk, alternative rock, reggae, electronica/dance, jazz, funk, and...
- DreamDream (Keller Williams album)Dream is the ninth solo album from Keller Williams, released in 2007. With the help of numerous collaborators, Williams explores a wide spectrum of musical genres in each of the songs....
(2007) - SCI Fidelity Records