A go go

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A go go
Studio album by John Scofield

Publication
(s)

April 7, 1998

Label (s) Verve Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Jazz , jazz radio , fusion

Title (number)

10

running time

51:50

occupation

production

Lee Townsend
Susan Scofield

Studio (s)

Avatar Studios , New York City

chronology
Quiet
1996
A go go Bump
2000

A Go Go is the twenty-sixth album of jazz - guitarist John Scofield . The title of the album means something like "in abundance".

Emergence

The album is Scofield's first collaboration with the trio Medeski, Martin & Wood . His daughter had drawn his attention to the group, which he then hired as his rhythm section . When he decided to work together, he called the group: “At first we thought it couldn't be true. Somebody made it up. But it was really his voice. Of course it was a great feeling to have someone like Scofield call us to be part of his album. "

According to John Medeski, Scofield “benefited more from the trio, at least as far as the US is concerned. Most American musicians only have the opportunity to make creative music in Europe, but we can do it here. Nobody in Europe knows us, and that's why we've probably benefited more from Scofield's name there. "

The album was recorded at Avatar Studios in New York City .

content

The pieces of music on the album are very different from one another; while Chank is heavily influenced by funk, the interlude Kubrick is a "quiet respite". Together they form "a musical firework of original compositions and adventurous improvisations that is second to none."

Track list

  1. A Go Go - 6:36
  2. Chank - 6:47
  3. Boozer - 5:28
  4. Southern Pacific - 5:14
  5. Jeep on 35 - 4:31
  6. Kubrick - 2:41
  7. Green Tea - 5:12 am
  8. Hottentot - 6:46
  9. Chicken Dog - 6:22
  10. Deadzy - 2:42

reception

According to Jazzthetik magazine , “John Scofield, who was almost a thing of the past” in the 1990s, made a “comeback” with this album. On this album “Scofield gets the chance to play as funky as he sometimes finds himself” (Tim DiGravina in his review for Allmusic ), while MMW's “winding grooves are structured by Scofield's guitar playing”.

The constant reinvention of Scofield's style has been praised both generally and specifically at A Go Go . The website jazztimes.com compares this collaboration with that of guitarist Jim Hall and pianist Bill Evans, as well as that of Jimmy Nolen and James Brown . Allmusic praises Scofield's guitar playing as "dreamlike, secure weaving in the sound network of the young trio". The jazz magazine Down Beat gave the album only three and a half out of five points in its review.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b John Medeski, quoted from Maxi Siekert: The Jammies - Medeski Martin and Wood ; Article in Jazzthetik ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzthetik.de
  2. a b Bill Milkowski : A-Go-Go review on jazztimes.com (English; accessed April 1, 2010)
  3. Review of the album on schallplattenmann.de
  4. Maxi Siekert: The Jammies - Medeski Martin and Wood . Article in Jazzthetik ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzthetik.de
  5. ^ A b Joshua Klein: John Scofield: A Go Go . Review on avclub.com (accessed May 1, 2010)
  6. "His Alternately jangling and plucking style sees him weaving in and out of the young trio's sound net with ample confidence." Tim DiGravina in the review of the album on allmusic.com (accessed June 16, 2010)
  7. record review in the magazine Down Beat , Issue 4/1998, p 48

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