John Scofield

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John Scofield (2011)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
I Can See Your House from Here (with Pat Metheny )
  US 181 04/23/1994 (2 weeks)
Out Louder (with Medeski, Martin & Wood )
  US 188 10/14/2006 (2 weeks)
Sco-Mule (with Gov't Mule )
  DE 37 02/06/2015 (1 week)
  AT 52 02/06/2015 (1 week)
  CH 50 02/01/2015 (1 week)
  US 96 02/14/2015 (1 week)
Country for Old Men
  CH 90 10/02/2016 (1 week)
Combo 66
  CH 85 07.10.2018 (1 week)
Swallow Tales (with Bill Stewart & Steve Swallow )
  DE 96 06/19/2020 (1 week)
  CH 56 06/14/2020 (4 weeks)

John Scofield (* 26. December 1951 in Dayton , Ohio ) is an American jazz - guitarist and composer .

Life and work

John Scofield grew up in Wilton, Connecticut . He started playing guitar at the age of eleven and was active in high school bands and various rock and blues groups. After being introduced to the music of Wes Montgomery , Jim Hall and Pat Martino through a teacher , he became involved with jazz. From 1970 to 1973 he studied jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston . His teachers there included Mick Goodrick and Gary Burton , with whom Scofield later played together.

Scofield was able to attract first attention in the jazz scene when Goodrick brokered him as a substitute for a concert with Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker at Carnegie Hall . The breakthrough came as a member of the Billy Cobham / George Duke band. He subsequently played with numerous well-known jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus , Herbie Hancock , Chick Corea , Joe Henderson ( So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles) , 1992 and Porgy and Bess , 1997), Pat Metheny , McCoy Tyner , Bennie Wallace and Jim Hall. Since the late 1970s he toured in a trio with Steve Swallow and Adam Nussbaum , with whom he had his breakthrough.

1982 began a three and a half year long collaboration with Miles Davis , which was characterized by improvised and funky jazz. In Marc Johnson's project Bass Desires he appeared with his guitar colleague Bill Frisell . After Scofield had signed a contract with Blue Note Records in 1989 (until 1996, then with Verve ), he and the saxophonist Joe Lovano , a friend from his time at Berklee College, founded a band that mostly acted as a quartet or quintet and was one of the most exposed Representatives of funk jazz counts. Since 1998 John Scofield has played in a quartet with Joe Lovano (ts), Dave Holland (b) and Al Foster (dr), but also performed with Medeski, Martin & Wood , and in 2012 with Steve Swallow and Bill Stewart .

According to jazz journalist Richard Cook, Scofield, along with Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny, is one of the most important and influential jazz guitarists since Wes Montgomery . With Metheny Scofield recorded a duo album in 1994. In 2016 he received the Grammy Award in the Jazz Instrumental Album category for his album Past Present .

John Scofield at Moers Festival 2006

Sound and style of play

Scofield's recognizable tone is characterized by a slightly distorted sound. He often strikes the strings unusually close to the bridge. His trademark is also his extremely secure timing with pronounced laidback playing, in which he creates tied melodies using legato playing.

The extensive and extremely skilful use of inside-outside playing , that is, the targeted juxtaposition of non-key and near-key material, has popularized this way of playing among jazz guitarists and is closely linked to his name.

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Discography

  • 1977: East Meets West
  • 1977: John Scofield / Live
  • 1978: Rough House
  • 1979: Who's Who?
  • 1980: Bar Talk
  • 1980: Four Keys
  • 1980: Spoons (Who's Who), sampler
  • 1981: Out Like a Light
  • 1981: Shinola
  • 1982: Solar (with John Abercrombie )
  • 1984: Electric Outlet
  • 1986: Still Warm
  • 1987: Blue Matter
  • 1987: Pick Hits - Live
  • 1988: Loud Jazz
  • 1990: Flat Out
  • 1990: Time on My Hands
  • 1991: Meant to Be
  • 1991: East Coast Blow Out (with Jim McNeely , Marc Johnson, Adam Nussbaum & WDR Big Band )
  • 1992: Grace Under Pressure
  • 1993: Quartet
  • 1993: What We Do
  • 1994: Hand Jive
  • 1994: I Can See Your House from Here (John Scofield & Pat Metheny)
  • 1995: Groove Elation
  • 1996: Quiet
  • 1998: A Go Go (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • 1999: Shortcuts (Jazzpar Combo 1999 - with Hans Ulrik , Lars Danielsson , Peter Erskine )
  • 2000: bump
  • 2001: Works for Me
  • 2002: Überjam
  • 2003: Oh!
  • 2003: Up All Night
  • 2004: En route
  • 2005: That's What I Say
  • 2007: This Meets That
  • 2009: Piety Street
  • 2010: 54, with the Metropole Orkest and Vince Mendoza (arrangements and direction) - awarded a Grammy in the category "Best large Jazz ensemble album"
  • 2011: A Moment's Peace - (Emarcy)
  • 2013: Überjam Deux (Decca / Emarcy)
  • 2015: Sco-Mule ( Gov't Mule featuring John Scofield)
  • 2015: Past Present
  • 2016: Country for Old Men
  • 2017: Hudson (with Larry Grenadier , John Medeski and Jack DeJohnette )
  • 2018: Combo 66 (Verve, with Gerald Clayton , Vicente Archer , Bill Stewart )
  • 2020: John Scofield, Steve Swallow , Bill Stewart : Swallow Tales (ECM)

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland - USA
  2. ^ R. Cook: Jazz Encyclopedia London 2007; see. W. Kampmann Reclams Jazzlexikon Stuttgart 2003.
  3. ^ CD review John Scofield. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .
  4. ^ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 23, 2016
  5. ↑ The Guardian of May 19, 2011: "A Moment's Peace" - Review (Eng.)

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SURNAME Scofield, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton , Ohio , USA