From time to time in his storied career John Scofield will take a look over his shoulder and re-examine some of the music that has fed into his own, personal brand of jazz. The influences are many, ...

Unlike rock and country bands, jazz groups rarely feature more than one guitar player. So that makes guitarist John Scofield’s current Hollowbody Band a unique project. The quartet, which opened a two ...

John Scofield's entire oeuvre can be roughly divided into groove-based or straight-ahead recordings. Yet even in maximum groove propulsion, as on A Go Go (Verve, 1998), to cite one stellar example, ...

Jazz guitarist John Scofield, who performed with his quartet at the Dakota jazz club Tuesday night, has probably done more than any other musician to influence the stylistic direction of jazz guitar ...

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John Scofield, among the upper echelon of jazz guitarists for more than a couple decades, is no stranger to the Capital Region. He has played Saratoga jazz fest often: with Miles Davis in the mid-'80s ...

It doesn't seem like thirty one years since this reviewer was first blown away by John Scofield's Blue Matter band in an old, reimagined church in Colchester, England. Three decades and thirty-four ...

When guitarist Bill Frisell first began a more decided focus on roots music, bluegrass and country & western music with the release of 1996's Nashville (Nonesuch), despite being largely very ...

With jazz being an increasingly marginalized art form (at least in the commercial sense), any news of serious documentary work about one of its more iconic practitioners is likely to garner an ...

Scofield's albums Loud Jazz and Quiet were both genuine expressions of his flexible musical personality. In this program, he performs a... John Scofield Performs 'Quiet And Loud Jazz' Almost exactly ...

Joerg Steineck is a German filmmaker who has made both documentary and fictional films. His latest project Inside Scofield is, as the title suggests, a look at guitar icon John Scofield's career and ...

received a call from the famed trumpeter. “Miles says, ‘Oh, you’re from New Orleans — that’s why you can play good,’” Scofield recalled recently. Not exactly. Scofield’s mother grew up in New Orleans, ...