APR 14-17 | John Scofield | Solo, Duo, & Quartets
Apr 17, 2022
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
The final night of Scofield’s week on the Miner stage brings the Bay Area premiere of his latest band project.
The American referred to in John Scofield’s latest project Yankee Go Home is the guitarist himself, and the realm to which he’s directing his feet was built by the rock ‘n’ roll that seduced him as a teenager.
Joined by Brian Blade Fellowship pianist and arranger Jon Cowherd, ace bassist Vicente Archer, and Ollabelle/Little Feat drummer Tony Leone, Scofield is plunging back into the music that colored his adolescent world, reinterpreting tunes by everyone from Leonard Bernstein, Neil Young and Buddy Holly to Stevie Wonder and the Grateful Dead (with some recent originals thrown in for good measure). This isn’t a fusion project. Rather, Scofield is replanting his musical roots in the verdant jazz soil he’s tilled for the past five decades. Conceptually it’s a similar process he’s applied to the songs of Ray Charles (on 2005’s That’s What I Say), gospel (on 2009’s Piety Street) and country music (on 2016’s Country For Old Men), but now he's drilling down into the essential sounds that first moved him to pick up a guitar.
New quartet will focus on rock hits and jazzed-out folk songs, reinterpreting tunes by everyone from Leonard Bernstein, Neil Young and Buddy Holly to Stevie Wonder and the Grateful Dead.
Scofield combines the chess-champ braininess of his solos with a taste for standard song forms and expansive bursts of volume; a manna for the straight ahead jazz fan.
The Boston Phoenix
Scofield combines the chess-champ braininess of his solos with a taste for standard song forms and expansive bursts of volume; a manna for the straight ahead jazz fan.
The Boston Phoenix
Personnel
John Scofield guitar
Jon Cowherd piano
Vicente Archer bass
Josh Dion drums
Scofield’s muse has evolved from guitar standards to post-bop to fusion and back again. He wears a gilded robe as the modern messiah of ‘Terminator jazz’.
DownBeat
Personnel
John Scofield guitar
Jon Cowherd piano
Vicente Archer bass
Josh Dion drums
Scofield’s muse has evolved from guitar standards to post-bop to fusion and back again. He wears a gilded robe as the modern messiah of ‘Terminator jazz’.
DownBeat
Watch & Listen
John Scofield
Hit the Road Jack
John Scofield
Unchain My Heart, Pt. 1
John Scofield
Hit the Road Jack
John Scofield
Unchain My Heart, Pt. 1