John Scofield

John Scofield , born the December 26th 1951 with Dayton (Ohio), is a Guitariste of Jazz and American type-setter .

He passes his childhood in the Connecticut, where he begins the guitar at the 11 years age. Thanks to the assistance of a professor of guitar, it is quickly initiated with Pat Martino, Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery. But, which will become its style, the Jazz-rock'n'roll is only with its stammerings, while at the same time John has just reached his majority. Impassioned by the guitar, endowed in addition, one finds it (logically), a few years later, on the benches of the Berklee College off Music (1970-1973).

Scofield then makes its weapons under the wing of jazzmen recognized such as Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker. With these two last, it records besides live with the Carnegie Hall. But, as he likes to point out it, Scofield really began its career within the group from Billy Cobham and George Duke. It is the true beginning of the jazz-rock'n'roll: where amateurs of rock'n'roll come to see jazzmen in concert! Amazing thing at the time.

After two years of good and faithful services, the group separates. Scofield remains with New York. He is then discovered a intéręt for the acoustic guitar. In 1977, it records with Charles Mingus, before joining the " Gary Burton quartet" then the " Dave Liebman' S quintet".

But it is Miles Davis which really will propel it. As from 1982, pushed by fiber of the Funky jazz, John will accompany the Master during three years, in studio and on scene throughout the world.

Always avid of discoveries, it leaves Miles to join Dennis Chambers (beater) and Gary Grainger (bass player) to develop fusion jazz-funk more, until a reversal in 1989. John signs at Blue Note Records and share with the exploration of the swing. He finds his classmate of Berklee then, the saxophonist Joe Lovano. They will record three albums, more the jazz of its career, according to Scofield. John will also work with Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette, to quote only them. The artist evolves then to a tinted jazz of drunk person and " New Orleans spirit" , under the influence of Eddie Harris, sails about it in the Sixties. Finally and especially, it accompanies the cream by the guitar jazz of the Nineties: Stalemate Metheny ( I Edge See You House From Young stag , 1994) and Bill Frisell.

In 1995, Scofield passes on the label Verve Records. Its independence of mind and its musical opening each time push it to play with new people and to amalgamate other kinds with the jazz to try to renew itself. It is thus not a chance if, throughout its career, it could côtoyer best the jazzmen of which Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Jim Hall, and more recently Medeski Martin and Wood (a common album left in 2006). However, the man is not only one simple fan of jazz. He quotes his sources in the blues " classique" (Albert King), but also in the rock'n'roll of the years 2000 (Tom Morello)…

Eclectic and open of spirit, such is Scofield: a guitarist who knew to forge his style through improvisation jazz and of fusion with the rock'n'roll, the funk or it drunk. Scofield rather little paid its attention on its instrumental technique. Of course, he remains a remarkable guitarist, but its instrumental technique could handicap it at the time of certain chorus, that of which he made share at the time of masters classes besides.

Sources

In its original version, this article took again whole or part of the matter contained in the article John Scofield, on the wiki Unplugged Café, in its version of July 17th, 2006 to 17:42 (CEST) (see the history of the article of source) .

External bonds

: Official site of John Scofield
: Drive “John Scofield” on the site of Verve Records.

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