John Scofield recommendations

I haven't heard a lot of Scofield and this disc isn't under his name, but his playing is sublime on this all-Miles compositions tribute.

Jeff A

Here are my three faves.

With Joe Lovano, Jack De Johnette and Charlie Haden - great jazz

Acoustic night time music


With Pat Metheny



He has a big catalogue with lots of diff styles. Some albums I do not like like Piety Street.

I like this one a lot:



steve

Überjam - funky yet incisive.

These will give you an idea...

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Originally posted by Paper Plane:
I like this one a lot:



steve

Yep, on my list of good un's as well. And another great line up including Bill Frisell.

EnRoute.

Live at The Blue Note, New york with Steve Swallow & Bill Stewart

I can heartily recommend Scofield A Go Go, a collaboration with Medeski, Martin, and Wood. It gets played probably once monthly here.

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Originally posted by jayd:
I can heartily recommend Scofield A Go Go, a collaboration with Medeski, Martin, and Wood. It gets played probably once monthly here.

I heartily agree . . . . really good album.

Also . . .


One of my favorites with either Bill Frisell OR John Scofield!

Max

There are so many worth mentioning but if it's only going to be one, I'm with Gary, Uberjam is a stonking album.

I have a bunch of Scofield, one of my favorite musicians. Hard to narrow it down to one (Marc Johnson's Bass Desires is a classic that everyone should hear, and not just for Sco), but if forced to pick just one it could well be Hand Jive, with the late great Eddie Harris, plus the currently great Larry Goldings and Bill Stewart. This is loose funk at its stinkiest!

Agree with many of the above suggestions, but for something slightly left field, check out "Blood on the Floor" a contemporary classical piece written by Marc Anthony Turnage for John Scofield and on which he plays magnificently. Incredible music - heard Turnage conduct it live with Sco playing a few years ago. There's a new-ish McCoy Tyner album called Guitars that has several Scofield tracks on it, as well as some with other contemporary guitar greats - Bill Frisell and Marc Ribot. Not to mention Ron Carter and Jack de Johnette. Great stuff.

CCR - it would be good if you could report back how you get on. Are you in the UK? Many of these are on spotify so easy to try. Would also be good to hear how you did with Pat Metheny.