John Scofield coming to town - worth it?

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Originally posted by blackforest:
could someone recommend a few nice albums by the Scofield Trio?

or is there one which is really outstanding?

regards, christian

ps> he will play very close to berlin on saturday - is it worth going there?

Good solid guitarist. Great live act. My personal favourites are Hand Jive and Bump.They're more funky than most of his stuff. Also liked his playing with Miles Davis.
Saw him live in Atlantic City and he was amazing. I'd say he's worth going to see

thanks jcs - just orderd two tickets for me and my girl;.

UberJam



Up All Night

Two more albums I would recommend.

Larry

I was on 2 Sco concerts. It was great. I have many cds of Scofield but I love "live at montmartre" by george adams/don pullen quartet (belaphone cdjsp 219) and "blue matter" (gramavision r2 79403)

http://www.amazon.com/Montmartre-Scofield-Richmond-Came.../002-3538030-5330468
http://www.timelessjazz.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=194&language=en
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Matter-John-Scofield/dp/B000...0468?ie=UTF8&s=music

Uberjam is fantastic, too
in this yaer ecm records published ne record of Sco: "saudades" (ecm 1972/73) with great larry goldings and jack dejohnette. mainstrem mixed with funk. good but, not special.

To answer the question "John Scofield coming to town - worth it?" my answer is: always.

Fred

I saw Scofield last year in London with his (very young) Uberjam band.They were fantastic.

The first act were the Mondesir Bros. and they were great. Funky, but challengingly inventive. I thought that Socfield had probably made a mistake by having such great musicians 'warm up' for him.

No way! They kicked ass in a very big way.

So ...

Up all night
A Go Go (with Martin, Medeski and Wood)
Quiet
Hand Jive

... are the ones I tend to play most.

GO AND SEE HIM in any setting, any line up!

so i went there and it was quite good - really liked it!

the band was playing in an old church (built by Schinkel) and the whole atmopsphere was really relaxed.

they were starting with some classical trio music and were then playing a nice version of "amazing grace" (because of the church i think). later budo and then it got steve reichian, later vey jimi hendrixian.

schloss neuhardenberg looks like this:



regards, christian