![]() ![]() ![]() A solo album (often several of them) has been seen as a birthright for great guitar players, as it is for jazz pianists. He has had a wildly diverse and steady career stretching across many genres. In some ways, it’s hardly a surprise, since Scofield is in the top 1% of major living jazz guitarists by any measure. Now that he’s 70, it’s only right that Scofield takes a victory lap with his first solo album. Many jazz musicians were influenced by Miles Davis, but only a handful exerted an influence on Miles’ own playing: Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Ahmad Jamal, and John Scofield. As the technology evolved, Scofield’s signature sound expanded with it to include several expressively soulful electronic effects, which brought him into alignment with his frequent musical partner Bill Frisell. ![]() Scofield has a characteristic attack: he hovers his way into and out of a phrase, a trademark vibrato which is wide but not rapid, and an angular post-bop lyrical style in his improvised melodies that resembles no one else’s. He’s always had his own distinctive identity, even from his earliest recordings, which now date from almost 50 years ago. John Scofield is one of those guitarists whose sound is identifiable within three notes, no matter whether he’s playing mainstream jazz, fusion, country, rock, or experimental music. ![]() Now that he’s 70, it’s only right that guitarist John Scofield takes a victory lap with his first solo album. ![]()
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