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John Scofield (born December 26, 1951),[2] sometimes referred to as "Sco", is an American guitarist and composer whose music over a long career has blended jazz, jazz fusion, funk, blues, soul and rock.[1] He first came to mainstream attention in the band of Miles Davis, and has toured and recorded with many prominent jazz artists, including saxophonists Eddie Harris, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson and Joe Lovano; keyboardists George Duke, Joey DeFrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Larry Goldings and Robert Glasper; fellow guitarists Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Pat Martino and Bill Frisell; bassists Marc Johnson and Jaco Pastorius; and drummer Billy Cobham and Dennis Chambers. Outside the world of jazz, he has collaborated with Phil Lesh, Mavis Staples, John Mayer, Medeski Martin & Wood, and Gov’t Mule.[3]

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John Scofield
John Scofield, Moers Festival, Germany, 2021
Background information
Born	(1951-12-26) December 26, 1951 (age 70) Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion, acid jazz[1]
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instrument(s)	Guitar
Years active	1970s–present
Labels	Enja, Gramavision, Blue Note, Verve, EmArcy
Website	www.johnscofield.com

Biography

Scofield was born in Ohio but, when he was still a baby, his family moved to Wilton, Connecticut, where he discovered his interest in music.[4] Educated at the Berklee College of Music, Scofield left school to record with Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan. He joined the Billy Cobham/George Duke Band soon after and spent two years playing, recording, and touring with them. He recorded with Charles Mingus in 1976 and replaced Pat Metheny in Gary Burton's quartet.[5]

In 1976 Scofield signed with Enja, which released his first album, John Scofield, in 1977. He recorded with pianist Hal Galper on Rough House in 1978 and then on Galper's album Ivory Forest (1980), where he played a solo rendition of "Monk's Mood" by Thelonious Monk.[6] In 1979 he formed a trio with his mentor Steve Swallow and Adam Nussbaum which, with drummer Bill Stewart replacing Nussbaum, became the signature group of Scofield's career.[7]

In 1982, he joined Miles Davis, with whom he remained for three and a half years. He contributed tunes and guitar to three of Davis's albums, Star People, Decoy, and You're Under Arrest.[8] After he left Davis, he released Electric Outlet (1984) and Still Warm (1985)

He started what is referred to as his Blue Matter Band, with Dennis Chambers on drums, Gary Grainger on bass, and Mitchel Forman, Robert Aries, or Jim Beard on keyboards. The band released the albums Blue Matter, Loud Jazz and Pick Hits Live. Marc Johnson formed Bass Desires with Peter Erskine, Bill Frisell, and Scofield. This "most auspicious [pairing] since John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana"[9] recorded two albums, Bass Desires (1986) and Second Sight (1987).

At the beginning of the 1990s, Scofield formed a quartet that included Joe Lovano with whom he recorded several albums for Blue Note.[10] Time on My Hands (1990), with Joe Lovano, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnette, showcased Scofield's guitar and Mingus-influenced writing. Bill Stewart became the group's drummer and played on Meant to Be (1991) and What We Do (1993). In 1992, Scofield released Grace Under Pressure, featuring guitarist Bill Frisell, with Charlie Haden on bass and Joey Baron on drums. Stewart rejoined Scofield and Steve Swallow for I Can See Your House from Here, a collaboration with Pat Metheny.

Near the end of his time with Blue Note, Scofield returned to a sound that included more funk and soul jazz.^{[citation needed]} In 1994 and 1995, he formed a group with organist/pianist Larry Goldings, bassist Dennis Irwin, and alternately drummers, Bill Stewart and Idris Muhammad. The group toured extensively, and the albums Hand Jive and Groove Elation feature this funk/groove/soul-jazz dimension in Scofield's music with tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris, percussionist Don Alias, and trumpeter Randy Brecker. He recorded the 1997 album A Go Go with avant-garde jazz trio Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Also during this period he began to work with British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. He appeared as a soloist on Turnage's Blood on the Floor: Elegy for Andy. They collaborated on Scorched, an album of Turnage's orchestrations of Scofield's compositions, largely from the Blue Matter period. John Patitucci and Peter Erskine performed at the live premiere of Scorched at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt in September 2002 with the Radio-Symphony-Orchestra Frankfurt and the hr-Bigband. The performance was recorded and released by Deutsche Grammophon.[11]

Scofield released Überjam in 2002 and Up All Night in 2003, two albums on which he experimented with drum and bass. He recorded in Europe with the Bugge Wesseltoft New Conception of Jazz in 2001–2002 and 2006. In 2004 EnRoute: John Scofield Trio LIVE was released with Steve Swallow on bass and Bill Stewart on drums. It was recorded live at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City in December 2003. This was followed the next year by That's What I Say: John Scofield Plays the Music of Ray Charles. This led to performances with Mavis Staples, Gary Versace on organ, John Benitez on bass, and Steve Hass on drums. After sitting in for two engagements in December 2005 with Phil Lesh and Friends, Scofield has since played numerous shows with the band.

On September 26, 2006 he released Out Louder, his second collaboration with Medeski, Martin & Wood.[12] The group, known collectively as MSMW, toured worldwide in 2006 and 2007. Scofield performed in a duo with John Medeski named The Johns and in a trio with Medeski and drummer Adam Deitch. He recorded music inspired by gospel on the 2009 album Piety Street with Jon Cleary and George Porter Jr.

On September 18, 2007 EmArcy released This Meets That, an album recorded with Steve Swallow, Bill Stewart, and a horn trio. In 2011 EmArcy released A Moment's Peace, recorded with pianist Larry Goldings, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Brian Blade. Scofield's 2010 album 54 had its origin in the 1990s when Vince Mendoza asked him to play on his first album. As director of the Metropole Orchestra, Mendoza collaborated with Scofield on arrangements of Scofield's compositions that were performed by the orchestra.

Scofield has been an adjunct faculty member in the Jazz Department in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University.[13]

Awards and honors

• 1997: Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee
• 1998: Miles Davis Award, Montreal International Jazz Festival
• 2002: Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Überjam[14]
• 2004: Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Scorched, and Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for "Wee"[14]
• 2006: Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Trio Beyond - Saudades[14]
• 2010: Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: 54 featured with Metropole Orkest conducted by Vince Mendoza[14]
• 2010: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French Ministry of Culture[15]
• 2016: Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Past Present, and nominated for Best Improvised Jazz Solo: "Past Present"
• 2017: Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Country for Old Men
• 2017: Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo: "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"

Discography

As leader and co-leader

Date	Album title	Line-up	Label	Notes
1977	John Scofield Live	Quartet	Enja	Live recording from Munich
1978	John Scofield	Trio plus Terumasa Hino on two tracks	Trio (Jp)	Recorded in Tokyo; Re-released as East Meets West on Black Hawk in 1987
1978	Rough House	Quartet as John Scofield Quartet	Enja
1979	Who's Who?	Quintet and two quartet tracks	Arista Novus	Re-released 1990 with the four originals from Bar Talk as bonus tracks
1980	Bar Talk	Trio w/ Steve Swallow and Adam Nussbaum	Arista Novus
1981	Shinola	Trio w/ Swallow and Nussbaum	Enja	Live recording from Munich
1981	Out Like a Light	Trio w/ Swallow and Nussbaum	Enja	Live recording, third day from the same concert venue as Shinola
1984	Electric Outlet	Quintet w/ David Sanborn and Ray Anderson	Gramavision	Scofield plays also bass and DMX drum machine
1984	Solar	with John Abercrombie, duos and three quartet tracks	Palo Alto
1985	Still Warm	Quartet	Gramavision
1986	Blue Matter	Quintet and sextet, first w/ Gary Grainger and Dennis Chambers	Gramavision
1987	Loud Jazz	Quintet	Gramavision
1987	Pick Hits Live	Quartet	Gramavision	Live recording
1989	Flat Out	Quintet	Gramavision
1990	Time on My Hands	Quartet w/ Joe Lovano	Blue Note	Acoustic jazz supergroup featuring Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette.
1991	Meant to Be	Quartet w/ Joe Lovano	Blue Note	First Scofield record to feature drummer Bill Stewart.
1992	Grace Under Pressure	Quartet w/ Bill Frisell plus horn section on half of the tracks	Blue Note	Frisell and Scofield had previously partnered in Marc Johnson's Bass Desires.
1993	What We Do	Quartet w/ Joe Lovano	Blue Note
1994	Hand Jive	Sextet	Blue Note	Soul jazz session featuring saxophonist Eddie Harris two years before Harris's death.
1994	I Can See Your House from Here	with Pat Metheny, quartet	Blue Note
1995	Groove Elation	Quartet plus horn section and percussion	Blue Note	Soul jazz session featuring the New Orleans style drumming of Idris Muhammad and organ by Larry Goldings .
1996	Quiet	Trio plus horn section, feat. Wayne Shorter on three tracks	Verve	Scofield plays exclusively acoustic guitar, focus on arrangements, some light jazz waltzing and bossa nova, appropriate title
1998	A Go Go	with Medeski Martin & Wood	Verve	First collaboration with avant-jazz-funk organ trio
1999	Old Folks	with Kenny Garrett, Michael Brecker and David Friesen	West Wind	Conceptual compilation of equally dealt four leaders
2000	Bump	Duo to quintet in altering constellations	Verve	Scofield plays acoustic guitar on some tracks and adds more sound effects, opens further up to (slightly) younger musicians like Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen and Mark De Gli Antoni introducing electronica
2001	Works for Me	Quintet w/ Kenny Garrett and Brad Mehldau	Verve	Contemporary post-bop line-up and repertoire
2002	Überjam	Überjam quartet up to sextet as The John Scofield Band	Verve	New band, first time with Avi Bortnick and Adam Deitch plus John Medeski, even more effects, reaching into dub reggae, jungle grooves, rap and samples
2003	Oh!	as ScoLoHoFo w/ Joe Lovano, Dave Holland and Al Foster	Blue Note	Acoustic jazz quartet
2003	Up All Night	Überjam quartet plus horns as The John Scofield Band	Verve	Überjam band with Andy Hess, bass guitar.
2004	Scorched	with Mark-Anthony Turnage	Deutsche Grammophon
2004	John Scofield Trio LIVE EnRoute	Trio w/ Swallow and Bill Stewart	Verve	Live recording
2005	That's What I Say: John Scofield Plays the Music of Ray Charles		Verve
2006	Saudades	as Trio Beyond w/ Larry Goldings and Jack DeJohnette	ECM	one-time Tony Williams tribute band
2006	Out Louder	as Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood	Indirecto	First recording of Medeski, Scofield Martin & Wood partnership with co-equal contributions from Scofield and Medeski Martin & Wood
2007	This Meets That	Trio w/ Swallow and Bill Stewart plus horn section	EmArcy
2009	Piety Street	Quartet feat. vocals	EmArcy
2011	A Moment's Peace	Quartet	EmArcy
2011	MSMW Live: In Case the World Changes Its Mind	as Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood	EmArcy	Live recording
2013	Überjam Deux	Überjam	EmArcy	Follow-up to Überjam from 2002 and Up All Night
2014	Juice	as Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood	Indirecto
2015	Past Present	Quartet w/ Joe Lovano, Larry Grenadier and Bill Stewart	Impulse!
2016	Country for Old Men	Quartet w/ Larry Goldings, Steve Swallow and Bill Stewart	Impulse!	Literally old men embracing country
2017	Hudson	Quartet w/ Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier and John Medeski	Motéma
2018	Combo 66	Quartet w/ Gerald Clayton, Bill Stewart and Vicente Archer	Verve
2020	Swallow Tales	Trio w/ Steve Swallow and Bill Stewart	ECM
2022	John Scofield	Solo	ECM

Compilations

• Slo Sco: The Best of the Ballads (Gramavision, 1990)
• Liquid Fire: The Best of John Scofield (Gramavision, 1994)
• Best of John Scofield (Blue Note, 1996)
• Steady Groovin': The Blue Note Groove Sides (Blue Note, 2000)
• Sco-Mule (Evil Teen Records, 2015)

As a sideman

Albums listed by year of release. (Links to artists and labels on first appearance.)

Date	Artist	Album title	Label	Notes
1974	Gary Marks	Gathering	Arewea
1974	Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker	Carnegie Hall Concert	CTI
1975	Billy Cobham	A Funky Thide of Sings	Atlantic
1976	Billy Cobham	Life & Times	Atlantic
1976	Billy Cobham & George Duke	Live on Tour in Europe	Atlantic
1977	Chet Baker	You Can't Go Home Again	Horizon
1977	Charles Mingus	Three or Four Shades of Blues	Atlantic
1977	Jeremy Steig	Firefly	CTI
1977	Urbie Green	Señor Blues	CTI
1977	Terumasa Hino	May Dance	Flying Disk
1977	Chet Baker	The Best Thing for You	A&M
1978	Billy Cobham	Inner Conflicts	Atlantic	Scofield on two tracks
1978	Jay McShann	The Last of the Blue Devils	Atlantic
1978	Miroslav Vitous	Guardian Angels	Trio (Japan)
1979	Dave Liebman	Doin' It Again	Timeless
1979	Jim McNeely	The Plot Thickens	Muse
1979	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Dancing on the Tables	SteepleChase
1979	Jay McShann	The Big Apple Bash	Atlantic
1979	Zbigniew Seifert	Passion	Capitol
1979	Martial Solal, Lee Konitz, John Scofield, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Four Keys	MPS
1979	Jack Walrath	Demons in Pursuit	Gatemouth
1979	Larry Coryell	Tributaries	Arista Novus
1979	Joe Beck & Larry Coryell	Tributaries	Arista Novus
1979	Hal Galper	Ivory Forest	Enja
1980	Dave Liebman	If They Only Knew	Timeless
1980	Dave Liebman	What It Is	Columbia
1980	Ron McClure	Descendants	Ken
1981	Bill Goodwin	Solar Energy	Omni Sound Jazz
1982	Peter Warren	Solidarity	JAPO
1983	Miles Davis	Star People	Columbia
1983	Jim Pepper	Comin' and Goin'	Antilles
1984	George Adams	More Sightings	Enja
1984	Miles Davis	Decoy	Columbia
1984	Eero Koivistoinen	Picture in Three Colours	Pro	Three further tracks of this 1983 session in New York were released by the Finnish Rytmi magazine
1984	Bennie Wallace	Sweeping Through the City	Enja
1984 1985	Miles Davis	The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux 1973–1991	Warner Switzerland	Scofield on seven of the 20 cd box set released in 2002
1985	Miles Davis	You're Under Arrest	Columbia
1985	George Adams-Don Pullen Quartet	Live at Montmartre	Timeless
1985	Paul Bley	Hot	Soul Note
1985	Bennie Wallace	Twilight Time	Blue Note
1986	Tal Farlow, John Abercrombie, Larry Carlton, Larry Coryell, John Scofield, John Patitucci & Billy Hart	All Strings Attached	Verve	Part of the 1986 concert series Jazzvisions: Made in America in Los Angeles
1986	Marc Johnson	Bass Desires	ECM
1986	L'Orchestre National du Jazz	Orchestre National du Jazz '86	Label Bleu
1987	Franco Ambrosetti	Movies	Enja
1987	Ron McClure	Home Base	ODE
1987	Bennie Wallace	Art of the Saxophone	Denon
1987	Bennie Wallace	Border Town	Blue Note
1987	Roberto Gatto	Ask	Inak
1987	Marc Johnson	Second Sight	ECM
1988	Franco Ambrosetti	Movies Too	Enja
1988	Ray Anderson	Blues Bred in the Bone	Enja
1988	Gary Burton	Times Like These	GRP
1988	Tommy Smith	Step by Step	Blue Note
1988	Missing Links	Groovin	MCA	Scofield on two tracks
1988	Mike Gibbs Orchestra	Big Time	Venture
1988	Tom Harrell	Stories	Contemporary
1988	Niels Lan Doky	Daybreak	Storyville
1989	Richie Beirach	Some Other Time	Triloka
1989	Terri Lyne Carrington	Real Life Story	Verve Forecast
1989	Jim McNeely w/the WDR Big Band	East Coast Blow Out	Lipstick	Released in 1991 and reissued in 2014 on Jazzline
1989	Gary Thomas	By Any Means Necessary	JMT
1989	McCoy Tyner	Things Ain't What They Used to Be	Blue Note
1989	Terumasa Hino	Bluestruck	Blue Note
1990	Bill Cosby & Friends	Where You Lay Your Head	Verve
1990	Joey DeFrancesco	Where Were You?	Columbia
1990	Manhattan Jazz Quintet	Manhattan Blues	Sweet Basil
1990	Harvie Swartz	In a Different Light	Blue Moon
1990	Benny Golson	Rhythmstick	CTI
1991	Lars Danielsson	Fresh Enough	L+R
1991	Dennis Chambers	Getting Even	Glass House/Pioneer (Jp)
1991	Peter Erskine	Sweet Soul	Arista Novus
1991	Mike Gibbs Band	Symphony Hall, Birmingham 1991	Dusk Fire	Released in 2018
1991	Eero Koivistoinen	Altered Things	Timeless
1991	Steve Swallow	Swallow	XtraWATT
1992	Gary Burton	Six Pack	GRP
1992	Jack DeJohnette	Music for the Fifth World	Capitol
1992	Knut Riisnæs & Jon Christensen	Knut Riisnæs – Jon Christensen Featuring John Scofield – Palle Danielsson	Odin
1993	Lee Konitz	Rhapsody II	Evidence
1993	Jimmy Haslip	A R C	UMG
1993	Joe Henderson	So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)	Verve
1994	David Friesen	Two for the Show	ITM Pacific
1995	Ray Drummond	Continuum	Arabesque
1995	Herbie Hancock	The New Standard	Verve
1995	Ron Holloway	Struttin	Milestone
1995	Lenny White	Present Tense	Hip Bop
1996	Teodross Avery	My Generation	Impulse!
1997	Gary Burton	Departure	Concord Jazz
1997	Joe Henderson	Porgy & Bess	Verve
1997	Chris Potter	Unspoken	Concord Jazz
1998	Mark-Anthony Turnage	Blood on the Floor	Decca
1998	John Patitucci	Now	Concord Jazz
1999	Ulrik / Scofield / Danielsson / Erskine	Shortcuts - Jazzpar Combo 1999	Stunt
1999	Joe Henderson	Quiet Now: Lovesome Thing	Verve	Scofield on two tracks
1999	Tommy Smith	Blue Smith	Linn
1999	Gov't Mule Featuring John Scofield	Sco-Mule	Provogue	Released in 2015
2000	Jon Gordon	Possibilities	Double-Time
2000	Bill Evans (saxophonist)	Soul Insider	ESC	guitar on 8 & 10 (two tracks)
2001	Metalwood	The Recline	Verve
2001	Project Logic with John Scofield	Sharin' in the Groove	Who Is She Music?	Charity tribute album for Phish and The Mockingbird Foundation. Guitar on "Cars Trucks Buses".
2002	Chris Potter	Traveling Mercies	Verve
2003	Roy Haynes	Love Letters	Columbia
2003	Bugge Wesseltoft	New Conception of Jazz Live	Jazzland
2005	Marc Johnson	Shades of Jade	ECM
2005	John Ellis	One Foot in the Swamp	Hyena
2006	Phil Lesh and Friends	Live at the Warfield	Image
2007	Keller Williams	Dream	SCI Fidelity
2009	Assembly of Dust	Some Assembly Required	Rock Ridge Music	Guitar on "Borrowed Feet"
2010	Metropole Orkest Featuring John Scofield	54	EmArcy	Conducted by Vince Mendoza
2010	Eddie Henderson	For All We Know	Furthermore

References

External links

• Official site

На других языках

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[de] John Scofield

John Scofield (* 26. Dezember 1951 in Dayton, Ohio) ist ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Gitarrist und Komponist.

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- [en] John Scofield

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[es] John Scofield

John Scofield (Dayton, Ohio, 26 de diciembre de 1951)[1] es un destacado guitarrista de jazz y compositor estadounidense. Ha colaborado con artistas como Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, Dennis Chambers, George Duke, entre otros.

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[ru] Скофилд, Джон

Джон Ско́филд (англ. John Scofield, род. 26 декабря 1951 (1951-12-26), Дэйтон, штат Огайо) — американский джазовый гитарист и композитор.

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