John Scofield - EnRoute
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Artist: John ScofieldEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Music Label: Verve
Product features:
- SCOFIELD JOHN LIVE EN ROUTE
- Wee
- Toogs
- Name That Tune
- Hammock Soliloquy
- Bag
- It Is Written
- Alfie
- Travel John
- Over Big Top
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Music Review: Dancing the Tightrope
Rating: 5 Stars
Jazz is a high wire act.
Especially live. As here.
No net beneath. If you slip, you go splat.
These guys don't go splat.
One supposes it helps to have played together for many years, as these three friends (Sco, guitar; Steve Swallow, e-bass; Bill Stewart, drums) and jazz warriors have. Indeed, as Sco says in his brief liner notes: "The music on this CD was recorded live and I think that's the way jazz is played and heard best. Somehow, we rarely get to these places in the studio." They get to "these places," which are, in short, amazing, because of their individual brilliance and collective knowledge of each other's moves.
The most amazing place they get to is "Hammock Soliloquy," nearly ten minutes of bloozy, junk-yard-dog, shifting rhythms stitched together with some very sophisticated free-boppish passages. Somehow, it all hangs together. The intuitive band interaction combined with killer solos from both Sco and Swallow make for some might tasty listening. Swallow, although perhaps not quite as declamatory as on his recent Damage in Transit disc (but it's not his gig here, is it?), nevertheless provides nearly the perfect foil, becoming, at times, almost like "one big guitar together," as Sco puts it in his liner notes.
Other highlights include the pretty straightforward blues, "Bag," on which Sco proves he's among the greatest jazz interpreter of this music ever, helped, enormously, one must admit, by the walking brilliance of Swallow and the crazy rhythm of Stewart, who's all over his kit; "Wee," a Denzel Best standard given a way skanky treatment (which makes me wish for some more interpretations of jazz standards); and a wistfully atmospheric reading of "Alfie," where Sco proves he knows his way around a ballad by giving it a heartfelt, if slightly wackily idiosyncratic, treatment.
Over the past decade, John Scofield has proved himself to be among the greatest jazz guitarist ever. This disc, catching him in rare form on a live gig, goes a long way toward solidifying that well-deserved reputation.
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