![]() "I did a few short tours of Europe prior to the pandemic. Where did the idea of this solo album come from? You’ve been such a band guy all your life. ![]() ![]() Guitar Player spoke to Scofield by phone on the eve of him hitting the road to perform duets with his old friend, bassist-composer Dave Holland.ĭave Holland (left) and John Scofield perform at Blue Note on Novemin Milan, Italy (Image credit: Sergione Infuso/Corbis/Getty Images) Recorded at his home in the Hudson Valley during the pandemic, this intimate solo album finds the 70-year-old six-string icon digging into his own past as he addresses the jazz standards, rock and roll, funk, and country tunes he grew up with, along with a healthy dose of the blues, all delivered with typical grace and that omnipresent vocal string-bending quality that has always been a key part of his guitar vocabulary since he began working professionally 50 years ago. Now, after all of those band settings and styles, Scofield has pared it down to just himself, his trusty Ibanez AS-200 guitar, and a Boomerang Looper on his second ECM album, the unaccompanied John Scofield. He debuted on Decca in 2011 with the gentle ballads album A Moment’s Peace, interpreted country tunes on 2016’s soulful Country for Old Men, and explored the music of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, and the Band on 2017’s Hudson.
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