Known for his distinctive sound and stylistic diversity, John Scofield is considered a masterful jazz improviser, and he takes the stage at the Community Concert Hall, Wednesday, March 1 with the John ...

Scheduled performers include Al Di Meola, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Mike Stern, Vernon Reid of Living Colour, Alex ...

John Scofield's entire oeuvre can be roughly divided into groove-based or straight-ahead recordings. Yet even in maximum groove propulsion, as on A Go Go (Verve, 1998), to cite one stellar example, ...

At long last Blue Note is digging into their archives and reissuing some of their concert footage, previously only available on long out-of-print videotape, on DVD. While these are bare bones releases ...

Jazz guitarist returns to the sound of his straight-ahead quartet with Joe Lovano, on tunes documenting his son's battle with cancer. Songs We Love: John Scofield, 'Mr. Puffy' Guitarist and composer ...

received a call from the famed trumpeter. “Miles says, ‘Oh, you’re from New Orleans — that’s why you can play good,’” Scofield recalled recently. Not exactly. Scofield’s mother grew up in New Orleans, ...

Guitarist John Scofield's This Meets That is a trio record—sort of. While Scofield has old friends and collaborators Steve Swallow and Bill Stewart on board as his rhythm section, the guitarist also ...

This album is fundamentally about rapport, deep listening, and a shared musical history that traces back to Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and the quartet with Joe Lovano and Al Foster. John Scofield's ...

Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead's bassist for over 30 years, claimed their basic inspiration came from the musical unions he saw in the Miles Davis Quartet along with the John Coltrane Quartet from the early ...

"Jazz is best when it's completely carefree. The only problem is when you care about the music more than anything in the world—how do you get carefree?" John Scofield raised the conundrum in a a 2023 ...

Hear the week's most notable songs, from Pharrell Williams' less-than-happy new tune to Oneohtrix Point Never's collaboration with Iggy Pop. By Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello ...