John Scofield On A Blues - This Is Why He Is Great

Maybe I'm wrong, but this solo reaffirms something I think a lot: the musician doesn't always think exactly about playing in the changes. I believe that the interval content created is more important than whether the note will be part of the chord or not.

That Metheny/Scofield is 1 of my favs!

Saw Sco with Lettuce at SF Jazz...very cool. Love me some Sco. He has an unmistakable voice.

Jens, that E natural over the F7 in bar 7, couldn't that just as well be a mistake or are you 100% confident that Sco meant to play that?

Illuminating.

Love the Scofield analysis and information. Also loved your insight into the highly underrated and not as analysed Bill Frisell.

Horrible. 😖
Sorry...but it IS.
At least players like Metheny and McLaughlin incorporate "melody relief" in their atonal playing.
This is just horrible chromatic dissonance for the sake of it.
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Ivory Tatoo from his early fusion days caught my ear....then Loud Jazz, I was hooked....

Great analysis Jens. I'm glad you are here to help us.

Thx jens. Great video

Jens: “He plays with a lot of dynamics”

Instagram guitar players: “Is that a scale?”

A kind of late comment, but revisiting this video, it comes to mind that Scofield playing is really contrapuntal. I think this sense of deliberate texture, is why I love his playing.

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Is that just a hair tie on the neck of your guitar, or are you using a specific product?

Awesome video! Just found you, make more videos! Very good tutorial! Just bought a JSM10 as well, but just getting up to scratch after 20 years not playing.

John Scofield has always been my favorite jazz guitarist since I was a youngling in the 80's.

Ja Jens, hier tref jij zich het spijkertje volledig op het kopje man: pr8tich !!! Dank je.

Buenisimo!!!gracias jens usted es un master!!👏👏

Your English is beautiful, kind of like listening to jazz

I LOVE John Scofield from the very 1st time I heard him on Uberjam Album and his duet with Pat Metheny on that number was just superb, trying to figure out what he was doing until your detailed explaination..tqvm for sharing..

I've heard great things about scofield yet haven't checked it out

I think that just work with 2 voice leading and target notes is so challenger and funny

I love this album

Sco talks to me, I can breathe while he pulls me down the rabbit hole

Great video! Do you know Julian Lage?

Larry Coryell

the first time i heard him was the trade offs he did with joe henderson on miles ahead , i was blown away

Scofield's Ray album is his best. Wonderful stuff all over it. The best guests.

Any chance you can do one on Gambale? Or is he too fusion and not enough jazz?

Wow, this was a good video, despite the click-whoring thumbnail, which looked like a big warning sign basically saying "ad-ridden total bs ahead, stay clear"

oh man just like mac laughlin , scofield but its just my opinion , what a strange sound ! and his scales choice ...very strange ? lol ! sorry !

I feel sad, because although i have tried a few times, I really don't get Scofield. I don't like the dirty sound, or the bending the note you land on a quarter tone. Probably a shame because I know so many people dig him, but I just don't "get" it. Thanks for trying.

Your analysis, note for note, I like more than Scofield's. His sound sounds like a drunk talking to me. I can't get past it. I wish I knew what J.S. knows. I want to like his playing. Through you I can appreciate his ideas. Thanks...

My favourite contemporary guitar player.

Sco has fun when he plays!

Nice video Jens. Agree with your points and you've presented them well. Cheers

Thanks for this!. Scofield is the man.

I liked Sco and the other fusion players
Zappa, Dimiola, Moore, Abercrombie, McLaughlin,

Jen's you are welcome in Minnesota where your wonderful Norske accent fits perfectly

I have done it todaz twice this lesson - I liked so much :-) .. waiting from a Mike Stern one :-)

luv this man!

Pat Metheny is on a different level to Scofield imo, but Scofield has his moments.

I LOVE SCOFIELD!

I've heard Scofield live several times. The last time I heard him he was playing country tunes with a piano player and I liked it not at all...

Like your Video. How about some Wayne Krantz. Like the solo from the 1990 Whippersnapper? Or perhaps the other great John, Abercrombie?

I am a Acoustic/Electric Bassist, new somewhat to Jazz Guitar gear. I play an Ibanez Artcore Hollowbody and have three questions. First I was told to play using flatwound strings. Is this common or preferred? Second is it better to use a Bass amp (Galien Kruger), or a guitar amp (Fender Front Man)? Lastly I want to be able to play melodically with a pick , but I also want to be able to comp and play chord/Melody Solo's. Should I use pick and fingers approach? Please let me know what you think! Thanks Bill

Jens thanks for sharing this. One of the things that first attracted me to Sco when I was just starting to play guitar, playing blues primarily, was his angularity but within a blues vocabulary, which for me was something I was familiar at the time. I have listened to this record numerous times and would count it as one of my top 10 jazz guitar records. I should also mention that I have copped a lot of his angularity into my own playing.

Why listen to Jens the imposter? There's a million Scofield videos online.