John Scofield was born in 1951 sometimes referred to as “Sco”, is an American jazz-rock guitarist and composer 🎤🎼🎹🎶whose music includes bebop, jazz fusion, funk, blues, soul, and rock 🎷❤. 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. 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.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🔥🎷.

On September 26, 2006 he released Out Louder, his second colloaboration with Medeski, Martin & Wood. 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.

He recently won a Grammy Award for the best jazz improvised solo for ” I’m so lonesome I could cry” As the name suggests the song hits the feels 😭❤🎷. Another fact that I found interesting about Sco is that has he been an adjunct faculty member in the Jazz Department in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University(👏 ❤).

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