1. John Scofield was born on December 26,1951 and is an American guitarist and composer.
17 Facts About John Scofield
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John Scofield first came to mainstream attention as part of the band of Miles Davis; he has toured and recorded with many prominent jazz artists including saxophonists Eddie Harris, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, and Joe Lovano; keyboardists George Duke, Joey DeFrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Larry Goldings, and Robert Glasper; fellow guitarists Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Pat Martino, and Bill Frisell; bassists Marc Johnson and Jaco Pastorius; and drummers Billy Cobham and Dennis Chambers.
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John Scofield was born in Dayton, Ohio; his family moved to Wilton, Connecticut, where he discovered his interest in music.
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John Scofield recorded with Charles Mingus in 1976 and replaced Pat Metheny in Gary Burton's quartet.
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John Scofield recorded with pianist Hal Galper on Rough House in 1978 and then on Galper's album Ivory Forest, where he played a solo rendition of "Monk's Mood" by Thelonious Monk.
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John Scofield contributed tunes and guitar to three of Davis's albums, Star People, Decoy, and You're Under Arrest.
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John Scofield began what is referred to as his Blue Matter Band, with Dennis Chambers on drums, Gary Grainger on bass, and Mitchel Forman, Robert Aries, or Jim Beard on keyboards.
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At the beginning of the 1990s, John Scofield formed a quartet which included Joe Lovano with whom he recorded several albums for Blue Note.
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In 1992, John Scofield released Grace Under Pressure, featuring guitarist Bill Frisell, with Charlie Haden on bass and Joey Baron on drums.
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John Scofield appeared as a soloist on Turnage's Blood on the Floor: Elegy for Andy.
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John Scofield released Uberjam in 2002 and Up All Night in 2003, two albums on which he experimented with drum and bass.
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That was followed the next year by That's What I Say: John Scofield Plays the Music of Ray Charles which led to performances with Mavis Staples, Gary Versace on organ, John Benitez on bass, and Steve Hass on drums.
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Scofield performed in a duo with John Medeski named The Johns and in a trio with Medeski and drummer Adam Deitch.
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John Scofield recorded music inspired by gospel on the 2009 album Piety Street with Jon Cleary and George Porter Jr.
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John Scofield has been an adjunct faculty member in the Jazz Department in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University.
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John Scofield's first electric guitar was a Hagstrom; his "workhorse" is an Ibanez AS200 from 1982.
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John Scofield endorses Ibanez and the company has a line of semi-hollow bodied guitars named for him.