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Hello all,
Last night I saw the John Scofield band at the
Barbican in London, excellent performances from all the band, very entertaining,
both musically and humourosly ( sing-a-longs, Sco's between song banter, the
drummers RZA t-shirt and rapping, the 'Crazy Horse' type squat stance of the
bassist in front of his Music Man stack and so on )
Scofield used the Boomerang almost
constantly, he really likes the backwards stuff, thought there were plenty
of loops of chord changes too. He also
had a Boss loop station which he used to trigger a sample in one of the songs,
some old guy singing a simple nursery rhyme like ditty. A highlight was him
triggering it right on the beat at the end of an extremely 'out'
note sequence - it got a good laugh from the audience. Then there was his
manipulations of a EH Micro Synth, low end filter sweeps to a drum and bass
backing groove.
Over all, very modern and funk/hip hip
oriented. Quite a few women too, which is sort of encouraging ( though I don't
know if this had anything to do with the support band 'KOOP' )
Some of the more jazz folks seemed a tad put out by
it all, but they probably enjoyed the last time I saw Scofield a couple of
years ago, with Joe Lovano - who looked the spit of Frank Cannon
- a real 'head,solo,solo,solo,head,out' gig, and kind of boring
despite the musicianship on display
Anyway, catch him if you can.
Andrew
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