{"id":10353,"date":"2018-10-08T00:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10353"},"modified":"2018-10-10T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T23:16:23","slug":"monday-recommendation-john-scofield-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/10\/monday-recommendation-john-scofield-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: John Scofield Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday Recommendation, <strong>John Scofield<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ykh2zZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Combo 66<\/a><\/em> (Verve)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/81nQPJ1ft0L._SX522_-e1538978239758.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/81nQPJ1ft0L._SX522_-e1538978239758.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Dance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d guitarist Scofield proclaims by way of his new album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opening track. It may be the rare listener, however, who won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be moved by his quartet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rhythmic blandishments. It is difficult not to boogie around the room\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor at least groove in place\u00e2\u20ac\u201das Scofield, pianist and organist Gerald Clayton, bassist Vicente Archer and drummer Bill Stewart expand on nine Scofield compositions that merge down-home verve with the sophistication he has perfected in decades as one of his instrument\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading players. The number 66 in the album title recognizes the age he reached shortly before he took this powerful, subtle, quartet into the studio early this year. Subtle, yes, because for all of his energy, Scofield remains a guitarist whose harmonic shading is as important to his art as the swing that he and his remarkable rhythm section achieve here from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p>For the <em>Rifftides<\/em> review of a Festival performance by Scofield and the group that he proudly called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153my rock band,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/08\/scofields-uber-jam.html\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday Recommendation, John Scofield, Combo 66 (Verve) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Dance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d guitarist Scofield proclaims by way of his new album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opening track. It may be the rare listener, however, who won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be moved by his quartet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rhythmic blandishments. It is difficult not to boogie around the room\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor at least groove in place\u00e2\u20ac\u201das Scofield, pianist and organist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}