he’s been playing crazy unique bass lines on lps of straight jazz and more experimental forms for many, many decades, and is a composer as well, i believe. I don’t know enough about his career except that he is legendary in the jazz community. Anyone who loves this ought check out the duet lp w the late Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny… of course there are dozens/ hundreds of amazing lps of acoustic bass n jazz guitar duets. Dig deep… Jim Hall… Ray Brown… etc
First time I saw them was in 1982 in Amsterdam. Just went to see Wim Overgouw and Scofield,Swallow and Nussbaum were playing as well. That's where it all started. Scofield is the soundtrack of my live.
Saw these guys with a drummer I knew from CT Adam Nussbaum play at 7th Ave South in NYC. Stevie Wonder came in sat next to me with a few women in tow. I was sitting with pals Tim Smith, Eric Pearson, Randy and Michael Brecker rounded out the table. Spectacular night,,,WOW!
Ecco a Voi la meraviglia di condividere la passione di suonare uno strumento con una intensità ed Amore che sconfigeranno le tenebre... La Luce trionferà... Grazie John e Steve... ❤
Awesome to see Steve Swallow playing an accoustic bass guitar! Love to see how he plays up close like this. Also, listening to him harmonize on certain notes... pretty amazing. They're both amazing.
Gorgeous - I met John on his Blue Matter tour & once again a few years later.... sharp as a knife with a wicked dry sense of humour! Glad to have seen him with Miles in London - Mike Stern was there also 😊 Superb solo from Steve at 4:58!
We finally get to see John playing a Gibson! Sounds beautiful! All these years of Ibanez endorsement really hurt a Gibson fan such as I, as I know how great someone like John Scofield could sound on a Gibson. This is the proof!
Thank you for this post between these 2 giants, which in the evening of their lives offers us a moment of sweetness, tenderness and laughing melancholy in this somewhat dark world period. Greetings from France
I'd always loved the round and soft sound of Steve's bass played with a pick. I had the opportunity to see them live in Paris (at the New Morning) and I remember the quality of the audience : not a single applause when the choruses switched from one another, only at the end of the tunes. Was a great evening. Thanks for posting !
I am sick and tired of bass players who slapping their instruments like drummers.I love to see a true bass players like Stive Swallow who play a counterpoint to another melody like Bach and Jaco played.
How can you even think beauty of music is for you to enjoy while you are killing ukrainians in their own country? Shame on every russian that doesn’t speak up!
@@Intao I’m not sure if you are responding to my comment, or commenting on the Gibson that Sco is playing in this particular video. Yes, it looks like an ES330 in the video. My reference was to his first few albums where he is pictured playing a dot neck cherry ES335. I went to see him and chatted with him in a small Massachusetts club back in 1981, and he was playing that same dot neck ES335. It was shortly after that, that he switched to the Ibanez. Somewhere along the line, he picked up a telecaster and can be seen playing that in video footage.
@@kenster3554 his first "serious" electric was an outlaw Ibanez blue tele he bought back some 15 ys. ago. He switched from that Gibson (in very bad shape) when he was offered the Ibanez that decades later - with some mods he suggested - become the John Scofield signature model. Afa tele are concerned, he recently bought a Nachocaster
@@frakognome4434 I was responding to Faz99Masters comment, “first time I see Sco play a Gibson “. I first became aware of Sco around 1980 playing in clubs in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was playing a Cherry dot neck 335 at that time, and is seen playing it in the pictures on his first few vinyl albums. I couldn’t tell you the year. My only point is, it was Gibson before Ibanez.
This video illustrates that when scofield actually plays a truely high quality guitar he drops the overdrive. He once said in an interview that he preferes his ibanez semi hollow over the gibson one. In my opinion he said it for marketing purposes. What do you guys think?
This is million and million times cooler than war and politics. Music is a language. ... maybe there should be musititians. So, they would have to say their crab/stuff with music. Talking not allowed. ...maybe it would be a bether world. I love my guitar playing. Those guys show fitness is not a question of age at first... hope, you know what i try to says... i love Scofield. Changed my music...
