Some Sunday Morning Go To Meetin' Music.


Even with his Who's Who credit list (Chet Baker, Gary Burton, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, etc), along with a slew of solo albums, his name doesn't usually come up when the subject of guitarists are mentioned (Paligap not included.)


Piety Street finds his playing nestled in yet another musical genre - Gospel.


An excerpt from John Scofield's Gospel Mission by Ken Micallef (MIX Magazine - March 2009)

When jazz guitarist extraordinaire John Scofield rolled into New Orleans in early September 2008 to record his latest album, the Big Easy had a surprise for him. Arriving the day after Hurricane Gustav had smacked down on the city, Scofield, accompanied by engineer James Farber, and his recording band — Jon Cleary (piano, keyboards, vocals), The Meters' George Porter Jr. (bass), Ricky Fataar (drums), John Bouttè (vocals) and Shannon Powell (percussion) — met at a studio located in New Orleans' Bywater district, part of the Katrina-drenched Lower Ninth Ward. The city had been evacuated, so not a soul was in sight, not even the FedEx man, whose truck held Scofield's custom-ordered Vox AC 30 amplifiers.

Full article here: http://mixonline.com/reco...index.html


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From John's website - http://www.johnscofield.com/

I've always wanted to record and tour a blues project...that's where I started as a guitarist and I'm feeling that music more than ever of late. This is a notion that's been gelling in my mind for decades. I launched a personal search for musical inspiration beyond the standard 12 bar blues and rediscovered "old time gospel" music — the closest relative to and progenitor of the R& B that we all know and love. I've always treasured that music (from a more secular perspective) but never really dug deep into it. My search has led to countless songs that really move me and I realize that this great and heartfelt music remains unheard by most of the world outside of churches here and there. It's really powerful stuff. Hence, the Piety Street Project. Of course, I'll be going at it in my own way. I think my sound is pretty consistent no matter what I'm playing or who I'm playing with. When it comes to music genres — jazz, R&B, funk, and even country music tinges, I love all of it. I don't change my guitar playing from one style to another and if anything, I use all of these musical styles within most of what I do.

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Not a Gospel album in the traditional sense, but a more of a feel good vibe using the tunes as the jumping off point.

I enjoyed all the tunes with one exception.
Didn't quite understand the Reggae tag at the end of Motherless Child.


Release date: March 31st


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I wasn't hip, thanks for the headzup!!!!!






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paligap said:

I read about the album in MIX before I heard it.
The thing I was curious about was if he could restrain himself during solos and stay within the Blues form.
For the most part he did. But occasionally he unleashed a few "Scoisms".

The kind of things that if an official old-school church lady was listening she might say...



...Chile, that boy got some devilment in him.


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