Previously, Relix reported on John Scofield’s Electrospectic Tour by running a story on his confirmed concert at the Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati, on ...

Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead's bassist for over 30 years, claimed their basic inspiration came from the musical unions he saw in the Miles Davis Quartet along with the John Coltrane Quartet from the early ...

This album is fundamentally about rapport, deep listening, and a shared musical history that traces back to Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and the quartet with Joe Lovano and Al Foster. John Scofield's ...

Jazz guitarist returns to the sound of his straight-ahead quartet with Joe Lovano, on tunes documenting his son's battle with cancer. Songs We Love: John Scofield, 'Mr. Puffy' Guitarist and composer ...

For decades, John Scofield has stood on one of the pedestals labelled “greatest bop/groove guitarist of his time." He's achieved this through a combination of blistering alt-scale solos, clever ...

Hear the week's most notable songs, from Pharrell Williams' less-than-happy new tune to Oneohtrix Point Never's collaboration with Iggy Pop. By Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello ...

John Scofield's entire oeuvre can be roughly divided into groove-based or straight-ahead recordings. Yet even in maximum groove propulsion, as on A Go Go (Verve, 1998), to cite one stellar example, ...

"Jazz is best when it's completely carefree. The only problem is when you care about the music more than anything in the world—how do you get carefree?" John Scofield raised the conundrum in a a 2023 ...