Scofield solo guitar

**nick1994** · 01-29-2016, 12:53 AM

I wish he would play more solo stuff, it's so quirky and interesting

**Hep To The Jive** · 01-29-2016, 01:10 AM

Yes! And he's the only solo guitar I can listen to. He makes it alive somehow. Usually solo guitar is impossibly boring genre, but not this. Sco is the master!

**nick1994** · 01-29-2016, 01:25 AM

it sounds like he's always improvising throughout as if there's no arrangement except for the skeleton of the tune. I love the way he plays with the time, its very funky.

**kris** · 01-29-2016, 06:25 AM

This tune is from his edu video-book Jazz-Funk Guitar vol.1/1993/....
Great player!
Sadowsky nylon strings guitar-Scof play it only at this video...I think.

**Jonah** · 01-29-2016, 06:29 AM

This intro as solo sounds great to me to...

**Jonah** · 01-29-2016, 06:30 AM

it sounds like he's always improvising throughout as if there's no arrangement except for the skeleton of the tune. I love the way he plays with the time, its very funky.

I think there's really no arrangement

**nick1994** · 01-29-2016, 06:31 AM

there's also this

**nick1994** · 01-29-2016, 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by Jonah

I think there's really no arrangement

well that's the thing, I reckon even if there was an arrangement, he would make it sound as if it wasn't arranged at all. but yeah these are probably just him on the fly.

**Jonah** · 01-29-2016, 06:34 AM

Yes! And he's the only solo guitar I can listen to. He makes it alive somehow. Usually solo guitar is impossibly boring genre, but not this. Sco is the master!

I think it's because he takes no compromises... usually when I listen to solo guitar it sounds like guitarists try to fit something ''more than guitar can do''... I mean more or less you still have this feeling that they are trying to show that guitar can do ''even this''..

Of course there are great players... I heard plenty of solo playing from the greatest .. some I like more some less.. but there's always that feeling 'ok now I'll show that guiatr is kind of piano or orchestra or whatever' maybe they don't think about it but it's felt

and Sco sounds like he does not care..

**nick1994** · 01-29-2016, 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by Jonah

and Sco sounds like he does not care..

This sums it up

**Jonah** · 01-29-2016, 07:42 AM

well that's the thing, I reckon even if there was an arrangement, he would make it sound as if it wasn't arranged at all. but yeah these are probably just him on the fly.

To my feeling.. if someone's really in to play jazz.. as I understand it... even when you do develope arrangem,ents or wahtever skills - you're only after the mometary thing... after all...

I mean it depends more on how you take things how you approach than if it's really an arrangement or not...

in time it becomes no difference.. it is only what you want to play.. even if you play by the score you make it like the only the thing you wanted to play right now...

**Jonah** · 01-29-2016, 07:43 AM

so for misprints - it's not me, it's catto's today

**Endorphins** · 01-29-2016, 09:59 AM

good lord, that's sweet.

**Doctor Jeff** · 01-29-2016, 10:02 AM

I had an acquaintance who had a Sadowsky a few years ago--wonderful sound, he played kind of gypsy jazz stuff. I think he played more fingerstyle though.

Maybe it's my imagination, but I kind of get the feeling Scofield's "struggling" with the guitar, because it's not his main instrument. A lot of people who play nylon want to play it just like a steel string, but it doesn't behave quite the same way--different fret feel, sustain, resonances. Anyway, he sure plays the hell out of it, and any quirks just add to the interest of the song.

**Endorphins** · 01-29-2016, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by Doctor Jeff

I had an acquaintance who had a Sadowsky a few years ago--wonderful sound, he played kind of gypsy jazz stuff. I think he played more fingerstyle though.

Maybe it's my imagination, but I kind of get the feeling Scofield's "struggling" with the guitar, because it's not his main instrument. A lot of people who play nylon want to play it just like a steel string, but it doesn't behave quite the same way--different fret feel, sustain, resonances. Anyway, he sure plays the hell out of it, and any quirks just add to the interest of the song.

that's OK if it pushes him in a different direction!

**MarkRhodes** · 01-29-2016, 10:08 AM

Enjoyed that.

**kris** · 01-29-2016, 10:19 AM

I think Scof work about solo recital.
I/ve heard about this in the end of the last year.

**whiskey02** · 01-29-2016, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by nick1994

I wish he would play more solo stuff, it's so quirky and interesting

I am not one who worships Sco, sometimes I just can't stand to listen to him, but this is great!

**kris** · 01-29-2016, 12:34 PM

**Hep To The Jive** · 01-29-2016, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by Jonah

I think it's because he takes no compromises... usually when I listen to solo guitar it sounds like guitarists try to fit something ''more than guitar can do''... I mean more or less you still have this feeling that they are trying to show that guitar can do ''even this''..

Of course there are great players... I heard plenty of solo playing from the greatest .. some I like more some less.. but there's always that feeling 'ok now I'll show that guiatr is kind of piano or orchestra or whatever' maybe they don't think about it but it's felt

and Sco sounds like he does not care..

I think you are onto something here. Sco doesn't sound ambitious like some other players, and he never sacrifice groove for anything. I think at the core he's blues player, or at least influenced by those guys a lot. So I get the same funky bluesy feeling from him as I would from someone like John Lee Hooker playing solo guitar. Only, of course, Sco knows more chords! LOL