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Hey all
I'm interested in checking out more of how JS approaches straight ahead(ish) comping. I really love what he does on Musing For Miles with Joe Henderson. Any more albums like that either as a leader or as a sideman you could recommend?
Thanks
Paul
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10-24-2019 07:08 AM
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The quartet albums with Lovano would be the next logical place I think. Meant To Be and Time On My Hands especially, but also What We Do and Past Present. He seem to do that style of comping less frequently if there's a keyboard player in the band
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By a long shot (for me), it's the Joe Henderson record So Near, So Far. Sco's comping on it is unreal.
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Originally Posted by rmpmcdermott
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Another great album, with Sco and John Abercrombie taking turns comping for each other on some straight ahead tunes with a burning rhythm section, is "Solar" from 1984.
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Scofield comps well on Gray Burton's Times Like These. I like recordings where the rhythm section is g\b\d (yea, NO piano) and there are other solo instruments (horns being preferred). Of course the guitar comping stands out in such a setting. It can be heard without that piano 'thing' going on in the background 24\7. In addition while I typically like a 'clean' guitar sound, effects can really add to the comping in such a setting. Fatter sound, use of distortion,,,, if done 'right' it adds something different. In this regard check out my favorite album in this regard; Dexter Gordon and Philip Catherine; Something Different.
Last edited by jameslovestal; 10-25-2019 at 02:13 PM.
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Maybe Jay McShann's Last of the Blue Devils--very early is Sco's career.
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No piano on this one, so Sco gets to do some comping:
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You can see him comping here during Chris Minh Doky’s bass solo:
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Originally Posted by grahambop
Last edited by jameslovestal; 10-28-2019 at 03:18 PM.
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Originally Posted by jameslovestal
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There are some good examples here
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Originally Posted by Average Joe
He's all over the controls on his solo. Going back and forth from bridge to neck I guess?
I've never really watched him play before. That was cool.
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