Uberjam

Product Details

Artist : John Scofield
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0731458935629
Label : Universal Music Group
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2002-02-05
UPC : 731458935629

ASIN : B00005RTDC

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Acidhead
2. Ideofunk
3. Jungle Fiction
4. I Brake 4 Monster Booty
5. Animal Farm
6. Offspring
7. Tomorrow Land
8. uberjam
9. Polo Towers
10. Snap Crackle Pop

Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk

Scofield says about überjam that it's got enough funk for the college crowd and enough jazz for his old core fans, and he's pretty well right. It's tough to make a mark in the already well-gouged furrow of jazz-meets-hip-hop, and Scofield's so far had mixed success, but in überjam, he's produced his most consistently satisfying effort in the style. He's joined by his core trio, Avi Bortnick (guitars and samples), Jesse Murphy (bass) and Adam Deitch (drums and rap), plus guests John Medeski (mellotron, organ and clavinet) and Karl Denson (flute and saxophone). The result is a stew of high-energy grooves, spacey, sampled noises and swampy vamps. Perhaps the most succinct evidence of Scofield's happy symbiosis of jazz and dance is in "I Brake 4 Monster Booty", where a brief packet of hard, compressed rap precedes a ferocious guitar solo that has the pace and attack of a man half of Scofield's 50 years. In some of his jazz-dance efforts he's seemed content with laconic blues licks, but here the gloves are off. There's more intensely chromatic jazz in the grinding "überjam", the mood lightened by an ironically contorted quotation of "Blue Moon". That event is something of an indicator for the whole record: Sco's having a good time and making sure we get earfuls of the righteous stuff too. --Mark Gilbert

Chronique amazon.fr

Après un bref retour à un jazz plus acoustique sur son précédent Works For Me, Scofield revient ici à une formule qui puise abondamment aux sources du funk et privilégie les instruments électroniques. Samples, rap et claviers viennent ainsi ajouter leurs rythmes et leurs couleurs à des thèmes efficaces sur lesquels une rythmique binaire et virtuose sert de terrain d'envol aux solos tortueux du guitariste. Sa sonorité grasse et saturée surfe avec délectation sur les métriques complexes et les textures touffues de ses comparses parmi lesquels on remarquera un nouveau venu, le guitariste rythmique et sampler Avi Bortnick, qui apporte à l'ensemble un sens de la mise en place et un art des accords tout à fait bienvenus. --Thierry Quénum

Customer Reviews

GROOVY & ENJOYABLE (2004-06-29)

This guitarist can play his guitar quite creatively.Sadly enough,this kind of guitarists are hard to find these days.In this CD John sets himself in a JAMMING feel,and throws himself back into a GOLDEN AGE OF JAZZ FUNK ERA.Moreover he pushes himself into another stage of his creativity.If you like JAM BANDS,like PHISH,GREATFUL DEAD,SPIN DOCTORS,MMW,etc,you will like this.Like his usual album ,his unique guitar style stands out like a mountain that rises so high.The keyword is "EXPERIMENTAL&HUMOROUS JAMMING".

fighting for space (2004-02-29)

This album doesn't quite make it for me... it has lots of interesting sounds and rhythms, but the music doesn't end proposing ideas i think. It is a long jam as the album says.. but just lick after lick and drum fill after drum fill.. i don't know, for me it's still not an 'album'. You have to really struggle to tell one piece from the other.. and the guitar improvising is all over 1 or 2 chord progressions..

I love Scofields playing and just don't feel this is one of his better works.

trying too hard (2004-01-30)

not that good becuase it seems like the musical genius of 80's style jazz noise and miles davis electric decadence is trying to cash in on the jam band scene with some hippied-out neo-psychadelic smooth jazz.

Great buy (2003-12-11)

Amazing album. I had the chance to watch John play live, with Avi, the rythm guitairst, whistling the tune to Ideofunk, while John jammed with a fat banjo/rock twisting riff. And Adam on drums is jaw dropping to watch.

Drummers, get this one! (2003-12-08)

I can't add much to the prior reviews which are all well thought out and explain why you should get this disc perfectly. I just want to add that drummers should get this disc to hear drummer Adam Deitch. This is how funk/groove is played. Besides the playing, the sound of his drum kit, especially the snare is IMHO perfect also. Recorded just right by the studio engineer to boot, you'll be glad you bought this disc!

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