John Scofield Quartet
With the American John Scofield, one of the grand masters of international guitar jazz is coming to Neuhardenberg. His style has long since become a fundamental part of jazz history and has influenced countless young musicians. The list of partners with whom he has performed or recorded albums is long. It ranges from Pat Metheny to Herbie Hancock, from Chet Baker to Miles Davis, with whom he perfected the kind of groovy and funky jazz he still distinctively represents to this day. The project Yankee Go Home takes the Yankee Scofield back to his jazz rock roots. He and his colleagues, the bassist Vicente Archer, the pianist John Cowherd and Josh Dion on the drums, cover well-known compositions from the American songbook; however, they do so – how could it be otherwise – as mature jazz musicians. The songs include some very well-known classics by Neil Young, Grateful Dead and Stevie Wonder, but also Somewhere from Bernstein's West Side Story. Plus, of course, they will also perform some of John Scofield's own wonderful compositions.
