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Title: More sinewy electric funk from John Scofield!
Review: Sco, it's well known, can play anything well, as his acoustic QUIET and bebop ventures with Joe Lovano attest. But one of the things he does best is play unpredictable, jazzy electric funk a la LOUD JAZZ and BLUE MATTER (see his back catalogue for these superb albums). BUMP continues the funkified approach he plied most recently with Martin, Medeski, and Wood on his last release, A GO-GO. Here are Sco's patented twisting, skittering "out-there" melodies, rendered with the familiar steely guitar tone, over top of a cornucopia of rhythms by a variety of today's best young funkmeisters. Of particular note: BEEP BEEP and KILGEFFEN (which sounds like it could be a jazz version of John Fogerty's biting "Zantz Can't Dance".) There's nobody like John Scofield--some may be faster, some may play more notes, but nobody HEARS melodies and rhythms like John, and then executes them with such idiosyncratic, zesty soul. Great stuff from the incomparable Sco'. Buy ten.
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