{"id":4044,"date":"2012-07-31T11:54:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2012-07-31T11:54:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T16:54:14","slug":"jazz-and-blues-guitar-with-john-scofield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/jazz-and-blues-guitar-with-john-scofield\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz And Blues Guitar With John Scofield"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4045\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/jazz-and-blues-guitar-with-john-scofield\/john-scofield\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4045\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4045\" title=\"John-scofield\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/John-scofield-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Scofield plays his own approach to the blues. Photo courtesy of WIkipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Scofield is known primarily as a jazz fusion guitarist, but he&#8217;s got a few cool videos exploring the blues.\u00a0 I found two videos that feature more of a traditional blues form played in traditional John Scofield fashion.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit of a departure from the usual blues guitarists I write about, but I&#8217;ve always felt it&#8217;s important to explore other styles of guitar to find inspiration for your blues playing.\u00a0 Writing about John Scofield is just one more example of a great versatile guitarist that can play in a variety of music styles including jazz, blues and fusion music.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy these videos featuring guitarist, John Scofield playing the blues.<\/p>\n<p>John Scofield is known mostly as a jazz fusion guitarist, but I found a couple videos that feature him playing more of a traditional blues style.\u00a0 This first video picks up the tempo a little bit as the John Scofield Trio (Steve Swallow on bass and Bill Stewart on drums) plays a song entitiled, &#8220;Trio Blues.&#8221;\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=agRfAZ5eACE&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=agRfAZ5eACE&amp;feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/agRfAZ5eACE&#8221; height=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this next video, John Scofield performs a traditional blues form in his own way.\u00a0 I really enjoy the note choices he makes in this video and I&#8217;m sure you will too.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ler4KKEcHDY&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ler4KKEcHDY&amp;feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/ler4KKEcHDY&#8221; height=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed these videos from jazz, blues and fusion guitarist John Scofield.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s pretty cool when guitarists of Scofield&#8217;s caliber are well studied and can approach styles of music out of their traditional element and put their own twist on it. To me that&#8217;s inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scofield is known primarily as a jazz fusion guitarist, but he&#8217;s got a few cool videos exploring the blues.\u00a0 I found two videos that feature more of a traditional blues form played in traditional John Scofield fashion.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit of a departure from the usual blues guitarists I write about, but I&#8217;ve always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}