Zitat des Tages von John Scofield:
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.
I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.
Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?
It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.
