Still Warm

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Well before John Scofield rose to prominence with Miles Davis on the albums <i>Star People</i>, <i>Decoy</i>, and <i>You’re Under Arrest</i>, he was making landmark guitar albums as a leader, mainly for Enja Record. The most enduring of these efforts showcased a gnarly, swinging trio with bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Adam Nussbaum. It’s worth remembering that Swallow went on to produce not only 1985’s brilliant <i>Still Warm</i>, but every Scofield title in the Gramavision catalog (the guitarist would spend most of the 1990s with Blue Note and Verve). What’s also notable is how radically different <i>Still Warm</i> sounds from anything produced by the Enja trio. Even with Swallow playing electric ba, the Enja trio still sounded like acoustic jazz—and <i>Still Warm</i> is definitely <i>not</i> acoustic jazz. With Darryl Jones on bass and Omar Hakim on drum, Scofield leads a funky, virtuosic rhythm section that would soon find its way to Sting’s <i>Dream of the Blue Turtles</i> band. On keyboard, Don Grolnick brings a sonic conception and deadly, unpredictable soloing chops that perfectly suit the material, some of the strongest of Scofield’s career. (Grolnick was only 48 years old when he passed away in 1996; <i>Still Warm</i> is among his finest moments on record.) .

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