John Scofield’s Hollowbody Band featuring Mike Stern in Concert April 13, 201

South Florida JAZZ

presents

John Scofield’s

Hollowbody Band

featuring Mike Stern

on April 13, 2013

South Florida JAZZ presents John Scofield’s Hollowbody Band featuring Mike Stern – two world-renowned guitarists in one show! Mr. Scofield brings this new band to South Florida for the first time. Both guitarists have achieved near-cult status. It is a one-time only chance to see these guitar legends in the same band.

South Florida JAZZ, South Florida’s premier modern jazz organization is very excited to present John Scofield’s Hollowbody Bandon Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 8:00 PM. This concert will take place at the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center on the Nova Southeastern University campus, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr Blvd, Davie 33314. Tickets are $40 ($15 for students) and can be purchased from the Broward Center box office by calling 954.462.0222 option #4; or online at southfloridajazz.org.

2013 Concerts
Tickets: $40 and $15 for students with I.D.

All seating is reserved

March 9, 2013 – 8:00 PM
John Scofield’s

Hollowbody Band

featuring Mike Stern 

with Ben Street and Bill Stewart

“…He (John Scofield) possesses one of the most unique guitar voices in modern music.”   – Frederick Bernas, All About Jazz

” …the proper blend of grace and grit” -New York Times

John Scofield is one of the most influential and innovative guitarists of his generation. He has spent the last 40 years blazing a trail through the post-fusion wilderness, bringing his singular voice to a variety of different projects. His hallmark is his masterful improvising, and his music generally falls somewhere between post-bop, funk-edged jazz, and R&B.

Scofield’s résumé reads like a who’s who of the last 40 years of jazz. After graduating from the Berklee School of Music, his first recording was with Gerry Mulligan andChet Baker. He then replaced Pat Metheny in Gary Burton’s band. Soon he would be performing with the likes of Charles Mingus, Billy Cobham, and Herbie Hancock, and Miles Davis, with whom he had an influential stint from 1982-85 that placed him firmly in the foreground of jazz consciousness as a player and composer.

Scofield has prominently led his own groups since then, creating a huge footprint internationally in the modern jazz world with his rock and blues influences. He has recorded over 30 albums as a leader, including collaborations with contemporary favorites like Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Eddie Harris, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Bill Friselland Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead. Throughout his decades-long career, Scofield has punctuated his traditional jazz offerings with funk-oriented electronica, all the while keeping an open musical mind.

The Hollowbodies project offers Scofield the chance to play with one of today’s great guitarists, Mike Stern, another prominent fusion player, joined by long-term collaborator Bill Stewart on drums and Ben Street on bass. The guitar has a huge tonal pallet and the Hollowbodies employ that pallet doubly featuring Scofield`s arrangements for the ensemble and the orchestral possibilities of guitars, acoustic bass and drums. The music is neither through-composed nor a hot licks contest. Improvisation is the key ingredient, as always, and the real magic comes in the interplay.

ARTISTIC PERSONNEL

John Scofield – electric guitar

Mike Stern – electric guitar

Ben Street – double bass

Bill Stewart – drums

May 11, 2013 – 8:00 PM

Tom Harrell Quintet

A supreme trumpeter and flugelhornist, Tom Harrell creates a seemingly endless flow of bubbling, intricate ideas conveyed with an almost serene delivery. Neither aggressively avant-garde, nor riveted in the past, Tom Harrell’s music simply celebrates sonic beauty for its own sake. Praised for his pure melodic brilliance, he is widely recognized as one of the most creative and uncompromising jazz instrumentalists and composers of our time. For over four decades, close to 300 recordings, and numerous accolades, Tom manages to stay fresh. His quintet has shown remarkable continuity and cohesion. It is a great band.

June 8, 2013 – 8:00 PM

Kurt Elling

There are no obvious parallels in the music industry. Chicago native Kurt Elling is the greatest male jazz singer – or just jazz singer – of our time. In a career spanning 16 years, Elling has risen to international prominence as a jazz artist and creative singer. An intellectual superman, he is a master of “vocalese” and scatting. Remarkably, each of his nine albums was nominated for a Grammy® Award and Dedicated to You won in 2010. He is a perennial critics poll-winner and his quartet tours the world, performing to critical acclaim in Europe, Asia, Canada, Israel, and Australia. This will be Mr. Elling’s fifth performance for South Florida JAZZ.

   Funding for this organization is provided in part by the Broward County Board of Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Division.

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