Out Like a Light [Import]

John Scofield | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 7, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Enja
• ASIN: B000026RWD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #629,973 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Holidays

2. Last Week

3. Miss Directions

4. Out Like A Light

5. Melinda

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent live jazz, December 29, 2008

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Matthew Hayden "matthayden" (Northern California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Out Like a Light (Audio CD)

I've listened to a lot of John Scofield records over the years; this is a favorite, as are Still Warm and Blue Matter. Holidays, the opening track on Out Like a Light, is a tour de force; it sounds extremely fresh and new. Scofield, Swallow, and Nussbaum play together with great sensitivity, playing at the edges of the jazz idiom to build tension and play some amazing solos. Since it's a live recording, one would expect some looseness in solo construction and some clams, but there are very few of either - just playing by three very talented musicians interacting with great musical empathy.

It bears repeated listening very well, and compares favorably to much more well-known albums, in my opinion. All three players bring a lot to the music....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yay!!! I finally got it!, March 7, 2004

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Jeffrey Hubbard (Murray, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Out Like a Light (Audio CD)

Thank you, Amazon (or, more correctly, one of your associate dealers)! Thanks to you both, I now finally own the album that I have most coveted for the last 10 years or so.

I must say, my review was very helpful to me (just a bit of meta-humor there). All I can say is that this is one of Scofield's two or three best records, in some ways, still my favorite to this day (it was the second one that I heard, after "Still Warm). I truly believe that, though Sco has grown as a player over the years, he's never quite surpassed, on record, the tune "Holidays" from this album. Simply put, I've never heard anything quite like it in jazz, rock, fusion, or from the jam band scene (something about it's loping feel suggests some Grateful Dead material, though it's light years beyond them in every way). Also, Steve Swallow's bass solo on that tune is probably my favorite ever; it's incredibly beautiful, and operates like a mini composition within a composition.

Though the album never again achieves the same staggering level of achievement, that's really no insult to the other songs, which are all terrific. It simply means that "Holidays" is, for me, up there with things like Sonny Rollins' "St. Thomas," Coltrane's "A Love Supreme," or Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" - a rare, perfect musical achievement that feels as though not a single detail could be any different, much less any better.

Wow, I'm glad I finally found this album.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great CD - Too bad you guys can't get it!, June 10, 1999

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This review is from: Out Like a Light (Audio CD)

But, I'd love it if you'd prove me a liar. I tried ordering it some time back, and was told that it wasn't available. I'm going to try again, and if that's still the case, maybe you should consider taking this CD off of your site.