Scorched [LIVE]

Mark-Anthony Turnage (Artist), John Scofield (Artist), Fsr (Artist), Hr Big Band (Artist), Wolff (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2004)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• ASIN: B0000CGP4N
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #217,789 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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11 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Is anybody ever completely comfortable in these sessions?, January 29, 2004

By	Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

What we have here is an attempt to blend jazz and classical music. And I thought the Third Stream was dead. It seems that contemporary composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has been taken by the music of John Scofield for quite some time and decided to write some material based on it for orchestra and big band, incorporating Sco + bass and drums into the soundscape. Does it work? Not very well, to these ears.

There are, it must be admitted, a few moments when things sound pretty natural, both from the orchestra/big band side as well as the small-group setting. But Sco certainly has sounded a lot freer and hipper in more natural small-group contexts. Even the audience's responses seem somewhat tentative (this was recorded live in concert).

Falls between two stools. Neither fish nor fowl. A Jackalope (not the great jazz improv group, but an amalgam that simply doesn't work).

The problem is that you can't make classical orchestras swing. Just doesn't happen. So what you get is some mildly interesting new music-ish orchestral passages punctuated by fairly standard small-group (Sco, guitar; John Patitucci, e-bass; Peter Erskine, drums) playing (not that this group is in any way deficient; it's just that they seem restrained, unable to completely cut loose). Why not just listen to either, say, Ligeti or Nono or Part, or one of Sco's latest discs?

You'd be a lot better off.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music in search of a story, January 18, 2008

By	Edward Thomas (Venezuela) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very suggestive music, in a way conveyingly cinematic. One piece is even called "Kubrik"... other is called "Nocturnal Mission"... you can hear a wide rannge of dramatic arrangements that will undoubtely carry you through the scenes of a very interesting imaginary movie.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars SMART, July 8, 2007

By	Pollo Poulet (New York United States) - See all my reviews

This may not be the best way to hear Scofield but it has really great moments.