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The 30 Year List : 1998 11/30/2011
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john scofield : A go go

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Some marriages work and some don't.  It all depends on the dynamic, really.  A great man once said that relationships are about filling gaps.  Bringing out some of the better qualities and pulling back the reins on some others.  A Go Go was the first collaboration between Scofield and Medeski, Martin & Wood and man did they hit it off from the start.  

MMW has always been great but has a tendency to drop off the deep end for long stretches in between flashes of brilliance.  Scofield has had a long and good career, but like a lot of jazzmen, can stray a little too far from home (drum 'n bass albums were bad idea, Sco).  

With A Go Go, MMW keeps Scofield on the jazz-funk beaten path while Sco keeps MMW from 15-minute spats of stoned wandering.  It's also another shred of proof for the case for Billy Martin being maybe the best drummer of his generation.  The guy is an absolute machine.  Great album.  

Check out the clip below from the Estival Jazz in 2007.  

Miles Division: Sco and Miles came together for a three-album run in the early eighties.  One of these albums, You're Under Arrest, was once described to me by a buddy as "the shittiest record ever put out by great musicians", which is pretty much the exact opposite of A Go Go.  Not sure what that means, but it feels like we just came full circle in some way.

Honorable Mentions: Scott Weiland - 12 Bar Blues; Outkast - Aquemini

 


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