John Scofield - Cully 2006

This is Scofield's Ray Charles project - and possibly this concert is my favourite recording of his. I have almost a dozen of his albums but with many of them, I don't quite get in all too easily and find there to be some kind of restrain and cool about it that doesn't appeal that much to me. Not so here, this is groovy stuff, accessible, well played... a great performance!

This is one of my own modest mono-FM > minidisc captures, as far as I know, no digital-FM version has surfaced so far.



John Scofield Plays Ray Charles
Jazz Festival Cully 2006
Cully (CH), Chapiteau
March 28, 2006

John Scofield - guitar
Dean Bowman - voice
John Benitez - bass
Gary Versace - organ, keyboards
Steve Hass - drums

CD1/71:07
1. Mary Ann (8:24)
2. Ann (0:09)
3. Sticks and Stones (8:00)
4. Hit the Road Jack (10:33)
5. I Don't Need No Doctor (6:34)
6. Ann (0:15) [cuts in]
7. Georgia On My Mind (16:49)
8. Talkin' About You > I Got a Woman (13:34)
9. Ann (0:12)
10. Loosing Hand (6:33)

CD2/23:02
11. Ann (0:06)
12. What I Say > Band Intros (10:43) [fm talk at beginning]
13. Ann (0:22)
14. Unchain My Heart (5:52) [fm talk at beginning]
15. unknown (5:54)

TT: 94:10

Sound: A/A-

Sources:
RSR 2 "JazzZ" / 2006-05-?? (#1,3-5,7,8,10)
RSI 2 "Concerto Jazz" / 2006-03-28 (live) (#2,6,9,11-15)

Note: the RSI live broadcast included annyoing talk by some radio guy, often continuing to talk when a new tune had started, thus this is taken from RSR 2 where possible, with additional tracks from RSI 2, which broadcast the whole concert live, except for the first track had already begun when they started broadcasting.