Still Warm

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Still Warm
Still Warm John Scofield.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1986 (US)(LP)
October 25, 1990 (US)(CD)
RecordedJune 1985
Studio
  • Mediasound and Gramavision Studios (New York City, New York)
  • Minot Sound (White Plains, New York)
Genre Jazz fusion
Length42:11
Label Gramavision
Producer Steve Swallow
John Scofield chronology
Solar
(1984)
Still Warm
(1986)
Blue Matter
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Still Warm is a studio album by jazz guitarist John Scofield. It features keyboardist Don Grolnick, bass guitarist Darryl Jones and drummer Omar Hakim.

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The album was his second for Gramavision and was recorded right after leaving Miles Davis's band. [4] He used two musicians from the Davis group, Jones and Hakim, both of whom had also recently recorded and toured with Sting. [5] The album was critically acclaimed, [6] though The Penguin Jazz Guide notes that "even some Scofield devotees seem unpersuaded of its considerable merits". [5]

The album is ranked number 998 in All-Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd edition, 2000). [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by John Scofield

No.TitleLength
1."Techno"7:29
2."Still Warm"6:00
3."High and Mighty"5:14
4."Protocol"3:20
5."Rule of Thumb"7:22
6."Picks and Pans"5:23
7."Gil B643"6:41

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Still Warm at AllMusic
  2. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1274. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Nicholson, Stuart. "In Conversation With John Scofield". Jazz.com. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  5. 1 2 Morton, Brian; Cook, Richard (2010). The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums. Penguin. p. 1061. ISBN   9780141959009.
  6. Prown, Pete; Newquist, Harvey P. (1997). Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists. Hal Leonard. p. 128. ISBN   9780793540426.
  7. "Rocklist" . Retrieved July 22, 2018.