Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Danny Scofield wasn’t supposed to be in Lakewood on Monday evening. He was supposed to be on his way to Kansas to surprise his mother for a late Christmas ...

John Scofield is a modern-day jazz legend, one of the most instantly recognizable voices on the guitar, and an inspiration to many. In a solo career that began in earnest in 1977, Scofield has carved ...

John Scofield's entire oeuvre can be roughly divided into groove-based or straight-ahead recordings. Yet even in maximum groove propulsion, as on A Go Go (Verve, 1998), to cite one stellar example, ...

From time to time in his storied career John Scofield will take a look over his shoulder and re-examine some of the music that has fed into his own, personal brand of jazz. The influences are many, ...

It doesn't seem like thirty one years since this reviewer was first blown away by John Scofield's Blue Matter band in an old, reimagined church in Colchester, England. Three decades and thirty-four ...

It was Gary Burton who brought Steve Swallow—with electric bass in tow—into the teaching ranks of the Berklee College of Music in the early 1970s. Burton had already introduced Swallow's songs to the ...

On stage, the actor Paul Scofield, who has died aged 86, was braver than a lion. Off stage this genial man kept his private life quiet as a mouse. This might have made him a frustrating and ...

"I've been lucky," says John Scofield, two thirds of the way through Joerg Steineck's documentary on the guitarist. "I've been in the right place at the right time, and I've also made good use of the ...

During his 87 years, Clay Scofield Jr. was an advertising executive, a Christmas tree farmer, a home builder, a teacher, a musician and a published writer. The only thing he didn't do was the thing he ...

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Any consideration of an actor’s legacy must ask: What impact did he or she have on the art and craft? What can younger artists learn from his or her life? Paul Scofield, who has died aged 86, leaves a ...

Paul Scofield, one of the giants of the British stage who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film “A Man for All Seasons,” has died. He was 86. Scofield, who had ...