Hand Jive
Studio album by
John Scofield
ReleasedAugust 9, 1994 (US) (CD)
RecordedOctober 1993
StudioPower Station and River Sound, New York City
GenreJazz, soul jazz, jazz-funk
Length63:22 (CD)
LabelBlue Note[1]
ProducerLee Townsend[2]
John Scofield chronology
I Can See Your House from Here (with Pat Metheny)
(1994) 		Hand Jive
(1994) 		Liquid Fire: The Best of John Scofield
(1994)

Hand Jive is a studio album by the jazz guitarist John Scofield, released in 1994.[3][4] It features veteran tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris, keyboardist Larry Goldings, bassist Dennis Irwin, percussionist Don Alias, and drummer Bill Stewart.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[6]
Los Angeles Times[7]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[8]

Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Scofield veers more towards the New Orleans-y BBQ sauce here, working up a delectable new flavor of jazz-soul, in which rough-housing inventiveness is the order of the day."[6] The Los Angeles Times noted that "Scofield has a flexible unit that can be muscular one moment, blues-soaked the next, and gutsy yet highbrow the next."[7]

Track listing

All compositions written by John Scofield.

  1. "I'll Take Les" – 6:58
  2. "Dark Blue" – 7:37
  3. "Do Like Eddie" – 8:06
  4. "She's So Lucky" – 5:50
  5. "Checkered Past" – 5:28
  6. "7th Floor" – 4:45
  7. "Golden Daze" – 7:33
  8. "Don't Shoot the Messenger" – 6:10
  9. "Whip the Mule" – 5:37
  10. "Out of the City" – 5:18

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ^ Atkins, Ronald (26 Aug 1994). "JOHN SCOFIELD: Hand Jive". The Guardian Features Page. The Guardian.
  2. ^ "Album reviews — Hand Jive by John Scofield". Billboard. 106 (33): 60. Aug 13, 1994.
  3. ^ "Audio – Hand Jive by John Scofield". Guitar Player. 28 (11): 151. Nov 1994.
  4. ^ Ephland, John (Nov 1994). "CD reviews — Hand Jive by John Scofield". DownBeat. 61 (11): 42.
  5. ^ Hand Jive at AllMusic
  6. ^ a b "Hand Jive". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  7. ^ a b Stewart, Zan (21 Aug 1994). "John Scofield's Brainy Blues". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 69.
  8. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1274. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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