The Agosto Trio
John Scofield, guitar; Larry Grenadier, bass; Bill Stewart, drums

Sunday, August 3 | 8 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Tickets: $32 general | $16 students

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Program Notes

“Scofield combines the chess-champ braininess of his solos with a taste for standard song forms and expansive bursts of volume… a manna for the straight ahead jazz fan.” – The Boston Phoenix

Sparks are guaranteed to fly when John Scofield, Larry Grenadier, and Bill Stewart take the stage as the Agosto Trio. Scofield is one of modern jazz’s top-tier guitarists, with an immediately identifiable style full of spiky melodies and unexpected nuances. Early in his career he played with a long list of jazz masters, including Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, and Gary Burton. Now, as a bandleader, he is known for undertaking unusual, ambitious projects and for exploring funky territory when he’s not playing straight-ahead jazz. Scofield finds kindred spirits in bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Bill Stewart, two musicians with whom he shares a good deal of musical history. Bill Stewart, a frequent collaborator of Scofield’s, is one of the few drummers with the versatility to work with both Pat Metheny and Maceo Parker. Larry Grenadier, perhaps best known for his consistently amazing work with pianist Brad Meldau’s trio, has the kind of spontaneous creativity that energizes everyone he plays with. The meeting of these three contemporary jazz giants is not to be missed.

Web Sites
John Scofield
Larry Grenadier
Bill Stewart

Music Links
John Scofield

Q&A wtih Larry Grenadier

What is the first recording you remember hearing as a child?
“I Am The Walrus” by The Beatles.

What job would you have if you weren’t a jazz musician?
To paraphrase Fellini...An actor, a painter, a circus performer, a writer and a doctor in a mental hospital. I am very fortunate. As a bass player I can be all these things.

What’s the strangest experience you’ve ever had on the bandstand?
Well I’m going to use the word strange in another sense because what happens on the bandstand, the level of communication, intuition and telepathy is so high that in any other circumstance it would be deemed “strange.”

What’s the last book you’ve read?
Italo Calvino’s “Numbers In The Dark.”

If you could play with any other musician, living or dead (with whom you have not played), who would it be and why?
Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Sinatra. I think we need a drummer. OK, Tony Williams.

What’s your favorite thing about being a Stanford Jazz Workshop faculty member?
Having been a student here in the 80’s I feel very fortunate to be able to come back as a teacher and have that dual perspective.

What’s your favorite jazz venue?
The Village Vanguard.