"Secret Love" by John Scofield (1988)
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With just the right balance between sweetness and edge, jazz guitarist John Scofield's 1988 instrumental version of "Secret Love" is a track that for me keeps giving, year after year. At the 2:40 mark he briefly quotes Santo & Johnny's 1959 steel guitar instrumental hit "Sleepwalk." For a funkier track from this same album Flat Out, go to an earlier (sonically restored) post of mine. "Secret Love" was composed by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis for the 1953 Doris Day musical, Calamity Jane, and has been covered by many, including the duo Manuel Galbán & the ubiquitous Ry Cooder, whose instrumental version on their CD Mambo Sinuendo (2003) I'm not going to share with you because it's slow and beatless. I'd like to think that this version inspired their version.
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Comments (7)
This is an absolute delight. He's a fine guitarist. & that bass player knocks me out.
deadman, thank you. The acoustic bass player was Anthony Cox, and drums by Johnny Vidacovich and/or Terri Lynne Carrington.
this is both relaxing and energizing at the same time....i want him to collaborate with Donald Fagen! A lot of the earlier part of this music sounds like Walk Between the Raindrops, a tune from DF's 1st solo album, the night fly....
Anyway, thanks for sharing this!
jaggerandrea, relaxing while energizing is a good way to look at it. As for getting him to collaborate with Donald Fagan, I'll get on it posthaste; consider it done! They both know seem to know jazz harmony through and through. "Walk Between Raindrops" is good one; that's for sure.
"Green Flower Street" and "The Goodbye Look" work for me as well. Those are such beautiful sophisticated songs that it surprises me how many duds Fagan and Steely Dan have released.
Absolutely, Spike!! Thanks for posting this song; I LOVE it (as I do the others you mentioned)
I am just really late after a sickness that had me a bit incpacitated---but all is well now....better late than never, eh?
Glad to have you recapacitated. Never-jaggerandrea is a concept too horrible to contemplate.
:-)