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Taking its name from letters in the bandmembers' names, jazz supergroup
Scolohofo features the combined talents of guitarist
John Scofield, saxophonist
Joe Lovano, bassist
Dave Holland, and drummer
Al Foster. While the group technically formed in 1999 during
Lovano's weeklong engagement at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the members have a much longer association with each other. Significantly,
Foster performed with
Scofield while they were both in trumpeter/jazz legend
Miles Davis' band during the early '80s. Similarly,
Lovano and
Scofield's association goes back as far as the '70s when they were both working in Boston.
Scolohofo toured first in 1999 and then in 2002 leading up to the recording of its first studio album, Oh!, released on Blue Note in 2003. ~ Matt Collar