As soon as I scanned the playlist of John Scofield's new album, Uncle John's Band (ECM), I said to myself, "On the Road meets the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." I imagined Dean Moriarty's 1949 Hudson Commodore and Ken Kesey’s 1939 International Harvester school bus of Merry Pranksters both broken down at the same spot on a road heading West. Standing on …
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