John Scofield's Electrospective plugs in at Town Hall on Nov. 17

The guitarist revisits four decades of his electric records with Oteil Burbridge, Larry Goldings and Adam Deitch on a Tuesday night in Midtown.

There's a particular kind of Tuesday crowd that turns up for John Scofield: jazz lifers who wore out *A Go Go*, jam fans who found him through the festival circuit, guitar players who'll spend the night watching his right hand. On Nov. 17 they'll all be in the same room.

John Scofield plays Town Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 8pm, with Oteil Burbridge, Larry Goldings and Adam Deitch alongside him. Town Hall holds 1,500, and tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The night is presented by LPR under the banner John Scofield's Electrospective.

The name tells you the brief. This is Scofield looking back across his plugged-in catalog rather than the acoustic, trio-leaning work of recent years. When the tour launched at Cincinnati's Ludlow Garage in October, JamBase reported that he revisited four decades of electric material, drawing from the eras of *Blue Matter*, *Überjam* and *A Go Go*, alongside fresh tunes cut from the same groove-oriented cloth.

The band is the reason this isn't a nostalgia act. As Relix and JamBase both note, each player has history with the leader. Deitch played in Scofield's Überjam band. Goldings' work with Scofield goes back to the 1990s. And Burbridge, best known to many New Yorkers from the Allman Brothers' Beacon runs, shared a stage with Scofield and the Allmans at the Beacon in 2011. Put a funk drummer, an organ-and-keys veteran and one of the most melodic bassists in the jam world behind Scofield's guitar, and the old tunes get room to stretch.

A funk drummer, an organ veteran and one of the jam world's most melodic bassists behind Scofield's guitar.

Since then, the quartet has been working its way around the country. The brief's tour log has them out west in late October — San Diego, Tempe, Los Angeles and three nights in San Francisco — so by the time they reach Manhattan they'll be well broken in. After New York, the run continues to the Somerville Theatre outside Boston on Nov. 19.

Town Hall is a good fit for this. It's a seated room of 1,500, which suits a crowd that comes to listen as closely as it comes to move, and it's an easy walk from Times Square's subway hub on a weeknight. For a band whose appeal is in the interplay — Deitch's pocket, Burbridge's lines, Goldings filling the space Scofield leaves — a room where you can hear every voice is the point.

What to know: it's an 8pm start on a school night, so plan dinner early. If you've got a friend who only knows Scofield from one corner of his career, this is the show to drag them to; the setlists so far suggest the whole electric story gets told.

Some guitar players get more careful with age. Scofield, by the sound of this tour, went the other way and turned the amp up.

Sources: JamBase: John Scofield, Oteil Burbridge, Adam Deitch & Larry Goldings Kick Off Electrospective Tour (jambase.com); Relix: John Scofield Taps Adam Deitch, Oteil Burbridge and Larry Goldings for Electrospective Autumn Run (relix.com); LPR Presents: John Scofield's Electrospective, NYC (lpr.com); Global Arts Live: John Scofield's Electrospective at Somerville Theatre (globalartslive.org); JamBase: John Scofield at Town Hall (jambase.com)