Scofield is as fiery as ever, plugged in and using loops to give himself a background groove on some of his gritty originals or putting a punkish spin on romantic ballads.

This isn't an album to listen to in a hurry; but if you were pressed for time, the last two tracks alone would give you a sense of Scofield's extraordinary range. The bebop-heavy Trance De Jour is antic, angular, questing. But then we close with You Win Again, a Hank Williams cover, serene as a sunset over the prairie.

Fueled by almost constant string bending and almost lush chord voicings, his inherent lyricism reflects the songwriter's poignant resignation. Scofield has distilled five decades of experience into these 13 songs.

Here he has distilled his decades in this crazy business into a baker's dozen of songs that may appear modest in ambition - only one track runs to more than five minutes, several run to barely three - yet is mighty in impact...This album needed no other title. This is John Scofield.

Every note here feels as if it came from the bottom of Scofield’s heart.

The result offers an intimate insight to Sco's skills as both guitarist and arranger. It's a late-night album - quiet, introspective and really quite beautiful, too, with Sco's musical soul laid bare before us.