Bud Scott

The All Star Jazz Group (left to right): Ed Garland (bass), Buster Wilson (piano), Marili Morden, Jimmie Noone (clarinet), Mutt Carey (trumpet), Zutty Singleton (drums), Kid Ory (trombone) , Bud Scott (guitar)

Arthur Budd "Bud" Scott (born January 11, 1890 in New Orleans , † July 2, 1949 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz musician ( guitar , banjo , vocals ) of traditional jazz .

Scott was a graduate of the Peabody School of Music. He was a notable rhythm guitarist in Chicago's Jazz Age nightclubs in the 1920s. After concerts and recordings with Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra in 1928, he moved to California. There he was able to live from his concerts as a professional musician in the 1930s. In 1944, Scott joined an all-star combo that was a driving force in spreading New Orleans jazz in the 1940s (see picture).

Life

Scott learned to play the guitar and violin as a child and performed professionally at an early age, even with the legendary Buddy Bolden . He played in any case in 1904 with John Robichaux and the Olympia Orchestra of Freddie Keppard . In 1913 he played the violin on the Billy King Traveling Show, with which he toured Mobile and Washington. In 1915 he moved to New York, where he played in theater orchestras and also sang on the side. In 1917 he played banjo with Bob Young in Baltimore. In 1921 he was in Will Marion Cook's orchestra . He moved to Chicago in 1921, where he played for three months with King Oliver in 1923 and with Kid Ory in California. Even after that he played several times with Oliver (e.g. 1926) and Ory. In the mid-1920s he was briefly in Los Angeles at Curtis Mosby 's Blue Blowers. In 1927 he worked with Erskine Tate , as well as with Dave Peyton , Jimmie Noone (1928 at Apex Club), Johnny Dodds , Jelly Roll Morton (with whom he recorded) and Fess Williams. September 1929 he moved to Los Angeles, where he played with Leon Herriford, Mutt Carey and his Jeffersonians and with his own trio. From 1944 to 1948 he was in the band of Kid Ory, with whom he also appeared in the 1946 Louis Armstrong film "New Orleans". He also recorded with Louis Armstrong.

In 1948 he fell ill and died the following year. He was buried in the Lincoln Memorial Park cemetery in Carson (California) according to the Masonic rite.

Lexical entry

Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Arthur 'Bud' Scott (1890-1949) . Find a grave . Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ Levin, Floyd: Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN 0-520-21360-2 (p. 42)

personal data
SURNAME	Scott, Bud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Scott, Arthur Budd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz musician (guitar, banjo, vocals) of traditional jazz
DATE OF BIRTH	January 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH	July 2, 1949
Place of death	los Angeles

[1] Arthur 'Bud' Scott (1890-1949) . Find a grave . Retrieved February 27, 2017.

[2] Levin, Floyd: Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN 0-520-21360-2 (p. 42)