Dred Scott (musician)

Dred Scott (born March 14, 1964 ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Live and act

Scott grew up in St. Louis and attended college in Ohio before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area . From the 1980s he worked as a jazz musician; In 1989 he worked on Anthony Braxton's album Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions 1989: For Warne Marsh . A first album under his own name was created in 1991, Small Clubs Are Dead , followed by Time for the Hard Stuff (1997) with Wilbur Krebs Bass) and Kenny Wollesen . From 1999 he lived in New York City. In 2007 his seventh album Live at the Roockwood was released with his trio (bassist Ben Rubin and drummer Tony Mason).

During his career he worked a. a. with Cecil McBee , Andrew Cyrille , Joe Morello , Charlie Hunter , Bob Mintzer , Dave Samuels , Don Byron , Paul McCandless , Arlo Guthrie , Levon Helm , Norah Jones , Bob Weir , Joe Henderson , Rickie Lee Jones , Nina Hagen and Peter Apfelbaum . Scott is also a co-founder of the hip-hop / jazz band Alphabet Soup . He also wrote music for film and theater. Currently (2019) he is a member of the Sasha Dobson Sextet; he has also performed with Brian Melvin's Sacred Geometry .

Web links

• Portrait at Smalls
• Dred Scott at Allmusic (English)
• Dred Scott at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dred Scott. In: All About Jazz . Retrieved October 22, 2019 .