Robbie Scott

Robert "Robbie" Scott (* around 1955; † mid- 2019 ) was an American jazz musician ( drums ) and band leader .

Scott recorded with guitarist Jackie King in 1978 ( Skylight ). At the end of the 1980s he regularly formed the accompaniment duo of singer Bobby Short , who performed at Cafe Carlyle , with bassist Beverly Peer . He can also be heard on Short's Telarc album Late Night at the Cafe Carlyle . On Mondays he also led an eleven-piece orchestra, the New Deal Swing Band , which had an engagement at Red Blazer Too, a restaurant on West 46th Street. Stylistically, the ensemble's focus was on the music of Duke Ellington of the 1920s. The band included u. a. bass trombonist Chris Gulhaugen , saxophonists Dan Block , Tom Olen and Scott Robinson , trumpeters John Eckert and Vinnie Cutro and trombonist Herb Besson . Scott was also a member of the Smith Street Society Jazz Band, to be heard on the album I'm Alabamy Bound (with Howard Alden, among others ). He was involved in eight recording sessions after Tom Lord, including a. with Abbie Gardner , Dorothy Loudon and Cliff Sarde .

Discographic notes

• The Smith Street Society Jazz Band: Take Me to the Land of Jazz (GHB, 1986), with Ernie Carson , Herb Gardner , Bruce McNichols, Frank Vignola , "Chicken" Joe Hanchrow, Lynne McNichols
• The Hot Antic Jazz Band Joins the Smith Street Society Jazz Band (OKOM, 2007)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report of death to the musicians' union. Local 802, October 1, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ See Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now , edited by Robert Gottlieb. New York. Random home, 2014.
3. ↑ John S. Wilson: Review / Jazz; Robbie Scott in His Monday fashion. The New York Times, April 14, 1988, accessed October 1, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 1, 2019)