Scott Robinson

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Scott Robinson, 2015

Scott Robinson (born April 27, 1959 in New Jersey ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , trumpet , clarinet , flute ). He is considered "one of the last universal geniuses in jazz".

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Robinson, whose mother was a piano teacher, began self-taught alto saxophone at the age of ten and received the Louis Armstrong Award and the Best Soloist Award from the National Association of Jazz Educators in high school . He graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1981 and became the youngest faculty member in the school's history.

After teaching here until 1984, he moved to New York, where he worked with musicians such as Buck Clayton , Lionel Hampton and Paquito D'Rivera . In addition, he realized projects with the New York City Opera and worked on film scores. He received a scholarship four times the National Endowment for the Arts .

In 2001 he toured West Africa as a jazz ambassador for the US State Department . Robinson experiments with rare saxophones such as the double bass saxophone and the C melody saxophone and other instruments. He runs a recording studio and laboratory in Teaneck / New Jersey, where u. a. Frank Kimbrough , Julian Thayer , Henry Grimes , Roscoe Mitchell and Marshall Allen . In 2011 he worked on Ryan Truesdells Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans . He is also a member of the Maria Schneider Big Band and played a. a. with Anthony Braxton , John Scofield and Bob Brookmeyer as well as with Ella Fitzgerald , Elton John and Sting . In 2018 he played in Joseph Daley's Tuba Trio (with Warren Smith ).

In 2012 he released the album Bronze Nemesis , which reflects the stories of Doc Savage and received reviews from the New York Times , Wall Street Journal and Down Beat . With the band that recorded this album, he performed at the 2015 Newport Jazz Festival .

Over the years, the multi-instrumentalist has developed his own musical language on every imaginable saxophone as well as on numerous other instruments, which stylistically extends from swing through all modern jazz styles to pop music. He has appeared on more than 200 records, two of which won a Grammy . As a band leader, he recorded eleven of his own albums (until 2017).

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  1. ↑ a b concert announcement (CCJO)
  2. ↑ The Surprising Scott Robinson (John Robert Brown)
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey