Scott Thomson (musician)

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Scott Thomson (* around 1980) is a Canadian jazz and improvisation musician ( trombone ) and music organizer.

Live and act

Thomson took lessons from Roswell Rudd , Jean Derome , Eddie Prévost and John Oswald . He has been working in the jazz and improvisation scene in Toronto and Montreal since the 2000s; Until 2009 he was part of the management team of the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto , which collaborated with guest musicians such as Evan Parker , William Parker , Eddie Prévost, Joe McPhee and Urs Leimgruber . He also directs the 18-piece AIM Toronto Orchestra , which performed music by Anthony Braxton in 2007 , and is the venue's artistic directorSomewhere There in Parkdale. He has also been working with guitarist Ken Aldcroft since the 2000s , a. a. in his trio and since 2007 in his Convergence Ensemble . In 2015 he presented the duo album Red & Blue (Trio Records) with Aldcroft . His own band projects include the formation The Rent , a quintet that is dedicated to the music of Steve Lacy and also plays his own compositions. In 2012 Scott Thomson was improviser-in-residence with the choreographer Susanna Hood as part of the ICASP project in Guelph, Ontario. In this context he composed the suite The Muted Note: Songs Based on Poems by PK Page . In the field of jazz he was involved in nine recording sessions between 2005 and 2011.

Discographic notes

  • Ken Aldcroft: The Great Divide (Trio Records, 2006)
  • Anthony Braxton and AIMToronto Orchestra: Creative Orchestra (Guelph, 2007) (Spool, 2007)
  • Ken Aldcroft: Trolleys (Trio Records, 2007)
  • Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble: Our Hospitality (Trio Records, 2007)
  • Lori Freedman & Scott Thomson: Plumb (Barnyard, 2007)
  • Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble: Sneaky Pete / Slugs (Trio Records, 2010)
  • The Rent (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait at Barnyard Records
  2. ↑ http://www.actuellecd.com/en/bio/thomson_sc/
  3. ↑ http://susannahood.ca/the-muted-note/
  4. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 9, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Thomson, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1980