With a career that spans over 30 years, he has performed and/or recorded with Wynton Marsalis, Betty Carter, Sonny Rollins, Roy Hargrove, Freddie Hubbard, Pieces of a Dream, Dr. John, Ron Carter and many others. During his nearly ten years as the pianist with Sonny Rollins, he was involved with Grammy Award winning recordings of THIS IS WHAT I DO and WITHOUT A SONG: THE 9/11 CONCERT .Additional Grammy involvement includes Betty Carter’s LOOK WHAT I GOT & Joe Henderson’s LUSH LIFE.
In recognizing his talents Jazz at Lincoln Center commissioned him to compose a piece entitled POSTCARDS FROM HOME, which was performed by the Lincoln Center orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis in the winter of 1996.
He is presently a in-house clinician at the Dillard Center for the Arts, Adjunct Instructor at Palm Beach State College & also instructs several private students.
“Musicians with Scott's creative impulses are like independent
Filmmakers who have turned away from the formulas of Hollywood in search of individual ways to reassert the fierce poise, the wit and the romantic grandeur that have given the best art of this country its charisma”
- from Stanley Crouch's Liner notes for the BEAUTIFUL THING
