Cecil Scott

Cecil Xavier Scott ( born November 22, 1905 in Springfield (Ohio ); † January 5, 1964 in New York City ) was an American jazz musician (clarinet, tenor saxophone) and bandleader.

Life and work

Cecil Scott played as a teenager in his brother's band, drummer Lloyd Scott. Together they initiated at the end of 1920 a band to perform in Ohio, Pittsburgh and at New York's Savoy Ballroom. Whose members included, among others Dicky Wells, Frankie Newton, Bill Coleman, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges, and Chu Berry. From 1929 Cecil led the band while Lloyd took over the management. An accident interrupted the early 30s temporarily his career; after his rehabilitation he played 1932/33, at Ellsworth Reynolds and from 1936 with Teddy Hill, Clarence Williams and Teddy Wilson (1936 /37), with whom he also accompanied Billie Holiday. In the early 1940s he played with Alberto Socarras, Red Allen, Willie "The Lion" Smith, before 1942 re- own formation put together, the times also Hot Lips Page and Art Hodes belonged. Scott worked in the late 1940s with Slim Gaillard. In 1950 he dissolved the band and worked with Jimmy McPartland. He later led his own groups and worked occasionally otherwise mostly as a sideman. Scott sometimes played three clarinets at once.