Stephen Scott (jazz pianist)

Stephen Scott ( born March 13, 1969 in Queens, NY) is an American jazz pianist of the modern and mainstream jazz.

Career

He began playing the piano at age five, showed rapid progress, so that he received private lessons at the Juilliard School of the Performing Arts at the age of twelve. The foundation lie in the classical piano playing, but influenced him early reggae and salsa (from the radio). For jazz he found the age of 18, what Scott saxophonist Justin Robinson attributes. Shortly thereafter, he played in the band of talented promoting singer Betty Carter, and soon began with musicians such as the Harper Brothers, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Watson and Bobby Hutcherson to work and resume. From 1991, he took mainstream albums for the Verve label einzuspielen; he used this mixed occupations from other " Young Lions " and veteran musicians such as Joe Henderson, Ron Carter and Elvin Jones. In 1995 he played on Joe Henderson's hit album Lush Life.

His album The Beautiful Thing stressed Latin and Soul influences beyond a Neoboptradition. When technically brilliant style he considered very carefully the tradition of jazz piano.