Artist's albums
Poets of Jazz
1995 · album
Sung Heroes
1986 · album
African Bird Come Back! Mother Africa
1984 · album
Meditation
1977 · album
Djanger Bali (2023 Remaster)
2015 · album
The Runaway
2015 · single
The Inner Side
2015 · single
Love Transfusion
2013 · album
What Am I to Do Now
2013 · single
The Unknown Cell
2009 · single
A Jazz Life
2007 · album
Manteca
1973 · album
Talkingmoods
2005 · album
Swinging in Sweden
2002 · album
Tony Scott In Hi-Fi
1953 · album
Night in Tunisia / Walkin
1957 · single
Tony Scott
1969 · album
Music For Yoga Meditation And Other Joys
1965 · album
Music For Zen Meditation And Other Joys
1965 · album
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Biography
Since leaving New York in 1959, Tony Scott (a top bebop-oriented clarinetist) has been an eager world traveler who enjoys exploring the folk music of other countries. Unfortunately, his post-1959 recordings have been few, far between, difficult-to-locate, and sometimes erratic, but Scott was an unheralded pioneer in both world music and new age. Tony Scott attended Juilliard during 1940-1942, played at Minton's Playhouse, and then after three years in the military he became one of the few clarinetists to play bop. His cool tone (heard at its best on a 1950 Sarah Vaughan session that also includes Miles Davis) stood out from the more hard-driving playing of Buddy DeFranco. Scott worked with a wide variety of major players (including Ben Webster, Trummy Young, Earl Bostic, Charlie Ventura, Claude Thornhill, Buddy Rich, and Billie Holiday), led his own record dates (among his sidemen were Dizzy Gillespie and a young Bill Evans) which ranged from bop and cool to free improvisations (all are currently difficult to locate), and ranked with DeFranco at the top of his field. Unfortunately the clarinet was not exactly a popular instrument in the 1950s (as opposed to during the swing era) and Tony Scott remained an obscure name outside of jazz circles. In 1959, he gave up on the U.S. and began extensive tours of the Far East. He played Eastern classical music, recorded meditation music for Verve, and, other than some brief visits to the U.S, lived in Italy since the 1970s where he sometimes experimented with electronics. Tony Scott passed away in Italy on March 3rd, 2007. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi