With his seventh album, jazz pianist Dred Scott and his Trio deliver a tasty sampling of the
downtown cool that has helped them build one of the most fervent followings on the New York jazz scene.
Featuring upright bassist and producer Ben Rubin and drummer Tony Mason, Live at the Rockwood is a
two-session masterpiece which reflects over a year of creative energy at one of the East Village's most
overachieving live music venues. Dubbed "restless" by the New York Times, the new record includes six Dred Scott originals and a few covers ranging from
saxophonist Bill McHenry to Black Sabbath. All About Jazz declares: "One comes away from [Live At The
Rockwood] confident that jazz is still alive and kicking."
Long a cult favorite of the jazz scene, Dred Scott has collaborated with some of the Lower East Side's most
sought-after acts, including Norah Jones, Richard Julian, Sasha Dobson, Bill McHenry, Jay Collins,
Rene Risque and the Art Lovers, Mudville and many others.
He has also has recorded on nearly 40 albums and performed with dozens of jazz, blues, classical, country,
pop, rock and funk heavyweights, including Anthony Braxton, John Adams, the Berkeley Symphony
(Kent Nagano), Rickie Lee Jones, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Joe Henderson, Moby, Bob Weir (Grateful
Dead), Zigaboo Modeliste (The Meters), Mike Clark (Herbie Hancock), Nina Hagen and more.
While Dred Scott has been a player in New York for the past decade, he made his bones playing the West
Coast club circuit. While residing in Oakland, he co-founded the ground-breaking hip-hop jazz group,
Alphabet Soup. As one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most celebrated young jazz musicians, Scott was
praised by San Francisco Weekly as "a disciple of psychedelic subterfuge, coupled with post-cool intensity."
Derk Richardson of the Bay Guardian described his style as "reorienting the compass of jazz." The late Phil
Elwood of the San Francisco Examiner wrote, "Scott is not a fine -- in fact, magnificent -- pianist, he is a fine,
magnificent all-around musician."
