Scott Robinson (jazz musician)

Scott Robinson (jazz musician)
Scott Robinson (born April 27, 1959) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist. Robinson is best known for his work on multiple saxophones, but he has also performed on clarinet, alto clarinet, flute, trumpet, sarrusophone, and other, more obscure instruments.
Music career
The son of a piano teacher and National Geographic book editor, Robinson graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1981. The next year, he joined the college's staff, becoming its youngest faculty member.
Robinson has appeared on more than 275 LP and CD releases, including 20 under his leadership, with musicians Frank Wess, Roscoe Mitchell, Ruby Braff, Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, Paquito D'Rivera, David Bowie, Maria Schneider, Rufus Reid, Buck Clayton, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Four of these recordings won a Grammy Award. He has received four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2000, the U.S. State Department named him a jazz ambassador for the year 2001, funding a tour of West Africa in which he played the early works of Louis Armstrong. Material from these appearances was released on the album Jazz Ambassador: Scott Robinson Plays the Compositions of Louis Armstrong by Arbors Records.
Throughout his career, Robinson has worked to keep unusual and obscure instruments in the public view. For example, he has recorded an album featuring the C-melody saxophone and performs with the ophicleide. He also owns and records with a vintage contrabass saxophone so rare that fewer than twenty in playable condition are known to exist.
Since 2009, he has operated his record label, ScienSonic Laboratories.
He is not to be confused with the percussionist N. Scott Robinson.
Select discography
As leader/co-leader
Multiple Instruments (Multijazz, 1984)
Winds of Change (Multijazz, 1990)
Magic Eye (Bliss, 1993)
Thinking Big (Arbors, 1997)
Melody from the Sky (Arbors, 2000)
Summertime (Cube Bohemia, 2004)
Jazz Ambassador (Arbors, 2004)
Forever Lasting (Arbors, 2008)
Live at Space Farms (ScienSonic, 2010)
Nucleus (ScienSonic, 2010)
Bronze Nemesis (Doc-tone/ScienSonic, 2012)
Mission In Space (ScienSonic, 2014)
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Heliosonic Toneways (ScienSonic, 2017)
Tenormore (Arbors, 2019)
Flow States (ScienSonic, 2020)
As sideman or guest
With Ruby Braff
1997 Ruby Braff Remembers Louis Armstrong: Being With You
2002 Variety Is the Spice of Braff
2010 Our Love Is Here to Stay
With John Fedchock
1992 New York Big Band
1998 On the Edge
2002 No Nonsense
With Marty Grosz
1994 Keep a Song in Your Soul
1996 The Rhythm for Sale
2005 Chasin' the Spots
2006 Marty Grosz and His Hot Combination
2009 Hot Winds: The Classic Sessions
2012 The James P. Johnson Songbook
With Keith Ingham
1994 The Keith Ingham New York 9, Vol. 1
1994 The Keith Ingham New York 9, Vol. 2
1998 A Mellow Bit of Rhythm
1999 A Star Dust Melody
2001 Keith Ingham New York 9, Vol. 3
With Frank Kimbrough
2018 Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside)
With Frank Mantooth
1989 Suite Tooth
1993 Dangerous Precedent
1999 Miracle
With Bob Mintzer
1990 The Art of the Big Band
2000 Homage to Count Basie
2006 Old School New Lessons
With John Pizzarelli
1991 All of Me
1993 Naturally
1994 New Standards
1997 Our Love Is Here to Stay
With the Joe Roccisano Orchestra
Leave Your Mind Behind (Landmark, 1995)
With Randy Sandke
1990 Stampede
1993 The Bix Beiderbecke Era
1994 Chase
1995 Calling All Cats
2000 Re-Discovered Louis & Bix
2002 Randy Sandke Meets Bix Beiderbecke
2002 Inside Out
2005 Outside In
With Maria Schneider
1992 Evanescence
1995 Coming About
2000 Allegresse
2000 Days of Wine and Roses - Live at the Jazz Standard
2004 Concert in the Garden
2013 Winter Morning Walks
2015 The Thompson Fields
2020 Data Lords
With John Sheridan
2005 Easy as It Gets
2007 Swing Is Still the King
2010 Hooray for Christmas!
With others
1985 Live at Chan's, Rebecca Parris
1993 Saxophone Mosaic, Gary Smulyan
1993 Tryin' to Make My Blues Turn Green, Frank Wess
1993 What Matters Most, Tom Postilio
1994 Black Brown & Beige, Louie Bellson
1994 Caecilie Norby, Cæcilie Norby
1994 I Saw Stars, Rebecca Kilgore
1996 Bufadora Blow-Up, Bob Wilber
1996 Look What I Found, Daryl Sherman
1996 Strings Attached, Peter Ecklund
1997 Live at MCG, Paquito D'Rivera
1997 Song for My Mother, Walt Weiskopf
1999 Last Swing of the Century, Ken Peplowski
1999 Joyful Noise: A Tribute to Duke Ellington, Don Sebesky
1999 New Works Celebration, Bob Brookmeyer
1999 Out of This World, Loren Schoenberg
2000 Being a Bear: Jazz for the Whole Family, Dan Barrett
2000 Noumena, Frank Kimbrough
2000 Sultry Serenade, James Chirillo
2001 Ballad Essentials, Carol Sloane
2001 Black Dahlia, Bob Belden
2001 Dear Louis, Nicholas Payton
2001 Group Therapy, Jim McNeely
2001 L' Instant d'Apres, David Linx
2001 Play It Cool, Lea DeLaria
2001 Sweet & Lowdown, Dave Van Ronk
2003 On This Day at the Vanguard, Joe Lovano
2006 Tiger by the Tail, George Gruntz
2011 Ron Carter's Great Big Band, Ron Carter
2013 Joyride, Cynthia Sayer
2014 Nothing Has Changed, David Bowie
2014 Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project, Rufus Reid
2018 Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside, 2018), Frank Kimbrough
References
External links
ScienSonic Laboratories
1959 births
Living people
Musicians from Teaneck, New Jersey
Berklee College of Music alumni
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Sarrusophone players
21st-century American saxophonists
Towson University faculty
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Mingus Big Band members
Arbors Records artists