Scott Amendola

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Scott Amendola
Scott Amendola at Fantasy Studios during the "Fade To Orange" sessions, September, 2014. Photo by Lenny Gonzalez.jpg
Amendola in 2014
Background information
Born (1969-02-06) February 6, 1969 (age 56)
Origin New Jersey, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Drummer
  • composer
  • bandleader
Instruments
  • Drums
  • percussion
  • electronics
Labels
Member ofScott Amendola Band
Formerly of
Website scottamendola.com

Scott Amendola (born February 6, 1969) is an American drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His styles include jazz, blues, groove, and rock. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Amendola is originally from New Jersey and studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. [3]

Career

After relocating to California, he rose to popularity in the 1990s as a member of the band T.J. Kirk with Charlie Hunter, Will Bernard, and John Schott. Their second album, If Four Was One, received a Grammy Award nomination. [4] Amendola has led his own bands and trios, which have included musicians such as Nels Cline, Jenny Scheinman, Jeff Parker, John Shifflett, [5] Ben Goldberg, and Devin Hoff. [1] He has recorded with Pat Martino, Jim Campilongo, G.E. Stinson, and Tony Furtado, among others. He is an original member of the Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core and has been a session percussionist for Cris Williamson, Noe Venable, Carla Bozulich, and Odessa Chen, to name a few. [6]

In 2011, Amendola premiered his orchestral work Fade to Orange, performed in conjunction with the Oakland East Bay Symphony as one of their New Visions/New Vistas premieres. He was joined by Nels Cline and Trevor Dunn. [7]

Selected discography

with T.J. Kirk

with Phillip Greenlief/Scott Amendola Duo

with Pat Martino

with Scott Amendola Band

with The Nels Cline Singers

with L. Stinkbug – Nels Cline, G.E. Stinson, Steuart Liebig, Scott Amendola

with Red Pocket – Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Scott Amendola

with Nels Cline

with Plays Monk – Ben Goldberg, Devin Hoff, Scott Amendola

with Bill Frisell

with Ben Goldberg, Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles

with Charlie Hunter

with John Dietrich, Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola

with Henry Kaiser/Scott Amendola

with Amendola vs. Blades

with Invisible Bird – Dave Devine, Shane Endsley, Scott Amendola

References

  1. 1 2 Andrew Gilbert, "Exploring New Degrees In Drumming", sfgate.com, October 3, 2004.
  2. Andrew Gilbert, "Scott Amendola: Jazz drummer's birthday bash", sfgate.com, February 5, 2009.
  3. Forrest Dylan Bryant Scott Amendola: Unlimited Possibilities jazzobserver.com, February 13, 2006.
  4. David Hadbawnik, "Hear This Despite a Grammy, T.J. Kirk quit in '97. Now the jazz-fusion quartet returns", SFWeekly , December 24, 2003.
  5. Andrew Gilbert, Biography All About Jazz .
  6. Derk Richardson, "Peerless Percussion / The Bay Area's Scott Amendola drums up success", sfgate.com, September 25, 2003.
  7. "The Height of Romanticism Oakland East Bay Symphony", sfcv.org.