Tom Scott | |
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 Scott at a Beatles convention in 2013 | |
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| Birth name | Thomas Wright Scott |
| Born | May 19, 1948 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Instrument | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1965–present |
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| Website | tomscottmusic |
Thomas Wright Scott (born May 19, 1948) [1] is an American saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He was a member of The Blues Brothers and led the jazz fusion group L.A. Express.
Scott was born in Los Angeles, California, US. [1] He is the son of film and television composer Nathan Scott, who had more than 850 television credits and more than 100 film credits as a composer, orchestrator, and conductor, including music for Dragnet and Lassie . [2]
Tom Scott's career began as a teenager as leader of the jazz ensemble Neoteric Trio, and the band Men of Note. [1] [3] After that, he worked as a session musician. In 1970, Quincy Jones said of him: "Tom Scott, the saxophonist; he's 21, and out of sight! Plays any idiom you can name, and blows like crazy on half a dozen horns." [4]
Scott wrote the theme tunes for the television shows Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco . [5] In 1974, with the L.A. Express, he composed the score for the animated movie, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. [6] He played the soprano saxophone solo on the number-one hit single "Listen to What the Man Said" by the band Wings. In 1976, he played the theme "I Still Can't Sleep" in Taxi Driver . [7] Scott also composed the soundtrack for 1980's Stir Crazy . [8] In 1982, he collaborated with Johnny Mathis on "Without Us", the theme to the 1980s sitcom Family Ties . [7] He also played the lyricon, an electronic wind instrument on Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", as well as lyricon and saxophone on The Grateful Dead's album Terrapin Station.
Scott was a founding member of the Blues Brothers Band, despite his absence in the two films, The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000 . According to Bob Woodward's account in Wired , a biography of John Belushi, Scott left the band after their 1980 tour over a salary dispute. However, he reunited with Dan Aykroyd and the Blues Brothers Band in 1988 to record a few tracks for The Great Outdoors . [9]
Scott led the house band on two short-lived late-night talk shows: The Pat Sajak Show in 1989 and The Chevy Chase Show in 1993. From 1995 to 1998, Scott provided the main title arrangement and additional music for the television series Cybill . [10] He was music director for the 68th Academy Awards in 1996, several Emmy Awards telecasts from 1996 to 2007, Ebony's 50th Birthday Celebration, and the People's Choice Awards telecasts.
He has dozens of solo recordings for which he collected 13 Grammy nominations (three of which he won). He has numerous film and television scoring credits, including composing and conducting the score for the movie Conquest of the Planet of the Apes , and appeared on records by the Beach Boys, Blondie ("Rapture"), Grateful Dead, George Harrison, Whitney Houston ("Saving All My Love for You"), Quincy Jones, Carole King, Richard Marx ("Children of the Night"), Paul McCartney ("Listen to What the Man Said") , Joni Mitchell, Eddie Money, Olivia Newton-John, Pink Floyd, Helen Reddy, Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan ("Black Cow"), Steppenwolf, and Rod Stewart ("Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?").
He produced two albums for tenor vocalist Daniel Rodriguez. The Spirit of America has sold over 400,000 copies. Scott is also a member of the Les Deux Love Orchestra and has conducted over 30 symphony orchestras around the U.S. as music director for Rodriguez. His song "Today" is credited as the sample for the hip-hop classic "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" by Pete Rock & CL Smooth.
The L.A. Express
The GRP All-Star Big Band
With Joan Baez
With Glen Campbell
With The Carpenters
With Natalie Cole
With Christopher Cross
With Neil Diamond
With Donovan
With Don Ellis
With Dan Fogelberg
With George Harrison
With Rickie Lee Jones
With Carole King
With Barry Manilow
With Michael McDonald
With Joni Mitchell
With Eddie Money
With Oliver Nelson
With Juice Newton
With Randy Newman
With Dolly Parton
With Minnie Riperton
With Johnny Rivers
With Howard Roberts
With Lalo Schifrin
With Boz Scaggs
With Rod Stewart
With Barbra Streisand
With Gábor Szabó
With Steely Dan With Tina Turner
With Jimmy Webb
With Paul Williams
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