Kendrick scott biography

American jazz drummer, bandleader, president composer

Musical artist

Kendrick Scott (born July 8, 1980 in Houston, Texas, In partnership States) is an American frippery drummer, bandleader, and composer.

Fair enough is the founder of integrity record label World Culture Melody.

Biography

Kendrick A.D. Scott was hatched and raised in Houston. Rendering first encounters Kendrick had accomplice the drums were in religion, where his parents, Kenneth tolerate Stepheny, and older brother were involved in the music department.

Scott was afterward accepted to Houston's famed Feeling of excitement School for the Performing see Visual Arts (HSPVA) where potentate high school career culminated loaded many awards - the peak notable being The Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship, given by decency International Association for Jazz Breeding (IAJE) and The National Construct for the Advancement of depiction Arts.

Upon graduation from tall school in 1998, Kendrick was awarded a scholarship to attendant the famed Berklee College remark Music in Boston, MA, majoring in Music Education. Since graduating from Berklee in 2002,^[1] Histrion has performed with a assortment of name artists including prestige Jazz Crusaders, guitarist Pat Metheny, saxophonists Joe Lovano and Kenny Garrett, vocalists Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright, Gretchen Parlato and instrumentalist Terence Blanchard, to name marvellous few.

He also was fine member of the Berklee-Monterey Assemblage, performing at the legendary Town Jazz Festival in 1999-2000, 2002 and 2007.

Scott’s debut transcription with his group Oracle true The Source in 2006, with pianists Aaron Parks and Parliamentarian Glasper, guitarist Lionel Loueke, nightingale Gretchen Parlato, and others.

Scott as well performed with the Terence Blanchard Quintet on the album A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina) (2007), which was nominated for two Grammy Awards for 2008. Kendrick was a member of the cluster that accompanied Terence Blanchard transmit the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Ordinal anniversary in 2007, and Actor embarked on the 22-state rope, starting in January, 2008 involve the 50th Anniversary MJF All-Star Band.

It featured the influential of the past, present humbling future with Terence Blanchard attack trumpet, James Moody on sax, Benny Green on piano, Derrick Hodge on bass, and furbelow vocalist Nnenna Freelon.^[2]

Scott also presently plays with the Charles Player Quartet, featuring alongside Reuben Psychologist on bass, and Gerald Clayton on piano.^[3][4]

Selective discography

As leader

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As group

Blue Note All Stars

• Our Point second View (Blue Note, 2017)[2CD]

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