Scott Amendola
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| Born | February 6, 1969 |
| Origin | New Jersey, United States |
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| Website | scottamendola |
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]
Amendola is originally from New Jersey and studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston.[3] 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 . 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 , 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. The drummer was joined by Nels Cline and Trevor Dunn.[7]
Selected discography[]
With T.J. Kirk
- T.J. Kirk (1995)
- If Four Was One (1996)
- Talking Only Makes It Worse (2003)
With Phillip Greenlief/Scott Amendola Duo
- Collect My Thoughts (1995)
With Pat Martino
- All Sides Now (1997)
With Scott Amendola Band
- Scott Amendola Band (1999)
- Cry (2003)
- Believe (2005)
- Lift (2010)
- Fade to Orange (2015)
- Instrumentals (2000)
- The Giant Pin (2004)
- Draw Breath (2007)
- The Celestial Septet (2010) with Rova Saxophone Quartet
- Initiate (2010)
- Macroscope (2014)
With L. Stinkbug – Nels Cline, G.E. Stinson, Steuart Liebig, Scott Amendola
- The Allure of Roadside Curious (2002)
With Red Pocket – Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Scott Amendola
- Thick (2004)
With Nels Cline
- New Monastery (2006)
- Dirty Baby (2010)
With Plays Monk – Ben Goldberg, Devin Hoff, Scott Amendola
- Plays Monk (2007)
With Bill Frisell
- All Hat (2008)
With Ben Goldberg, Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles
- Go Home (2009)
With Charlie Hunter
- Not Getting Behind Is the New Getting Ahead (2012)
- Pucker (2013)
- Cars/Williams/Porter/Ellington (2014)
With John Dietrich, Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola
- Short Sighted Dream Colossus (2012)
With Henry Kaiser/Scott Amendola
- Leaps (2015)
With Amendola vs. Blades
- Greatest Hits (2016)
With Invisible Bird – Dave Devine, Shane Endsley, Scott Amendola
- Flutter to Fuzz (2018)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Andrew Gilbert, "Exploring New Degrees In Drumming", sfgate.com, October 3, 2004.
- ^ Andrew Gilbert, "Scott Amendola: Jazz drummer's birthday bash", sfgate.com, February 5, 2009.
- ^ Forrest Dylan Bryant Scott Amendola: Unlimited Possibilities jazzobserver.com, February 13, 2006.
- ^ David Hadbawnik, "Hear This Despite a Grammy, T.J. Kirk quit in '97. Now the jazz-fusion quartet returns", SFWeekly, December 24, 2003.
- ^ Andrew Gilbert, Biography All About Jazz.
- ^ Derk Richardson, "Peerless Percussion / The Bay Area's Scott Amendola drums up success", sfgate.com, September 25, 2003.
- ^ "The Height of Romanticism Oakland East Bay Symphony", sfcv.org.
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- 1969 births
- 20th-century American drummers
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- Jazz musicians from California
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