University of Guelph Jazz Ensemble Performance

Cover charge $2 at the door.  Free parking in parking lots P31 and P23/P24 after 5pm.

Conductor Andrew Scott is pleased to present to you the University of Guelph Jazz Band.  They will perform 2 hours of jazz favourites.  Enjoy some terrific music.  The Graduate Lounge is licensed. 

Dr. Andrew Scott is a guitarist/arranger and composer who has released three internationally recognized CDs for Sackville Records (This One’s for Barney; Blue Mercer; Nostalgia); two CDs with the award-winning Clayton/Scott Group (August; So Nice) and three CDs with One Step Beyond (One Step Beyond; Life Out There; Live in Montreal).

Additionally, Andrew has amassed a considerable discography as a side musician (Jack Prybylski; Gene DiNovi, Jim Clayton, Frank D’Angelo; Loverboy’s Mike Reno; Cynthia Ballesteros; The Show). As a performer, Andrew has played with a diverse roster of players including David Sanborn, Grant Stewart, Dan Block, Tony Monaco, Bob James, Merl Saunders, Earl Klugh, Bob Moses, Marc Jordan, Archie Alleyne and Matt Dusk (to name a few). Andrew has won a Toronto Independent Music Award, a Canadian Urban Music Award, three Canadian “Smooth” Jazz Awards and has two National Jazz Award nominations.

Andrew has composed extensively for film and television including his work on Pop Switch; Mothers and Daughters; CBC’s The Border; Douglas Coupland’s Everything’s Gone Green; Big Girl; Don MacKellar’s Childstar; Burning Dogs, Hand and John Woo’s Like a Thief. Andrew’s most recent project is the 2010 film Textuality staring Eric McCormack, Jason Lewis and Carly Pope.

As a scholar, Andrew, who is on faculty at Humber College, York University and the University of Guelph, has lectured at universities and for conferences across North America. He has been published on the subjects of jazz and popular music in a number of books (including the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz) and in such refereed academic journals as Current Research in Jazz; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory; Soundscapes: Online Journal on Media Culture; Music Research Forum; the Journal of Popular Music Studies and the Canadian University Music Society Review.

As a journalist, Andrew was the managing editor of Coda magazine (2007/2008) and is a longtime contributor to Wax Poetics, for whom Andrew has written on Donny Hathaway, The Black Rock Coalition, John Klemmer, PM Records, Johnny Lytle, the Philadelphia jazz community, Phil Ramone and an upcoming cover feature on George Benson.

As a culmination of all of these diverse interests and experiences, Andrew is a new media/music business/music marketing public speaker, author, educator and frequent commentator.