Education
Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Scott attended Juilliard School from 1940 to 1942.
pianist jazz musician clarinetist
Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Scott attended Juilliard School from 1940 to 1942.
In the 1950s he worked with Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. He also had a young Bill Evans as a side-manitoba Despite this he remained relatively little-known as the clarinet had been in eclipse in jazz since the emergence of bebop.
In 1959 he left New York City, where he had been based, and abandoned the United States for a time.
In the 1960s he toured South, East, and Southeast Asia. In 1960 a Down Beat poll for Japan saw readers there name him best clarinetist while the United States preferred Buddy DeFranco.
In 1967 he put out his first album in eight years entitled Tony Scott: Homage To Lord Krishna. In the years following that he worked in Germany, Africa, and at times in South America.
He settled in Italy in the 1970s, working with Italian jazz musicians such as Franco Doctorate"Andrea and Romano Mussolini.
He also played the part of a Sicilian-American Mafia boss in Glauber Rocha"s film Claro (1975). In 2010, a documentary film by the Italian director Franco Maresco about the life of Tony Scott was released titled Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l"Italia fece fuori il più grande clarinettista del jazz (English: I am Tony Scott The Story of How Italy Got Rid of the Greatest Jazz Clarinetist).