Scott Amendola
- Jazz
- funk
- rock
- experimental
- Drummer
- composer
- bandleader
- Drums
- percussion
- electronics
- SAZi Records
- Long Song
- Cryptogramophone
- Scott Amendola Trio
- Orchestra Di Pazzi
- Nels Cline Singers
- Stretch Woven
- Invisible Bird
- Amendola vs. Blades
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 John Schott. 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 Odessa Chen, 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
- ^ 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.
External links
- Official website
- v
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- Angelica (1988)
- The Inkling (2000)
- Destroy All Nels Cline (2001)
- New Monastery (2006)
- Coward (2009)
- Dirty Baby (2010)
- Lovers (2016)
- Currents, Constellations (2018)
- The Gowanus Session [with William Parker & Thollem McDonas] (2012)
- Woodstock Sessions Vol. 2 [with Medeski, Martin & Wood] (2014)
- Room [with Julian Lage] (2014)
- Accidental Sky [with White Out] (2015)
- The Veil (2011)
- Silencer (1992)
- Ground (1995)
- Chest (1996)
- Sad (1998)
- Hold It Under a Faucet 7″ (2002)
- Instrumentals (2002)
- The Giant Pin (2004)
- Draw Breath (2007)
- The Celestial Septet (2008) [with Rova Saxophone Quartet]
- Initiate (2010)
- Macroscope (2014)
- Floored by Four (2010)
- Big Walnuts Yonder (2017)
- Scott Amendola
- Alex Cline
- Trevor Dunn
- Devin Hoff
- Mike Watt
- Wilco