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Dave Scott is an award winning trumpet player with a wide range of professional experience who has worked with some of the greatest jazz artists in the world. 

 Currently residing in New York, Dave has been composing for and performing with his own jazz quintet and also has a new project featuring violin, piano, guitar, bass and drums. He is recognized in the New York jazz community as a prolific composer and his groups feature his compositions exclusively. Both groups contain some of New York’s finest jazz musicians, including Rich Perry, Gary Versace, Jeff Williams, Billy Mintz, John Hebert, Jacob Sacks, Nate Radley, Sarah Bernstein, Ben Monder and Mark Ferber. The quintet released “Song For Amy” on the SteepleChase label in 2004. A second disc for SteepleChase, “Naivete’” was released in February of 2007. The first disc received critical acclaim in JazzTimes in 2005 and the second as well in the Jazz Review in 2007, both making note of the originality of Dave’s works. A third disc, “Nonchalant” was released in April of 2009 and received honorable mention for recording of the year in the New York City Jazz Record. In 2015 a fourth disc “Brooklyn Aura” was released and in 2018 another “In Search of Hipness” featuring Dave’s Violin Band. Both discs have received critical acclaim in the Jazz Review and Shanleyonmusic. Dave’s most recent SteepleChase release is titled “Ambiguity” and has received critical acclaim in the French publication Jazz Magazine. Dave also co-leads a quartet with tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby. The group has a CD released on the Nine Winds label. Many of Dave’s original works are featured on this release as well. All of these ensembles perform regularly in the New York City area, have toured extensively and played most notably on the prestigious Los Angeles County Museum of Art concert series. 

As a clinician and soloist Dave has performed on numerous jazz festivals and at schools across the United States including the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, the University of Illinois, the University of Missouri, the University of Texas at Austin, Arizona State University, the University of Oregon, California Institute of the Arts and Syracuse University. He has been featured at the Newport Jazz Festival with Gerry Mulligan, at the Monterey Jazz Festival with Harvey Wainapel’s Quintet and has performed with the Tom Harrell Big Band in Los Angeles and New York. 

In 1984 Dave was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in jazz performance.   

Dave is currently on the jazz faculty at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City and Western Connecticut State University. He formerly taught at the University of Southern California.