A highly-respected performer in all areas of jazz from traditional to avant-garde, Scott Robinson has established his own unique musical voice, which was described in a Northsea Jazz Festival program as "combining a solid foundation with great daring." The headline in a Wall Street Journal article written by Will Friedwald tabbed him "Jazz Futurist, Mad Scientist."
"What planet did this guy come from?" is how Benny Goodman reacted when he heard legendary cornetist Bix Beiderbecke for the first time. Trumpeter Randy Sandke has been known to use the same line to introduce Scott. As Will Friedwald pointed out in his WSJ article, "There's no one else doing anything close to what Mr. Robinson is doing: playing every style that exists in the jazz world, on almost every horn known to man, and even some rhythm instruments."
Primarily a tenor saxophonist (he ranked second after Sonny Rollins in a Downbeat poll), Scott is considered one of today's most wide-ranging instrumentalists. He has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton's All-Stars, the Mingus Big Band or Jon-Erik Kellso's EarRegulars, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton's quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D'Rivera's clarinet quartet, on bass sax with the New York City Opera, and in an outer space jam session with musicians from the Sun Ra Arkestra where he'll bring out some of his really far-out horns from his collection of un
