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Scott Amendola | |
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Birth Date: | 6 February 1969 |
Origin: | New Jersey, United States |
Current Member Of: | Scott Amendola Band |
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. 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]
with T.J. Kirk
with Phillip Greenlief/Scott Amendola Duo
with Pat Martino
with Scott Amendola Band
with L. Stinkbug – Nels Cline, G.E. Stinson, Steuart Liebig, Scott Amendola
with Red Pocket – Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Scott Amendola
with Nels Cline
with Plays Monk – Ben Goldberg, Devin Hoff, Scott Amendola
with Bill Frisell
with Ben Goldberg, Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles
with Charlie Hunter
with John Dietrich, Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola
with Henry Kaiser/Scott Amendola
with Amendola vs. Blades
with Invisible Bird – Dave Devine, Shane Endsley, Scott Amendola