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Scott Healy

Los Angeles-based Scott Healy is an award-winning musician who multitasks across the music divide. He is best-known for his long association with Conan O'Brien: "Late Night", "The Tonight Show", and now "Conan" on TBS, where he holds down the keyboard chair in the Basic Cable Band.

In addition to the nightly TV gig, Scott works as a pianist, organist, electronic keyboardist and accordionist. His performing and recording credits include many of the greats in rock, blues, R&B and jazz: Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt,Al Green, BB King, Jackson Browne, Levon Helm, Son Seals, Hubert Sumlin and Tony Bennett.

His composing, arranging and scoring credits include the Portland Symphony, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Mel Lewis Orchestra, Ricky Martin, Christina Aguilera, and music for film and TV. He has received awards from BMI, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the "Distinguished Artist" award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He's had films shown at festivals around the country. Please see his IMDB page for more film and TV music credits and info.

Scott's multifaceted career reflects his classical piano, composition, conducting and orchestration background, as well as his years in the studio and on the stage: he's currently pursuing many projects including composing for and recording with his 17-pc big band and 10-pc ensemble, writing for commissions, as well as for TV and film, all while being in- demand "hired gun" studio performer.

Healy is a contributing editor to Keyboard Magazine, writing their long-running column "Session Sensei", as well as feature articles and lessons. He organized and leads the Ellington Study Group in LA, an informal monthly meeting devoted to jazz composition, old and new. His blog, Professorsco, explores various aspects of composing, listening, and arranging.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio and an alumnus of Hawken School, Healy studied piano at The Cleveland Institute of Music, then attended Eastman School of Music from which he received a degree in Composition and Piano. While there he studied with Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Rayburn Wright and Warren Benson.

He taught at the New School in NYC, and was an Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY from 1990 through 2001.

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Album Review

The Biscodini Organ Trio: Lockdown

Read "Lockdown" reviewed by Doug Collette


With Lockdown, the Biscodini Organ Trio don't exactly reinvent the instrumental concept at the heart of its name, but the album does go a long way in reminding us of its self-renewing nature. The collective light touch tendered by this guitar/keyboard/drums ensemble taps the potential of the format in such a way both the material and its musicianship sounds equally fresh and infectious. This reaffirmation of one of the most viable concepts in jazz is all the more ...

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Take Five With Scott Healy

Read "Take Five With Scott Healy" reviewed by Scott Healy


Meet Scott Healy:Scott Healy is a classically-trained pianist and composer who in the past three decades has performed and recorded many jazz, blues and rock artists, from Tony Bennett and B.B. King, to Bruce Springsteen, Levon Helm and Christina Aguilera. In addition, Scott has written concert music for symphony orchestra, chamber groups, film scores, and for a wide variety of original jazz and modern music projects. He is perhaps best-known for his longtime role in the house band ...

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Scott Healy-Glenn Alexander Quartet: Northern Light

Read "Northern Light" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


In today's fast-paced world, there's a tendency to try to write, record and release music in quick succession, but that's not always the best method. Sometimes, recorded music sounds best when it's had the chance to marinate and soak up the diverse flavors of time. Such is the case with the unintentional decades-long gap between the recording and release of this album. Pianist Scott Healy and guitarist Glenn Alexander recorded Northern Light in 1991, when they were ...

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Scott Healy Ensemble "Hudson City Suite" Is Released

Scott Healy Ensemble "Hudson City Suite" Is Released

Source: Scott Healy

Los Angeles composer and pianist Scott Healy announces the release of “Hudson City Suite" by the Scott Healy Ensemble. Featuring Tim Hagans on trumpet, Healy on piano, and an all-star band, this fifty-six minute work was recorded April 30th and May 1st, 2012, at The Bridge in Glendale, CA. Nine original tracks are thematically linked, the music is spacious, rich, reverent to the past and looking forward. Hudson City Suite by the Scott Healy Ensemble is a conceptual and grooving ...

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Hudson City Records Releases "Northern Light" By The Scott Healy - Glenn Alexander Quartet

Hudson City Records Releases "Northern Light" By The Scott Healy - Glenn Alexander Quartet

Source: Scott Healy

Los Angeles pianist and composer Scott Healy has teamed up with NYC guitarist and composer Glenn Alexander and released a quartet record from the vault. Recorded live in the studio to 2-track in New York in December, 1991, Northern Light features Kermit Driscoll on bass and Jeff Hirshfield on drums. This record features the compositions of Scott and Glenn, and reflects the pacing, sound and style of much of the original jazz in the early 1990's. A melding of the ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Lockdown

Hudson City Records
2021

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To Be With You

DistroKid
2020

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Northern Light

ADA Creative Communications
2013

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Northern Light

Hudson City Records
2012

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Radio Ocean

From: Unpinnable Butterflies
By Scott Healy

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