Gavin Scott

Electric and acoustic bass player Gavin Scott studied on a scholarship at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston MA, and became the first recipient of the Quincy Jones Award for Musicianship in 1992. Early in his career he was in the resident dance band at the Hammersmith Palais: "Cold Water Morning", which spawned musicians such as Trevor Horn and Anne Dudley. This has been followed by residencies on the QE2 and at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club, working alongside names such as Earth Wind & Fire, Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart and Elton John, playing for many of the crowned heads of Europe, as well as celebrities from Shirley Bassey to Roger Moore. He has performed with artists as diverse as Billy Eckstine, The Trammps and Björn Again, with several Top of the Pops appearances, including Take That, Alex Party and Perfecto Allstarz. He has toured Europe and the USA, performing at many major festivals, opening for James Brown at V'98 and playing to a crowd of 100,000 at Belfast's Millennium celebrations. He is musical director to singer/songwriter Lauren Field; touring Germany and playing venues around the UK including the Royal Albert Hall. He has recently been performing with Touch and Go in Russia, Poland and Moldova.

West End and touring theatre shows include:

Babes in Arms | Boogie Nights | Fame | Five Guys Named Moe | Grease | Jesus Christ Superstar | The Lion King | My One and Only | Oh! What a Night | Thoroughly Modern Millie | A Tribute To The Blues Brothers | The Rat Pack | Saturday Night Fever | Smokey Joe's Cafe | Soul Train | West Side Story | What a Feeling! | The Wiz | He has also performed and/or recorded with:

Alex Party | Randy Bachman (Bachman Turner Overdrive) | Kenny Baker | Len Barry | Mike Batt | Walter Beasley | Tal Bergman (Joe Zawinul, Chaka Khan, Rod Stewart, Billy Idol, Simple Minds) | The Beverly Sisters | Björn Again | Michael Bluestein | Tracy Bonham | Steve Brookstein | Paula Cole | Brian Conley | Coolio | Bill Cosby | Kid Creole | Bobby Davro | Liz Dawn | Carl Dewhurst | Gwen Dickie (Rose Royce) | The Drifters | Jon Dryden | Geoff Eales | Billy Eckstine | John Etheridge | Sheila Ferguson | Hazel Fernandez (Jamiroquai, Annie Lennox) | Lauren Field | G4 | Gota (Simply Red) | Tony Hadley | Lalah Hathaway | Kenya Hathaway | The Ted Heath Orchestra | Amanda Holden | Brian Hyland | Salena Jones | Scott Kinsey | Kenji Jammer (Simply Red, Corinne Bailey Rae) | Leee John (Imagination) | Limahl (Kajagoogoo) | Abe Laboriel Jr (Sting, Paul MaCartney) | Bonnie Langford | The Syd Lawrence Orchestra | Fred Lipsius (Blood Sweat & Tears) | Henry Lowther | Don Lusher | Jackie MaCauley (Them) | Sylvia Mason-James (Pointer Sisters, Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Williams) | The Glenn Miller Orchestra | The Herb Miller Orchestra | Chris Montez | Rita Moreno | Jim Mullen | Simon Mulligan | Andy Nemark (Sly and the Family Stone, David Bowie) | Never the Bride | Denise Nolan | NYJO | Paul O'Grady | Ola Onabule | Holly Palmer | Perfecto Allstarz | The Platters | Zoe Rahman (Mercury Prize Nominee 2006) | Johnnie Ray | Patti Revell | Dan Rieser (Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux) | Shane Ritchie | Frances Ruffelle | Sax Appeal | Jill Siefers | Ashley Slater (Freakpower) | Big Jim Sullivan | Clare Sweeney | Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) | Lee Thornberg (Tower of Power, Late Show with David Letterman) | The Trammps | Take That | Touch and Go | Bobby Tucker (Musical Director: Billie Holiday; Billy Eckstine) | Bradley Walsh | Rebecca Wheatley | Tim Whitehead | Torsten de Winkel | The Wombles | Roy Wood

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