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b. 13 March 1969, Queens, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Scott performed piano from age five, nonetheless it was while going to New York’s SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL from the Performing Arts that he was released to jazz by alto saxophonist Justin Robinson, specifically the music of Wynton Kelly and Crimson Garland. …

Roxanne Shanté (given birth to Lolita Gooden) was taking walks outside a fresh York housing task called Queensbridge when she heard 3 men discussing the way the trio U.T.F.O. acquired canceled the look of them at a present they were marketing. Gooden wanted to create a rap record that could …

Another within the latter-day parade of tradition-respecting “youthful lions,” Stephen Scott brings a formidable technique, a few of Ahmad Jamal’s locked-groove obsessions, and components of Wynton Kelly, Bud Powell, and McCoy Tyner to his function. However, Scott demonstrated he could increase beyond his neo-bop foundation on THE STUNNING Thing, an …